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This is like The Great Romanian Invasion of Great Britain, a couple of years back, right? Because they can and sometimes do go looking for work in other European countries, it means that all of them go, and never come back...

What are you basing your statements on? Can you please define "mostly"? How many romanians have you met? How many polish people do you know? Do you know a sufficiently large number in order to statistically back your statement? Can you reference a competent source where we can find some proof of what you're saying?

Why would someone (pilot?) wanting/planning/executing a mass murder-suicide deviate so much off course? There's a lot of water en-route. The suspected "author" could have crashed anywhere in the Yellow Sea, East China Sear or South China Sea with relatively minor deviation.

On the other hand, assuming such an hypothesis, crashing into water far away from the route would "explicitly" decrease the chances of finding the wreckage and thus the black box.

Pulled pork?

I like your forward thinking! Is the following also allowed?

   `${Array(5).join("pi" * 3.14)}, ${atob("QmF0bWFu")}`

My problem with biking during the (work)day is the sweating. I'm all for getting the exercise but 1) I don't have a shower at the office and 2) my co-workers wouldn't really like me smelling like a football team. I think it really depends on weather conditions, location and distance.

How would "open your mouth and say aaaahhh" work over Facetime? Some things need a hands-on approach.

I've had the same experience as you did. When there's no type definition available, starting from an empty object quickly resolves a lot of the issues. But that really depends on the complexity of library you're trying to declare.

On the other side, I've also had cases when the type definitions were a pain. We have a web app and use .Net/TypeScript/React. We also use the commercial Kendo UI version. Since there's no versioning available (and the Kendo UI team doesn't seam keen on "type correctness"), we are (almost) always using a type definition file for another (newer) version of Kendo UI. We've had to "patch" the definitions on several occasions.

They must also have good PR. It's not like they don't have money to hire someone good. I think it's partially a PR move. In recent years, their image has been shaken, as they have been accused of being greedy. Now, all this shaking has brought them face to face with a big "client", with a strong hand. "Hey, look, I can be nice too!"

I did some research about "work outside your employment" in Germany and found that the main thing is about the amount of hours one can (or is allowed) to work. The idea here was that working more than the "normal" 8 hours a day, would have a negative effect on the actual job, i.e. you're too tired to do your job properly if you work an additional 4 hours at home. In plain English, if you work additional hours daily on a side project, you'll be too tired the next day at work, hurting your productiveness (and upsetting your employer...). I did not find anything relating to weekends and/or to software created in one's spare time.

Are you aware of any specific laws concerning this whole thing?

Do you have any (online) references available for the average salaries? I'm quite interested in this but can't seem to find decent sources...

My total knowledge regarding submarines is practically 0. I have a (somewhat) technical question that I hope my better qualified fellow readers can answer.

Are there any "distress call devices" which are/could be used in such situations? If not, what would the technical difficulties be, for creating and vertically launching a torpedo equipped with a beacon? If the sub is unable to move and/or broadcast, the beacon would begin transmitting when reaching the surface. I would imagine that launching such a beacon (visual & GPS & ...) would reduce the search area.

DeepL[0] outputs the same.

[0] https://www.deepl.com/translator

I've read somewhere (probably in one of Troy Hunt's posts) that biometric data should not the be password, but rather the username. Maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Biometric data seams to be equivalent (or at least similar) to a public key.

A pop-up can be dragged onto a second monitor, for example, whereas a modal cannot.

I doubt that smokers just decide to smoke while having a wee...

Polyfills are a good option in some cases. I, personally, try to stay away from them as much as possible. Once you add a polyfill (e.g. fetch), you' soon realize that you need another one (e.g. Object.assign) and soon you will have a list of polyfills to take care of. The advantage of jQuery in this regard is that it has all these "polyfills" in one place.

I believe that jQuery is not "modular" enough for today's web development environment. The "light" version is a step in the right direction but it's not enough. If one could configure the "modules" needed and download/load a single file/library, it would be tremendous.

I would recommend starting with [0]. It takes you on a progressive ride from "no layout" to "modern" layout (apart from "grid", but after learning the "classical" stuff, "grid" is not so complicated and there are a ton of resources around).

I would also suggest getting acquainted with specificity, early on. Other resources I can recommend are the Almanac[1] and the Snippets[2] from CSS Tricks.

[0] http://learnlayout.com

[1] https://css-tricks.com/almanac/

[2] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/

CSS Secrets is wonderful but I wouldn't consider recommending it for learning CSS as it assumes at least a solid base. What I do believe someone new to CSS or currently learning would find useful is the overall approach. Until reading it, I did not really take any interest in being DRY with my CSS.

I'm thinking of a situation when the phone, for example, is not enough for them. What if the don't leave you alone after that? What if you're a girl and they are going to try to rape you? What I'm thinking of is not about a "fancy" help-me-I'm-being-mugged "duck-face" pose, but actually a face pattern which, simple enough, could offer assistance in a difficult situation. What if they take away the phone and I'm left with no change of calling for an ambulance?

You are right, though, that this requires some "friction" and probably some self control.

It would be awkward to smile/pose before/after a funeral, just because I need to call my mum or check my email...

That being said, I do think that there could be a legitimate use case here. One could set up a particular "emotion" (a face pattern) associated with someone forcing them to unlock a phone using their face. I mean, if someone pulls a gun or a knife on me, I'll probably just do as they say and look at the phone, rather than risk an additional hole in my body. But unlocking a phone and sending a distress call is something I could live with.

I see where you're coming from. I have, however, tested a couple of news sites (e.g. BBC, The Guardian) while using an add blocker and the results are very interesting. The "amount of news" is nowhere near the "amount of adds". Without the adds, the news websites (some; I obviously couldn't test them all...) have a decent "size" and load quick enough.

No, I couldn't. In academia, when publishing a technical paper, only final/published papers count. I doubt that this was a "rule" enforced only at my University or even just in my country. I'd love to hear from others where citing arXiv was at least allowed, but I doubt that that would have been the "standard" way of citing in technical papers.

I must add that this was such a pain for me, as I found several relevant articles on arXiv and I could download and read them. I can't say the same for articles found on Elsevier or ACM, where the relevant articles were mostly in the journals to which my University did not have access...

Five years ago (during my PhD) I would not have been "allowed" to cite a paper which has not been peer-reviewed and published in the proceedings of a recognised conference. Papers on arXiv where specifically black-listed. Mentioning Wikipedia (even off the record, in personal meetings) would have been the start of fast road to the bottom.

When I started my PhD I was even told not to cite book, regardless of their footprint in the field. They are/were regarded as some sort of "common knowledge". Many ideas come from such works, but one cannot cite them and must, instead, cite a previous work (which surely got their (base)ideas from the same books...).

What I'm saying here is that the "academic code of conduct" is a bit outdated.

I agree on the consistency part. Even if you need several (max 4?) other libraries to do stuff like AJAX and Promises, it would still be consistent. If you want and need, you can always add a small wrapper around those libraries and add consistency to the API calls.

Staying current is, in my situation, a luxury I can't afford. We have a web project using third party libraries and UI Frameworks which depend on JQuery. As the project is complex and already has a lot of code, kicking JQuery out is not an option (or, at least, neither trivial, nor quick). I'm sure this happens often with legacy software.

You mean this guy https://www.troyhunt.com/is-this-hooded-cyber-bandit-the-web... ?

How was the "press" back then? Even if she hadn't given her real name, if the case was advertised, the capturers would have connected the dots.

I, for one, am constantly amazed by the performance of such mobile/small devices (regardless of type and model). However, shouldn't such a result also say something about the iMac (or any other "desktop" for that matter)? I mean, 5 years is not that much when it comes to performance; "shrinking" a desktop in 5 years (while keeping the performance) to such an extent seams unlikely.

At the day-care my 3 year old goes to, the children are encouraged to go out and play on a daily basis. The only exceptions are storms and extremely hot days (this does not happen that often in this part of Germany...). This is great for them. They play, explore, breathe fresh air, interact with germs, bacteria.

On the other hand, I'm also sympathetic to the parents who try to shelter their kids, so that they don't get sick. Staying at home these days is not as simple as when we were kids. The pressure to succeed or lack of personnel take their toll in such situations.

Works now, but I remember that the mobile app lost its connection a couple of hours ago. Couldn't sync a card and showed a connection error.