If you look at old microwave ads they claimed the microwave would replace the oven and stove and do everything in the kitchen for you faster and easier.

In my lifetime I’ve been told electric slow cookers, instapots, and now airfriers would do everything for me and they all ended up being just another tool.

Marketing is a hell of drug.

For now at least you don’t need accounts to subscribe (I use Focus Podcasts from f-droid to manage my podcasts) but I wish more podcasters would self host and have no doubt that eventually Podcasts will end up behind the paywalls.

Except when adding the log fixes the race condition.

I went to a restaurant in Arrowtown yesterday and the POS asked for a tip. I’ve seen it a couple other places too but usually the worker hits no before giving it to me.

What about the step where you change VPN servers because cloudflare blocked the first one you used?

They also underestimated how lazy people are. Personally I will never use a self checkout if a have a bunch of produce (which is most trips to the grocery store). I can’t be bothered to slowly look up each item in their database.

The Uber App on my phone is 1 GB!

At least they’re not saying backslash

And the only thing wrong was a missing bracket.

But what about script java?

Betteridge’s law of headlines supports you.

As a participant, if there are over a certain number of participants it tells me I have to pay to see the rest.

TBH it’s been going downhill for the last couple years since they made groups pay a yearly (I think) fee. There used to be all kinds of fun free groups but it’s slowly becoming only sponsored groups or pay to attend meetups.

They already made it so you have to pay for meetup+ to see meeting attendees or message anyone but the organizer.

Did they not know that word can generate very convoluted HTML for them?

My library estimates I’ll be able to read it in 7 weeks, so thanks for the future surprise I’ll forget about until then.

const long pain = 1;

Foosball specifically refers to the tabletop game in America.

You get paid for overtime?

I basically need to stick this xkcd chart next to my computer or I’ll spend days creating something that saves me minutes per years.

Although sometimes it’s fun to automate things just for the hell of it.

It’s normal on Qobuz too.