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And for the 90s: Information Superhighway.

Okay, maybe that was a typo, but I've read cooking instructions based on a "cup" of chicken strips.

I had emails from CVS (American pharmacy store) about vaccination records recently and noticed this

Administration date 2024-10-25

First time I've seen dates used like that in a public-facing context. The birth dates were in that form, too.

The US uses metric measures in many places, too. Usually medical, but even things such as phone thickness are announced in ml.

The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It's been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word "boffins" regularly.

No it's not. It's more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there's an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I'm getting up.

So it's doing what it can to preserve battery health.

Alternate option, set up a premium number and profit!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462

If you're visiting from another country, try giving them a number from there (real or fake). What are the odds that their system can cope with international codes?

a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail.

The trail emerging from the tail of the plane, as if it was a rocket.

Chicks, not checks, btw.

It seemed that way, it asked me to scan a QR code on my phone to link it, which didn't happen before.

Or maybe the option to use my phone was some older auth method, where I'd use the fingerprint reader on the phone to confirm a login on the laptop. I thought that was a passkey, but that doesn't fit with what I'm reading about what it does now.