Roland was a warrior. From the Land of the Midnight Sun. With a Thompson Gun for hire. Fighting to be done.

Eleanor

Eleanor (spelled “Ellinor” here) has definitely made its comeback already, we considered it if we got a girl (got a boy instead) and have since met multiple Ellinors in his age group.

My unpopular opinion is that I absolutely hate this phrase. Also, “not gonna lie”, yuck.

I’m weak for “it’s a Dutch paradox”.

Sounds like a good way to spend a Friday evening.

Everyone who shaves should own a safety razor. The blades only cost a few pennies each, and they shave so well. Blade preference might be individual, but it’s so cheap it’s easy to experiment.

Luckily, the age of proper home stereo systems isn’t over unless you want it to be. But be warned, it’s an expensive rabbit hole to fall into…

I get that. In my city there are at least 2 makerspaces and 1 communal workshop where you can use all their tools at any time, for a monthly membership fee. I would totally use that option if I didn’t have my own house. Not sure how common that is around the world though.

Sounds awesome (except the stealing part)!

My local government is pushing for people to bike more instead of driving, but if you have a decent-looking bike it will be stolen. Bike theft is so bad that there is a satirical movement to oppose biking until the bike theft situation has been dealt with.

Woodworking! Yes, you can obviously spend lots of money on equipment, but you’d be surprised by how nice furniture you can build with just a track saw and a trim router.

I sign papers with customers from all over the world, and if I get to sign first and need to add a date, I invariably go for YYYY-MM-DD from ISO-8601. If they go first it’s most often illegible to readers without any cultural context.

Me agrees.

Yeah, in those cases I sometimes just put “she” instead. If they are the type of person to get upset by that (presumably because it’s a he that doesn’t want to be mistaken for a she), it’s precisely the person I want to offend. Reasonable people don’t care.

This holds true for many professions. “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber comes to mind.

Never go back to front.

Nah, industrial communication protocols in the IT industry uses lots of master/slave terminology. E.g. Modbus and Profibus DP comes to mind.

From my experience in Norway, these are typical in context of daily speech: (…) km, m, dm (kinda rare), cm, mm

Don’t forget the Scandinavian mile! You and the Swedes use it all the time.

Still talking about R

To be fair, I haven’t seen that much talk about R over here, I think most people have moved on to Python or even Matlab.

Do you also get the webcam paranoia though? I’m covering up mine when I’m working in the nude.

Perma banned from r/Libertarian

Oh, the irony

Yeah, but which of the two arrows though? The yellow one pointing to the right, or the white pointing to the left?