LOL, yeah. I absolutely understand the word’s construction, and the logic behind its spelling and pronunciation. It’s just one of those occasional cases where the mechanics and aesthetics don’t align for me. It could be that it’s uncommon for a word ending in a hard “g” to have a form with the single-letter “y”…

It’ll use the same mechanism as the Joy-Con with a different cap mold.

Great article, Claire! I hate wasting fresh fruit almost as much as I hate wasting meat (the latter being an actual sin by my personal moral code).

Just thinking out loud on paper here...

I remember the tacos being $0.89 as well. It was a really good price point. They’re $1.19 now, at least where I live, but give the cheaper price is what I remember from almost two decades ago, it’s increased at a slower rate than overall inflation.

I guess I need to revisit my position on egg yolk. It’s definitely my favorite part of the egg, but I’m accustomed to a dryer yolk. I’ve had softer yolks in restaurants and perceived a certain “raw egg” flavor that’s very unappetizing. Sorry I can’t describe it better; there’s no proxy I know. Is that something you’re…

I wonder if the hypothesis on which this pilot program is based involves the fact that food delivery services are making money hand-over-fist with their subscriptions. If so, I think they’re not giving due credit to the appeal of variety in those apps. However, I will give them that the Taco Bell app is much easier to…

Some of this highly specific security jargon can be hard to follow, but I appreciate its inclusion. But due to the complexity of the language, I’d recommend correcting one typo, which should make it a bit easier to read:

The utterly dishonest characterization of those Asus Chromebook specs are shameful.

The utterly dishonest characterization of those Asus Chromebook specs are shameful.

The opening sentence is missing its subject, which makes it kind of confusing. On first read I thought you were referring to the PSVR there, but eventually discerned from context you were talking about the Quest 2 first.

Can this be applied to an existing account, or do you have to create a new one? I’ve never heard about the lifetime plan before, and they don’t seem to sell it directly. Also curious (no pun intended) whether they have an option for a lifetime 4K plan. The annual/monthly price bump for 4K is way too much to justify,…

Can this be applied to an existing account, or do you have to create a new one? I’ve never heard about the lifetime…

In my experience, those checkboxes work about as well as an elevator close or crosswalk button. But even when the delivery driver follows the request, often customers who ask for it still try to greet the driver at the door, or maybe stand on the porch to wave at them and then step inside just as they walk up, with…

There were a lot of people buying Game Pass in other regions where it was cheaper, but I’m pretty sure I remember reading that they cracked down on that.

Agree, in most cases, although there are some restaurants my wife and I order from which don’t have drive through, and I don’t mind paying someone else to assume the risk of entering / waiting inside the restaurant where diners are necessarily unmasked, particularly because my wife takes immunosuppressants. I consider…

*Whoops, that asterisk was meant to connect with a quick note to say that tips are not optional, at all. I can sometimes, maybe, see a fringe case for not tipping in other industries, outside of pandemic conditions, but with the risk food delivery drivers are taking now, and for as little as they make from the apps…

I’ve realized that a lot of things about this pandemic have hardened me against humanity at large, but I don’t want to be someone that comes off as an asshole to the typical observer. Please read this comment accordingly, if you can.

Claire:

*Please take the comment below with no sarcasm*

Yeah, I agree with most of these—and in most cases can’t see someone using them without at least a conscious disregard for offense caused—but some are questionable. I think “crippled” in a technical context is about as common as the original. News articles often talk about companies having production capacity crippled…

This reminds me of a feature that was added to Winamp near the end of its active development life. After adding your entire music library, it could optionally analyze them and create an internal database of identifiers like BPM, tonal range/patterns, and probably some other things too complicated for my brain, and…