The US was doing it in the Philippines. Russia was doing it in the US. It’s the circle of life.

Isn’t that Batman?

I was confused why a package manager would need to import posts from a social network.

Why name a new product the same as a very popular existing product?

Huh. TIL. I always wondered why libraries treat ebooks like physical books.

That’s because you’re not getting them from the original source. Scene releases come in multi-volume zipped rars. I don’t know why they need to be double archived, but they are. But lots of people will take those, unarchive, then re-upload or put them up in a torrent.

I’ve used every version of Windows between 3.11 and 10. I don’t remember ever noticing that either.

kill way less people

I believe the danger axis is about danger to the passengers, not others

With the introduction of AJAX, web pages became apps. It was the advent of SPAs and SASS. Which enabled the things you saw as a consumer.

Yes, sometimes I see something that looks interesting and click to learn more. But I think more often than not I’ll just open an incognito window and search for it instead of clicking on the ad.

Yes, that’s what I said. My native language is a romance language too. And after speaking it her whole life, my wife has trouble getting the grasp of how in English swapping two words completely changes the meaning of what she’s saying (especially when it’s two nouns, like e.g. “parent council”)

The thing is that in French, Spanish, etc. it still makes sense if you put the adjective before the noun, even if it might sound weird in some cases. An adjective is an adjective and a noun is a noun.

But English is positional. Where you put a word gives it its function. So “red car” and “car red” mean different things.

open_dialog_file or dialog_open_file?

Doesn’t the layout get designed and approved in some DTP software where it looks perfectly fine because it’s all 2D?

I like that there’s a name for it. I always try to do that if possible. Division by 25? You mean multiply by 4 and divide by 100. Convert miles to km? That’s x + x/2 + x/10.

Not sure if qualify as old geezer, you never know on the internet. I’m old for most people here, but you mention Excel, so you sound closer to my age :)

I really meant badass, but they can definitely be mean. All intelligent animals have a mean side.

So an extension of the x * 5 = x/2 * 10 shortcut

Fun fact: orcas are not whales. The name “killer whale” is a reversal of their previous name, “whale killers”. They’re just mean dolphins.

In a 2018 review, data from 12 studies (8,003 participants) showed acupuncture was more effective than no treatment for back or neck pain, and data from 10 studies (1,963 participants) showed acupuncture was more effective than sham acupuncture. The pain-relieving effect of acupuncture was comparable to that of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture-what-you-need-to-know

circa 1750 BCE

here in Ur

Wow, I never really thought about how long Ur has stood. The city was already 2000 years old in 1750 BCE

Tech Leads and Staff+ Engineers are still IC roles. If you’re not managing people, then you’re not in a manager role.