I’m the opposite end of spectrum. I really disliked the frosted glass look on images as they loaded and left the page before finishing reading due to how off-putting I found it to be.

I also left the page early. I enjoy reading, and wasn't able to do that as effectively on this website.

It didn't make me leave the page, but I agree that I too found the effects annoying and off putting.

I use one to clip coupons automatically. The store my wife and I get most of our groceries from issues a ton of coupons, and wants you to click them individually.

I have some RSI issues so manual was a non starter.

Yes, just like an ergonomic keyboard was important for my hand, wrist, and forearm pain my sit/stand desk making it actually possible to change my body position when I’m stuck in several hours of meetings helped with my back, neck and shoulder pain.

Why?

I grew up rural in the US and love it too! I can’t find it anymore after moving to the burbs.

I’d expect that, but would have assumed it is due to there being more old gas vehicles on the road. Is that data normalized for age of the cars driven?

I assume that my neighbors 30 year old gas guzzler is more likely to catch fire than my 1 year old PHEV for example (or maybe I’m more likely since I have both a lithium battery and a gas tank).

Odin uses ^ because pointers are pointy.

Also Pascal.

And C++/CLI uses ^ for "managed pointers" (pointer to .net objects) and % for "managed references" which means there are all-together 4 ways to declare various types of pointers which is super-fun.

Asterisks are kinda pointy.

Rust is more of a c++ successor, yes.

It’s very much a kitchen sink language.

Not all towns have bus service.

Total comp is in that range at Google, not salary.