Hey fellow programmer! This is definitely a thing for me too, it’s uncanny how frequently some random tidbit about a piece of architecture that I’ve tinkered with as a hobby years ago becomes relevant, and I just blurt out to a colleague “oh, do this and that, and it should work”.
But on the other hand I have to pause for like 30 seconds up to a full minute before answering when is my kid’s birthday, just to make sure I’m not getting it wrong somehow. 😭
Kudos to the guy for admitting he was wrong, but I wouldn’t celebrate it too much.
If they’re able to disregard and misinterpret all the available proof regarding Earth’s shape, something is fundamentally wrong. Either they lack the… mental acuity to deal with abstract concepts, or they’re severely lacking in critical thinking.
At least the second one can be overcome if one commits to learning in a structured way, but the first one…
As in croissant?
I’m with you, I’m the one who read my wife’s car manual.
One of life’s pleasures, for me, is getting home with a shiny new thing and going over the manual and trying out the features, and of course it will work as described, and somehow that’s very satisfying.
I might be on the spectrum though, my experience is that people find that weird and nobody bothers to read manuals.
Not sure I’d call them prudes, it’s just that anywhere that serves coffee - every coffee shop, restaurant, bakery, pub, etc - has a grinder and a “professional” (multiple taps) espresso machine, it’s just “standard” - I don’t think I’ve seen a coffee pot other than in niche American-styled dinners, or hotels for tourists. Asking for an Americano is a thing though, but what you get is an espresso in a mug. The “drip” variety usually tastes either very bland or quite burnt, and doesn’t punch the same way, so the common view is that it’s “watered down” coffee and not well regarded.
In your area, that may be true. Around here, and by experience in a good chunk of southern Europe, asking for a coffee will get you an espresso 100% of the time.
Asking for drip coffee will probably get you scorned and sent off, or if they’re nice they may offer to make you instant coffee if they have it.
Trying so hard that they need diamonds
Bold of you to assume printers can be “fixed”, and not that they just work, or don’t, exclusively on their own and that any troubleshooting, when it comes to printers, is just a glorified prayer.
Not just for profit, that would be ugly greed.
You got to do it for the shareholders profit, then you’re the capitalist hero.
“Metric cup” sounds like something from Lovecraft to me.
Al-Assad was the first to run…
This really hits home.
If you ask me to list things, I’ll struggle to find more than 1 example of whatever. Even stuff that I know so well I could do a ted talk on, but my brain just violently opposes enumerating stuff…
Yeah you’d think that, but then 8 marijuanas is a joint and 3.33(3) joints are a high.
But why would I use something that takes more effort and care?
I’m sure you’re right and it’s possible, but if I don’t have to fix another python project at work I’ll be in heaven.
Godammit I’m blind, i read that article as being from 2023 Hi I’m the doctor, how are you sheogorath pleasure to meet you.
Well you can hear the same song on repeat 272 times and not be autistic, but as far as I can tell, this could be one of the diagnostic criteria.
From time to time, there’s some new K-pop that my wife goes crazy over, and every single car ride after that will have that song playing multiple times. It’s not on loop only because I would consider throwing us off a cliff if the playlist didn’t have at least 19 other songs on it. :)
Seems like it worked?
Japan Grapples With Alcoholism Crisis Published Online: 5 December 2003
Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing “contains milk” statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.
In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.
Alternatively, they may be complaining about the typo…