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  • Man, that's just not in the budget. How am I supposed to scratch my need-to-kill-brown-kids itch without the taxpayer money we specifically set aside for this purpose?

    What kind of absurd ideas are you gonna come up with next? No more instigating strife in the middle east? Pah! Not on my watch!

    /s

  • Dunno about Bluetooth, but isn't Expressvpn pushing their new password manager? I imagine it's a separate app, but if not, then it would make sense to have camera to read 2FA QR-codes.

    Edit: from their site:

    Keys comes included in any ExpressVPN subscription and is built right in to our apps for iOS and Android.

    Yup, that's got to be the camera. Still not sure about the Bluetooth though.

  • And most important, don't look at your phone or have the TV or computer running in the background. They take focus away from doing nothing.

    Going for frequent walks might also work if sitting still is not your thing.

  • I guess that depends on whether you only travel through time (time vs space), or whether you follow the time-line back (aka. travel through time and space, kinda like both you and I are doing right now).

    EDIT: there's also the reference point, and whether you can bring a physical vessel, or have to possess your younger self.

    Back to the Future appears to be using a kind of relative spatial reference point, and you bring your body along the ride.

    Contrary, Steins Gate (the part shown in the series) uses a body as reference, and has you "possess" said body. Though it hints that Back to the Future-like travel is also possible.

    Not sure if I can name any story where time and space are disconnected.

  • Just another reason to buy music from the artists own website, if they have one.

    It'll likely be seen as "lost revenue" and therefore piracy by the holders, as I don't imagine that they include small individual sites in their surveys, but the artist will get more money in the end and that's what matters.

  • That would be very interesting indeed.

    I imagine that the drop observed between 2005 and 2020 isn't because people didn't listen to music, but likely rather piracy and digital media being harder to properly gauge (musicians selling music on their own websites and such, not having to burn it to CDs first).

    This is also supported by various claims and statistics showing a fall in piracy in the late 20's.

  • w/ appears to have origin in the food industry some 70 years ago (according to this question).

    To me it makes sense, as I first encountered it in video games where abbreviations, acronyms, and text-saving-slang are commonplace. Furthermore, while abbreviations usually have multiple letters (in written text, not physical or mathematical equations), single letter abbreviations can quickly become confusing, so I belive that this is the reason for putting a slash behind it, or possibly a bar above it.

    RANT: While I know that language changes all the time, I find it very unfortunate that this little fellow o/ and possibly his slightly more formal friend o7 have become synonymous with "nazi salute". First off, it's the wrong arm! And second off, what do you have against "man waving" and "man saluting"?

    It must be very confusing for someone who uses this newer definition of o/ to visit the Elite:Dangerous forums.

    EDIT: I'm very happy that I apparently am the only one who has met people who don't know the real meaning of o/ and o7. I feared that this was a widespread problem, but luckily it appears that I simply am a worrywart.

  • But it should be.

    Better technology and more storage should never excuse a lack of optimization.

    I'm not up to speed on the optimization levels of mobile Web browsers, but these days you rarely see properly optimized consumer software. Games and websites tend to be the worst offenders, and many mobile apps appear 10x the size you would expect them to be.

  • I guess that does make sense, and definitely not as bad as I had misunderstood it to be.

    It feels a little weird, and I'm not sure if T+29:00 or equivalents are allowed in ISO 8601, but I have seen computer programs that represent time differences in similar ways.

    Thank you for the clarification!

  • In Denmark we say "2 o'clock" or just "14", sometimes also "14 o'clock". No one says fourteen hundred, except perhaps for a few military wannabes.

    If it's quarter past 2, we'd usually say "14-15". Half past 2 would be "14-30", you get the idea.

    If we mean to say "from 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock", we'll say "14 to 15", which I imagine can be confusing for the uninitiated, as the only difference from "quarter past 2" would be a "to".

    For those downvoting me, what do you say? I imagine it must be other Danes or neighboring countries, as one surely wouldn't downvote a culturally dependant statement if not from said culture.

  • Like the bastardization of the 24h clock by the television companies, doesn't Amarican military time also allow for relative time instead of absolute? Like writing 5:00 on the second day of a time critical mission as 2900?

    I'm pretty sure I heard this somewhere, though I have yet to verify this claim.

  • You tell us.

    Using PWA you'll retain all the features and nice-to-haves of the app, while also preventing it from doing any weird magic to your files in the background. Sharing files from your main profile to your private profile is also as easy as opening the file in your main profiles file browser and clicking "share".

    What is your threat/privacy level? How far are you willing to go, and what/how much is it that you want to keep private?

    I'm clearly too tired to make any sense. Please have a nice evening.

  • They think it's loss of Arctic sea ice:

    Unlike the two previous events, a historic loss of Arctic sea ice could be to blame for the latest gray whale die-off. That's because sea ice hosts a carpet of algae on its underside, which decays and showers the seabed with food for bottom-dwellers, including the whales' preferred crustaceans.

    "With less ice, you get less algae, which is worse for the gray whale prey," Stewart said. Melting sea ice also frees up passage for strong currents that sweep away the sediment and leaves bottom-dwelling crustaceans and other creatures homeless. "All of these factors are converging to reduce the quality and availability of the food [gray whales] rely on," he said.

    Climate change might be the reason this mortality event is dragging on for longer than the previous two, Stewart said. "What we're seeing is much more of a bumpy ride in response to highly variable and rapidly changing ocean conditions," he said.

    Didn't see that OP had already written a comment with the explanation, please excuse me.

  • As a side note, if you for some reason turn off the central heating entirely and just use space heaters, then the failsafe will do no good.

    Most central heating solutions waste some energy when idling, so one might be tempted to turn them off. Please be careful when doing this.