*Concorde - with an e :)

It was a bit of a political tiff at the time what the aircraft should be called.

Initially, the aircraft was named ‘Concord’ in the UK and ‘Concorde’ in France, but the UK government later adopted the French spelling, claiming the ‘e’ stood for ‘Excellence, England, Europe, and Entente Cordiale.’

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I interpreted two bodies dragged into the same room from different directions.

The “Turbo” function was a masterstroke of marketing.

The actual function of the turbo is to slow the machine down, so it can be compatible with older games and software that ran too quickly on those newer systems.

Of course calling it a “slow down” button wasn’t very sexy, so just flip the function around and label it turbo instead!

trash-rm moves files to the trash bin, as opposed to the usual rm which instantly deletes them.

Obviously! What else would you use?

That’s great advice, but I find myself amused that even when you give an example of being direct and setting expectations for what you want and need, there still has to be a load of social hedging to make the reason more palletable.

The “tired from work” thing conveniently externalises the cause so that neither you nor the hairdresser needs to be part of the reason.

If we could say exactly what we want to say and mean, it would be “I don’t like small-talk and I don’t want any with you, not today, not next time, and not any future time. I just want you to cut my hair.”

But no, the raw truth could both offend the hairdresser and make them think there’s something wrong with you, so “tired from work” it is.

For some people the only things that brings them joy are 1) winning 2) making other people suffer

Good for you on leaving, and good luck with the search!

If E3 was still a thing I imagine the execs would have felt inclined to keep a few projects going, just to avoid the public humiliation.

Oh look, there was a fire.

Right. It’s not always especially plot relevant, but the way Tarantino does it the dialog reveals a lot about the characters and their (conflicting) personalities, so it’s very interesting and worth having :)

Time is one factor, but mainly to avoid unexciting and unnecessary dialogue.

In real life we have a lot of conversations which are purely transactional and not very fun. Nobody needs to listen to characters on screen going back and forth like “See you tonight” “At the bar?” “Yeah, the bar, 6PM.” “I’ve gotta drop the kids off at 6, can we do 7…?” - It’s boring, and it doesn’t advance the story.

Just cut the conversation short. The audience will quicky see the when and where immediately for themselves when the scene changes to the bar and the guy walks in, “Sorry I’m late, had to drop off the kids.”

Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.

You can certainly charge a phone with a PD laptop charger. PD does negotiate, so it will only give the device what the device indicates it can support.

I use my laptop charger with my android phone frequently if I’m out and about.

The person you replied to is referencing findings made by the author, in the article.

The author tried plugging a PD charger into the watch to charge it, and it wouldn’t work. It’s probably not PD as a specification couldn’t work, but that the watch failed to negotiate with the charger.

Whatever the reason, the findings were that plugging your PD laptop charger into this cheap little watch does not result in any charging.

We once were served a salad in Greece that had an octopus tentacle stuck out of the top as a centerpiece. Not alive, but hey. Nobody fancied the tentacle and we all just ate around it…

I’m totally down with croutons.

Food isn’t only about taste. Good food has differences in feel and bite that give your mouth something fun to do, and makes it interesting, and texturally varied.

Good food is a multisensory experience.

It’s really interesting when you think about that.

In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.

Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.

I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.

This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.

Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.

Why are we changing the default SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.

More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.

100%.

I haven’t bought a full price game in a long, long time.