Does she do graphic design, or why would an Apple be better than any other brand for half the price?
Of course a 200$ laptop isn’t very usable, but why pay thousands of dollars extra just to have an Apple logo and get the kid introduced to vendor lock-in
Oh, I had completely forgotten that I did something similar!
To cross the rails, you have to go under them through a tunnel. Someone on crutches took the elevator down while I was carrying my electric scooter and heavy backpack down the steps. I’d make it to the other side before them and could ride the elevator up myself (I thought it would be weird to stand inside, waiting for them), but the person looked like they weren’t having the best day on these crutches. So I walk through the tunnel and order the elevator, but turn around and take the stairs up myself, just as they’re exiting the elevator on the other side so they didn’t see me order it. When I reach the top of the stairs, they just pushed the button and the elevator was right there waiting for them ^^
(As for sending the elevator down to where I know someone will be coming, yeah I do that all the time as well since there’s no reason not to tell the system where it makes sense to go)
we just went everywhere on bike. Every day an hour or two just following the coastline, nothing but the sea, the shore and the sails of the boats in the distance.
Definitely an interesting perspective change to hear one’s commute can also be considered a holiday activity (am Dutch)
Exactly this. I don’t understand the crack screen people but to each their own :p
Did you ever find anyone was following you? Or ever heard of a friend who was followed?
It surely happens but so do meteorite impacts and such cases make news because they’re special. If it’s not showing up in regional statistics (the nearest couple million people or so) and you don’t even know a friend of a friend for whom checking would have been useful, I’d say it’s unnecessary in the place where you are
I agree with everything else but the starting bit about only starting conversations when you’d also do it with a guy: if you’re not into guys… like on a dating site you’d not equally talk to the men, why at a sports club if you’re wanting a relationship with a woman? If you think someone’s fun and attractive in a way you’d simply not have with a bloke, hecking yes talk to them where appropriate and be friends (if they also want to be) and see if they really match and are also into you etc.
Once you go apt install qalc you never go back
Edit: or the gui version, idk, I pretty much live on the command line so maybe I’m biased but this thing does everything I’ve ever wanted from a calculator. Also use it on my phone now, yes from the command line, because I still haven’t found a proper mobile app that can conveniently do more than multiplication
A surprising number of people from 1920 were alive in the 80s!
Not a native speaker. To me it sounds the other way around, like it’s God who’s constantly bothering them? Can it be read both ways?
I was in Britain for only a handful of days and think I saw at least two meanings for the word bubble and none of them were “air pocket inside a liquid” (or even “fizzy drink” or something related to bubbles). One was mashed potatoes, I can’t remember the other one. You’ll simply need to ask to find out what it is they’re selling!
The show that this fuck Microsoft clip is from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ
I was set on watching until this quote occurs to get the full suspense and context and comedic relief… but I failed my goal during episode 2. Cannot suspend disbelief for this one, it’s too dumb, makes no sense, most jokes fall flat. It’s like they gave Gandalf a clown costume and Frodo acts as though that’s normal and we’re supposed to be falling off of our seats from that
Where does all that stuff go after it’s used? I can’t imagine it’s all recycled properly (let alone reused) but also not really that the bulk is not separated out at such volumes
dack - Dutch
Dutch is alsjeblieft (informal), alstublieft (formal), thanks (informal), dankjewel (informal), or dankuwel (formal). The former probably means “as you desired” in old Dutch, the latter “thank you well”, and the formal/informal variants simply insert the right word for “you” (je or u). And then there’s thanks being commonly used. Or also bedankt, sounds kinda formal to me as well, not sure when you’d use that instead of dankuwel
Just “dank” (maybe you wrote that and autocorrupt kicked in?) is not really a thing we say, it just means “thank” which you’d also not say by itself in English (unless you’re Rocky)
Edit: writing “dank” in an English sentence feels like everyone will think our thank-yous are like dank memes. The pronunciation of the “a” there is as in Clark; the English pronunciation of dank would map to denk in Dutch and means think!
Have you ever seen someone use a turn lane to only jump out of it at the last moment?
Yeah, when they have their turn signal on to indicate they want to change to a different lane
Leaving the turn signal on when you’re already where you want to be is the more confusing thing. I know most people do it because it’s taught that way in driving schools, but it’s a matter of habit, not actually logical if we’d design the system anew and everyone learned from scratch
Interesting. For me, the latter scenario is the most clear. In the first one, they may want to turn into a driveway, just stop on the roadside altogether, switch to a different lane to their right (on a double turn lane), whatever: they’re potentially trying to deviate from the path they’ve chosen to take. If they just want to follow the path they’re on, turn signals off makes the most sense to me
Of course, if you’re in a country that crosses different traffic directions on green (like Belgian and German lights that go green for you wanting to left turn, but there’s traffic coming straight on) then it’s needed to indicate you’re a turner and not someone going straight on. But then, mixing traffic is a recipe for confusion and accidents anyway (saw a stat recently that right turns having green together with pedestrians increases accidents by iirc some 60% — probably a low number to begin with and so any change looks big, but still crazy to me that countries continue to choose this)
Another scenario that appears more universally, where you have one lane for two options (straight on or right, for example), the turn signal is also needed of course: there is no path you’ve already chosen and so you need to show intent to change
Yeah exactly. The key combo was ctrl+shift btw
What moved them to pick the bigger devices?
Asking as someone who is currently trying to pick between the smallest options on the market
Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY
Tell that to Microsoft! I remember people using Windows would complain their : turned into ± etc., actually I haven’t heard that in a while now, did they finally fix that or just change the layout switching hotkey to something one doesn’t accidentally press?
I didn’t realise it was a life goal of mine to spend 6 minutes in a country until this post, but now I’m not sure I can unsee this list. Maybe the Vatican is a good candidate for that? Italy can go in the 2 days slot, bumping UK up to 6 weeks another time. Germany will exceed the 6 years slot soon though, maybe I’ll need to visit all sixers to get bingo on a row of sevens instead. And where are we going for 7 seconds? Another tripoint, does that count?
You’re going to drive it without lessons? Is that legal where you live? I’m confused about the question