A persistent assumption about advanced interstellar travel is that engine efficiency is monumentally better to the point that the "tyrrany of the rocket equation" is no longer a factor, and extra mass can be carried without absolutely exploding your fuel requirements into absurdity.

If adding 10kg of payload didn't mean also potentially many times more mass of propellant we'd be sending up more robust spacecraft, no question.

I'm from Canada and had to explain to border officers what my accommodations and means of personal support would be for a two week stay in the US. I was almost denied entry because I wasn't carrying sufficient cash on hand.

That was almost twenty years ago.

I will never play a game that needs admin elevation to run, I don't care how good it allegedly is.

I've missed out on playing several games with friends due to this stance. Star Wars: The Old Republic was the first I can remember. Marvel Rivals is the most recent.

A guy I played with in university's read them as addition, which is the same as reading them as digits with the exception of the tens.

00 + 0 was 10 (because the "0" on a d10 is usually read as 10)

10 + 0 was 20

90 + 0 was 100

I feel this. Working from home now but even when in the office spent a staggering amount of time just... doing nothing. Spent multiple days in the office just watching old episodes of The Computer Chronicles on youtube.

Recently praised as one of the most productive/useful members of my team and also thanked for taking so much of my time to help other teams.

Not a furry though.

Well, yes, very clearly it's a "man on screen said it" situation, but it's not like that's new.

People who repeated "ground control to {insert name}" to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn't believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It's an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.

It's also possible that audio recording being a thing that exists will slow changes in language as well.

Same. Didn't even realise they were different images until after I read the text.

Reboot did similar things in the 90s with direct mentions of "BS&P" (broadcast standards and practices) in multiple episodes.

The Sun still only illuminates part of the disk at a time. It doesn't go below the disk at night, it's still above the disk just too far away to see, so you get different times of day in different parts of the world.

Yes, this just raises more questions. Yes they have answers for them. None of them are good and very few of them are even internally consistent, let alone hold up to any scrutiny.

C# also has verbatim strings, in which you can just put a literal newline.

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Generally speaking it's considered bad practice for a GM to call for rolls that literally no one in the party can succeed at, but as with anything in tabletop roleplaying there is nuance.

There could be a narrative reason for the player to not know just how difficult something is and you don't want to give it away by just telling the players they can't succeed. If the most capable member of the party rolls a 20 and fails then the "reward" is the narrative of the attempt and learning what you're up against.

Or maybe someone in the party could succeed but for whatever reason the child-prodigy wizard with a strength of 8 wants to try lifting the portcullis. It wouldn't make any sense for them to actually do it.

It's the same as any other non-liquid asset. Sure, you could argue that the value dropping is only a loss if you sell during the dip, but you're still better off if you can sell before it happens.

I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.

... I'm struggling to understand what you mean by "wider". As in the physical size? It is slightly larger, but even so why is that a factor?

Yes

My mistake then, it's more vulnerable then I initially thought. I also don't think it's secure even if that weren't true, just that it's not worse than single factor passwords (which you also shouldn't use of security is a concern).

If the fact that a 128-bit value when sent to your server can retrieve a single piece of media or user info then I have real bad news about what you can do with a typically much shorter password.

Is it ideal that you can retrieve streams or user info from Jellyfin if you know the ID of the entity you're looking for? No, obviously not. But you need to authenticate to get those IDs in the first place, and there are fewer bits of entropy in most people's passwords than there are in UUIDs.

Being able to get streams unauthenticated by guessing the correct UUID is arguably still better security than using passwords without 2FA.

Backwards as in half of foster kids, not half of homeless people.

My biggest problem with that "monstrosity" is that it's ortholinear.

You imply that such a thing being "optimal" is absurd, but if you had infinite usable desk space then what, exactly, would be the argument against it? If space is not a consideration then what does it matter if you don't use every key?

Lots of people like smaller keyboards, and that's perfectly fine. I get it as an aesthetic choice, and for many people it may not impact their daily use at all. But you will not convince me that removing the option of having additional keys for binding is a non-zero cost, even if they're not currently being used.

For what it's worth, I never used anything like that monstrosity, but I was quite happy with my G15 for the time that I had it which had 18 additional keys, plus media control, over a typical full size.