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Only in the passwords created using GUI version of the new Disk Utility (command line is safe).

It always shows a pop-up.

Well, 'union' is just a statement of a fact. The countries might hate each other, but they are still in a union.

But 'united' though...

I guess now we will find out just how important element of surprise is for Apple marketing.

And prediction: in the future they will separate all new hardware features to .1 release (iOS 12.1, etc).

Well, yes, but it is randomness of a mistake - not randomness of the language. If you are going to shoot yourself in the foot, I guess the wound would be pretty randomly located - but that is not the fault of the gun manufacturer.

In your example, the cause of the collapse would be that developer drove a tank onto the bridge and didn't bother to check the weight limits beforehand.

If you forgot to initialise the variable before using it - it's your problem, not the problem of the language. This is a feature of C++, not a bug. It is well documented, it is expected, and it is there for a good reason. And if you are running into this issue all the time, perhaps C++ is not for you.

It is not broken, it just assumes more responsibility than most developers are willing to accept.

My beef here is with the word 'random'. Mistakes don't make for random crashes - hard to trace perhaps, but not random.

Exactly! C++ is a language where you are free to choose level of safety.

None of your examples are a fault of the language - it is a fault of developer not doing necessary safety checks.

If you had 'random crashes', you probably weren't that good with C++ ...

And raise an even larger amount of complaints from pedestrians.

Yes, but not me. Hence the last sentence of my 'suggestion'.

The main cost factor for airlines is the price of fuel - which is mostly affected by weight of cargo. How about they charge heavier people more - that's usually not genetics, so seem mor fair.

Oh, and I'm not suggesting this because I'm 6' 5" but fit and weigh less than most chunky medium height people I know... not at all.

Is it still the case in America? In Germany and UK pizza 'boys' tend to be middle aged immigrants.

The subject of mental activity and thinking in languages is deeply fascinating to me.

12 years ago, at the age of 24 I moved to the UK (after being born and living in Russia until I was 21, and then spending 3 years in Germany - in English-centric environment though) and my language journey to English has started. Quite consciously I have decided to try to fully integrate and not get stuck in a diaspora (the impetus for my move was to experience British culture first-hand and not anything money or family related).

The mental conversion to English went in the order of: reading -> fast reading -> general speech -> fast speech -> counting in normal circumstances -> dreams -> sex -> swearing under pressure -> counting under pressure (gym reps)

Nowadays I almost exclusively think in English, except for when I talk to my parents for extended periods of time or start thinking of something in my childhood back in USSR. Funny enough, I do not switch to Russian if I'm reading text in Russian, or hear shorter quips of Russian in the street.

My English is fairly good, and it took on all the characteristics of my older Russian - I tend to use a lot of archaic words and somewhat obscure expressions (the type you'd find in 19th century literature). I'm rather bookish, always was ;-)

Most of the things I learned after the move, I can only talk about in English. I just don't have the relevant domain knowledge in Russian (for programming, general IT, pop culture, travelling, finance, love, sex, etc). In fact some subjects like sex or love are a complete no-go in Russian, as relevant Russian terminology makes it sound extremely rude and unpleasant to me (probably because I'm gay and while in Russia I had to completely repress that part of myself).

Remaining language annoyances after all these years: 1. My accent is still thick, and it would appear there's nothing I can do about it. My best attempts at disguising it make me sound somewhat Portuguese, but generally most people guess that I'm from somewhere in Eastern Europea. 2. I get to understand just how crap Russian language of villains in American movies is. Atomic Blonde, I'm looking at you! I mean, they shot that movie in the EU, which has millions of native Russian speakers - could they not get some extras from the Baltics?? 3. Living in London, I get to understand all the crap Russian tourists say about the city and its inhabitants. It is an annoyingly common occurrence to hear them commenting about all the faggots, whores, etc... lovely people they all are.

I'll take a textual article over video any time.

15 minutes!?! Gosh, even changing my views will be slow with GDB ;-)

Did you forget to switch documentation from Objective-C to Swift?

Well, the original article was about urban environments - not single family homes.

False equivalence.

Unlike with personal electronics, real estate typically does not exist in a bubble and affects lives of other people living nearby.

Both you and your neighbours would be affected by noise or lack of trash disposal.

If the people in the flat upstairs would flood their flat, the flats below would be flooded and damaged too.

If your neighbours don't like what their neighbourhood is becoming - they have the same right to decide what it should be as you do.

"Do as I wish" has limits in human communities.

If the ban would only affect law abiding citizens, then why aren't the criminals described here using already banned knives or guns?

You already know the answer to all of these questions, stop posturing. Yes, Microsoft kept old versions of IE and Control Panel for compatibility - but you don't get to access them unless you really want to.

As for full screen browser, touch-optimised IE was in Windows 8. It is not in Windows 10. Your rant is 2 years out of date.

That is because they still haven't fully adopted "new" file format association APIs (introduced with Windows 7).

Hay fever can disappear in older age (just like it can suddenly appear in mid-age).

I first experienced mine at 33 - without any gradual changes in the years before that; just suddenly, out of nowhere, full blown hay fever.

One of my relatives had hay fever all her life, until it suddenly disappeared at the age of 42. She had it at 41, she had none at all at 42.

There aren't that many leaving simultaneously - plus they tend to be slotted into the same group of platforms.

Once people see others walking towards a platform (particularly if they just checked something on their phones), they tend to do the same.

Generalisations are generalising.

Another Microsoft property they don't know what to do with.

Ten years ago I used Skype a lot - to keep with my parents in another country, but recently I removed it completely. We switched to FaceTime and Facebook Messenger long time ago, and I don't know anyone who uses Skype anymore.

That will be in Swift 5!

Original iPad only had iOS 5 - so no such luck. Same applies for pre-3GS iPhones and first 3 generations of iPod Touch.