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To go further off topic, it was the Pacific not the Atlantic. Also, landfall was in French Polynesia, so not really crossed either.

Conscription is starting up again.

Frozen wood is actually easier to cut and split, at least the kinds that I've come across (mostly spruce and birch).

Can Lynx render Gemini markup?

I actually prefer Robusta but it's getting hard to find since some marketing genious figured out that you could charge a little more with that "100% Arabica" on the bag.

The thing is, for Arabica to be good the roast has to be right and the brew has to be right. Robusta, not as flowery but it can take a lot if abuse and still taste quite good.

I like the writing style. Compact sentences. Reminds me of Erlend Loe's first few books.

I'm sure I saw a text "editor" a few years back where it was impossible to actually edit the text. Adding text was the only function. It was meant to help with this style of writing.

We had a roundness/excentricity measuring machine at an old workplace (truck engine plant). I saw it get a full service+upgrade once. Electronics was all wire wrap. This was in 2005. Apparently they made so few of these machines, and each was made to order with custumizations so wire wrap made sense. And the service guy said that wire wrap was way more reliable than solder.

I think search in windows makes a stab at searching content as well, and not just straight text. This means unpacking zips, loading excel files etc.

But, yeah, it sucks.

In fact, hunting rights (leased or as land owner) supersedes the "freedom to roam" rights. So a hunting party is fully within their rights to ask you to leave.

Can confirm, I have seen kids show up to first football practice at age 6 who don't seem to have run a full meter up to that point. Conversations like this happen a lot:

"So, Alice, can we try this one more time? Only now try to kind of jump forward the same distance with both legs, but one leg at the time. And the feet should be roughly in the direction you want to go to. Ok, go!"

For my kids kindergarten you had to send a very specificly formated SMS if the kid got sick so that it would auto-update the attandance list for the day. I built a webpage that would format the SMS and open the phones SMS app. First time I had random people come up to me and say thanks.

In Swedens top 20 (Svensktoppen) the key change became a ridiculed trope. See, Sweden top 20 is for Swedish musichians only. The imported (American and British mostly) music had a separate list, "Tracks".

Neither of the lists was based on sales by the way, since the state media monopoly was supposedly non-commercial.

Anyway the Sweden top 20 stuff stayed dance-based (think jitterbug, not rave). Somewhere someone started talking about the key change. Even non-musichians learned to hear and point out the key change (easy, almost always the last refrain). Sweden top 20 leaned in to it. More humor oriented songs now include the key change in the lyrics ("here comes the pull-up).

Sorry, of course.

I coworker once wondered about my Wolves in the throne room-tshirt and when I sent him a link his comment was "wow, thats... saturated"

I would think that the white noise scale from less to more goes something like

Nu-metal, power metal, heavy metal, death metal,(edit:) thrash metal, black metal, noisecore

Also, a lot of explosives was used. A lot more than what would have destoyed the pipes. So not only were the pipes sabotaged, whoever did it wanted to make it obvious.

Having the heat pump in the wrong position will reduce it's lifetime. Very likely there is a vat of lubricants at the bottom. If you flip it on the side one side of the pump cylinder will be flooded and possibly leak into the coolant curcuit. The top side will run dry and jam pretty fast.

"Beware of the Hun in the sun"

WW1 too apparently

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/wo...

Salary is not freely available, you generally have to pay for specific lookups as a private person.

However there is a lowtech way around this. Taxed income is published yearly in a book that resembles an old phonebook, Taxeringskalendern ("the tax calendar"). Freedoom of the press, see?

This book (or the part of the book that covers your region) will be available at your local library in the "reference" section. For most people you take the number from the book and divide by 12 and you have a lower bound of their monthly salary. Unless they are stalking you at the library noone will know. Very useful when going into salary negotiotiations to know aprox what the rest of the team and your boss makes.

I'm just now migrating my postman collections to .rest text files and the REST-client plugin for vscode (that name is both good and bad at the same time btw, it like marketing a new car and naming it "Car").

Grantet it does not do everything Postman does but I'm pretty happy so far. Environment variables and secrets stays in a workspace settings.json and the .rest files can be version controlled and shared.

Always bet on text!

That guy is funnier when he tries Army food

Direction is the easy part. Good runners will have the planed route memorized by the time they start, they have 60 seconds to do this. The competetive advantage in orienteering is stamina.

There is plenty of music theory not based on traditional western music.

The "atom" of all music is that frequencies with simple relationships (for example, exactly 1/3x) sounds "nice" (we can hear the harmony) and frequencies with complicated relationships (pi x) sounds sour (used intentionaly with great effect by bands like Sonic Youth for example).

The essence of western music is the decision to split the octave into 12 and have this be the notes we use (anyone who have tried this will discover that we run into trouble when our instument tonal range spans more than one octave, this is where "tunings" come in).

But there are alternatives: Spliting the octave into 53 parts has way more harmonies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/53_equal_temperament

This is partialy used in turkish music for example.

It's common in Germany. It's concidered pompous asshattery everywhere else.

You sound like a lawyer.

Oh, looking forward to the national bun day on Tuesday!

That's also how Microsoft Dynamics Classic works, only its horrible.

I picked up a Bond knitting machine ("the incredible sweater machine") for about 20 planetary credits last year. The pull length can be adjusted, alowing for diffrent yarn thikness but that's the only controll available. Anything you want to do beyond square single color pieces is very tricky, the notion that this machine "makes sweaters" is a joke.

That said, it's surprisingly fun to use. Looking forward to the dark months!

1800 years before the religion was started, thats quite something.

Nope. Source: have an old low end Canon printer/scanner combo. Pixma M270, works great but no postscript. Gutenprint drivers are available