Such a tiny one!

I can only hitch to the bandwagon with this, which alas I took with my phone camera somewhere in North Carolina back in 2021. (Look just below the center, slightly north of 6 o’clock.)

As much as we love to hate on bad old M$, Visual Basic had a rather feature complete IDE for 1991, including syntax highlighting. At minimum by the 5.0 release (1997) it also had function syntax hints and certainly built in documentation. You could even customize the editor window colors.

Of course it had absolutely no code repository or version control capability whatsoever. It was designed with a one dude, one computer, one project paradigm in mind for sure.

Anti recording laws from who, the same motherfuckers who want to install a Flock camera on every street corner? I don’t think so.

We’ll put down our cameras just as soon as they take down theirs.

I’ve got a better one for you.

I don’t like spicy foods.

“Ugh, America brain. Believe it or not, people exist in countries outside of America who eat spicy foods, you uncultured swine. You Americans are all so full of yourselves.”

Hey. I’ll have you know some of us resemble that remark.

If you’d rather give me some money rather than Reate, step right up to my website and have a look. You’ll have to buy things one at a time, though. I can’t afford to hand out freebies yet.

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You should try opening my heat treating kiln when it’s been cooking at 1875° F.

Don’t stand too close if you’re wearing clothing made of synthetic fibers.

Yesterday I witnessed nearly the perfect convergence, which was a guy on an electric kick scooter trying to split through lanes to run a red light and very nearly getting run over by a woman in an Altima (of course it was an Altima) diving all the way across three lanes from the far left to attempt to make an illegal right turn on red.

They came within inches of hitting each other. Ultimately it was the scooter dude who dodged.

It’s not a matter of think. Waymo themselves admitted that whenever one of their cars gets into a pickle that it can’t figure out, which is more often than most people would probably feel comfortable with, control is handed over to remote operators who are apparently located in the Philippines.

Article: https://www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-uses-remote-workers-in-the-philippines-to-assist-its-self-driving-cars

Waymo claim that their remote operators are not actually operating the vehicle per se, no sir, but instead are offering it “guidance” on what to do. If you believe that’s actually the case I have a bridge to sell you. I imagine this is rather to avoid the obvious legal question in that how in the hell is somebody located in the Philippines who has a zero percent chance of holding a valid US driver’s license allowed to steer a car that’s here?

The high beams are also closer to the center on basically all extant cars. Some older models have dual filament single sockets but these seem to be steadily going away, with the notable exception of Jeep Wranglers.

That’s a sure fine plan until you need to load something into your trunk or truck bed. If all you’re transporting is your own two butt cheeks, it works fine.

That said, I waddle my bike backwards into parking spaces because it ain’t got reverse.

It seems so, but I don’t have any data to back this up so it’s yet another anecdote. Speaking as someone who spends a lot of time on a motorcycle, though, I feel that I probably have a keener eyeball out for this sort of thing than most.

People kind of went insane during the COVID lockdowns and as far as I can tell remained at that approximate level of insanity in the years afterwards, whereas the number of vehicles on the road returned right back to its original level.

There’s one in the dungeon in Turtle Rock, which is the only one located in a dungeon in the entire game. Imagine a lot of people miss that one or at least get to it very late.

Yes.

Knife monopoly is when you go around the board and try to collect all the knives.

So far, I appear to be winning.

BTW, this is pronounced similar to “honks.”

How long, exactly? About three feet?

“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.

I thought that too for a while, but the shine has worn off of photochromics for me because all the ones I’ve owned have lasted grand total of about a year or in some cases less before they’ve worn out and no longer darken in the sun. The longest lasting chunk of the stuff I’ve ever managed to own was the visor on my motorcycle helmet, a Bell Qualifier DLX, but that also had the tradeoff of never actually getting dark enough to be useful so I had to wear normal sunglasses under it anyway which really rather defeats the purpose.

Instead when I’m feeling particularly cyberpunk these days I bust out my old pair of CTRL shades. They have their own inherent drawback though, in that even though I managed to score my pair free through my job at the time I’m still afraid to do anything heavy duty while wearing them lest I break the damn things. That’s because it’d cost me $300 for another pair.