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For some reason, I can't get wireless CarPlay to work on my '21 Q5. Only wired.

In my country, customs is charged on CIF - Cost, Insurance, Freight, so that's probably the correct treatment. Not sure if that's the case in Brazil.

Was just about to post this. I listened to this yesterday, and it squares with what GP said about alcohol raising his BP.

I'm pretty sure this study was mentioned in a recent episode of EconTalk, where the guest was talking about statistical significance, p-hacking, etc. I'm Jamaican, so I perked up when it came up.

Ah, I must have been mistaken. Dziękuję!

> There's no need to know the singular for pierogi, because no one has ever eaten just one.

Ain't that the truth! My Polish friend also introduced me to 'pierogi rooski'? Apparently, a Russian take on pierogi, with more meat. Do I have the spelling correct?

> In return, I promise to continue working to stop Polish people from pluralizing potato chips as "chipsy".

As a Jamaican, where banana chips are like a national snack, it was amusing to see "chipsy bananowe" for sale. Fun times; I plan to go back.

I spent two weeks in Poland last summer. Might I recommend Zakopane, hell, the entire Tatra Mountains region while we're at it? Absolutely spectacular.

Down in Jamaica

I'm Jamaican. My mom (64) says that when she was growing up, it was standard practice to hammer nails into the soles of the dead, so their spirits couldn't "walk".

>the logical thing to ask first is "what do they understand that I don't understand?".

There's even a name for this: "Going from D to C - from disparagement to curiosity". I think I first heard it from @patio11.

I'm from Jamaica, and grew up eating lots of lychees as well. Never had any problems. Only ate them ripe. I haven't had fresh lychees in years though, mostly now buying the canned ones in syrup from China.

The owners of lychee trees, however, had tons of issues. It's such a loved fruit that if you had such a tree, it was pretty much guaranteed that praedial thieves would strike. It got so bad that I remember one nurse in the community cutting down her tree when the sight of strange men roaming her yard became too much.

I was a speaker at the inaugural PyCaribbean 2015 earlier this year in Santo Domingo - I gave a talk on doing the first and only Google Transit implementation in the Caribbean (in Kingston, Jamaica).

It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from Bermuda showed me a system using Raspberry Pis to collect weather data. Unfortunately, I missed Allen B Downey's talk, but caught Brandon Rhodes' (opening) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (closing) keynotes.

If you're anywhere near the region, come on out! It's tropical nerdery at its finest :)

@skfroi - It's Oswald, from Jamaica.

At home when I'm all plugged in, I have 3 Chrome windows, each with multiple tabs, spread across my PLP setup. Whenever I pop into a client, and awake from sleep, you can almost see the battery draining in real time. Edge to the rescue; and I'm glad they're putting the pressure on Google to do better.

Pro Tip: You think Edge saves your battery? Sheeeeit....Try using the Movies & TV app vs VLC someday. M&TV is a certified power miser - I caught up on several TV shows plus The Martian on a flight from Montego Bay to Frankfurt a few months ago, using my Toshiba Encore 10" tablet that isn't exactly known for its battery life.

Was a 2% drop really that noticeable?

I have an Asus 21:9 29", 2560x1080, not 3440x1440 like the LG you mention (which I've considered). The extra width is nice, and the aspect ratio is perfect when watching movies, but I find I need more vertical pixels.

Instead of the 34", wouldn't make sense to just go 4K (3824x2160) and get it over with? You're getting more vertical AND horizontal pixels. Personally, I'm salivating at the Seiki SM40UNP (40"). Anything smaller at 4K resolution and you'll need display scaling, negating the size gain. I don't think my 2013 ultrabook can drive it at 60Hz, but there are apocryphal reports that I may be able to eke out 50Hz.