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Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.

(Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU

I don't either, but in America biscuits are savory or near flavorless, not sweet like cookies.

The windows that keep people from jumping off the Space Needle observation deck are tilted at an angle, so you can see more of the ground right under it (also part of the floor inside is windows now so you can look straight down.)

As a result, the reflections from the observation deck windows are of what's above and behind the observers looking at them - which happens to be the Needle's roof and mast.

So this picture is, starting at the bottom: Some of downtown, the waterfront, Puget Sound (the water), West Seattle, some islands, The Olympic mountains, some clouds, and the reflection of the Needle's roof, then its tower, and the supports connecting to the observation deck.

Super Hexagon

It's about as simple as a 'modern' game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it's a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game's.

The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.

With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that's not happening.

The criteria to beat a level is "last for 60 seconds".

I think they are referencing how Li-ion batteries just generally have a limited number of charge cycles, so they don't want to waste a whole one.

It didn't help that old phone, there seem to be limits to just how much adjustment it can make (including to dying batteries with less capacity also)

Yup. Battery percentages are an abstraction over the actual voltage and remaining amp-hours - it's a complex formula which requires calibration and can easily be a bit off.

On one of my first smart phones, after replacing the battery with a much bigger one (both capacity and physically) it would still use the old formula, so it said 100% when halfway charged and after fully charging, during use it would stay near 0 (or at it - can't remember well) for half the actual usable time. I found an app that could show the actual voltage in the notifications, which helped a lot. (When it went under 3.5 or something, I knew it was almost out) But that number also varied with how much power was being drawn, etc.

What part of "we don't care for Discord either" don't you understand?

Fine. Pretend we did care. Your point is still worthless for very obvious reasons: Discord has millions of users, and perhaps hundreds are pro-mass-violence. Most will never have any interaction with those that are. KF has maybe thousands of users (I'm not going to check) and roughly all of them are at least pro-evil, likely also pro-mass-violence given the opportunity.

Same camera at different times

On the left side of the comic, the desk would be visible in the bottom of the frame if the desk weren't cut out. On the right side you can see that it is indeed cut out under the frame, as not to block the view of the people

The notch in the desk is a nice detail.

Deal.

That's not the gotcha you seem to think it is here.

"not merely stalking people" = It's also allowing much worse than that!

Surge!

Unfortunately, that's how it got this way. Too many Eds.

I wish I could have that kind of optimism.

The original thread poster (OTP?) implied perfection when they emphasized the "will never" part, and I was responding to that. For that matter it also excludes actual brains.

There's no such thing as perfect data. Especially if there's even the slightest bit of subjectivity involved.

Even less existent is complete data.

especially when people will use these systems to make potentially life-changing decisions for them.

That specifically is the problem. I don't have a solution, but treating and advertising these things like they think and know stuff is a mistake that of course the companies behind them are encouraging.

I suppose it's much more rare for us to use 1/3 specifically. It does show up in cooking, but even there it's hidden in the units a lot of the time.