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There is also a middle ground. You don’t have to prepend your message with several sentences of fluff, but asking a question instead of stating your message can be much better receives. Just stating facts may sound like an accusation and especially if your analysis is not correct it makes your message poorly received.

The question does not specify where you or the car are. It specifies only that the car wash is 50 meters away from something, possibly you, the car, or both.

I self-host a git site to keep my code private and to integrate an issue tracker. The maintenance effort is very low. I'm running Gitea on my local network Ubuntu server.

Imagine that instead of a forced "Children" account your Netflix would show an account "Thomas" (or any other name which is not yours or your family members') you cannot get rid of. Would that not annoy you one bit? And if not, you cannot emphasize with people who are annoyed by that?

Using two passports is not always the solution. As a dual citizen of two countries, I also have two passports. A couple of years ago I travelled to Malta with the passport from the country I currently live in. One week later I flew over to Israel, where I used the passport of my birth country. I was extensively interrogated at the border, because apparently the system flagged me to the border officer as there was no record of me entering Malta with the passport I attempted to leave the country with.

It's absurd to expect people to adjust their communication timing based on each contact's preferences, when the recipient can simply adjust their communication devices to block and filter messages/calls according to their preferences. That way each person only has to do the work once, compared to having to remember each of maybe dozens or hundreds of people's preferences.

In my experience caring too much is often perceived as a negative, especially if the other party does not care that much but just wants to get the job done. Asking questions and god forbid, pushing back just makes you a difficult person.

Or not lie and possibly not get fired? Surely better than lie and having the sword of Damocles hanging over his head for a long time, either because of part-taking in fraud or (indirect) blackmailing from the boss expecting more lies or other dishonest actions as a consequence.

You could have the first column indicate the type of value and the second column the value. If you now have your columns named "a" and "b" you could have the first column named "type" only allowing values "a" or "b" and the second column would be "value" where the actual value is stored.

You could use M-DISCs, which look like traditional CDs nut are made for long-term storage and should be readable much longer than other CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. The optical drives for burning M-DISCs are readily available and not very expensive.

I live in Germany, and here the houses generally don't have machine ventilation so one has to air manually and regularly. As an example: earlier today I closed the door to my office (ca. 18 m2 / 194 sqft). The window was closed. After 2 hours the CO2 levels rose from 935 ppm to 1966 ppm. Letting air in for 20 minutes reduced the CO2 levels to 869 ppm.

Adjustable offset helps, but the greater the latency the more disconnected you feel from the beat. 200 ms would be absolutely unplayable. To put that into perspective, 200 ms is an eighth note when the music plays at 150 bpm. So every time your fingers move you have to wait an eighth note to see and hear the result.

New in Calibre 6.0 4 years ago

I really like the ability to email an ebook to my Kindle, even auto-converting it to the correct format.

I am not arguing that lambda is sentient. I am saying that to even have that discussion a commond understanding of meaning of "sentient" has to be established. Otherwise you cannot even establish a consensus or say people agree on the matter.

You say "So no need to even define it when we already know what it is". I don't think you know when you don't know what "it" is for other people.