As you are in Australia you might get somewhere if you lodge a complaint with Consumer Affairs

https://www.accc.gov.au/

And there are also separate bodies for each state.

It’s because their thoughts are Roman while they are always Russian to Finnish things.

Kenya believe it!

Anyway, I’m done here. Abyssinia.

Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.

That is such a horrible non-solution. It breaks all tooling which isn't aware of your particular preprocessor and adds a compilation step to every configuration.

> write your human readable config with comments

The question then becomes: what format is that?

That avoids one of the benefits of having a text based format; I would use TER and convert to DER (where TER is a text format and DER is a binary format, and which is what I do with some of my programs).

(Text formats do have some benefits, but binary formats have different benefits.)

> Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.

Seems to me more like almost no one thought the idea was any good.

When I visited Tokyo one of the highlights for me was the sound of Takadanobaba station playing the theme from Astro Boy.

From reading the comments you would think this article was actually about cars.

I love the punchline: the computer eventually worked out that the sofa could never have gotten into that spot in the first place. Adams always brought me joy!

The origin story of the sofa is exactly this: furniture items in the St. John's College got trapped upstairs, and if you assume all other things being equal, they couldn't get there in the first place.

The reason was that the furniture was brought upstairs for the staircase remodeling, and the new staircase made it impossible to move it back.

I skimmed the article hoping for a reference to Adams or Dirk Gently.

Australia is about the same except around the ceiling we call it a cornice.

Slight correction: Around windows its architraves and reveals.

But I’m in Tasmania, some geographic variation in dialect can be expected.

Except, I’m from South Australia, so some people around here think I talk posh.

For me the reveal is the amount of space between the window casing/trim and the frame of the window.

I tend to agree.

Cornice is used in the UK too, I've never heard of coving.

Interesting, maybe it's a regional thing - I'm from London.

The category on the B&Q site is called "cornice & coving" so either they mean the same thing or there's a subtle difference in which one is which. Maybe one is plaster and one is wood?

Same, I've heard it rarely used. Never heard coving before.

When you realise the song is about vampires there’s no way this ever goes back on any “worst song” list.

That's a superficial gloss over an even deeper and weirder back story behind the filthiest song ever scrawled on a napkin: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=73

Hah no way. It would seem like a reasonable interpretation.

... I don't know what to do, I'm always in the dark ... Once upon a time, there was light in my life But now there's only love in the dark ...

This is from the “honest reviews are unethical” whinger.