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Comment · 2 months ago
While I agree that that's a mid-sized EV battery, that would be a large battery for a house. E.g a Powerwall 3 is only 13.5 kWh.
Comment · 2 months ago
That's the third reason given in the article (hemorrhoids == piles).
Comment · 4 months ago
Roughly:

British "quite" means somewhat.

American "quite" means very.

A Brit saying a suggestion is "quite good" is actually saying it's not good enough, whereas a US listener will think they've been told the opposite.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I have no idea why you think it's written by AI, unless you think that correct use of quote and dash characters means it must be AI.
Comment · 6 months ago
Jeeves (the gentleman's personal gentleman) is a valet that would be pronounced VAL-et.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
CRUD = Create, Read, Update, Delete

Plenty of business apps don't really ask for much more than that, and those are the CRUD apps. They're not particularly challenging to write, nor is it very interesting to do so.

Comment · 1 year ago
I play badminton, which has games that are about ten minutes long. I've noticed an uptick in the number of times I've had to stop and wait for someone I'm playing with to read a message on their smartwatch. I'm terminally online, but I can disconnect long enough for a game or a film - I seem to be increasingly in the minority.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, unless you're using threads.

Or did I miss the sarcasm?

Comment · 1 year ago
For better or worse, describing software this way is fairly standard usage - e.g. robots.txt.
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s quite useful in the example given (passing errors back to clients), but I wonder if sometimes these others errors are artifacts from the first error - it would be more annoying to have these false negatives (and wasting time understanding that that’s what they are) than having to retry.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
As your screenshot says, you've enabled HTTPS-Only Mode - that's not the default, though, so most(?) Firefox users don't see that.

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