You guys are talking at cross purposes. One of you is taking "nearby restaurants" to mean "nearby McDonald's restaurants" and the other is taking it to mean "nearby competitors restaurants". It's not completely clear from the summary, but my interpretation is that it means the former.

No, but there are reports of TVs scanning for unprotected WiFi networks and connecting automatically using those, if available. Nowadays, I also wouldn't be surprised if the unit contains a 4G transmitter to send data over the mobile network.

Ah - the age old story...

1. Geek is annoyed that family is unable to manage their collective diaries.
2. Geek builds awesome shared calendar tool to solve problem.
3. Geek's family fails to adopt said tool because, turns out, problem wasn't the lack of good tooling; rather that rest of family has no interest in managing diaries, period.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I come here for the dupes. Repetition is the key to retention!

s/your point/this point/

> Citation needed.

You're responding to a thread that literally has 4 citations in support of your point, already. What more do you want?

Phone reception was not the issue in this case. They had printed the instructions and were working off paper copies. The issue was trusting the estimated journey time, which was waaaay off.

Any analogy that attempts to equate digital content with physical property is an automatic fail.

Block Google and bring back web rings, that's what I say.

The classic example being "draw a picture of a room without an elephant in it". https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40avanib2826...

Erlang guarantees thread safety, doesn't it? At least, that's my understanding.

I think Ada does as well, but it's been a long time since I've used it and perhaps it requires certain coding constructs, rather than a general guarantee.

...says someone who doesn't understand the power and expressiveness of prototypal inheritance!


tbf It took me a while to grok it, but once you get it and start to use prototypal inheritance properly (instead of trying to fight it and force it to look like classic class-based inheritance) you'll find it a lot more rewarding.

Can I interest you in the 'hotdog' color theme?

Don't forget the original: 3 to 5, Leisure Suit Larry!