Definitely not 5 because it looks like it’s trying to be a spoon, but you can’t eat soup with a fork (well, technically you can but it’d take a long time).

Oh no, how awful! Quick everyone, let’s all go out and buy a Tesla to make him feel better.

I feel ya bro. Every time there’s an English accent on an American program you know that’s going to turn out to be a baddie.

There’s quite a lot of information in those pixels. You can make out gaps between words, risers and descenders, two smileys in the first paragraph which I reckon are probably a smiley and a thumbs up which will further narrow down the possibilities for the words in their vicinity. Constrain that further with English language rules and I reckon that’d get you most of the way there.

Well of course. Peas are a lot smaller than cows and will eat and fart a lot less.

That dude from the Nuclear Whales laughs at your tiny little bass as he steams onto the stage with his contrabass.

If CIVO are in the UK then why the fuck are their prices in dollars!!!

(yeah probably for easier comparison with the US stuff but even so)

You’re not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that “grammar nazis” instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that’s correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument “the dictionary says…” is voided.

Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it’s not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.

Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. “extream” is incorrect, but “stream” isn’t, and that “eam/eme” is pronounced the same way. So “extream” is at least understandable. It’s similar to “ect” instead of “etc”, which is commonly mispronounced as “ek-setera” so you can see why people think the C is after the E.

I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can’t grok what they’re trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can’t understand it I just assume they won’t be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in my Arse

If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don’t bother.

Don’t you mean Eramicans?

Moist Ron in the dry US sounds terse

Plot twist: NHTSA are the only people that approve new designs, so Tesla can’t sell any more cars.

Well we can dream.

Well God is an alien, by definition.

Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.

It annoys the heck out of me too. Generally what I do is reply with the remaining questions they haven’t answered; sometimes they get the message and answer all of them, sometimes we go round and round until I have all the answers I need.

I work in IT so for the most part, if I have 5 questions, that’s because there are 5 things I need to know. And I need to know because they want me to solve their problem, so if they want to do this one question at a time that’s fine, but if I start out going one at a time I get complained at for being too slow.

I’ve also tried everything I can think of short of being explicitly rude in my messages. Numbering them doesn’t work. Bullet-points don’t work. One question per paragraph doesn’t work. Asking them explicitly to answer all questions doesn’t work (how did these people ever pass an exam?).

(And yes I’m aware I haven’t answered all your questions (-: )

Do it. Who cares what girls think! But if you’re trying to attract one then maybe wait a bit before showing her the dumb shit you like doing with your mates.

Funny I was just wondering the other day if companies that practice vibe programming also practice vibe management.

These are the lyrics Lennon rejected.

I wiped it after I left my last job so there’s next to nothing on it anyway now. They did give me a laptop but due to a stupid conflict between the AV and VPN one of the processor threads was maxed out causing the fan to run on full noise mode all the time.