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What’s wrong with using the metric system?

I ordered one since it cost exactly as much as a 1 year stand-alone perplexity license that it comes with. I don’t know how they can possibly make money with this but i’m looking f…

Would that not make the situation worse? I would think that having more older people as part of the population means less productivity and a much bigger strain on the health care s…

>The company, which is one of the world’s most valuable private companies and owns several other buzzy apps in China, hired aggressively worldwide in the past several years as TikT…

Lee Valley does this for me for anything tools and garden related. The Discover section on their website is excellent for beginners! https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/discover

I thought it was just me! Trying to control turn signals is beyond infuriating in a Model Y. You would think that this should be part of the functionality that is largely free of b…

Setting aside the conceptual criticism, the execution of this badge is also done poorly. If the goal is to highlight creation by humans, I’m struggling to see how slapping a big fa…

The “No Name” brand does exactly that.

It seems like you might have confused this website with the Daily Mail comment section.

Is this not what re-dress numbers are supposed to solve? Once you get one assigned, you can enter them at the time of booking to prevent problems that might occur by sharing the sa…

I’m in the same boat, also upgraded from the X to 14 Pro just like you. It’s infuriating the amount of alterations it performs without my asking. Also equally infuriating is how bu…

Gift cards are hugely profitable for companies so I can see why they’d be happy to turn a blind eye.

If it has no effect on metrics but removes as major annoyance for users, why would you not have done that in the first place?

When staying at a place for longer than a few nights, hotel rooms are not as attractive as apartments. Having a full kitchen, separate dining/living/bedroom spaces available makes …

Whatsapp had 55 employees and 1.5b monthly users when they got acquired by FB. I very much doubt that the product is fundamentally better now that they are part of a company that h…

If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.

Is there any further reading on this topic in particular that is not leading to wild conspiracy theories?

You are confidently incorrect.

From the Montreal Gazette: “The Office québécois de la langue française would also be granted powers of search and seizure without needing a warrant to inspect businesses and ensur…

I just can’t shake the feeling that whenever I have to use Adobe software, it’s trying to do its hardest to make my life miserable. Creative Cloud is the worst piece of software ev…

Afaik this is called Tsundoku in Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku

Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.

This is terrible advice.

I believe the term for this is ‘percussive maintenance’