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.

Yeah, devices that can run fully local are the best. They can be integrated into Home Assistant (or similar), with full control over them. No reliance on a remote server or proprietary app.

That’s why it’s important to make sure the device can also run purely locally (e.g. via HomeAssistant).

(Not meant as a rebuke, just good advice for the future)

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

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.

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.

“We’re gonna have a great economy”

“Project 2025 is not mine, I didn’t read it”

“I will end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours”

Trump has never been up front about anything other than molesting women.

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.

This is a good place to remind people to check if you can register as a donor in general.

In Germany, DKMS will send you a DIY swabbing kit for free, so it really just takes 10 minutes to register: https://www.dkms.de/registrieren

I’m sure other countries have similar systems in place, because fuck cancer.

+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.

Always online cars are mandated by EU regulations, and for a very good reason: automated emergency calls including GPS coordinates in case of crashes.

Other nice benefits include regular map updates.

That said, there is a lot of garbage being attached to the online functionality nowadays. And the way data is collected and handled in the background it at least partially atrocious, so let’s attack that instead of the proverbial baby in the bathwater.

Also quick shoutout to lollipop Sanji.

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.

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