> The average family spends something like $5,000 on gas a year, maybe $10k.

Half of that.

https://www.fool.com/money/research/gas-prices/

I'm scared of the floppy disk used to load Visual Baction

Home Depot Coke. $3, and in a plastic bottle. The worst Coke.

At least the grocery store sells cups at the register and there's delicious fountain Coke to be had on your way out the door.

What region are you in that grocery stores sell fountain drinks? Never seen this in the NW US.

Publix in the southeast and Wegmans in the northeast both have fountain drinks.

Midwest. Kroger, Meijer, plus Costco and Sam's Club.

Washington State has grocery stores that sell fountain drinks. Yoke's:

https://shop.yokesfreshmarkets.com/store/yokes-fresh-market/...

...also WinCo Foods. Or at least the closest one to me does, right next to the in-store pizza counter.

Various Dell prices from the US website:

  3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive 
  Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea.

  3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 1 DWPD 
  Dell Price $7,893.91 /ea.

  3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 with carrier 
  Dell Price $6,596.39 /ea.

I don't see a 'write intensive' option (I only looked around for a few minutes), but I can imagine them being 2-4x those prices.

And the useless notifications

Having a notification that just shows me an ad for "LinkedIn premium" should be a crime.

What does "in row" mean? For us non-English English speakers.

To add to the other replies, when it's an argument, it's pronounced like "how" not like "no".

Hence "rowdy"

I never made that connection before!

“a noisy argument or fight”, from the Cambridge dictionary. I believe it’s primarily used in British English.

A row in this context is like a dispute or argument

It's also pronounced r-ow (ow, as in I hurt myself) in this context, instead of r-oh, in case that helps the OP

"in a row"; the headline eliminated the "a" which contributes to the possible confusion.

in an argument

"row" means "an argument"

Yeah, I think it's more of a British English thing. It can also mean things like "in a fight". Like: "those two guys had a big row outside the pub the other night"

I always remembered it from Phantom Tollbooth "a DREADFUL Rauw"

Has Google ever done a good job with anything, other than search? I don't want to count YouTube since they bought it, but least they haven't ruined it...

didn't they ? There is 4x more advertising for 4x less content and the recommendations are pretty crappy.

That was just a byproduct of how Rails did routing based on the URL

Plenty of wealthy Americans live in big cities

An old timer once told me about how he would read his printouts, make new punch cards, send them over to the main office, someone would put the new cards into the system the next morning, and then read the printouts on the day after that to see if his code worked or not.

This. Except worse, during busy days you had to stand on line for an hour or more for a turn on the machines. I believe the skill of debugging by mentally stepping through a program's execution came from such long run times, a useful skill many younger programmers lack.

> a useful skill many younger programmers lack.

Because it’s unnecessary.

It’s not a difficult skill.

When folks are in that situation, they tend to adapt quickly to their reality. But that’s not the reality for the vast majority of developers today.

Thankfully.

The computer can single-step through the program far more accurately than you can. You can inspect the full state of the CPU and memory at any moment of execution. The debugger can tell you the real, exact value of a variable at runtime.

There is simply no reason to try doing this in your head. You're worse at it than the debugger is. And I say this as someone who does have the skill. It's just not necessary.

I want to learn that.

It’s just silicone. Who hard could it be?