For added confusion we have pigs in blankets in the UK too, but it’s small sausages wrapped in bacon instead.

As an Englishman I don’t even know what they are, I’ve only ever heard them mentioned on US television

I’ve been wondering about this for a while, and I’ve come to the conclusion that blackberries are probably the original thing. Brambles grow like weeds all over Europe, I don’t think anyone is cultivating them to be different. Apples definitely have had a human hand in selecting the best apples to start fresh orchards with.

I’m open to correction though.

How do you pronounce the hyphen in double barrelled names?

From what I’ve seen, it’s Cthulhu.

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

Jpeg2000, love it. Still no support in Google chrome.

Explosively

There’s a cowboy in Dracula

A horrible thought I heard once and can never get out of my mind:

Our bodies originally had horizontal spines and everything hung down from it. Now we hold our spines vertically, but the internals now all hang wrong.

No idea if true (seems like it’s simplifying eons of evolution), but it makes me very uncomfortable imagining it.

This is interesting to me. Drive through isn’t very popular in the UK, I think there’s a few KFCs and maybe McDonald’s/burger king.

But driving is such a pita I might as well cook or buy something from a supermarket if I’m going to do anything active.

Unless I’m on the way back home from a commute perhaps? I don’t really understand the business model. Also, what’s wrong with parking and walking in to get it? Leaving the engine running and crawling forwards to a window and then waiting anyway, I don’t get it.

Honestly in my younger years I had the time to hunt around for the right streams, rips, subtitle files etc, but it does take time and effort. For the price of a few sandwiches or a handful of coffees I don’t have to spend the time doing that anymore.

What’s annoying is that it’s not a single subscription anymore, it’s 4-5 subscriptions which really adds up over the month.

A lot of their constituency want the properties they own to go up in value. Or at least not down, which risks negative equity.

It’s not unheard of for lighthouses to be picked up and moved either.

STAR. For every question try to give a situation, task, action and result which came from you personally. E.g. situation, someone was manually copying data from an online portal every month. As a task, you’re asked to write some code which scrapes an API, and you defined the task via docs and planned tests. Then as an action you worked on it for a few days, and the result was the company didn’t need to manually spend a few days per month doing it, freeing up people to do more exciting things.

It shows you understand the problem and know how to go about solving it in a professional way.

Jsonb in postgres is fine, I’ve been using it for years. Much better than letting mongodb anywhere near the stack.

In the shape of a kitten

I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

Babel fish. Incidentally another proof of the non existence of god, same as the goa’uld

I can’t tell if you’re joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above