I used to end up blowing all my money on ordering from Amazon and paying for same-day delivery, which usually means within a couple of hours in big cities.

I'd always waste my time going to Home Depot etc and getting aggravated at their metric fastener selections.

Mexico too. Anyone immigrated from basically anywhere is more used to buying in metric. And some products have already made the conversion, e.g. soda bottles.

> And some products have already made the conversion, e.g. soda bottles.

Some soda bottles. 20 oz bottles are still very much the norm at convenience stores, and 12 oz cans are the norm when you buy 12-packs.

Do they still call them pints?

Apparently everywhere except South Australia: https://manofmany.com/culture/drinks/beer-glass-sizes-in-aus...

Right. It's like when countries switched to the Euro or decimalized. There's a period when everything feels really janky and everyone complains and then a couple of years later everything is just fine and they forget what the old system was even like.

I know a lot of people who still think in the old currencies. Similar phenomena happen for people in countries that redenominated their currency, like Romania, where people still use the old amounts in spoken language.

I was debugging code last night that uses ~~~ as a delimiter in a string. At least, as you say, you can go crazy and use ~~~~~ to get around it.

This is definitely correct. I had a dream about a new video game the other day, woke up and Gemini one-shotted the game, but the characters are janky as hell because it has made them from whole cloth.

What it should have been willing to do is go off and look for free external assets on the Web that it could download and integrate.

*skin sloughs off*

You didn't see any graphite because it's not there!

Everything about these miniseries was wonderful.

Casting (who played who), acting, costumes and scenography (where did they get all these '80 soviet cars), and choice of scenes to film.

I had my hair rising when the guy cleaning roof of a building neighboring the reactor got stuck in deadly radiation zone for 4x the allowed 13 seconds. "You're dead comrade."

Reddit subs sometimes don't match the content you'd expect from their name (some are very hard to decode for outsiders, e.g. femcelgrippysockjail, gangstalking etc). Perhaps pics was once just pretty landscape photography, but what happens with Reddit is that a sub will start to focus on one type of content that the hivemind wants and then the sub will fracture. You have to go find r/lovelylandscapes if that is what you want. It'll be there somewhere. You landed in the wrong sub.

That's not really the issue here. This strong political orientation is widespread across default subreddits including /r/news or /r/europe and affects the Home / front page.

This makes me wonder what my Orkut email address was. My Gmail was a beta test one from 2004, so that is post-Orkut.

Orkut was launched in 2004 too

That's wild, thank you. I could have sworn it launched in 2000 and was very much earlier than Facebook.