We only had one ocean when we bullied Mexico into giving up territory.

We took over multiple islands both east and west of the continental US, which are now territoties and the state of Hawaii.

So no, oceans didn’t stop us when we rrached both coasts.

Calm down Satan.

It sets up a likely scenario where protestors show up to to the previously scheduled time so the police can claim it is an unlawful assembly and try to disperse the whole protest.

The Met Police are attempting to delay the start time by one hour and 45 minutes to 2:30pm, despite the fact that the usual assembly time of 12pm for a 12:45pm start has been advertised for several weeks. No explanation has been given for these moves, announced to organisers at 4pm on Friday 30th August, after the police themselves cancelled a meeting to discuss the demo on Thursday morning.

Or they tore them down and built newer version with better techniques!

“These people had no blueprints to work with, nor, as far as we know, any previous experience at building something like this,” says study co-author Leonardo García Sanjuán, an archaeologist at the University of Seville in Spain. “And yet, they understood how to fit together huge blocks of stone” with “a precision that would keep the monument intact for nearly 6,000 years”.

They absolutely would have had prior experience if fhe process is complex. Humans tend to have bursts of developing new techniques sprinkled around, but a complex structure would be rhe result of combining existing knowledge in a new way with a few new techniques. They wouldn’t figure a bunch of things out at the same time and build something to last thousands of years. They probably built similar structures that didn’t hold up as well first and learned from it.

Brains filter out all kids of constant things when focused on something else, like how minor pain can be ignored for periods of time when distracted.

If you only seem to have tinnitus when you actively think about it, possibly due to someone else talking about theirs, then it could be your imagination.

If you notice it occasionally, like when the room is quiet and you are not actively thinking about having tinnitus , then it is tinnitus. There is an extremely wide spectrum of how quiet/loud it is, whether it happens all the time or only sometimes, and whether it is consistently the same or varies. I have it but only notice it occasionally and mostly when I have some ear pressure. Mine sounds like a mosquito or a failing old tube TV when it is noticeable.

Your description of it sticking around once you notice makes it sound like you do have tinnitus, but a mild case.

Random alphanumeric.

Should have tested for #^%_@()

If I was an ant, sure. Pretty sure they would be as bad at human anatomy as Zoidburg.

What a great point to make about language in situations that are not technical! Like how theory is used differently outside of scientific contexts, which is language naturally evolving.

But this is like someone trying to use the lay definition of theory, which is the equivalent of a hypothesis in acience, in a scientific context. A scientist saying “that is just a theory” to dismiss the theory of relativity in a scientific context would be rightfully corrected by their peers.

Using legacy software wrong is like using API to describe something other than an API.

Techical terms with specific meanings don’t vary significantly based on context, because consistency is important in technical usage.

The author is complaining about how guthub is being poorly modernized, which is the opposite of legacy software. If she means ‘something we choose use out of tradition’ that isn’t what legacy software means.

That isn’t what legacy means.

Drainstorming!

I used to google onions, because it was the style at the time

I’m not interested in being polite to people who want to take away rights, promote discrimination, and try to overthrow elections.

The idea sounds great in theory, but seems like a bad idea with the massive rise in fascism.

It explains what it does, it does not confirm that it is what was intended.

The user is always right about what they are willing to spend money on. That doesn’t mean they know what they want, although a lot of people don’t want to change.

That doesn’t mean all change is good, and it isn’t like any UI will ever meet everyone’s preferences. For example, I hate adaptive design interfaces that are significantly different in confusing ways on different resolutions. Like I understand switching a static menu to an expandable menu, but not moving the relative location of certain buttons from the bottom of the screen to the top or vise versa. But that might make sense for some use case that isn’t how I interact with it.

To keep the number of characters in the core cast to a reasonable size.

Yes.

In fact I used to help them out before knowing how horribly racist and sexist and selfish they are.

My neighbors vote against doing anything positive like holding companies resposible and making them change their practices to fight climate change.

Fuck 'em.