I'm not going to look up or anything. All from memory. In the very early 80s I rode a few friends' dirt bikes. I believe it's left foot half up neutral and full up 1st gear. Then down clicks 2-5 gears then up-up back sequential shifting. I did ride a Harley Sportster too late 80s and I think it was the same pattern.

As they say on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is that your final answer? Because that's not how averages work unless it's a uniform bell curve. It's how the 50th percentile works. Averages are different. Stay thirsty my friend.

changes must be on top of a Git repo with commit before the potential carnage. I haven't let it muck with databases, but the same general rule would apply. There must be a clean understood line drawn that can be returned, a commit, a DB backup, an image. I am getting aggressive with AI, but the unpredictable always lurks.

This should not be a surprise.

I don't understand how it works. Is there no barrier to entry? If I were a semiserious music artist, I would still pay a few bucks for some discoverable exposure. Charge $99 for your first 100 tracks and $19/yr hosting. More tracks? Scale up the cost. I would think some vetting and light barriers would vet out at least a big chunk of that space filling music junk.

I also don't know anyone that uses Deezer. I've heard of it. Maybe popular in Europe?

Different religion

How are the trustees betting someone else's money? They don't get compensation.

No they don't. You don't have to participate in a TDF. It's pretty rare for a plan to not offer at least a few low cost vanilla options like a S&P 500 index. Yes, some plans blend in higher cost funds with 12b-1 expenses to cover plan costs. I don't dig that but it's considered acceptable and plan costs have to paid somehow - employer pays the cost, the employee does through fees, or some funds "give back" some management fees.

I copy/pasted your comment into a few AI chats. GPT-5 thinks is mostly human. Haiku 3.5 thinks your response is blended AI because of some typos. Grok thinks it's AI all the way. Huzzah!

I had that hybrid setup on my PowerPC laptop where OS9 and OS X could run together. I still have the laptop and boot it up occasionally, but upgrades eventually removed the legacy OS. I wish I left it in that original state since it's just a toy museum piece now.

What does that even mean? What's a page of code? Are you printing it? I have no idea how many pages of code the software systems I've worked on are. We've talked about lines of code and number of files, symbols, functions. Pages? No.

I have ads turned off, but there it is. That motion at the top of the page in my peripheral vision is giving me PTSD while I scan posts and comments. I recently started getting spam from these guys at work too. Unsubscribed and filtered in case it's not honored.

That opaque, non definitive word is rearing its ugly head again (used to hear it a lot in the 90s). Every AI concept at work, every time we are all giddy about MCP servers (ugh), but they must have the appropriate guardrails. Whatever, just define what the AI thing should and should not do. Guardrails: don't hallucinate!

The Iranian leadership have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

The time is ... 25 or 6 to 4.

I watch auto racing. There is an effect of "rubbering in" where the tires become part of the racing surface. I suppose some does float in the air, but that effect is very real and makes sense, it falls into the porous asphalt.