I've never left tabs open when closing a browser? In fact my settings are to wipe history at closing.

Search history on Google is turned off also.

I use bookmarks... Or my memory and a Google search of the page's name.

I rarely have more than 5 tabs open simultaneously.

Maybe that's because tabs didn't exist when I started browsing the web (with Mosaic)

The emergency brake is sadly in a submenu

Electric cars are still very expensive. For me we're talking a 20K$ difference minimum between comparable models.

With 20K$ I can afford to do a lot of oil changes, and even plan a complete replacement of the engine and transmission during the life of the car and it won't even come close to this amount.

I will even make the prediction that customers will rush to dealers to buy the last ICE cars that will be sold, and used ICE cars will go up in value when you won't be able to buy new ones.

The brakes and steering are, for now, still mechanical devices. You can't reverse the steering with software.

Both still work even with the engine turned off, but with more effort needed since you lose the assistance.

The latest version of COBOL had been released last year.

Each time they add a lot of new functions and features.

You can now parse and generate JSON messages with a single instruction.

You can do the same with XML.

We develop new APIs in COBOL that allow web services to communicate with the legacy applications, using MQ messages.

We have batch jobs that processes millions of transactions using less than a second of cpu, and under 16 MB of RAM, you can't do that in java (I know because I do both COBOL and java developpement)

Well I've been driving for more than 30 years in Canada, and I've never had a car not starting when cold, and of the 20-something cars I have owned the vast majority didn't have a block heater. It was optionnal.

In fact I discoverd by accident that my current car has one, when I saw the electric cord tucked away in the engine compartment.

And when I say cold it's -35C (-30F)

Sure it's a good idea to use the block heater so it's less traumatic for the engine, and you have hot air faster in the cabin. But if your car is in tune and it has a good battery it will start down to -40C (-40F) no problem.

The engine will sound like an old tractor for a couple of minutes and you better not floor it until it's relatively warm otherwise it won't last long...

Don't forget your parachute!

What? COBOL is not very fast? You've never worked with it I see.

The recent COBOL compilers applies every optimising tricks known to date and today's executables are way faster than 20 years ago.

CPU time on mainframes is very expensive, believe me when I say that every companies tries to have the shortest execution time possible.

Don't compare it to some shitty interpreted or JIT compiled trash like Java.

I think the bottleneck will now be the overheating camera.

Sony cameras have a 5 minute limit on 4K video, and it can even be less than that if you're filming in high ambiant temperature (high being more than 21ÂC).

Exactly.

It's like my motorcycle riding course, all we did was practice the test in a closed course over a couple of weeks. Of course I passed the test the first time, but after that I was alone on the road and had to learn a lot before I was an OK rider.

The only problem is that the french word for Wallet:"Portefeuille" is masculine.

So it should be "Le Wallet"

"La" is feminine.

I just read that more families are buying SUVs even if the number of children per family hasn't gone up.

I don't know about the USA but here in Canada there are a lot of separated couples with children. When you are separated and have part-time custody of your childrens, you often end up with a new partner in the same situation.

So now these 2 parents don't have more than 2 childrens each for example, but they alternate between one week with no children, and one week with 4 childrens. Then you need a vehicle which can hold 6 passengers and their luggage. So you end up with a minivan of an SUV with 3 rows.

The total number of childrens has not increased, but since a lot of families have share custody of those childrens the consequence is that you have reconstituted families which are bigger one week and smaller the next week.

Same thing with houses, we need 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms even if half the time we're only 2 in the house.

Most electronic devices could share some generic standard box, and when you want to upgrade it you just replace the board in the same box.

Take a wifi router for example, who cares how it looks? It could be housed in a square wood box and it would still function. And if it stops working or there are new wifi standards, just swap the circuit board and antennas. It could be plug and play so that anyone can do it.

Not everyone has a big enough home to have a comfortable working space.

Easy, just get everyone a hatchback