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Pretty much my only issue with CarPlay is that I can’t seem to set the map so that north is up. It turns everything into “third right ahead” instead of “this is just 2 blocks east …

Living in Vancouver ruins a lot of tv shows. Chicago? Nope, Vancouver. New York? Nope, Vancouver. SF? Nope, Vancouver! On the flip side, they use a lot of local place names and thi…

I don’t think a visa transaction can go faster than about a half second so definitely something off there.

Utilitarians see the utility of everything and the value of nothing.

Half the title is missing, and the missing half is doing some heavy lifting: “– especially if you ask the right questions”

I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?

I bet you’d use lightyears over petametres or exametres though.

Aren’t you just remembering specific numbers though? Unless you’re trying to boil water unseen so that you can only see a thermometer, the specific 100°C mark isn't that useful.

I actually came around to Fahrenheit for the exact same reason. 0°F and 100°F are kind of the top and bottom of the temperature range I’m going to be experiencing and anything outs…

If it was as simple as that we would have far fewer programming languages even for humans today.

Finally! There is no worse scourge on society. Bookies are parasites.

Haha, queue a big argument over what “better” means for programming languages.

I think people can imagine lighter cars and laptops and things. Is there something bizarre that’s unlocked like battery powered space launches or something?

In England they still use imperial for some things, like miles, mph and mpg for cars, pints for drinks etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if shooting still used yards as well.

You’ll need to unlock your iPhone for that.

The wealth of the ultra rich isn’t sitting in a checking account or a Robinhood trading account. There’s a lot of it in stuff that’s lying around and most likely it’s not even all …

I’d like to think it was actually some kind of neutral, non-harmful clay, but I guess the problem with clay is it can be made of whatever is in rocks, which is basically anything.

It’s so weird being in a conversation with someone who is video recording the whole thing.

The lift to make your own website is so low now, and the benefits of future-proofing are so great that it's just the right decision to make. You don’t even have to drive all your r…

Exactly. I think income tax was 1% when they introduced it and it impacted the top 1% to 2% of earners. Now look how much they’re taking from the rest of us.

No, I know exactly how the mechanism works. Right now if you get a dividend and reinvest in the stock, you pay income taxes, then you pay capital gains on the stock you buy with th…