Like, I could see some people noticing that the book they're reading has dashes that are a bit longer than normal, but what made you think "That must be it's own thing, separate from a normal dash" as opposed to something like "In this font the dashes are very long"?

Any chance folks in the US can use these, in the US?

This is a genuine question, although I don't have my hopes up. It would be nice to have some actual competition / choices

I started using instant coffee in hot chocolate as a quick DIY mocha, mainly because the cost-caffeine ratio was sooooo much better than beans (ground or whole) and the mix of ingredients that doesn't trigger any reflux (unlike the 400 mg / serving powdered energy drink I had been guzzling).

Which is to say - this is a fun and interesting article about something I had just been taking for granted. It's really neat to learn about the trials and tribulations that folks went through to figure it out.

Thanks for posting it! :)

And, more importantly, the real-life events on which it's based?

If you're looking for more reading maybe start with WW1 trenches, then look for YouTube videos about Ukraine drone usage? The drone stuff may be too new for lots of writing about it, but you'll get an oblique view of it by looking at how the Russians put those roll cages / turtle shells over their tanks, etc.

If you find anything and wanted to share it that would be interesting (if morbid)!

It's like those recipe sites that have 5 pages of nice photos and background story and side tracks and whatnot as the author waxes verbose, so they need to put a 'Jump to recipe' button in so people don't just click 'Back' immediately.

Except this time for an article.

I can't tell if 'skip the junk' is good (junk can be skipped!) or bad (maybe this means there's too much junk on the page?)

(I'm not the OP but I'm guessing this is what they're talking about?)

Ok, this is pretty off-topic, but is this still true? I get that you can't have 10K people all actively participate in the meeting at the same time, but doesn't Zoom have a feature where you can broadcast to thousands and thousands?

Doesn't X/Twitter have a feature like this? (Although, to be fair, the last time I heard about that it was part of a headline like "DeSantis announcement of Presidential run on X/Twitter delayed for hours as X/Twitter's tech stack collapses under 200K viewers")

But still - nowadays it seems like it should be possible to have 10K employees all tune in at the same time and then call it a meeting, yes?

I'm joking, of course. If your comment was generated by Eliza it would have started with "How do you feel about 'I think your comment...'" :)

I don't have the link handy, and don't trust everything I read on the Internet, etc, etc.

But yeah - this makes so much more sense than breeding, raising, and feeding humans just to harvest their body heat.

Wait, hold on - I watched all the seasons of "Rust To Riches" on Netflix, about a small shop that flips cars.

They routinely painted cars.

They'd paint in this sealed-up room/garage thingee, the guy would wear and industrial-grade mask, and the camera would slide past as he expertly painted the car. The 30 second montages looked awesome!

That show took place in Temecula, California. So there's no way that site is accurate.

And, more to the point, if they want to show that they are accurate they should be linking to the rules & regulations that actually prohibit these things instead of just making a claim & calling it a day.

> If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize

Essentially: the person isn't actually apologizing. They're sending you a lambda (or an async Promise, etc) that will apologize in the future but only if it actually turns out to be true that you were harmed.

It's the sort of thing you'd say if you don't really believe that you need to apologize but you understand that everyone else thinks you should, so you say something that's hopefully close enough to appease everyone else without actually having to apologize for real.

I show up at CostCo, on weekdays, like 30 minutes before closing time and it's _wonderful_. Few people, nobody blocking lanes while they consider their choices, etc. Same goes for Safeway, Fred Meyer, Trader Joe's, etc.

It doesn't work so great if you've got young kids, or you want to come home from work and just stay home (reasonable), but it's worth considering :)

And now you don't have to!

Ba-dump-ching! I'll be here all week, folks! :)

It's like they say: "Your demons will comfort you when no one else will. That's why it's so hard to get rid of them"

I guess "Start software Vnext off the current version (or something pretty close)" is such a baseline assumption of mine that it didn't occur to me that they'd be basically starting over each time.

Thanks for posting this!