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Agreed, I have an at least 10 year old Brother laser printer and while it doesn’t support any new standard like AirPrint, their iOS app can still print to it across the network, di…

It’s happened. At the McDs I worked at we’d put the rest of the burger on the tray used for hotcakes.

“Not bad” - something is pretty good, or at least better than expected. Had to laugh when I saw that phrase on the linked page. “Not bad at all” - something is really good “Munted”…

Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity... and the Porsche is much more likely to be driving unsafely/like an ass than the truck, or in my experience, even a BMW...

They are plug doors, as with all other passenger jet airliners today. The door goes in at an angle (eg. 737) or part of it slides up/down (eg. 777) to fit through the door frame.

Windows 7 did for USB2 devices plugged into a USB1 port: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/usb-speederror/ If the computer can identify the device’s capabilities (using some kind of bu…

Not really, no. Python/Ruby/Perl interpreters are not “integrated” into the OS like AppleScript and Automator are. They’re just some binaries sitting in /usr/local/bin.

The humans are too distracted by non-work activities maybe? This article paints a bizarre picture: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/10/19-insane-tidbits-james...

As an elder millennial, I agree with your last paragraph, still a funny name for it though.

Another reason: pre-auth will deduct up to $125 from your available balance, no matter how small the actual purchase is, which you won’t get back for a couple of days.

Perhaps everyone is? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_whoop

Literal cargo culting!

I think it’s one of those things you learn from your parents by riding in the car with them, and the relative age one starts driving vs moving far from their childhood home. I did …

10-30% doesn't even seem excessive if there is no product today. There are so many startups that post on this board with an open-ended title similar to "Looking for an engineer to …

It's not so much the trains that are terrible as the 1800s-era track geometry that is terrible. There are mountains all the way down the east coast; any high-speed line is going to…

Even before SSDs it was also used to short-stroke spinning HDDs for better random seek performance.

Once did a project like this that grabbed Seattle's realtime data for some bus stops around my place. It was an old Windows CE PocketPC thingy, so the tools were primitive (.NET co…

I have done exactly that! (but not for London): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte7w0r8d_k (Not my video; someone made it using the program I made)

Yeah, I once had an idea for auto-scrolling based off tracking eye gaze through the webcam. I never told Microsoft or Samsung about it, but they totally stole my idea!!1eleventyone…

It’s a British turn of phrase meaning any kind of party costume, not even necessarily anything “fancy”.

I’d always assumed they were broad gauge for added stability if an earthquake hit. Are there other reasons?