Not everyone knows the keyboard shortcut though. I bet you can find people hunting for it using the mouse every time.

I’ve seen posts suggesting adding the following to your .bashrc:

alias fuck='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'

I have all of those… Except my to-do lists are not actually long because I never get around to adding stuff to them.

This is pure genius.

Messaging used to be free on OKC too. Paid stuff was only better search placement, maybe seeing your matches immediately, etc. No idea about now, I was also found by my wife there over a decade ago.

Ah, probably so - I have no idea how long in absolute terms it takes to reach any given amount of fluency, but my thought was that they noticeably still have a way to go - which I figured was why they asked, to get a straight answer on that.

I also have no idea how it’s evaluated or what system those level labels are part of.

No, those are not correct.

If I saw either of those, I would assume that you started learning English recently. (Which is fine, it just means more work for us to understand each other)

As other comments have said the meaning is mostly clear but it’s not how native speakers talk.

“What Is a Laser?”

When I saw that book in the elementary school library it was a revelation: There are books explaining the cool mysterious stuff like that! And written for kids to understand!

I think that one book is a big part of what sent me on the path to geekdom.

It wasn’t technically my first nonfiction science book, which would be “Our Friend the Atom” but I wasn’t old enough to actually read that when I had it (probably got destroyed before I could). I liked the pictures though.

Danny Trejo is of course Machete (or Uncle Machete to the Spy Kids) - even if he does occasionally rangle Rancors or other roles.

(But only when I can see him. I had no idea he had that many voice roles until looking him up just now)

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘use it on that basis’. Yes, entanglement has been proven to work, but it can’t be used to communicate FTL.

I read it. Doesn’t mention FTL, because that’s not a possibility for actually transmitting info.

Edit: I think the way these quantum encryption systems work is that basically the photons (and I assume it’s polarization being measured) become the encryption key to a message that is sent conventionally.

Like the sender generates a bunch of entangled photons, sends the paired ones to the recipient, measures their photons and uses the results to encrypt the message, the receiver measures theirs and gets the same results, the sender sends the encrypted message over email or whatever, and the recipient has the same key because of entanglement.
Meanwhile an eavesdropper measuring the photons would mess them up for the recipient so the message wouldn’t decrypt.

If you change one of the particles it just breaks the entanglement. If you measure one, then you instantly know the state the other will have when measured, but the result of your measurement - and therefore the other one also - is random. The only way to correlate the two measurements of the two particles is to send the results (at C or slower) to the same place and compare them. Otherwise each just looks like a random result.

This is true. I had to force myself to develop a tolerance to plain water, but of course I’m really glad I did.

I still can’t stand unsweetened flavored water (including tea*), or especially unsweetened and carbonated. Those are all very bitter to me, and therefore undrinkable - particularly given plain water exists.

*But I do like some tea in my sugar.

Weird Al.
Only like 4-5 times so far, but I have tickets for this summer’s tour stop near me

Roller skating. I’m super unathletic, but skating (including teaching to others) was listed in the profile of a girl who contacted me on a dating site, so after chatting for a bit I suggested that as our first date. She was super patient with me, I had never put on skates before that day, and was in my 30s.

We’re married now, and I now also teach skating where she does on weekends, sometimes to people who have never tried it before.

It’s sad seeing all those on lemm.ee

I used to think that movie was implausible.

The issue (as the link illustrates, but I didn’t go into detail) comes with long distance communication. Time zones serve as a rough approximation for ‘where is the sun’ at a specific place that you want to communicate/trade with and that is a rough approximation for 'when are people/places likely to be awake/open. Without that you Would need to find published hours for people/places and that can be tough.

Replacing time zones isn’t impossible of course, but it’s definitely not as simple as ‘just use UTC+0’. That shifts the inconvenience elsewhere

Here are some reasons told through what-if.

TL;DR: People like to sleep in the dark generally, and businesses that close are open when more people are awake.

The original thread poster (OTP?) implied perfection when they emphasized the “will never” part, and I was responding to that. For that matter it also excludes actual brains.