Done. 20€ and lots of appreciation.

Back Street Boys at home:

Wrong Strait Homie

Unless it has a lining, you should be able to determine whether the pockets are real or fake by checking the inner side.

From skimming search results, this seems to be an equivalent of infographs in mook format. So this is not a parody.

It’s reserved for really close friends (sometimes also relatives). The problem is not the extent of politeness per se, but one that exceeds the “expected” politeness. If you’re politer than you’re supposed to be, you are being too 客气 (“acting like a guest”) or 见外 (“looking like a stranger”).

Although, the expected politeness is sometimes tricky to know as it depends on each part’s perception of the relation. On top of that, there’s also the supposed “acting” of politeness, like fighting to pay restaurant bills.

This is actually not that hard to understand. Note that across cultures, close friends can insult each other as jokes. So showing less politeness is like an insult, but with the understanding of the participants, it becomes a show of closeness.

The next phase of data center evolution had missile defence systems built in. ——Skynet origin story, probably.

Classic RPG story telling.

Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.

And open firmware, especially for routers.

So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.

You absolutely cannot separate the art from the artist.

You can…by pirating everything Harry Potter.

How do you know if this hasn’t happened already?

At least he dogfooded his vision. Too bad reality happened.

Professor in the house across: duly noted.

It wasn’t stupid…for the seller.

“There’s some legal, legalese you’ve got to work with, but everybody’s working with us on this,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how many different corporate America, Google, Apple, Meta, all these companies have said, ‘Whatever you need, Sheriff, they’re there,’ and we’re utilizing that leverage to get things done as quickly as we can.”

Am I the only one thinking it’s a chilling thing to hear?

I don’t trust the “$29 for the first year”. Does this mean it’s going to get more expensive later?