

Can’t use made-up numbers for bribes.
Can’t use made-up numbers for bribes.
Travelling to Vegas and staying in a hotel there are actually both pretty cheap. The hotels want you to stay in their hotel so you’ll gamble in their casino and not someone else’s.
That makes some sense. When you’re smuggling something you want it as pure as possible, so it takes up less space and is harder to detect. You cut it with something else after you smuggle it.
The same thing happened during prohibition. They smuggled hard liquor, not beer.
So you’re saying all the “play this word game to prevent memory loss” ads I’m getting actually have a point?
I switch units as appropriate. In a thread starting with an American reference, where I’m writing in American English, I say “footage”. When I actually need to measure something, I use metric.
Norway has Brustadbu. Sylvia Brustad is responsible for allowing grocery stores below a certain size being open on Sundays in Norway, and now there are a lot of little stores built to that exact square footage.
This is probably PLA, which is compostable.
Worse, they’re actively incentivizing it.
Just thank her to her face, no need to involve the Internet in this.
That was calm selling, not panic selling. The calm selling happens before the market crash, not during.
Mute or disable all notifications except direct messages.
I get what you’re saying, but this is showing the symptoms of a stroke. Having a stroke is not a disability, although it might result in one.
I think they’re arguing for having the LLM generate the regex. And I certainly would not trust an LLM to do that right.
I don’t see anything wrong with the capture groups in A and C. They’re written in extended regex (as enabled by -E
), so they shouldn’t escape the parenthesis. Am I missing something?
I think this is more that American exceptionalism makes them incapable of getting inspiration from other countries, so they end up doing something entirely different. If it’s better, the rest of the world adopts it as well, and if it’s inferior, the rest of the world points and laughs.
E-check is definitely in the point and laugh category, while payment apps based on phone number or email like Venmo are getting copied by various other countries. Granted, I don’t think the US was first with phone-based payments, various developing countries in Africa have had it for ages. But I do think they came up with it independently, because they habitually ignore innovation done anywhere else.
They’d definitely do that, and add some other creative charges as well.
Are we, though? As far as I can tell from the stats, we’re going to have a whole lot of surplus corn and meat, and not much else. And that’s assuming we’ll be able to feed the livestock, but hopefully we have enough domestic corn and soy to cover ourselves.
Except for apps like PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and Google Wallet, all of which allow you to transfer money to an email address or phone number, there is no convenient electronic way to transfer money from individual to individual in the US. The only other real alternative is handing over cash or writing a check. You can technically do a wire transfer, but those are really designed for stuff like buying a house or something, and usually either cost money, take days to settle, or usually both.
I can’t speak for every other country, but in Norway we’ve at least for a couple of decades taken for granted the ability to just initiate a transfer of money to someone else’s bank account. You just enter the number and amount in your Internet Bank, and it gets transferred free of charge either overnight or instantly. It’s how we’ve done everything my whole adult life.
In the US, the prevalent way to pay rent is still to either write out a physical check or enter the numbers from a check into some web interface which is then somehow able to suck money out of your account. Sometimes a bank will offer to mail the check on your behalf, but it’s still very much a check.
Hey now, we were able to standardize the curvature of cucumbers.
“If it’s this bad now, just imagine how many jobs we would have lost with Kamala!”