When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on.

Not true. You could also call into question why the kid was outside in the vicinity of motor vehicles! Surely the parents can be blamed as well.

I’m not dure I understand this scenario: What exactly is keeping you from just answering the phone without headphones?

“Inconceivable!”

“Mi scusi!”

I quite like the flag of Tanzania

And also Nauru, which is really helpful of you want to remember which hemisphere Nauru is (just barely) located on

I disagree. Some of them are actually bad.

AH and PH do form a right angle, that’s postulated in the problem. But P is only the projection of H onto the plane if PH is indeed parallel to n. Which is not necessary.

Imagine a nail patrols hammered into a piece of wood at an angle. The wood surface is the plane, the entry point is H and the head of the nail is P. A is anywhere on the line perpendicular to the nail on the board.

If you shine a light from above, you can see P’, the projection of P as the end of the shadow cast by thaw nail. Unless the nail is straight, P’ != H.

Putting some numbers (for the US) here, from a recent Forbes article

Joining the top 1% requires a net worth of $11.6 million to $13.7 million

The code can only be written in VB.Net.

The MC clearly has an unhealthy relationship with his parasyte, seeing how it ate his arm and such.

It’s not a surprise, really. The proposal was sponsored by the Russian Federation and includes several talking point that they have since actively used to justify their fucking invasion of Ukraine (I.e. Nazis working to disrupt democracies cross-border).

You would be correct: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1654458?ln=en&v=pdf

At the 44th meeting, on 6 November, the representative of the Russian
Federation, on behalf of Algeria, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia
(Plurinational State of), Burundi, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
Eritrea, Kazakhstan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mali, Myanmar,
Nicaragua, the Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Sudan, the Syrian
Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam
and Zimbabwe, introduced a draft resolution […]

At the [48th] meeting, the representative of the Russian Federation made a statement.

Also at the same meeting, statements were made by the representatives of Kyrgyzstan (on behalf of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), Belarus, the Russian Federation and South Africa.

In all the examples listed in the response, the inviter must explicitly be the owner of the house:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65991/why-do-vampires-have-to-be-invited-in

Although that just leaves us with the question about who is considered the owner. I’m a renter, so would that be me, or my landlord?

Fun fact: In German, this boils down to which translation of “owner” is used. I’m the “Besitzer” of my apartment (I possess it), but not the “Eigentümer” (I cannot sell it).

English needs a major spelling reform, but there’s no way to actually implement one. In order to match spelling to pronunciation, you would be to have a well-defined “high English” pronunciation.

But any semblance of uniform pronunciation doesn’t even exist within the UK (or even just England), much less across the entire English-speaking world, including places like Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, India, and many, many more countries.

And even if you somehow manage to create something (this is basically how “high German” was created, after all), good luck getting all the different governments to adopt the reformed spelling.

Deleting accounts doesn’t mean the company deletes your data. Even under GDPR (Everyone else is completely SOL here, I believe), they can keep if it is required for their business, unless you explicitly demand a full deletion.

+1 for Home Assistant

I have it running on a Pi 5 (although a Pi 4 is more then enough), with a 15€ USB ZigBee antenna from AliExpress (to connect IKEA devices).

The best thing about it is that it seamlessly integrates all devices with each other, so you can use cheap ZigBee buttons to control your Philipps Hue lightbulbs, for example.

Of you press up/down right after left/right the window will be a quarter of the screen instead of half.

On Windows 11, you can also just drag towards the top, and it’ll give you different snapping options.

Both iPhone and Android have ways to disable biometrics until the next unlock via password/code.

Iirc, on iPhone, it was pushing the power button 5 (or 7?) times. On Android, long press the power button and select “lock”.

Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use the simple shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L to open LinkedIn!

I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.