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They do say the cards were purchased when they were cheaper. They debuted at less than nine grand apparently.

Why is the man's wife worried about being sent to collections? She owes nothing to the hospital, the dead man's estate owes money. Let the hospital line up with the other creditors. She shouldn't be paying her late husband's hospital bills out of her own funds.

This isn't the same thing. Yes Gmail provides IMAP so you can read it from other clients. The issue here is that Gmail cannot use IMAP to ingest email from other accounts, as it can (or could) using POP3.

Seconded. I am very much still in the mode of copying from the chat window and then editing. I would like to have whatever she is having.

So we replace the task of writing tedious boilerplate with the task of reading the AI's tedious boilerplate. Which takes just as long. And leaves you with less understanding. And is more boring.

The Inform Designer's Manual is mostly about Inform 6 programming, but has a lot of material on game design.

https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf

Crimes Against Mimesis was a famous tract in its day. I don't know how things have moved on since then.

https://www.rickandviv.net/index.php/2004/08/18/crimes-again...

"You are a total wimp for wanting gloves in this weather! Here they are though, you weakling."

New Complete Vegetarian by Rose Elliot is a well used book in our kitchen.

I invested in a Chargemap pass for my trip to France this summer. One card which works in nearly every French charger. Plug in, tap the card and it starts charging. Tap the card again to stop. That's it. Cost 20 euros for the card, and I think the rates are a little more than the native apps. But not enough to bother me. Highly recommended. You still have to deal with idle charges though.

Lombok has come up a bit in this discussion. Are there any other popular Java libraries or frameworks that are affected?

Many of these places weren't homes. The vast majority of prehistoric people did not live in caves. And many places with art are nearly inaccessible, and completely dark.

Many caves with art in are extremely inaccessible. You need to explain why someone would risk their life and crawl through tiny openings in the pitch black to reach a specific location in order to make their art.

I can not believe that educated people think you can explore and explain human culture without considering "spiritual" stuff.

This site helped me take the family from London to Rome via the beautiful Bernina Pass between Switzerland and Italy. Invaluable!

https://tickets.rhb.ch/en/pages/bernina-express

And then Our Man In Havana inspire le Carré to write the Tailor Of Panama. It's a story that keeps on giving!

They certainly didn't vanish for me in Cornwall in 1999. I hope you have better luck in the US in April!

Interesting that the list of fowls and beasts also includes (if I'm reading it right):

A bevy of ladies, A herd of harlots.

Podcast discussion with the creator: https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/55

I always remember my friend who works in VFX telling me he spent all week working on James Bond riding a pig. Which gave me some high hopes for the movie!

Wasn't the control every other year before COVID?

We know what happens when a pop group doesn't perform on their own records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli

Another reference book I've always loved is Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. It's been around since 1870, and you can always flick through it and find something interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Dictionary_of_Phras...

Thanks, yes - might well be the CryptoHack suggestion. If so it's certainly been redesigned since I last looked.

There was another crypto challenge like this somewhere, it had a similar start IIRC, building up from simple encodings to basic cyphers, but you had to put your answer for one question into the website to reveal the next question.

I lost the link before I ever got too far in, any ideas what I am remembering?

Thanks

"Rental revenue is shared with the management company, and owners typically pay no upfront fees for management, which includes the marketing and reservation of the units.[citation needed] Typical monthly fees for units in the rental pool include FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment) reserve and resort fee(s). Although the revenue splits between owner and management company do vary from project to project, most hover around 50 percent."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condo_hotel

My dad is 90, and has been doing change ringing in churches for eighty years. He was encouraged to start by his father when he was 10 as there weren't enough people to ring church bells as so many had gone to fight in the war. Change ringing is very much a branch of combinatorics!

You really think that an issue as important as basic food supplies is going to be bumped out of the headlines by a tedious government consultation on internet governance?

I've mostly heard of them being used for people doing giant international tours where they want something that just will not break. Seems like a very niche market though!

They need very little maintenance. But they are very expensive.

e.g. https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/rohloff/