gedhrel

I'm not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn't it turn "it works on my machine" into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: ... "?

Yes. Any normal person would be in it for the Gwent.

Concessions, or sinecures?

I am no messenger.

But I do bring you a message:

the message - of death!

If the claim is that his obnoxious behaviour is nothing to do with his drug habit, I'm prepared to accept that.

Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.

Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the "pedo guy" slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you've been paying attention he's been outing himself for a long time.

It'd be nicer to see tagged unions first, with the machinery for those, and then take steps to provide a semantic fix for error handling.

The "satisfaction" is probably novelty. UK/EU, nobody thinks about it.

I think there's a kind of fetishisation of manual transmission in the US. Like your emergency scenario: I guess if you need to accelerate away from 30-50 feral hogs then you might welcome it.

"Lead with the foot that is going down" is missing from this.

You typically learn to feel the accelerator and brake with one foot but just engage the clutch (ie, all the finesse is letting the clutch out). But you know this. All your muscle memory works like that. When you switch to automatic, just use the one foot and it works much better.

You have probably already worked that out but it's handy advice if you're a passenger in an automatic with a first-time driver who is used to manual.

Yeah, there's no need to trade insults!