why is "commander in chief" structured like that?
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Not necessarily military nor French, the Wikipedia page on postpositive adjectives has more examples of words which flip the normal ordering.
I once decided to read the full text of my auto insurance policy while trying to fall back asleep. I awoke to find that I only needed to read nine pages haha
limited to only single or childless adults
I think this is too narrow of an assessment. More common in America than single adults living alone are two adults living together, with each having their own car. So while you're right that the present American land-use reality isn't exactly conducive to having a plurality going car-less, it's entirely probably for a couple to save substantial money by switching one car for a bike and keep just one car for the household. That's something that can apply in huge swaths of the country, although it's exceptionally apt for cities.
For other people's benefit and my own:
PWA: Progressive Web App
Do you recommend dns.sb?
Oh wow, that might be the shortest-representation IPv6 DNS server I've seen to date: 2620:fe::9
It is quite the mouthful, but I really hope people aren't -- whether v4 or v6 -- having to manually type in DNS servers regularly. Whatever your choice of DNS server, it should be a set-it-and-forget-it affair, so the one-off lookup time becomes negligible.
For the modern IP (aka IPv6) folks: 2606:4700:4700::1111
Other brands of IPv6 DNS servers are available.
Depending on how well-provisioned your local community library is, a Kill-o-Watt may be something you can borrow for this exact task!
I'm a fan of Pelican for static blog generation from Markdown files. Separating template and content into CSS/HTML and md files, and having it all in a Git repo for version control, is only a few hundreds of kilobytes. Lightweight to work on, and lightweight to deploy. It's so uncomplicated, I can probably pick right back up if I left it alone for ten years.
I've always wanted a power switch on my hot glue gun but after seeing that, I think I'm now perfectly fine with the existing situation, lest I monkey's paw my way to an even worse implementation.
I agree with the accepted answer that a toggle button UI -- when unadorned with any other indicators -- should be avoided due to the ambiguity. The fact that this question is being asked is an indicator of non-uniform consensus.
In American English, the verb "to table" means "to remove from discussion entirely", which is almost entirely the opposite meaning from English spoken anywhere else in the world, where it means "to bring forward for discussion". As a result of this US-specific confusion, there's not much choice besides either clarifying through context or avoiding sentence constructions using that verb, at least when speaking to or with other Americans.
I think the same applies here: the small UI space savings is not worth the inevitable UX confusion this would cause, without modifications.
Charitable donations can fall under both categories. Note that the "categories" I spoke of are just what is used colloquially. The USA tax code doesn't really distinguish all these tax deductions into two neat groups.
A charitable donation can take the form of a business expense, say if a local welding supplier pitches in $100k to sponsor a regional vocational technology fair. They get to be a "platinum sponsor" and a spokesperson will speak during the event, so maybe some of that expense is actually marketing dollars and not purely philanthropic. The tax code may have specific rules, but most donations of this sort tend to be allowed.
Likewise, a charitable donation can be a way to extract a little bit of value from something near worthless. For example, fine art is known to be ripe for abuse in this way, where the donation of the artwork means the "market value" can be written off. But that market is easily distorted, and valuations can vary tremendously. Another example is the donation of development rights, whether or not a development was even possible under the zoning laws at play.
Charitable contributions can qualify as tax deductions because it's viewed as good policy, after balancing the upsides with the loss of government revenue. But some are clearly better policies than others.
Colloquially, the term "tax write off" has been used to mean one of two things: 1) a tax deduction for expenses against taxable income, or 2) a tax deduction due to a partial or total loss, also against taxable income. In both cases, it's a deduction from the amount of income which the tax rates would apply toward. To be clear, neither would be a tax credit, which is a form of direct reduction in the tax amount to be paid.
The first category includes business expenses, such as amortization of the cost of office furniture, usually over a number of years. This can also include expenses which the government deems especially worthy, such as mortgage interest expenses in the USA.
The second category is for calamities, economical or natural disaster related. Someone losing their coastal home due to land erosion could write off their home, because that asset is now worthless. Or an investor can write off their shares in a film production, if the main actor turns out to have done awful things and no one wants to work on the film anymore. In this category, an asset has been involuntarily or voluntarily given up, with no hope of a recovery, and so the tax code usually allows this to be a deduction against income.
To be clear, a taxpayer cannot just randomly designate stuff to write off. The first category is wholly defined by policymakers, and the second category requires an irrevocable declaration of the asset's worthlessness, such that a future (unlikely) recovery will be a new, separate taxable event.
(n.b. my context is USA taxes)
To use the pharmacology vernacular, the route of administration for a medication (or supplement in this case) is a balance of pragmatic and biological considerations. Sublingual administration -- aka under the tongue -- gives access to a lot of capillaries, meaning the medication is quickly absorbed into the blood, without having to go through the liver and first-pass metabolism, which is what would happen with oral administration (aka swallowing a pill). As a practical matter, sublingual tends to be easier if someone cannot swallow, and because it's very effective, the dosage can be reduced, which potentially could cost less, maybe.
I'm not a pharmacist, but you may find this video by ChubbyEmu adjacently interesting. It is about the difference in topical (aka on skin) absorption rates around the body, where the same dosage can be safe on one's arm but hazardous on more delicate skin regions.
For other people's benefit beyond my own:
RIIR: "Rewrite It In Rust"
FYI, on many Lemmy clients, there is a format option to do strike throughs on text, to mark text which has been revised but isn't being fully removed, to provide context.
Yay Colemak!
I use both Colemak and Qwerty, with one layout at home and the other at work. I have carried the caps lock remapping to Qwerty, although I've been mulling whether to replace that with the Esc function, since I use vim a lot. I never learned vim arrow keys, so no change needed there.
Agreed that it works well for other languages besides English.
A highly-conductive metal sheet would only work fine if you were a latex balloon engineer and there were no electric sources -- batteries or mains -- involved in your work. In that scenario, the sheet would be very effective at draining static charge from the balloon.
But for electrical engineering, a large sheet of metal might as well be a puddle of salt water: the risk of electric shorts is too high, whether that be shorting out the pins on the bottom side of a PCB, or providing a path for a loose mains AC wire to go directly to ground, or indirectly through a human...
So there has to be a balance between the need to drain static charge, and the need to keep devices from shorting out and also protecting people. Controlling the resistance lets us achieve that balance. That said, mats aren't perfect, since a mat isn't terribly heat-resistant and could melt when doing hot-air reflow work. As I mentioned, my company invested a great deal into their lab, because they were seeing one-off failures of five figure prototypes. So it made sense to spend a lot to improve the lab.
But for domestic work, depending on how your devices are valued, it might be sufficient to use a sturdy wood desk top, a wrist strap to its metal frame, a humidifier if your space is very dry (eg < 30% RH), and maybe don't wear wool or socks while doing electronics work. In the end, ESD damage is a statistics game and we try to improve the odds where it makes sense.
Yes, we are in firm agreement: that page offers more examples for the OP to peruse, some French and some not. My favorite is "attorney general", with more to choose from.