They are probably confusing ‘nobody noticed’ with ‘nobody cared’.

Are Android tablet apps even a thing or is it just a bunch of stretched out phone apps?

What lord of the ringish content? There is nothing on TV+ that would fit this description.

Sure you can, but do you actually do that?

In my experience those games you loved back then disappoint on replaying them. Our memories of those games are better than the actual games. In my opinion itâ(TM)s better to let them stay memories. It saves you from playing a disappointing game and ruining a good memory.

If Mozilla wants privacy by default, then why not include an ad-blocker and enable it by default. Why is Mozilla trying to appease the enemy?

A laptop with a larger battery would be a hard sell, Iâ(TM)m not sure there is a large enough market for one.

FAA rules limit lithium batteries in laptops to 100Wh. Something like a MacBook Pro 16â, already contains a 100Wh battery. Any larger and you canâ(TM)t take it on a plane. Who wants a laptops you canâ(TM)t travel with?

What makes iOS difficult for you? In my opinion itâ(TM)s much easier to use than Android. Maybe you can ask a young person in your family to give you some instructions, Iâ(TM)m sure you can learn.

What you have to hand to SpaceX is that they managed to drain US taxpayer money and NASA expertise to build a private enterprise.

It was necessary at the time for a bunch of reasons. But to make it seem like this is a SpaceX achievement is misleading. Signficant funds and expertise was funnelled into SpaceX to make this possible. At best, it's a joint effort.

And for a variety of political reasons, it's not a great situation for Europe to be in. Ariadne 6 really does need to happen, and soon.

That seems harsh. Here they do random checks before you pay (when you press the 'pay' button there is a random chance you are checked).. If you have made an error they re-scan everything and you just pay and leave.

In my local supermarket (in the Netherlands) there is no queue for the self checkout at all. There's just an open area near the exist with the checkout machines. Also 5 machines seems very little. My local supermarket is probably tiny by US standards and has 10 machines.

When does that ever happen? Why would self-checkout be more error-prone? It's literally the same technology as a manned checkout: a touchscreen. a barcode scanner, a receipt printer and a PIN terminal. The only 'error' I've ever had was the receipt printer running out of paper and that takes the attendant all of 10 seconds to correct. And I use these things pretty much daily.

How is it slow? People scanning groceries at the self-checkout usually only have a few items. If you have a lot of groceries you just get a cart and a handscanner, and you scan the items as you put them in your cart. Then you only need to return the scanner and pay, takes seconds to check out. Even better, you can use the store's app on your phone and use that to scan your groceries, then you don't even need to return the scanner. At my local supermarket there is almost always a free self checkout machine, only at the very busiest time of day (between 17:00-18:00 when people get out of work) I had to wait maybe a minute at most, and even that's exceptional.

For me self checkout is the best invention since sliced bread.

The difference is that you only take sick days if you’re actually sick, and you take as many as you need. The difference is that if you get a serious illness or accident, you don’t lose your job (and health insurance) after 15 days. Where I live you can be sick for up to 2 years and you cannot be fired while on sick leave (after 2 years it’s considered a disability and you can be fired and get onto a different social program for the disabled).

To prevent abuse an employer can ask you to visit a doctor (paid for by the employer) that specializes in workplace health issues. This doctor can only report back 2 things to your employer: whether or not you are actually unable to work, and an estimation of when you can get back to work. Every employer is required to have such a doctor on retainer and as an employee you can always request a meeting with said doctor if you have work-related health concerns.

I'm am one of the original programmers from Ensemble Studios.

I've heard of the game being used for something like a few times over the years.

If I recall correctly, back in the day (around 1999-2002) we received a few requests for a customized version of Age of Kings to support whatever it was they were doing - be it adding extra data output (like a log file detailing every combat step), fixing the random number seeds so slightly different scenario could have the exact same random number sequence used or some additional feature to the scenario editor.

I think (and again my memory is hazy on this so I could be wrong) we actually did produce one, and maybe a second, custom build of the game for use in an academic / research setting.