https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whoosh

It made me think it was going to be about the open source router. Seems like an intentionally misleading title to generate more clicks…

Sue me

*My name is Sue

FTFY

So… A disk drive is not electronic? 😜

And schadenfreude: the joy that comes from others suffering!

They blew up some uncritical thoughts!

For a minute I was confused about how thier name effects thier safety 😅 was thinking “I guess they might follow the wrong person home if they call them, seems unlikely”, but they were meaning playing it safe in the sense of not being very creative… 🤦

Or maybe he was rich, until his or his family’s medical claim got denied…

Agreed 😅 I was only refuting the sub point about knobs, as thats a pet peeve of mine 😅

Even for software there’s still equipment needed to host it, whether that be your own or rented from AWS or Azure etc. unless you’re looking to sell it as an on prem solution(but that’s not what most customers will be expecting in the current year so probably won’t sell very well). One way around that would be to only rent the hosting as needed once you have a paying customer.

In nz they import quite a few of them second hand, so the median bus age will be closer to the average here.

But yeah they might last a bit longer here too if they’re putting less mileage on them as our busses are not very frequent…

Have you used a volume knob, an ipod, bmw idrive or its clones? Spin dials still are the peak of ergonomic design…

Removal of physical dials in cars is one really good example of progress in tech causing worse design for the sake of cost savings and aesthetics.

They tend to get out competed by companies with enough investment funds to undercut them without making a profit until they have a stranglehold on the market and can jack up prices.

Maybe he’s gonna break into the publishers office and steal the master copy 🤣

Could’ve been someone else 🤷

Note that buses do last a lot longer than 8 years, some of the ones in NZ were probably imported second hand from Germany 😅

If it was him, and the NYPD caught him, he must’ve wanted to get caught. With all the talk of jury nullification maybe he thought it was the best option…

Jackpot on amazon prime

I don’t love the pizza fart variable naming convention, but it’s better than foobar and I don’t have a better suggestion 😅

Even better was for a while in NZ we had an app for scanning your groceries on your phone then you just scan a qr code on your phone at the checkout and pay. Not quite as amazing as the amazon “ai” (anonymous Indian) powered one, but still pretty great and didn’t require a team of actual humans to manually run it(apart from the customer). Too bad they had to cancel it for theft prevention shortly after they jacked up the prices of everything by about 250% in what seemed like one week…