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  • I agree and went back and forth on whether I should manually edit the thumbnail in the post. The DeArrow project is cool for replacing clickbait thumbnails, but I didn’t see an easy way to paste a link and get the alternate thumbnail.

    The video itself seemed decent and informative for people unfamiliar with Canadian history. As for potentially interesting things it mentioned

    Why it has a lower population:

    • before the bridge in 1997, it was hard to access
    • economy was based around farming and shipbuilding, with fewer natural resources to extract, which didn’t support faster population growth from immigration and investments

    Why people settled there:

    • large coastline with relatively warmer waters, which made it comfortable than nearby provinces
    • the soil was good for farming, specifically potatoes, producing 1/4 of Canada’s potatoes and historically being an important province for food security

    Why it is its own province:

    • being an island made it geographically distinct and the people living there valued self governance and independence compared to nearby provinces
    • eventually due to debts and other economic reasons, it joined the rest of Canada to relieve the financial strains, on the condition that it remains a separate province

    Then the video talks about what advantages this history provides, and some other fun facts














  • The message:

    "I try to make my merge commit messages be somewhat “cohesive”, and so I often edit the pull request language to match a more standard layout and language. It’s not a big deal, and often it’s literally just about whitespace so that we don’t have fifteen different indentation models and bullet syntaxes. I generally do it as I read through the text anyway, so it’s not like it makes extra work for me.

    But what does make extra work is when some maintainers use passive voice, and then I try to actively rewrite the explanation (or, admittedly, sometimes I just decide I don’t care quite enough about trying to make the messages sound the same).

    So I would ask maintainers to please use active voice, and preferably just imperative."

    Giving an example of a bad commit message, Torvalds provided this example: “In this pull request, the Xyzzy driver error handling was fixed to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.” He believes this should have been written as follows: “This fixes a NULL pointer dereference in …”