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There seemed to be no real discussion about anything! I was expecting more of a conclusion, but the article did not support the proposition in the headline.

They manufactured their own hot dog manufacturing plant:

"What we figured out we could do is build our own hot dog-manufacturing plant (in Los Angeles) and make our own Kirkland Signature hot dogs. Now we are doing so much hot dog business that we’ve opened up another plant in Chicago. By having the discipline to say, ‘You are not going to be able to raise your price. You have to figure it out,’ we took it over and started manufacturing our hot dogs. We keep it at $1.50 and make enough money to get a fair return."

https://www.425business.com/news/costco-ceo-craig-jelinek-on...

Yes, there are lots weird remnants of the vigesimal system around in French. You can see it in names like the Quinze-Vingts hospital - literally "fifteen twenties" because it was designed to have 300 beds.

I think the three-and-ten, four-and-ten way of expressing numbers is primarily an ancient Greek thing. The modern numbers are expressed differently (δεκατέσσερα / dekatessara for fourteen, for example). In a lot of older European languages 11 and 12 behaved irregularly. You could argue that they do in English too (we don't have oneteen and twoteen).

I haven't read of any particular reason for this, but I'd posit that numbers up to twelve were more commonly used in everyday life, so shorter, irregular forms were easier to use and remember. Much like many of the irregular verb forms in spoken language happened because they were so commonly used.

The ancient Greek system also gave us triskaidekaphobia - the fear of the number 13.

This entire response is full of lies. Having done a cursory search of the extensions, you do target ones that are based on religious affiliation regardless of the DOM actions they take.

Your comment is disingenuous, insulting and has only served to make me check more extensions and only browse LinkedIn in a secure, private window.

For some irrational reason this article annoyed me. It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Describing the founders as "foundering figures" was amusing - I don't know if the image of taking on water and sinking was the author's intent, but I think I've just become guilty of the same thing I've accused the article of.

Thank you for the unexpected ATLA reference!

https://archive.is/4f3AY

Glorious! I was also temporarily trapped by the intuitive “Start Game” UI. After that, it made me think of a weird version of Spy Hunter on a canal. I had to experiment to see if I could ride the tsunami all the way to the end.

Port it to the ZX Spectrum and it would be a classic CSSCGC entry.

I was wowed when I first got home Internet in 1995 because it was so much more than the BBSs I’d been using up to that point, but nothing has recreated the sense of wonder I had on 8-bit machines in the 80s. Even when I bought a secondhand PC in the late 80s, going through the hand-labelled disks was like a treasure hunt. That’s how I first discovered Hack/Nethack, played Leygref’s Castle and started learning Borland Turbo Pascal.

After nearly 40 years, Shep has finally been released!

See the Crash magazine "Unclear User" parody. Page 125 of the August 1985 edition for context. [0]

[0] https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._19_1985-08_Newsfield_G...

I guess your point about it feeling handcrafted holds, if you count the character encoding.

Magnificent!

Use the Brave browser and `brave://settings/content/autoplay` is all you need.

This has nerd-sniped me waaaay too much. Now I need to know the capacity of the ISS urine tank since an average adult urination is between 200 and 350ml.

Yes, the solid matter goes into waste containers that are burned up on re-entry of the supply craft. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a reading for the solid waste containers.

It makes wishing on a falling star less romantic, though, when you realise you could be wishing on flaming astronaut poop.

The 2022 BBC article goes into more depth: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161014-the-secret-behin...

This comment made my day. Thank you!

So, what you essentially demand is to NOT provide you with a user interface to interact with the system.

No, I’m requesting, or demanding if you prefer, the choice. An account is a user convenience, not a business necessity. I’m asking why it is reasonable to force customers to create an account to book a flight?

Could you elaborate on why that seems reasonable to you? The airline will already have my passport and credit card details, home address and mobile number. In my opinion, it should be the user's choice whether they create an account or not.

This is a very Irish thing. Funerals in Ireland are always well-attended and going to a funeral - even of someone you don't know - is important in the community (see this recent news article, for example[0]). I notice the author's surname is Sullivan.

As my grandmother liked to repeat: "If you don't go to someone's funeral, they won't come to yours."

[0] https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/crowd-shows-up-to-funera...)

I’d say we are about the same. He looked like he’d come out of a business meeting. I had even joked with him about being overdressed for walking around Parc Guell.

The economic status thing is interesting. I can’t help but wonder if there’s bias there.

I uploaded a picture of me and a friend. I am Caucasian, he is of African descent. It said that my attire indicated I was of a higher socio-economic status than him. I was wearing a black t-shirt with a worn print. He was wearing a shirt and sports jacket.

There is of course, only one Doctor that counts, and it’s Tom Baker all the way…

I could have written this entire post, but especially the last line. The 4th Doctor theme is my phone ringtone on the very rare occasions when it’s not on silent.

I love Crafting Interpreters, it's a fantastic book, and is on my desk beside me right now. Everything about it is just so well...crafted!

I know Amazon is a must for authors, but as an Amazon avoider, I was delighted to able to order it through my local bookshop.

This is an Alex Bellos puzzle, which I’ve learned through experience to ignore. The terms are always so loosely defined that any solution you come up with is a gamble at best.

A nice synchronicity here, I was only checking Māori words today because The Guardian's cryptic crossword was set by "Pangakupu" (which means, logically enough, "crossword"). This crossword setter always includes a hidden Māori word or phrase in the puzzle.

The whole article was full of supercilious snark. A lot of it was aimed, rightly, at Andersen, but it does take away from the fact that Y2K was a real issue that affected millions of computers worldwide.

I patched hundreds of vulnerable systems, rewrote code for mission-critical software and still ended up with a call-out to halted manufacturing plant on January 1st, 2000.

If there hadn’t been a global, coordinated response, things would have been a lot worse. And let’s not forget that there were life-changing effects of the bug beyond the snarky “garage door opener” issue mentioned in the article. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright

These responses are great and helpful. Thank you to you both.

What resources would you recommend for someone who wants to improve their statistical literacy? You mention reading the right books, I'd appreciate it if you could give a short list, if you have time.

The article mentions an Amazon policy to always call an ambulance when they find a medical issue.

True...there's a difference between having a policy and it being enforced, though. The article also contains a quote from a union organiser who seemed to cast doubt on that "We know from our members in Amazon warehouses that first-aiders are actively discouraged from ringing ambulances – instead told to take taxis"

I know I'm not coming from a neutral place here...I detest Amazon utterly, but I have been around too many large companies for too long to know that the "policy we quote" vs the "behaviour we enforce" are two entirely different things.