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

Haha true

in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

a/s/l?

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.

cite productivity improvements and cost efficiencies as part of the reason for their healthy returns

Probably by holding wage increases below CPI, and increasing prices above CPI, thereby reducing wage cost as a percentage of revenue.

There used to also be “dear reader” in books, when the reader was being addressed.

Which is why inverted y but not inverted x makes sense to me. I move the joystick like I would move my head.

I remember seeing Krull as a little kid. The cinema was giving out Krull colouring competition sheets on the way out, and I won one of the prizes - a ticket to see Krull!

My electric oven has some sort of steam-bake option.

But maybe they could thank the doctor first.

Easyjet. They sent us an update in their app saying they delayed our flight a few hours due to ill pilot. We were waiting near the gate (nearest cafe) but not quite within view, and no flight boards nearby. They decided not to delay after all but did not send an update to the app, and nothing over loudspeakers. My paranoia got the better of me so i wandered down to the gate around the original time of flight to take a look. When I saw they were boarding after all i called the family down, but we had missed it by a minute or so. They would not let us board. They preferred to delay the flight while they unloaded our baggage. We had to pay for and book with another airline to arrive at our hotel at midnight losing a day of our Greek Island holiday. When we complained to their service desk, they refused to refund us, and said “we DO suggest you always keep up to date by watching the flight boards”. There was a giant sign by their desk that literally said “download our app to keep up to date on your flights”. I will never give those fucks another dollar, and I tell this story to anyone who will listen.

That would only add one extra process instance with each call. The pipe makes it add 2 extra processes with each call, making the number of processes grow exponentially instead of only linearly.

Edit: Also, Im not at a computer to test this, but since the child is forked in the background (due to &), the parent is free to exit at that point, so your version would probably just effectively have 1-2 processes at a time, although the last one would have a new pid each time, so it would be impossible to get the pid and then kill it before it has already replaced itself. The original has the same “feature”, but with exponentially more to catch on each recursion. Each child would be reparented by pid 1, so you could kill them by killing pid 1 i guess (although you dont want to do that… and there would be a few you wouldn’t catch because they weren’t reparented yet)

Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.

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.

A solar shade, for example, could block out enough sunlight

Wouldn’t this undermine solar-generated electricity?

Why are you waiting until the meat industry is no longer subsidised to reduce your meat consumption?

Weird. I usually get the option to combine items in a single load, even if it means delaying some items to arrive together with others.

Surely it’s still more efficient for the truck to carry that screwdriver and a whole truckload of other goods, in a single journey, with optimised route, rather than me (and every other Amazon shopper) driving my car to the nearest hardware store to buy that screwdriver?

How exactly does company A own shares in itself?

How often for What’s New Pussycat?