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Anyone who tried to pay for anything in Canada on 8 July 2022 knows that it's not that simple. The entire Interac network was shut down for over 15 hours, which meant that debit an…

They are always pressurised during normal use. When they are depressurised because of a water main break or for maintenance (and they try to do this as little as possible), orders …

Lead solder hasn't been used in the US since 1986, when it was banned by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

It's not the width of the roads. It's about - parking mandates that push everything very far apart because parking takes up a lot of space - zoning restrictions that necessitate di…

The 3DS family of devices used standard SD and micro SD cards.

Oh it's definitely real, because I recognize the product I bought, and it all matches up perfectly to my records. It even has an old phone number on the letter (but current at the …

Any Logitech device that supported both Bluetooth and Unifying, such as the MX Master, allowed you to cycle through up to stored 3 connections of either type. The older, cheap devi…

FedEx recently started sending me mail to my parent's address saying I owe them $65 for a product I bought from the US a while ago... in 2014. I wonder if this is related to the wh…

Yes we do. https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_marquee The marquee element is deprecated but is supported by all major Web browsers.

HD has really good self checkouts though. They don't require any interaction with the touch screen except hitting "Done", nor do they have over-sensitive anti-theft scale systems. …

"The red one is gorgeous" would be the idiomatic way of saying that. Adding the word "colour" is redundant. "Colourway" is just marketing-speak that is not common outside of tech r…

For Apollo, the backup crew became the main crew two missions later (politics intervened on the last couple of missions, but this generally held true for all the manned Apollo miss…

> According to state law, all the money collected by local governments through paid fines can only be used for public safety initiatives like crossing guards and police training. S…

I have a set of bike lights from Topeak that will flash the main headlight into the eyes of oncoming drivers when the battery is low, even though it has a battery indicator on the …

Some Bosch dishwashers do this, to let the steam escape quickly. Also, the controls are hidden at the top of the door, so it projects a red dot onto the floor when it's running, be…

The specific use is to light the way when reversing. They are not intended for use as "reverse" indicators, even if that's what they're used for in practice. Trailers usually don't…

I'm not sure how common the term is (I heard it in a YT video), but a "Dutch hill" is wind, because the Netherlands is very windy, and anyone who's ridden a bike in heavy wind know…

I sure that Amsterdam has plenty of Dutch hills.

Good design is just that: de-sign . US roads have so. many. signs. Instead of just designing the roads and streets to not need signs in the first place.

In Ontario a new speed zone is always signed with "BEGINS" below it, which is very helpful if you missed the last sign. I wish this was standard practice across Canada. In much of …

If you look closely, you can see the springy retention clips in the plug. Below is a Stack Overflow answer with more details, it includes a link to the USB-C spec where you can als…

USB-C uses an identical spring mechanism, actually, except the cord is the female side, and the port is male.

That depends on the cable. Apple's USB-C cables in particular have a very tactile non-squidgy click.

I did, and by many accounts CV is just as bad as Mozaik, although significantly more capable. Mozaik is bad because it tries to do everything itself, badly, instead of adding funct…

Do pedestrians need automatic detection? Not necessarily, although a beg button adds unnecessary friction. Do cyclists need automatic detection? Yes, absolutely. If you think other…