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Not being Jewish or knowing a whole lot about Judaism, is too much of it going to go over my head?

I'm pretty lousy at noticing/interpreting symbolism in fiction, in case that would either help or hurt my enjoyment here (e.g. "blowing right past symbolism that I wouldn't understand anyway" might be better than "noticing it but being stumped for lack of religious background").

Is it a just plain high price (e.g. if this was $50/month that would be expensive for me, here in the US) or is it high comparable to other things (e.g. "other messaging apps would be closer to $3/month")?

That wasn't peer-reviewed or even sourced

the hardware is designed in such as a way that is designed to be never powered off

What kind of equipment is like this? Or is it common for factory equipment or something? And what would be the consequence of a total power outage (including generators failing, I guess)?

This isn't something I've heard of before, it's interesting.

An anxious wreck. Working from home, staying isolated because I'm taking care of someone with no immune system. The isolation is killing me. In the last few weeks I've stopped being able to fall asleep half the nights.

What do you mean by "small binary commands"?

Looks like shift+menu key does the same thing, too

Which cities burned down?

The last big update replaced my user profile with the temp one, that it apparently makes normally during the process, but also is supposed to swap it back before the update process finishes. Took me a couple days of googling and chanting to figure out how the hell to fix it, and it still left marks, like the start menu has "computer (1)" and "Control Panel (1)", because the temp-profile-owned ones are still out there occupying the "computer" and "Control Panel" names.

I turn off as many settings for Assistant as I can, and disallow the Microphone permission to the "Google" app. That should help you out.

Do you still scrub your hair, just with water, when you're in the shower?

I'm writing a script right now. So far I've got a constructor written, and comments written for what the "main method" equivalent part of it will be doing.

My next step is to implement the first comment: reading in my input file, at which point I'll add some temporary code to loop through and print out what got read in, so I know I did that right.

Then I'll move on to implementing the next main-method comment, which'll loop through records from my input file, open files it says to, find certain lines, and edit the text of em. So basically using the loop I already wrote above, I'll add in code for it to find the line number I want, and print that out so I know that bit works.

etc etc. It's all iterative. You start with bare bones, and add meat and tendons here and there, iteratively, throwing in test output as you go so you know the bit you just made works.

edit: and you don't have to go in order, either. Writing comments like I did that lay out what my "main method" will be doing, lets me know "okay, i've got a file-reading bit, a file-seeking, -interpreting, and -writing bit, I'll need a bit that outputs results as CSV..." and I wrote above about implementing the first step and a little of the second, but the constructor I have written is for the last step, my results-as-CSV step, because that's a thing that was easy to think about while I pondered the tougher bits. I'll add more to that constructor, probably, as I realize "oh yeah I wanna know about X aspect of each operation result, too!"

There'll be lots of TODO comments here and there as I bounce around, and it'll get built up in bits and pieces, like starting with a spooky skeleton and adding more and more meat to it til eventually you have the whole body

not going to work != wasting life

Monster Hunter 4U (and possibly others) has triggered shoutouts (e.g., paraphrasing, "I'm jumping on the monster!" when you jump on the monster, "Oh no, I've been knocked out" when you get knocked out, etc) that show up in each player's own language.

Final Fantasy 14 has a series of dropdown chat menus, and handy tab-completion, that let you say words/vocab (like "White Mage") or phrases ("Let's queue for a dungeon!") that show up in players' own languages

What's the proper distance?

Mine are this same way. My side mirrors do a better job at covering the gap between my peripheral and my rearview this way, instead of overlapping as much with my rearview.

Oh. I assumed oats and other grains were naturally yellow-colored plants, since that's how they're always depicted, but from checking Google I see that's not true.

Are the 'golden fields' actually green for part of the year? Is it seasonal? They can't be perpetually dead, but I'm failing to find any further information.

Why death? And what do you mean by 'dead brown fuel'?

Why is diabetes a risk factor?

"con crud" is how I've always heard it.

Right, I just mean that the way you phrased it sounded like you were picturing a super vanilla, middle-school-dance-esque box-stepping couple (in 3/4 time).

All's I meant is I can see how waltz was considered risque; as a sheltered guy, I was caught really off-guard when our instructor positioned my partner and I in the way I described.

I'll bet you're just thinking of the box-step (the super basic step where you basically walk in a box shape).

If I'm not misremembering my lessons--to do some of the turns properly, the woman has to be essentially straddling the man's upper leg. It was a pain to do some of those with partners who weren't comfortable with that kind of contact.

I was part of a club in college, we did salsa, waltz, cha cha, rumba, tango, swing, jive.

I'd like to suggest that anyone who hasn't tried it, try and find beginner-level ballroom classes nearby. It's a ton of fun.

'learning to fight against you, sort of like a human would' is a lot more fun than 'literally cheating and perfectly countering you'

Disclaimer: I know very little about any of this, and am just commenting because I was surprised by one of the places listed. That place listed, I work for its 'sister' credit union, State Employees' Credit Union (NC)

It looks like the list items are there for different reasons, not all because they're big lenders who got bailed out. I clicked on Greater Kinston Credit Union[1]. Its reason for being on there is the 'Community Development Capital Initiative'[2].

Excerpt from [2]: 'designed to provide cheap financing to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI): banks, thrifts or credit unions that operate in markets underserved by traditional financial institutions. The idea was that the banks would then lend that money to small businesses in their areas.'

That one sounds pretty benign (i.e. it's not "bailing out Too Big To Fail companies for crappy practices"--GKCU is a small credit union), so I think the list you posted is more nuanced than crappy Too Big To Fail bailout companies.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/entities/936-greater... [2] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/programs/13-communit...

This actually gave me a bad taste until I read your comment, now I'm wondering if that exact situation might be a positive. Maybe it's a plus if they can say "We're hiding your ads, but here's an alternative" rather than simply "We're hiding your ads", full-stop.

If you haven't read Accelerando by Charles Stross, you should check it out; that's one of the things it explores--laws, terms of use, and companies being carried out as programs. It's a super cool science fiction story that explores a ton of really out-there ideas, all pretty plausibly.

or even buy them if you are not a large company

Because of the cost? Or do they refuse to deal with small companies?

I don't know; at the time, I generally had high blood pressure, and I don't know anything about what might cause it to raise/lower in the short-term (obviously losing blood would, but I dunno if a controlled, intentional blood-drawing for a donation would be enough)