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Comedy is subjective, I suppose. I felt this post was predictable and a bit "cringe".

Neighbours hate this one simple trick!

Vendor lock-in on those batteries might not be quite as "lock-y" as other examples of vendor lock-in. One can buy or print[1] cheap adaptors to use cross-brand batteries. I wonder …

The article says based on measurement of Whisper Drive thrust it moves more air than a handheld leaf blower.

I doubt that people driving for Amazon could get away with this. I think I read somewhere they have inwardly pointed cameras in delivery vans now?

Visual Pinball X [1] is a free modern pinball simulator. It also supports VR, and comes pretty close to feeling like the real thing (sans realistic bumping). There are hundreds of …

Yeah, agreed. Also if it were intended as "meeting all of the criteria disqualifies you", then part A is completely redundant, isn't it? If B and C are true then A is also true.

As an Australian I agree with you. I would definitely expect several to be more than a few. Most of the time "a few" would mean 3 or 4, to me. "Several" is anywhere from 4 to ~7.

> No, the length of time doesn't matter. I agree with you on this, at least. The length of time doesn't matter. I would argue that the only sensible reason for a feeling of guilt i…

That's exactly it though: it's often (perhaps even usually) not beneficial for Amazon to do what's best for the customer. What's the point of "Customer Obsession" if it's secondary…

Some do, some don't. I know some folks who really genuinely believe that Amazon is a force for good, the criticism is exaggerated, will talk about how lucky they are to work for th…

Definitely interesting. I dislike thinking about such things though. I've been stuck on this one for a while: Descartes posited, "I think, therefore I am" as a reassurance of our e…

> why is this mandate lacking data Easy: it's a decision made by the S team who can get away with not justifying themselves to ICs. They usually would show their working even thoug…

I can hear his voice! ... presenting to the emergency room with hyperspace vision. Hyper, meaning high, space, meaning the geometric fractal we call home, and vision, meaning visio…

Same. I still have zero certifications of any kind beyond HS, despite the pressure to start collecting the useless company certs.

I like the way Terry Pratchett put this in Men At Arms: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example…

I have ~25 hours and I'm bored to tears. I've unlocked the first couple of powers, finished a few corp quest chains, but nothing about the game has grabbed me, and I have similar c…

> No one can explain the qualia of the sensation and the only way to claim this thing can be experienced by non-biological objects is by a blind faith. Sure, but the exact same arg…

Is it possible you've taken more from that single word than was intended? GP said "insane to me ". I understood this as a colloquial expression of disbelief or surprise rather than…

That thing clearly has _three_ wheels, making it a motor trike. This is a motorcycle: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpoydU...

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The first PC I built myself in the 90s had a Seagate hard drive. It developed a "click of death" after a few years, a repetitive clicking noise which corresponded with my PC freezi…