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That's the third reason given in the article (hemorrhoids == piles).

Roughly: British "quite" means somewhat. American "quite" means very. A Brit saying a suggestion is "quite good" is actually saying it's not good enough, whereas a US listener will…

Last year Wikipedia reported an 8% drop in humans traffic[1]. That's huge. [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wik...

I have no idea why you think it's written by AI, unless you think that correct use of quote and dash characters means it must be AI.

Jeeves (the gentleman's personal gentleman) is a valet that would be pronounced VAL-et.

There is EXIF available in the original version: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e00... It's taken with an AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D on a NIKON Z 9.

I think your first link should be to https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009566/art002e00...

CRUD = Create, Read, Update, Delete Plenty of business apps don't really ask for much more than that, and those are the CRUD apps. They're not particularly challenging to write, no…

I play badminton, which has games that are about ten minutes long. I've noticed an uptick in the number of times I've had to stop and wait for someone I'm playing with to read a me…

Well, unless you're using threads. Or did I miss the sarcasm?

For better or worse, describing software this way is fairly standard usage - e.g. robots.txt.

That’s quite useful in the example given (passing errors back to clients), but I wonder if sometimes these others errors are artifacts from the first error - it would be more annoy…

That user might be the one from that old XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/

As your screenshot says, you've enabled HTTPS-Only Mode - that's not the default, though, so most(?) Firefox users don't see that.

I read the release notes, and I still didn't see where this was mentioned. This feature does seem like it's designed to help defend against bad plugins, but in other hands it could…

There are different kinds of colourblindness. Deuteranopes are likely to confuse greens with yellows, which are consecutive here.

I'm not OP but there is him talking on his blog about cookies: https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-w... https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3r…

> Firefox Containers are awful Do you have any sources or reasons for this condemnation?

I wonder how up-to-date that warning is, given that the feature was introduced in TB 38 and we're now on TB 60. Edit: there's still 35 bugs tagged maildir (albeit all unconfirmed o…

Well done to the author for planting the word "hegemony" in there.