Unfortunately only registered an actual account quite some time later, otherwise my UID would be way lower.

Funny how it was the link about Steve Ballmer being fat and bald that won me over to look at that strange site they were parodying.

Yeah, everyone acts as if it were super important to only hire the most excellent people, but the truth is that a satisficing approach is a lot more efficient. Hire for attitude and train for skill. It is all just a giant lottery anyway.

If it were the bar of Andreas, it would have an apostrophe after the s. And that would be a correct apostrophe, not a Deppenapostroph.

No, they are not. The fork is female and the spoon male in German.

When I learned French, one of the hardest things was remembering gender of French words because they often differ from the German ones. Car (female in French, neutral in German) or the sun (male in French, female in German) come to mind.

10 years experience and entrepreneur, in building applications as a freelancer, no less.

Cute.

What does NTFS do that modern file systems do not?

Either I am missing your sarcasm or you have been living under a rock for a decade. There is a vibrant skin market going on. I do not understand why, but it is.

Counter-Strike has been free to play for ages, and continues to be so with CS2.

It is built into macOS and iOS. If you use iCloud, it automatically syncs between all your Apple devices. This answer is probably pretty unpopular here, though.

https://thennt.com/nnt/statins...

Statins are shit. The probability is higher to get diabetes from them than them helping with anything. Their mortality redaction overall is insignificant and you need to add high-risk patients to measure any effect at all. Refuse to take statins. Eat healthily instead.

Are you dense? Germany produces more than half of its energy with renewables, despite the conservatives undermining them wherever possible in the 16 years of CDU government.

I wasnâ(TM)t aware that facial recognition is such a hard problem. Iâ(TM)d have thought most people can recognize a facial just fine.

Thereâ(TM)s a pretty straightforward approach to this: Only implement the basic functionality like AC, blinkers, etc., implement it as bare-bones, secure and resilient as possible. Then rely on drivers bringing their personal devices (mobile phones and whatever will come after them) to interface with the car to provide navigation, entertainment and so on. Assistance systems (from lane keeping to autonomous driving) implemented as isolated, autonomous units not exposed to the network as to not be remotely hackable. As assistance systems evolve, those can be replaced (also by third-party ones).

Of course this requires clean architecture and clearly defined standards and interfaces. But itâ(TM)s a lot easier to create and maintain standards and interfaces than maintaining dozens of car operating system kitchen sinks. Heck, for their unicorns they could even provide the mobile applications if they want to fully control the experience (which they probably want), and standards, interfaces and phone apps would *still* be orders of magnitude easier to maintain than whole car OS.

The point that the marketeers are missing is that selling useless shit to people is a zero-sum game. People can only spend so much money on nonessential stuff, so even the best and finest-tuned marketing cannot wring more money out of a consumer. You can only spend the same dollar once.

Which brings me back to what Iâ(TM)ve said for 20+ years - if a product or service requires heavy marketing, itâ(TM)s probably crap. Good products that people need sell themselves.

Yeah, because animals donâ(TM)t have any of these. ðY(TM)

Also, according to an acquaintance who happens to be a gastroenterologist, most people have E. coli and it doesnâ(TM)t mean shit, pun intended.