never is a strong word.

But my vote goes to bicycle tires (if you ride a bicycle at all regularly, doesn’t matter if for sport or commuting).
They’re probably the one thing that affects how your bike rides the most.
Either make it noticably faster, or more comfy, or completely solve the issue of getting flats, or let you ride where you couldn’t before, like off road, through sand, or on ice.
And even really good racing tires are cheap compared to what other upgrades on your bike cost.

They were used on boats and in WW1 trenches where matches weren’t reliable due to water, wind or mud.

So straight people get blood for free since they can donate, but gay people, chronically ill people and drug addicts don’t, because they aren’t allowed to.

Here’s the thing: I don’t know about this charity in particular. But in general, a big charity is just as complicated a business as a big for profit company.
The task of managing it isn’t any easier. So the people who have experience in managing big businesses can get that kind of money elsewhere, too.
In our system, the charity is pretty much forced to pay competitive CEO salaries if they want experienced people at the helm.
If they paid much less, they wouldn’t get anyone to do the job who’s actually competent.

I have a rope lighter.
It’s like a normal lighter but it uses a flammable rope instead of gas.

TIL Reddit has paid employees, for what they call the “modcoc team”.

Actually, he gives out (cooled, sparkling) water for free cause he says that’s a human right.

Yeah the alternative would be to rely on POS software, which must be insanely frustrating to a dev.

CPUs work faster with better cooling.
So at 0K they are infinitely fast.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
There should be a hard upper limit on wealth somewhere around the $100 million mark.
An amount where you can still invest your money risk-free at ~1% above inflation and live a life of plenty without lifting a finger, forever.
Any property, company, or thing in general worth more than $100 million should never be owned by one person alone.

When your CPU is at 0 degrees Kelvin, nothing unpredictable can happen.

Yeah, just read that their newest server OS puts a recovery partition to the right of the primary partition by default.
Which is completely useless on a server, and prevents you from growing the partition when you run out of space.

At this point, they’re basically saying “Office and AD guarantee our monopoly, so we can push out literal monkey shit, and tell admins to deal with it.”

and “actually needing Microsoft support but coming to you cause Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about private end users”

What they say: “You know about computers, right?”
What they mean: “Can you fix this bug in Microsoft’s software?”

At my first and only job involving SQL, the dev database was also the (only) backup.
The company was so cheap, only 2 people could log onto the server at a time, yet there were 5 admins that needed access.
(so they saved a few thousand on licenses, at the expense of half the employees sitting idle at any time, and getting frustrated.

Counter-example: The Beer Hall Putsch

It was the “founding myth” of the German nazi party.

Birdemic - Shock and Terror

Absolutely everything about this movie is so bad you feel second hand embarassment for the filmmaker.
The atrocious sound quality,
The cringy acting
The even more cringy writing
The 3 chords of “music” that are repeated all throughout as soundtrack
The heavy-handed preachy message
The special effects, the pacing, just…everything is as bad as it can be in a movie.

Part 4 is coming out next year.

My local bar is tended by a software engineer. It’s only open on Saturday evening cause he does it besides his day job.
But it’s great cause he does it for the love of mixing cocktails, and introducing people to great drinks from all around the world.

And he obviously doesn’t really need the money, cause when you show an interest, most drinks are on the house.
He uses a pencil, paper and a mechanical calculator to tally up the bill, which I absolutely understand when your career is in IT.

But don’t use JavaScript to add up the bill.

barely covered private expenses.