Incognito is also great if you need to log in to something on someone else’s machine, or someone needs to log into something on your machine. As soon as the window closes you’re logged out.
For example, I’ve used this to great effect in the past helping people find their cell phones. I open an incognito window, let them log into their Google or Apple account, then use the respective find phone tool.
Yep, 100%. A crush on a friend or acquaintance is not a “love of your life.” You could be completely convinced a person is right for you, but if they don’t want to be in a romantic relationship with you, you’re wrong.
Spatula City,
We sell spatulas…
And that’s all!
And yet the Brandon Sanderson fandom is pretty non-toxic.
When you superglue two surfaces together, optionally brush them with some sandpaper first, then apply the glue, then exhale on the glue before trying to stick the two surfaces together. The moisture in your breath helps the adhesive set up faster, and the roughened surfaces from the sandpaper will add surface area to create a stronger bond.
(I’ve learned these lessons from gluing a LOT of 3D printed parts together.)
Bela was absolutely flawless.
I think Sanderson would be the first person to admit he didn’t do Mat justice. He’s spoken before about how difficult it was to write Mat.
Definitely give him a shot as an author. I think he’s brilliant, and he has SO. MANY. BOOKS. 😁
Wheel of Time was my favorite series, until Stormlight Archive.
He does characters quite well. The dialogue isn’t always there, especially if the character is supposed to have a clever wit like Mat, but he’s getting better at that, too, with practice. But in terms of depth of character and setting he’s pretty fantastic. His characters are flawed and relatable and feel real, wound very well into his mastery of story structure. In Wheel of Time Androl is an excellent example, as that character was almost entirely Sanderson’s.
I recommend starting with either The Final Empire (first book in the Mistborn series) or The Way of Kings (first in the Stormlight series). The series eventually begin to intertwine and crossover to one another in a really brilliant way.
Have you read any Brandon Sanderson other than the last three WoT books? He’s a pretty amazing worldbuilder. And his hard magic systems are phenomenal. He’s also a master of story structure. The only area he lacks is prose, but he’s been improving on that over time.
I understand where you’re coming from. It was my position before I tried my experiment! 🙂
At the end of the day, the best unit is the one you and the people around you understand!
You just have to install Denuvo on your partner.
What?
Edit: Oh a Rain Man reference? Are…you implying that I’m autistic because I shared a heuristic? And that somehow that’s a bad thing, which is of course the implication?
Do you know what service you’re using right now?
Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.
I used to say this exact thing. I decided to be scientific about it and test it by learning Celsius and trying it for a few months.
I have not gone back. It has been seven years. All my devices are still reporting Celsius to me.
I was enjoying the process just because of the novelty of learning a new temperature scale, but when I experienced my first winter with Celsius I knew I’d never go back.
0 being freezing is so much more useful than you’d think. 23°F doesn’t really mean anything to me, but -5°C means “as far below freezing as 5°C is above freezing.” It inherently provides context without having to do math.
Also, the degrees being “larger” makes them more meaningful and thus easier to learn.
If you want to try what I did, here are some useful steps. First, this rhyme: “30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is chilly, 0 is ice.”
More importantly, here’s the heuristic I came up with: memorize the 10s. So 10°C = 50°F, 20°C = 68°F, 30°C = 86°F (easy to remember 68 and 86 because they’re reversed). Then memorize the 5s. You can always find them because they’re 9°F off from the 10s. 25°C = 77°F for example.
Once you have those points memorized, you can go up and down from them using 2°F per 1°C. It’s really 1.8, but since at most you’ll be 2°C away from a certain value, the most you’ll ever be off is 0.4°F. So if the weather app tells you it’s 22°C, you start at 68°F and add 4 to get to 72°F (it is actually 71.6 but who cares?). If it says 23°C, you start at 77°F and subtract 4 to get 73°F (actually 73.4, but again who cares?).
I used this heuristic until I didn’t really need it anymore. I still use it if someone asks me the temperature, because I live in the US and no one knows Celsius. So I quickly convert and give them their Fahrenheit value. But at this point I don’t really need to do so personally.
And like I said, I much prefer Celsius even for describing weather. It has really taught me how arbitrary both scales are. A co-worker of mine said, “Yeah but 100° sounds hot.” I replied, “The first time a colleague in India told me it was 40° outside, that sounded hot.” I didn’t need to convert it (didn’t bother memorizing that value because I never see it where I live), it just sounded hot because I knew the scale. (It’s 104°F for the record.)
But as I touched on, I was shocked by how much the freezing point being zero mattered. It makes sub-freezing temperature values so useful. I hadn’t expected that, growing up I knew 32°F was freezing and was so used to that nonsense that I didn’t realize what I was missing until I experienced it.
It’s a delightful show. My wife and I have no children but we’ve seen probably every episode of it (we sometimes watch them before bed because they are beautiful and calming). And whenever my nieces and nephews want to watch an episode I’m like, “Oh absolutely, I’m in.”
One of my favorite aspects of the show is that the parents will often go along with whatever game the kids want to play. The episodes are short so it’s sort of realistic. The parents have jobs and whatnot, but they can take a few minutes out of their day to play. And the show manages to communicate concepts like sharing and kindness without ever seeming preachy or teachy. It’s organic.
I strongly recommend it. I’m confident every episode is available on the high seas if you don’t want to get Disney+.
This is part of why Bluey is such a good show. It shows parents getting involved in their kids’ play to a (mostly) healthy level.
And none of them are orange, you say?
Didn’t expect Trevor to be this based.
Really? Seems like what I’d expect from him.
Miss him on the daily show
Me too, but honestly I’ve grown to really like the rotating host format.
“Where are the reporters?”
“They’re in the free press zone.”
There are a few threads in that sub complaining about the lack of physical discs. There’s even a megathread. My assumption is that this one got removed for posting outside the megathread or something similar considering that other similar threads are still alive and kicking.
No joke, when we do interviews we have candidates give code review feedback. One of the pieces of code is a poorly written but functional “find the unique numbers” function. We have had ONE candidate say, “Just throw them in a set.” And in our separate chat where we discuss candidates, we were like, “Finally someone gave the right answer.”
(Not that there’s a wrong answer when code reviewing like this, but I was waiting for someone to come to that solution.)