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.

Any day now…

Wat is het toch ook een enorm zure doos.

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

It’s called the ‘inner platform effect’. They are basically replicating parts of the underlying platform (the OS in this case) inside their own application, until the application turns into a platform itself, one crappier than the one below it. You see this happening with web browsers and ‘web apps’.

Then maybe switch to a better OS / Window manager?

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.

The people needing a driving instructor generally aren’t good at driving.

The people needing a driving instructor generally don’t have a driving licence yet so they won’t be driving a car without an instructor next to them, who’s job it is to prevent things like this from happening.

“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.

The lack of braces in python code makes it quite difficult to read for someone who’s used to languages that use braces.

A $1 million dinner? Does that involve buying the restaurant?

That seems dumb. I share an apartment with a friend, which is getting more and more common in this housing market. Would this law mean we’d be married even though we’re just friends or does it only apply to men and women living together (and does that mean that 2 people of different sex cannot live together as friends without accidentally getting married?)

Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a legally binding contract.

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