Or it simply could be that I haven’t needed to concern myself with the order of operations more than a dozen times since high school. Even when working as a web coder it was so seldom necessary that I can’t recall a single example.

The US education system was still pretty decent when I was in middle and high school in the 1980s, so we definitely covered this in algebra.

“I, Daniel Quinn, neither the first nor the last of a line of such Quinns, set eyes on Maud the wondrous on a late December day in 1849 on the banks of the river of aristocrats and paupers, just as the great courtesan, Magdalena Colon, also known as La Ultima, a woman whose presence turned men into spittling, masturbating pigs, boarded a skiff to carry her across the river’s icy water from Albany to Greenbush, her first stop en route to the city of Troy, a community of iron, where later that evening she was scheduled to enact, yet again, her role as the lascivious Lais, that fabled prostitute who spurned Demosthenes’ gold and yielded without fee to Diogenes the virtuous, impecunious tub-dweller.”

Quinn’s Book by William Kennedy

When my previous independent pharmacist went out of business, they transfered all of my prescriptions to the nearest Walgreens. I switched to another “independent” that was part of Rite-aid’s network. The staff were poorly trained in customer service communications, passive aggressively taking control of every conversation and then not listening. I had multiple instances of prescriptions being lost or delayed, in one case for weeks. The owners didn’t care why I as a customer found these experiences frustrating and eventually told me I should just go to Walgreen’s. I did and the customer service has been so much better. Independent isn’t always better.

The beauty of open source is that Google can’t take it back. The worst they can do is close source their own future development. Meanwhile, the community can fork the last open source release of AOSP. Look at what open source devs did with Audacity, for example.

The real fly in the ointment here is Google already did with device trees and driver binaries for Pixel phones; no longer sharing these with AOSP will have a very chilling effect on custom ROM developers who must now reverse engineer needed configs and drivers.

There is a Batman villain or tragic anti-hero named “Manbat” whose real name is Kirk Langstrom. Perhaps Wayne Bruce was confused by being called by the name Langstrom’s alter ego.

You can also get extended service updates from Microsoft for at least a year. $30 for up to 15 computers, although there are also a couple of ways to get then free. 1000 bing rewards points, or enabling Backup to sync your settings to OneDrive are supposed to both means to get them that will become available soon.

“# Explicit video of Charlie Kirk shooting went viral online – because social media made death unavoidable to watch.”

I avoided it because I avoid most social media. Also by not seeking it out because I’m not a fucking ghoul.

Regarding The example given in the article, lying to get out of a social obligation , memorize this phrase: “I have a prior commitment.” People seldom challenge it or ask for details. It isn’t a lie, it is merely non-specific. That prior commitment could be as simple as “I made a commitment to myself to not do things I don’t feel like doing” or “I need to walk the dog” , descale the tea kettle or keep an appointment.

It’s nobody’s business but yours or perhaps your spouse’s which applies.

That sort of misidentification is another reason that dog bite statistics are unreliable; they depend not on rigorous breed identification but on amateurs’ identification based on physical traits shared by bull dogs, mastiffs and terriers. Artificially group dog bite reports involving a dozen unrelated breeds or mixes together under the misidentification “pit bull” and yeah, you make pit bulls sound scary.

Even when properly applied to pit bull type dogs, the term “pit bull” is imprecise because as wikiipedia states “pit bull is an umbrella term for several types of dog believed to have descended from bull and terriers. In the United States, the term is usually considered to include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and sometimes the American Bulldog, along with any crossbred dog that shares certain physical characteristics with these.”

Anyone who argues that breed is a reliable indicator of violent behavior and refuses to acknowledging the lack of reliability of eye witness breed identification on the basis of appearance is arguing in bad faith.

That’s not a pitbull, it’s a Cane corso or another type of mastiff. That people so frequently misidentify various breeds as “pit bulls” is one of the factors that makes the statistics you cite unreliable. Even “pit bull” isn’t a specific breed designation. Any breed or mix with a boxy head and deep chest is likely to be mistaken for a pit bull.

You might be confusing Cthulhu with Crowley. Cthulu would be indifferent to most human activities other than boating.

Trump reminds me of Baron Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo. Both are tasteless nouveau riche bankrupts with repellent physiognomy.

Let it burn.

I felt this hard. I spent far too long this afternoon trying to get some useful troubleshooting ideas out of CoPilot for a baffling WordPress SVG problem, but it kept losing the plot. Live and learn.

I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.

That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.

We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?

If you’re doing it right, cooking is art.

In this case there are no competing domestic products though, or few enough as makes little difference. This is just taxation with extra steps.

“There was a button. I pushed it.” Where’s Holden when you need him?