And the few people left with the ability to clean up the mess will make bank.

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Anyway, back then it wasn’t considered the job of the programming language to hold the hand of the aspiring developer as it is common today.

But that’s exactly what it’s doing by trying to figure out what the developer meant. ‘“11” + 1’, should cause the compiler to tell the developer to to fuck themselves.

It’s easier to generate electricity during a zombie apocalypse than to pump up oil and refine it into gasoline. Let alone if you have to actually prospect for oil and drill an oil well.

So many ways to easily create and store energy using an alternator and some lead batteries. You can make a windmill, use a stream and a watermill, basically anything you can make rotate can be used as an energy source.

if you retire at 67

But you won’t.

By the time I’m 67, the retirement age will be 75, by the time I’m 75, the retirement age will be 80. The whole thing is a scam. The boomers get to enjoy retirement and they have us pay for it which is why they keep dangling that carrot in front of us, but realistically it will never happen for my generation or anyone after. Due to advances in medicine people get older and older, while costs keep rising. It’s simply not sustainable anymore to have that large a part of the population not working while simultaneously costing a lot of money in care.

Pensions in theory are nice, because it guarantees you a certain quality of life after you retired.

Yeah, that’s the scam. They say you will get some income after retiring, what they fail to tell you is that they will never allow you to retire. The retirement age will keep getting pushed back. The truth is that you will have to work till the day you die.

We should just abolish pensions.

Every month the government takes money out of my paycheck to supposedly pay for my pension. Every month my employer puts money into a mandatory pension scheme.

My expected pension age according to a government website is 68 years and 6 months. By the time I reach that age it will probably have been raised to 70+.

My parents died at 72 and 70. I will never see once cent of the money taken from me during all those year working. Pensions are a scam, let’s acknowledge that fact and just get rid of them. pay out that money every month so I can enjoy it instead of saving for something that will never happen.

It’s actually quite rare for cats to kill birds, it’s a skill very few cats have. None of our cats has ever brought back a dead bird, while they have gone on an absolute killing spree among the local mouse population.

The birds around our house (mainly jackdaws, which are wicked smart) like to taunt the cats though.

This you?

Don’t treat it like an action game, treat it like a rhythm game.

Don’t think Epic is somehow a white knight trying to liberate the poor consumers. Both parties here suck.

Epic’s whole business model is getting children addicted to gambling loot boxes and Apple’s IAP system is a roadblock to that. With their own payment system they can simply get little Jimmy to enter mommy’s credit card number so he can get all the loot boxes he wants without being stopped by Apple’s pesky parental control system.

It’s commonly used by mom’s all across the Netherlands when their kids don’t want to bike to school in the rain. (Sugar dissolves in water, so it’s basically saying: you can handle a little water, you won’t melt).

Are you made of sugar?

I’m Dutch, the weather here is at least as bad as it is in the UK. Almost every food delivery is done on (e-)bikes, with the occasional moped.

Where do you live that kebab shops deliver by car instead of by bike or moped?

Data communication speeds have always been in bits/second. No marketing teams involved, it’s just the most logical way.

Much, much less. The city I live in wants to promote biodiversity and has adapted their mowing schedule for this. Large parts of public greenery are only mowed once or twice per year. Other parts 6 times a year. Some parts are mowed 20 times a year, e.g. fields for kids to play on, or where it would be a safety issue (e.g. high growth blocking view around a corner), but that’s just a small portion.

Also in some parts they only partially mow, to create spaces where there are different heights of greenery. They also sowed a lot of mixed flowers, which looks really nice.

“Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands.”

2.0 safety factor for a glass of water seems wasteful.

Engineer: the glass is twice as large as necessary.

Turn up the radio.

I have a similar hack for never getting a speeding ticket. There are these signs next to the road with large numbers on them. Turns out there is a glitch in speed cameras that results in them not being able to take your picture if you keep your speed below that number. You can tell your own speed on the big dial behind the steering wheel.

So when you see a sign, make sure the stick thing in the dial behind the wheel points to a lower number than was on the sign. boom, never get a speeding ticket ever again.