You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?

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

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?

And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

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

I was hitchhiking in Turkey with my now wife many years ago and we got picked up by a bunch of truckers. They passed our destination and kept going, pretending they don’t understand what we’re saying when we kept calling “stop.” Only when I pulled out my phone did they stop. Luckily they didn’t notice my phone was dead.

It’s not. If you’re really into pop culture and you frequently make such references then someone who is not will have a hard time communicating with you.

It’s not about internet culture being bad, it’s about the communication gap between people with very different cultural references.

Not likely a real person, or an edit that was reverted.

On one had, responding like that is definitely a sign that it’s not going to work. On the other hand, that’s a perfectly normal feeling for a person who doesn’t live their life on the internet.

It’s not lying or hallucinating. It’s describing exactly what it found in search results. There’s an web page with that title from that date. Now the problem is that the web page is pinterest and the title is the result of aggressive SEO. These types of SEO practices are what made Google largely useless for the past several years and an AI that is based on these useless results will be just as useless.

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.

sounds like you’re contradicting yourself there

Where’s the contradiction?

not sure how that’s an “American” idea

That’s where I heard this perspective from. That you either believe in science or in God, not both. I guess it’s because of all the weird Christian denominations in the US that say crazy things and seem to have never actually read the bible, but use it to justify their anti-science ideas.

God’s existence, by definition, cannot be proven or disproven. That’s the nature of faith and free will (in the theological sense). And that’s why there are scientists who believe in God. This American idea that religion and science are opposites makes no sense.

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 :)

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

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

That’s why wikipedia feel sluggish sometimes

Images on articles are resized. The original size of the image has no bearing on how fast the article loads.

I have a similar grinder, paid less than $20 for it, works great. I’ve been using it daily since 2019.

Unfortunately it’s not on Amazon anymore. I found it on eBay, but with a single 1 star review: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124212737537

I like how you and FQQD each censored the other’s name in your posts.

How are crashlytics and firebase analytics profiting off of users? I cannot imagine not including those in an app you’re actually hoping to improve.