You get into line as the first person when the doors open for lunch. But the staff are all busy fulfilling online orders for delivery drivers who won't show up for another ten to fifteen minutes. That's customer service~

Are they really middle-men if the 600,000 below them are replaced with robots?

Sorry, gessel beat you by four hours and two minutes. But thanks for the support!

I propose a ban on time travel. Do I hear a second?

God point; I'd forgotten that their repo URLs are named by codename.

Which operating system is newer: Focal Fossa or Sequoia? Gingerbread or Wheezy? Calendar versioning is pretty useful for some things. Major/minor revision versioning is useful for others. Codenames worked for Ubuntu during the first alphabetical run, but they started out non-alphabetical with WW, then HH, then BB, then DD-ZZ,AA-QQ, and now the second RR. The third WW will happen before the second CC. Codename versioning can work within one product line to denote relative age, but only if done properly. They're mostly marketing. When 'nix-heads chat about Ubuntu or Debian, they mention Ubuntu's calendar version or Debian's major version. Mac-heads, while numbered versioning exists, focus on the names and get confused about the relative ages of anything other than current. Naming discreet things like servers not in a cluster which don't need to have relative comparison to one another? Sure, ST:TNG up your rack space. But software is a different matter.

When I made my switch, I was the same. I started by weening myself off sugar by mixing diet with regular in ever increasing proportions. Diet sweeteners taste very sweet to me now, and sugar is very strong, almost undrinkable.

Yeah, full-sugar soda tastes like drinking cake frosting now that I'm a diet drinker.

Surprisingly for me, the switch to diet caused a gradual and permanent drop of 10% of my weight, increased density, and without change in other parts of my diet or exercise. I did drink a *lot* of soda though, so I can see how those calories were tipping the balance.

No. Warmer temperatures might change how much you eat and drink of the (cold) foods and beverages you already eat and drink, but it doesn't make you want more sugar. It makes you want more [cold thing], which happens to contain sugar. People drinking diet sodas aren't getting more sugar. They probably are getting less calcium as the sodas bind to the calcium in their food, but that's not sugar.
This is a food industry problem, not a warming problem.

Orange is just vibrant brown, so I can see a language without a distinct word for orange.

I mean, we're all reading this article, or at least TFS. Okay, I'll fess up. I only read the title.

Archimedes should have used peacocks instead of polished bronze mirrors.

Amazon keeps flagging my orders as suspicious then cancels them. Worst part is it takes nearly twelve hours before they do that, so it's a waiting game. After I confirmed the payments were no longer pending with my bank, I re-did the orders, but Amazon also sent me a confirmation of delivery for the first canceled order... Third time's the charm, right?
I think they assigned a lot of back end stuff to an "AI".

Then the AI umpire would agree. And when the opponent appealed for the original ruling, the umpire would agree again.

/. autists like us are the exception. Most people, if given the disposable income will spend it on something flashy with depreciating value instead of a solid investment like Magic The Gathering Cards.