All insurance is built on denying payouts. That’s the entire mechanism by which they extract profit.

No, not used in English. I think the equivalent is coup (which comes into English from French).

we’re charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house

Oh how I wish I could buy a house for that kind of money. You should go look at what housing costs in Canadian cities.

Never had one, and can’t think of ever having seen one.

since it’s JIT, it’s actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Java is JIT’d too, and Python can be depending on which runtime you deploy.

Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.

“Err” generally sounds the same as “air” as most people speak it, at least in the accents I’m familiar with. Think of how error sounds.

and air on the conservative side.

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It’s pretty niche, but https://alternativess.com (sport archery retailer)

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

Yup, the arugula/balsamic combo is the same way I’ve enjoyed pear pizza. Delicious.

Pear works well on white pizza

Try Merlin:

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

There’s also a phone app.

MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I’d say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle.

Also… Java’s still pretty nice :-)

What has changed about RPN or calculators in the past year?

Seconded, I have the same bag and love it. I added a wandrd tech bag and accessory straps and it works great for an overnight, day trip, or light hiking bag with a bunch of photo gear.

Somewhat similar to Michelin Stars for restaurants, and Michelin the tire brand. The tire company started curating the list of notable restaurants to visit as a way to encourage people to drive more.

Become a Red Hat employee and you get one for free.

(genuinely, I know this sounds like a joke)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Pretty sure the CX-3 is actually a Mazda 2, and the Mazda CX-5 is on the same platform as the 3, just enlarged a bit.