Sad about the Switch but it was always amazing that it ran at all!

Yep, although more for the aluminium than the steel!

Aluminium and steel have interesting galvanic reactions when touching each other https://www.albanycountyfasteners.com/blog/stainless-steel-and-aluminum/

I’ve also removed from my wish list - hopefully they reverse the decision and I can add it back.

Best I could find is the entire division makes about 35% profit and you’d have to assume some of that was YouTube

Revenue is not profit

As a native BrE speaker I’d say “I’ve X installed” is a little weird, fine in speech but written down it doesn’t look right. “I’ve installed X” is fine.

The last track sounds almost green and verdant but I think it’s too frenetic to be a peaceful and lush planet. Maybe one with white water rapids and fast moving water?

You don’t pay tax on growth, you do on dividends. For large shareholders a high dividend can be a problem. Even for me, a very small time retail investor, I have to keep a balance of growth (like Apple) and dividend (I tend to use a dividend ETF so I can fairly reliably estimate my dividends) so I can avoid paying tax on the dividends.

Small updates but I think the spidertron change is good, although I’m not overly enthused by the new name of the item.

This is going to be really complicated and that’s probably a good thing!

In hopes they read this comment - the problem is your price. $100 a year is about what I pay for membership to The Guardian - a highly respected, award winning newspaper, that gives away ALL its content. Why would I pay the same for tech news that covers a fraction of all the news out there?

At $5 a year I would have signed up after reading one good article - at $10 maybe after a couple of good articles - but at $100? Never. Even if you were the only good tech news site - and you are not.

I’m glad they are renaming bulk/stack inserters but I worry the new flipping mechanic for oil refineries will break my brain :)

I would say it means strong but with an implied sadness, but you can have positive poignant memories too - you’d just have to state they were positive. The day I graduated from University was poignant because it was the end of an era and the start of another, but it doesn’t mean it is a sad memory.

Nonce as an insult is definitely used in British, although it has a very specific meaning so not something you’d casually call a friend (depending on the friend!)

Some good quality of life changes that seem obvious in retrospect - that’s still impressive to me considering how long they’ve been working on it!

This might make you sad but it was over a year ago! https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-371 Time files! @bloopernova

Mine arrived this morning before 9am. Tested it this afternoon and all looks good!

UK - ordered within 25 minutes of going up (spent 25 minutes TRYING to checkout), it’s due to arrive today

On that line of thinking Ireland might be a good choice - they speak English and are still in the EU.