the 90ies

The ninetieies?

Not the one you replied to, and I have a slightly different model (OpenRun Pro) but in my experience, not at all.

They work a little differently with bone conduction. This requires a tiny bit of pressure just below your temple in front of your ear. It doesn’t hurt, but if I wear it all day long (way more than a couple hours) I find myself a little bit… Annoyed with them? Just a little. I still happily put them on again the next day. Zero pain.

Oh, and bass comes out a little differently and kinda tickles a little bit. If you listen to stuff with a lot of bass frequently it may not be your best option. Sound quality is generally like a pair of Sound Blaster speakers from the 90s: it gets the job done just fine, but it’s not for audiophiles.

Also a huge fan of mine (OpenRun Pro). Worth mentioning that they’re pretty lousy in noisy settings, like airplanes or mowing the lawn, but I love being able to listen to things without separating myself from the outside world

That’s true, I have generally gotten my pizza elsewhere (not that I’m an anti-chain purist snob, but there are several options and Domino’s is my least-favorite). If Domino’s is particularly egregious, why was that your choice? Surely you knew that and a coupon wasn’t the only way they could do it?

In my experience, damn near every pizza place has had combo deals and coupons and stuff. And no, I never had to give any extra information or data or app install or whatever that I wouldn’t have had to give for the order anyway. Just say “yeah, add that special to the cart”

Kinda like if you order a cheeseburger, fries, and drink instead of a #1 combo.

There’s a certain chemistry between Ryan, Colin, and Drew that just cannot be replicated

On that note, wasn’t Whose Line is it Anyway originally British? Because Drew Carey’s was peak!

and can’t even get you halfway across the state on a single charge

This is the part that needs to be rethought. Depending on speed and stuff, I can go about 200 miles on a charge. Want to go farther? Fine! DC fast charging is, in fact, fast. Plug in, take a pee break, stretch for a minute, and get a bite to eat. In 20 minutes, you can get a lot of charge in most cars (granted, my Chevy Bolt needs a little more time but that battery technology is relatively obsolete)

We already stop on the road for other reasons. It’s not hard to combine stops, and it will only get easier as chargers get built up. Stop pretending we need to drive 500 miles without stopping, that’s dangerous anyway.

I think it’s happening more and more in the tech industry - one theory I heard was that rising interest rates meant companies couldn’t just take out loans that were practically free money, so they’re cracking down on monetizing every nook and cranny.

Reddit was no exception. Many of us left this thing we once loved because of it, and came here. So on top of industry trends, there’s a huge selection bias among us Lemmings.

That’s fine until you tell me that’s almost 40 years ago!

I hadn’t heard that story before. True or not, I’m glad it was there

It’s a git gat bar!

Yeah, as a software engineer I have 3 monitors if you include the one built into my laptop

99.999% (or whatever) of the time cars are used to go from A to B and there’s no real thought about it. How many people do you really think make backups for purely personal storage redundancies? This feels more like grape juice and yeast kits (or whatever) from the prohibition era.

I know you’re being facetious but not gonna lie, the progression from a 5.25" 1.2MB floppy to a modern micro SD card with a practically infinitely bigger amount of storage is one of the things that blows my mind most about how much technology has evolved

That also includes money to upgrade, for example, display equipment in virtually every office conference room, classroom, home theater, etc. It took a long time to shake VGA in those settings and now that that’s largely been dropped in favor of HDMI it’ll be a tall order to chase after the next best thing with no benefit noticeable to 99.9% of people.

If that’s the approach they took, and especially if it made it into a source code repository, I’d probably have fired them a long time ago!

We have our time zone “origin” at the prime meridian (Greenwich, UK). As you move one time zone to the east, local time is (generally) an hour later. As you go west, it’s an hour earlier. As each time zone spans each direction of the globe, going an ~hour earlier/later along the way, they’re eventually going to meet. One direction lost 12 hours, the other gained 12 hours. That’s the international date line, where they are 12-(-12)=24 hours apart.

They could have put them in the same time zone (it is a human construct, after all) but since they are associated with two countries, it makes sense to keep each island with its respective country. Since it’s right around the opposite side of the prime meridian, it means you’re roughly a day apart.

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Most people should learn to live below their means

I’m not saying I’ve never seen someone get something and wonder how they can afford it, it certainly happens plenty. But wages are not increasing like the prices of housing, student loans, groceries, going to the doctor, having a child, and all kinds of things an employed person should be able to take for granted. “Just live below your means” is not very realistic when the means aren’t keeping up.