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If you're American I don't think you really want passenger pigeons

I'm glad you know them so well. In what way is such a popularly used rule not a rule?

Incidentally I find it interesting that d&d 3.5 specifically calls out that a 20 isn't automatic success, and a 1 is not an automatic failure, where 5e removes that clarification, simply saying "if the roll plus bonuses is less than the DC the check fails".

That looks to me like they are leaving it more open to the common house rule

Sure, but if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction – which is perfectly consistent with everything ever measured – you can measure speed between two endpoints using two atomic clocks and a synchronised experiment, with corrections for the relativistic effect of moving the clocks to the different places

Unfortunately you then get the low bandwidth of the frequencies that can penetrate that much ground

That speed of causality is usually at least 3 times better than you can get in real life

You get 300 million metres per second in light (including radio in free space) so wifi to your laptop is at that speed

A wave in wire (eg ethernet over cat6 cable) is seldom better than 0.9c

Laser light in an optic fibre (how almost all data moves long distance) is about 200 million metres per second as it follows a zig zag path in the fibre reflecting off the walls of the fibre

The future promise of starlink – where your connection goes to a satellite then to another and another satellite until being down linked to the server farm hosting the content – should provide much lower latency

In BG3 (which mostly follows d&d 5e rules) you succeed in a skill check with DC 30 on a natural 20 even if you have less than +10 as a modifier on the roll

Are you sure a 20 has no special meaning in checks in d&d (I presume you mean in d&d as it's the most popular system)?

I have experience from old internet services like IRC where ASCII art was popular, and sometimes you'd need to widen your IRC window to see a thing.

Landscape is analogous to that

Because they were illustrating the leg muscles, and the rest was mostly just a sketch to fill out the picture

Be Gay Do Crimes licence - seems to be good for gay people who live where being gay is a crime, unless one wishes not to out themselves by their choice of licence

Works fine on boost for me, in landscape

It would suck right now to be a conservative with so much of world politics now being between centre left and radical right, with no simple conservative position left.

I asked gpt for code to aim a heliostat

It needed a module to get the sun's position, it used sun::alt:: azimuth which doesn't exist rather than Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun

It needed a module to calculate mirror angle between the Sun's altitude and azimuth and the target altitude and azimuth. It left that commented out rather than selecting the altitude halfway between Sun and target and azimuth between Sun and azimuth

It turns out there's precious little on the internet on how to aim a mirror, partly because it's not popular, partly because it's dead simple

At least put the box back. Chicken bones have crap-all capacitance

It's safe to consider radio technology as deep magic. The metal box may have been adding just the right amount of capacitance to offset something about where the system was mounted

I'm a systems analyst, or in agile terminology "a designer" as I'm responsible for "design artifacts"

Our designs are usually unambiguous

Did the new changes affect the suicide rate?

I play Seven Days To Die (a zombie apocalypse game) and there are quests like clear out all the zombies in this place.

Some places show you the main loot room through an armoured window will before you can get to it legitimately. There will be an armoured door with half a million hit points to tell you not to bother.

So in one such game I dug through the 1000 hit point wall next to the armoured door, looted the loot, and did the zombie extermination path backwards

They worked well for us, we were updating a big system or adding functionality to it and a lot of the features were similar enough that we could reliably break the work down to sub-single sprint chunks and assign consistent story points to them

Though I have only been in one team that lasted more than 3 sprints relatively intact, and it's only that team that got good at story pointing work

I try really hard when I'm in a scrum master position (my position is pretty chaotic, 20k person organisation, scaled agile, "we need your x skills this program increment, please would you?") to hide my team's individual performance from management. Mostly because your can't compare a system analysts numbers to a mainframe programmer to a mid-range programmer, but also if someone's not pulling their weight I want to solve the problem within the team where we can approach it as equals before resorting to management "performance review" systems.