I read that as “weirdest holiday” and was going to say National Talk Like a Pirate Day - anyway sorry for the interruption, please carry on.

“Recursive Backronym”

I doubt that the pay is insane yet. There are a lot more PHP devs than COBOL devs. About half of the web still runs on PHP. It’s true that COBOL runs about half of the financial world, but PHP is less than 30 years old whereas COBOL programs are relics from decades earlier, and generally only get updated minimally if the systems around them change.

I agree. A lot of people who mock PHP know almost nothing about it but they know they’re supposed to hate it because all the cool kids do.

Or TSP (trisodium phosphate) - which you can’t even make websites with, but it’s great for cleaning oil spots off the driveway.

Last week I found the code for the first website I created, way back in the mid 90s. The server-side part was written in Perl.

Get used to the fact that it won’t.

No idea. Presumably they expected me to figure out the settings and change it like I did. Or maybe I could have told the Digital Assistant to restart the phone, I dunno.

In Settings you select Power as the function of the Power Button instead of Digital Assistant. Then the power button works like it should.

And the Pacific Rim? It’s the only rim, baby!

The world will be covered with a whole new set of life forms, humans will be long gone, and there will be no evidence that we ever existed.

Tried to restart my fairly new Pixel phone a couple days ago by holding down the power button, but instead of showing the Power menu it prompted me to ask the Digital Assistant something. Excuse me? I don’t remember enabling that. Every other phone I’ve ever had, holding down the power button has always been the way to power down or restart. I had to search Settings to find how to configure the power button to control the power. Or course maybe I could have asked the Digital Assistant - but fuck that.

D’oh of course, I’ve never had car tires with tubes, but of course they need air. Should have thought of that.

If there were a god we would have seen a massive aneurysm a long time ago.

Results still pending on the swollen ego tests.

Had to google tubeless tires to even understand the headline. Tubeless tire whats? I thought a tubless tire was some kind of solid or foam rubber that needed no inflation, but apparentlly it still does, it just doesn’t have a separate innertube. Interesting.

“I only keep it for sentimental reasons. It belonged to me mum.”

Less than 200 miles. But I grew up about 400 miles farther. And no.

Plot twist: the Liquid Glass redesign was just a decoy they hoped would get leaked as a distraction to maintain buzz during the long delays in their secret Transparent Aluminum redesign.