I couldn’t plug in an adaptor in what seemed to be the correct way, in a Sri Lankan hotel (type M), but it went in ok when I rotated it. As soon as it went in, the power went out in the entire hotel. It was out for the rest of the night, and as I went up the street the next morning, there was a crew working on a transformer a few blocks away. Coincidence?

Also, at the place I was working, there were 2 other types of power plug than type M. WTF?

Yeah they seemed to be editing code live in production with no revision control. What morons.

“I could be arguing in my spare time”

3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.

But the news told me they would solve the housing crisis!

Suddenly and all over the place

Checked exceptions require a function to declare the exceptions it can throw. The caller function must then catch and handle the exception, or the exception would bubble up a level, in which case the caller must also include that exception among the exceptions it declares that it can throw. I don’t know if C++ does this, but Java/C# do. It sounds exactly like Rust’s system except with different syntax.

This post made me think it would be good if there was a community where people could post about “stuff to do”, eg join a local amateur soccer team, here is how leagues work, here is how you find a club to play for, can anyone play, are there min/max ages on teams, are teams split by gender, what is the social scene like, etc etc. Kind of like an AMA but focussed on things people can do if they need an activity/hobby/sport/place-to-meet-new-friends. There’s probably heaps of scenes I don’t even know about, or don’t know how to get involved in.

That’s great. Another consequence of these dumb tariffs: extra shipping and the associated greenhouse emissions.

The metric is also “count”, not volume/mass, so not a very useful metric at all.

I saw some weird interview show on youtube where they spent the whole time eating ultra spicy chicken wings while interviewing

Velcro sewn to just inside the top of your pocket, so sticking a hand in your pocket makes a loud noise and you can feel it, for any pickpocket to separate the velcro.

But maybe they could thank the doctor first.

Once AI and robots can do/make anything they want on demand, they won’t even need money, so don’t need to make money by selling stuff. For sure, they will probably have a tough time transitioning from the idea of making money, but they won’t need to any more. The rest of us could split off our own fairer economy, but they’ll probably have the IP locked up on all the technology so we can’t use it and have to keep working 5 day or more weeks.

How exactly does company A own shares in itself?