Reinventing the wheel leads to a profound understanding of why wheels are round.

Isn't the onion supposed to be satire?

One does not preclude the other...

They just want you to think they're incompetent...

When my kids are quiet...

I drove at least a thousand miles to see the one that crossed the US in 2017. I agree with the awesomeness of it all- and despite being in the middle of nowhere, there were a lot of people around, so when totality began, there was this collective gasp that was almost as amazing as the eclipse itself.

There's a name for it- euphemism treadmill

Hey look, I'm good at something.

Yes, but that's why x86 assembly programmers do it...

Solid advice, but the problem is, crazy will rock your world...

Train can't dodge, but it can ram...

Yes, but it's not universal that xoring a register with itself is more performant than simply loading it with 0.

an x86 assembly programmer

Ftfy. not all CPUs have an xor register with itself instruction.

I work and play video games all day...

parse

That sounds like technical jargon...

Some people are terrible with money. Take my wife... (Please) - after 20 years she suddenly decided she wants a divorce. Rather than either of us keep our house, she wants to sell it and split the equity we get out of it. Fair enough, I can agree with that... But then she said she wanted to dump it on a flipper for 300k, when comparable houses have gone for 430-450. I said if you're going to let it go that cheap, let me buy you out. I crunched the numbers, we owe 150k, so I'd either refinance or assume the loan, and give her 75k (her half of the difference between the sale price and what we owe) - she accused me of trying to screw her over. "I'm not letting you have the house for $75k!" "That's right, you're not- we (the couple) would be selling it to me (the individual) for $300k, it's the same as dumping it on a flipper, just that I'm the flipper!" There was no getting through to her. Eventually she agreed to try and sell it properly for what it's worth.

to me... Evidently she had made up her mind months ago, but wasn't going to tell me until her job situation improved...

Steve Hughes had this to say...

That wasn't burger king, that was a&w.

That was typical of cars made (for US market) in the early to mid 80s... Can't remember for sure if it was part of the whole national 55mph speed limit, but I'd bet it was.

I don't remember a once-in-a-generation economic crisis in 2002... I remember the dotcom bust and my dad watching his retirement evaporate in 2000...