I say this as someone who works in the tech industry, but it absolutely does matter, up to a point. Even in just the context of a chat conversation, if it takes you 3 minutes to physically type out a sentence, I’m going to hate you.

In COVID times where like 70% of my day is spent on Zoom calls/meetings, one practical benefit of typing quickly is less time everyone else spends watching me type as I post a comment somewhere/update a spreadsheet/add a line to the “meeting minutes”.

Documentation requires quite a bit of typing. It is notoriously the least favorite of all software engineering tasks. Having it take less time can only be beneficial. ;)

If I have to sit there for 20minutes with one more middle-manager that uses hunt and peck I may (justifiably) have to kill someone.  So, in regards to someone’s personal safety, it matters.

Would be pretty goddam hilarious if the guy with the charger shows up in something gas powered. 

Is that why you did it, or did you just happen to be amending the soil?

Do you have to apply more then one year?

The Jeep Fe₂O_3.

Currently I evaluate ad blockers on their ability to allow me to navigate Lifehacker and use Kinja without wanting to strangle someone.

Then based on the sequels that should be offensive to everyone

What if Toyota said they actually named the vehicle for the movie?

Mustang is offensive to horses and appropriates their identity...Lamborghini models are offensive to fighting bulls, and don’t get me started with Jaguar. Pontiac was offensive too to Native Peoples, why was its name never changed?

I call bullshit. Maybe this would be an issue if the name were in some way derogatory to native americans. It’s not.

As a Red Seal mechanic, I’ll say: Listen to Jalopnik here. The chances of you damaging you windshield wipers pointing up? Slim to none. The chances of you damaging them from having them frozen to the glass? Probable.

Yup, here these idiots both are, neither with anything useful to add to the world, but both with a platform to deride people for not experiencing life in the way they think they should. Just look at this writer’s credentials. Either they’re stupid, or full of shit.

It is perfectly fine to store items outside, but you may need to use some common sense. Yes, animals may try to get at your items. So, make sure they are well packaged. A cooler is a good approach. I also suggest a thermometer in that cooler, with the probe attached to a display, that you can check on occassionally.…

I feel like the actual lesson here isn’t ‘don’t,’ do it, but ‘pay attention.’ 

Jalopnik just pushed the opposite opinion yesterday. Y’all need to talk: https://jalopnik.com/i-cant-believe-i-have-to-say-this-but-its-totally-fine-1846302894

People have been putting their wipers up, probably ever since shortly after motorized wipers were added to most cars in the snow-belt. In all that time, if the problems cited in the article were frequent, folks would have stopped doing it. I’ve never heard of them being broken by wind, having the rubber blown off or…