

My car really is from the year 2000, far too old to have any built-in measurement utility.


My car really is from the year 2000, far too old to have any built-in measurement utility.


In Australia, it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.
Well, duh, obviously it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.


It was always a (PowerPoint) presentation.
What did you call them before PowerPoint?


There’s something very fishy about this claim, I happen to own a European car from the year 2000 so I just went out to the garage and measured it, just to be sure, and it’s still exactly the same length as it was when it was brand new.


Of course, that one’s awesome!


Oh, I’m so sorry, did you really ask an actual question there? It seemed so obvious to me that making things simpler would make things simpler that the only possible reading in my mind was that you were making a suggestion, stated in the form of a rhetorical question. So I thought it a good idea to pile on, it wasn’t my intention to derail.


I have an even more radical simplification: Just list the actual amount of money that the customer is expected to pay directly on the menu and then that same amount of money once again on the bill, just like the entire rest of the world does it!


I became a dollar billionaire somewhere around fifteen years ago when a friend gave me a 5 billion dollar banknote from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, still legal tender at the time. At that time I was already too old to play in the street like a child, but I still to this very day walk in the street in front of where I live every day.


I grew up long after cars had already become commonplace in our city but we still played in our residential street for drivers had learned to navigate safely around playing children.


That is not what anyone means with “life” in the context of work–life balance.


I don’t consider work separate from life.
That seems deeply problematic to me.


UK still has anonymous SIM cards, which I find somewhat surprising considering the amount of surveillance there.


[…] two years after it discontinued a different AI ordering system.


This is wonderfully bizarre, but informative, I had actually wondered what exactly the rules were.


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Being heavily armed is kind of the point of the Carabinieri, who are a part of the military.
You can see it in action in this video, one minute in:
Not necessarily … I have a young colleague who has an absolutely Insane typing speed, he never copy-pastes anything shorter than something like a hundred characters simply because he types that much faster (and during all these years, I’ve never ever seen him make a mistake).
It can.