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Quite hot in summer, but it is also where I have had what was quite possibly the tastiest noodles in my life.

Same with me, who "needed" to join FB because that is the main communication platform for a leisure activity. Apparently I am a fake person.

Used in a number of countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

Close to the poles, I'd say the assumption that the cocks be synchronised with UTC is flawed. Had we had cocks, I am afraid they'd be oversleeping at this time of year.

Well, the deal is that once one is 18 one may make one's own decisions and suffer the consequences. Klarna is scummy for sure, but the "SMS loans" in Sweden are even less appealing.

By "mfd", do you mean µF? I have some basic knowledge of electronics and am not familiar with "mfd" in this context but assumed you must mean microfarad.

I am not an expert at greenery so I am not 100% sure, unfortunately. The ones I have sown are of different varieties; some have runners and some do not. I cannot recall that either variant was harder than the other to grow, and once established they are like weeds…

The wild/forest strawberries (Fragaria vesca) are very easy to grow. If I can do it, anyone can! The seeds are quite inexpensive and the plants yield generous amounts of berries the first season. There is also a white/yellow variety that is quite yummy.

The kilo prefix is always written with a lowercase "k": kW for kilowatts.

I usually charge mine in the morning when I sit down at my computer to start work. I let it sit there while drinking a hot beverage and when I need to pop into the loo, it is charged enough.

No, it will not do! It looks way too peaceful and pleasant, not at all conducive to inspiring to endless hours in the cubicle.

If it matters, I have an Imalent DX80, bought in 2018. It is kept 3/5 charged in a drawer as emergency light if we have a power outage etc. After being dropped on concrete the glass is cracked and half of the diodes are offline, but it does its job.

According to the article, the extended course used during two years favoured the horses.

The rifle shooters wear stiff clothing, while pistol shooters tend to wear looser things (and there are lots of rules around clothes not being allowed to provide support).

Why is paying a multi-step process? Back in the day you would wave, get the bill, get your wallet out, round up a bit and walk out after putting cash on the tray. Now with cards, why is the payment terminal not brought over at once? Do most people really check their receipts carefully?

I often also do an Australian: I simply walk up to the bar or whatever and ask to pay. If I know I am not having anything beside the main, I often simply ask to pay when they serve me.

I recently crossed a few borders too, and did not show a passport at any time. When I flew out of Germany the police did not even ask for a boarding pass despite me flying with a checked-in pistol (which is why the police got involved at all: the agent said their instructions is to call the police so they can look at it before the baggage is sent on its way). On arrival to Sweden, the "goods to declare" lane was empty and there was a little sign with a phone number and a message amounting to "call the customs people if you have something to declare".

Very arguably. Presuming the train has cameras, staff and other people on it, it could be argued it's safer than sleeping in a house.

We did. According to our estimates of electricity vs petrol, we would break even (vs petrol car) after about seven years, assuming it was valued at zero at that time. Now we have driven a bit more than we estimated, so it has been less costly than a petrol car. The range has dropped perhaps 5% in the time, which is hardly noticeable. The AC compressor blew up four days before the warranty expired, so let's hope it lasts another few years.

The next purchase is probably 3–4 years in the future. At that time the child is older and can stand some longer road trips, which means we are going to want more range.

I think this illustrates the point well: if they were to write it in another script completely, English would adopt some transliteration of the name, i.e. an exonym.

Apologise to pick nits, but if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English.

Boiled down to its essence: ".137"

Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.

Wait, what? Absolutely!

I speak with my friends on my phone. Sometimes I may speak and laugh for two hours with an old friend I, for family/life reasons, haven't seen for years but with whom I have this ability to instantly resume our customary banter.

I read books on my phone. I do prefer a physical book but after I started a job where I travelled a lot I actually started buying the electronic versions, and once I got a phone with an OLED display it is quite okay to read on it in the dark. I read at least an hour a day.

I think the "problem" is that any phone usage looks the same. If you are sitting with your calculus book you look "usefully busy", but not if you're studying on your phone. If I read a thick novel I look serious and smart, but with the book on the phone I look like I'm scrolling on Facebook or whatever people use nowadays. If I watch a lecture on computer science I appear the same as if watching anything else. Is "phone" itself bad, or is it just that it looks the same as if one is being "lazy"?

At least the movie's title is grammatically correct.

Not just bricked but permanently and securely wiped, would be my preference.

We had about half a billion rows in one table back in 2008, and doing thousands of updates/inserts/deletes per second. Can't remember how much RAN we had, but we sure did have a few spinning disks.

Dengue is such a virus: repeated infections get worse.

But is that because you do not want/care that they know, or because you want them to NOT know? Our family is not required by any means to actively inform each other about our movements, but at the same time they're no secret. I don't even check Apple's tracking app daily but when I need it, it is so convenient. "Hey, I'll come pick you up in 20; I see you're at the park. Just check on me and I'll pass by to pick you up."

The typical example when we use it is when one person is somewhere and another person is driving and will do a quick road-side pickup while passing by. Don't want to stand outside in the sleet for ten minutes waiting for the family member who is delayed due to weather? You could call every other minute and distract them, or you just check where they are right then.

For us it's never been about trust, spying or faith or anything. We often say things like: "let's meet at the park in half an hour; spy on me" and then everyone knows which part of the park the others are at. The first one to arrive sits down and listens to the birds a bit and the others just walk over, as if we were living in some glorious future where we are constantly connected.

It's also convenient when someone is driving: "I'll pick you up in about 20; spy on me". Maybe there is no good parking spot so it's great when the family member is awaiting at the side of the road for a quick embarkation.

My location is shared with quite a few friends and colleagues. I don't quite see the problem with my _location_ being known. Maybe we just have boring lives, with too few secret lovers, secret-society meetings behind hidden walls in underground bars … ?

It's because it is spelt Türkiye, not Turkiye. It is the official name used by organs like the UN, the United States Department of State etc but that doesn't mean you can't be using Turkey. It's like Taiwan, which few people refers to as "Republic of China".

The good thing is that Türkiye is pronounced almost like Turkey, so you're saying it almost right ;)