Fun school bus fact: school buses have a prybar as standard equipment, and if you call it a crowbar you lose a point on your CDL examination. Why that matters is a mystery to me.
One thing I always liked about Blackberries aside from the physical keyboard was the scroll wheel. People joke about them but they worked really well and smoothly (before the actual ball got replaced with a bullshit push sensor round about 2009 or so) and you could dial in on a specific pixel easily - something you just can’t do with a touchscreen - which made the tiny screens a lot more practical than they otherwise would have been.
I got to the point with weed where the first bowl of the day made me feel great with the standard high, second bowl was meh and after the third bowl I just had tremendously negative and stressful thought patterns all the time. It didn’t help that this was all before 7 AM.
comments are for explaining why you did things a certain way
A while back I spent more than a year modifying my company’s iOS apps so that they would work properly with VoiceOver (Apple’s screen reader technology for blind people) and be compliant with FCC regulations for accessibility (and save us from $1 million per month fines lol). The thing about VoiceOver is that it’s bizarrely buggy (or was - maybe they’ve fixed the problems since then) and even when I didn’t run into VO bugs, the way that developers tended to architect these apps often made getting them to behave properly with VoiceOver extremely difficult.
I often had to resort to very strange hacks in order to get things to work, and I would always leave comments explaining what I had done for this. My manager was one of the new breed who not only thought comments were unnecessary in ALL cases but also thought comments were a “code smell” and indicative of professional incompetence on the part of anyone who used them. Whenever he reviewed my code, he would leave in the hacks (after trying and failing to fix the problems without them) but remove my comments. This resulted in many cases later of developers contacting me to ask me why some bizarre bit of code was in the app in the first place. I always referred them to my manager with an NMP (Not My Problem any more).
TBF food trucks are insanely expensive (like, $80K+ expensive) so I don’t really blame owners for charging whatever people will pay. I’m just amazed people pay that much.
It’s interesting that this shit is how Lyndon Johnson rose to prominence in the Democratic party. As a newly-minted Congressman in the 1940 election cycle, he acted as a conduit for Texas oil money, funneling it to various Congress and Senate races around the country and allowing the Democratic party to retain control of the House and Senate. This earned him the appreciation of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and FDR himself.
It also possibly won WWII, given the isolationism of the GOP at the time.
A great book on this subject is The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby, an autobiographical account of the author’s trip around the world as a crewman on Moshulu just before WWII broke out. Interestingly, Moshulu went on to star in The Godfather Part II (as the ship that brings young Vito Corleone to the US) and is now a floating restaurant in Philadelphia.
My parents almost did this in India a few years back. They have travel agencies that plop you in a couple of nicely-appointed rail cars that you stay in for a month while they’re attached to different trains every night. You wake up each morning in a new city - basically a land cruise.
The four houses dads belong to. (lemmy.world)
The sword in the dome (lemmy.world)
Archaeopteryx 🐦
" Pass the beernuts.” (lemmy.world)
Why is this so hard (lemmy.world)
What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Plummeting interest rate (startrek.website)
Time is cruel (startrek.website)
He appreciates them! (lemmy.world)
Drinking in your 20s vs 30s [Sarah Anderson] (startrek.website)
Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)
Anthropology PSA (mander.xyz)
$1 grilled cheese (mander.xyz)
You can tell she's very impressed. (startrek.website)
Step-By-Step Guide to Buy a Senator (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/399058...
"Lighthouse" by Extra Fabulous Comics (lemmy.world)
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Bets on the next one? (startrek.website)
Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949 (lemmy.world)
No politics inteded: Why isn't Trump after leaving office in any way or shape involved in politics say as member of congress or senate? (lemmy.world)
I know that after you leave office as POTUS it is some sort of unwritten rule that you withdraw from politics....
ain't got no rizz (lemmy.ml)
"Adult" by Pervis Comics (lemmy.world)
14 October 2023 (sh.itjust.works)
An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
Location on a map: www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-…