"Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records."
"Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records."
"It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?"
The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there
The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance begins with a discussion on this very theme, before it gets weird (weird and good)
Only 90s cats will get this
Bet you $100 he is breaking the law almost every time
I agree, but also computers break differently. Using a computer is just like other everyday activities like driving a car, until something goes wrong
Imagine if you broke down, but you didn't know if it was 'the car' (call a mechanic), or the road, or the traffic lights...
The website doesn't really explain anything though, and even says that the laws should be amended
Why would the legal world take much longer and many more dollars to achieve what this guy can? Why wouldn't everyone just sign a lease to their friend?
If the landlord is aware of the squatters and then enters into a lease intended to deprive them of possession, how is that not just an end run around the law?
I just seed to 3 - if it's popular it won't take long, and if it's not popular it probably needs the extra help (and it's just one setting)
I actually seed much longer if something still has no other seeds though
This is a nice piece of writing, and a good message
"I've sold helicopters to New Brockton, Skipperville, and Sweet Gum Head, and by gum it put them on the map!"
One of the things I like about the Pern universe (similar to the Wool universe) is that you start with a technologically advanced society that (for whatever reason) loses knowledge, and the way that hidden history impacts society over extended periods
Luckily, a constitution is guaranteed to be an unambiguous representation of inherently true principles that will not be subject to change over time
14 years ago, an Epstein co-conspirator was deposed and refused to answer any questions. A Clinton associate had contact with Epstein within 3 weeks (not minutes, not hours) of a search warrant being executed, so a baseless question was posed that suggested there might have been a tip-off about the warrant. Obviously the question was not answered, and now this article has appeared to revive the baseless suggestion
Nothing I said was critical of anyone, any set of skills, any profession. I'm glad that you have specialist skills, everyone does because no-one can know everything
I was responding to a particular question about technology, and how non-techies approach it. I explained in another comment that this complexity in technology is fundamentally different from many other fields of everyday experience
If the industrial fan stops working, they call you, and somewhere between the power point and the air they want to move is the problem you can fix and diagnose
If someone can't see their cat photos, it could be anywhere from their device to their network, their ISP to the server, the programs on that server, the other server that holds the photos... Like with the fan they know the power is generally ok because the lights didn't go out, but from that point you actually need some conceptual model of the complexity to even know who to call
Thanks, you did say to watch the video and I missed that, I'll give it a watch
Because rechargable batteries before NiMH sucked for many use cases - they were good for the Gameboy as you charged and used them straight away at high draw, but try using one in a low power device like a remote or wall clock and you'll find it is dead in a week despite minimal actual usage
NiMH has been common in consumer batteries for around 15 years (in my experience, although Wikipedia shows the chemistry is way older) but you can still buy the other chemistry (NiCd), and there may be newer lithium rechargables but I haven't seen them in standard sizes (AA etc)
Eneloops set the standard for good quality NiMH batteries for a while, but IKEA Ladda batteries are also NiMH, and probably plenty of others now
Ted Lasso is very good, while having basically no sex or violence
... I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul
John Safran - Not the Sunscreen Song
That really doesn't seem like much money. If Reddit is worth $10B, that is 0.6% ROI
This is somewhat outdated, developers can now opt in to reproducable builds using their own keys
Tech people presume that normal people think about how technology works
They don't even try to conceptualise how something on their phone gets there from the internet or 'the cloud' - when things stop working they don't think about the fact that their an app on their phone is using a network connection to a router, which distributes an internet service that connects them to a server, that is running a program, on which they have an authenticated account...
They wouldn't even know where to begin with troubleshooting, it's just 'broken' and they get frustrated