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"Vad himla pratar du om?"? I in my turn have never heard that expression before, so who's zoomin' who, baby?

"Friday 3 July 2026" (yes, I elected to spell out the month) also has the advantage of not requiring commas for legibility ("Friday, July 3, 2026" being common in the US).

So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden.

Road and car design are an important part of the problem, but so is car culture, which is all in the head.

Um. I got 18 Unc / 82 Youth. I'm about to turn 61. What is happening? (I guess that's a pretty unc question. Oh well.)

This doesn't fully accord with my intuition, but I absolutely believe that the best course of action is listed: USE A CALENDAR DATE!

https://www.lawdork.com/p/splc-indictment-united-klans-of-am...

Back in 1997 I was assigned to convert a legacy SAS 5 application to SAS 6. Let's just say that the original programmer had adopted MANY of the techniques in the linked post. The f…

That would imply that their annual budget was £1.8e14, which I seriously doubt. Even if I assume that you meant 0.02%, which is equal to 0.0002, that would put their budget at £1.8…

Very nice! I think we're confusing route length and track length, though.

Motorists are incredibly fragile. I'm glad Paris has had a mayor who could stand up to their entitled whinging.

I use a search engine if I can more or less precisely describe what I want in a few words. If I find that I really need to be more extensively descriptive, or to actually ask a que…

Yep, I learned the terms IPL and IML ("Initial Microprogram Load," more akin to a cold boot) when I worked on an IBM midrange system running DOS/VSE back in the 1980s.

It's a diagram, not a map. The old "map" isn't geographically accurate, either.

This was Vignelli's original plan, which the MTA never followed through on.

What is this "metrocard" of which you speak? (It's going away at the end of this year.)

From the linked article: "Additionally, a reference to your post is 'fanned out' to your followers so they can see it in their Timelines." So not the content, just a sort of link t…

The complete polish is the author's very point, alongside the fact that most software products never get that complete polish.

I believe that historically, the primary group of people who are "not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" are diplomatic personnel from other countries. Those people …

I live in Stockholm. Dwells on the commuter rail system here -- formerly at Stockholm Central, now at the new (2017) Stockholm City underground commuter station -- are scheduled fo…

Many times I've stood in front of the displays in the Exit Concourse at Penn. As soon as they post the track for your train, you can just go downstairs to the platform.

More than once I've stood in the line at Washington Union and said loudly, "If I wanted to fly, I'd fly." I'm 100% with you on this. It's idiotic.

There are three uses of the word "drop," all of which are correct. The latter-day meaning of "drop" is an abomination.

Or the assumption that these people are traveling by car? That's by no means necessarily true; DC has pretty good public transportation, and there is even a Metro station in Deanwo…