Land usage is also a huge concern with hydro power. Pumped hydro storage means permanently flooding an area to create the reservoir, which carries many above and beyond just the destruction of whatever was there before. The flooded land has vegetation on it, which is now decaying under water. This can release all sorts of unpleasantness, most notably mercury.

warn - no unused parameters: my_present_circumstances

In fairness to requiring “excellence”, I’d imagine most professionals have excellent skills in their field compared to the average person.

Kirkland All-Beef Frankfurters send information about your intestinal fauna back to China.

Same setup here, two USB drives dangling from my NUC. One of them is even notably slow for a USB drive. Still not an issue at all for home use. I’d probably need a dozen or more people all watching different things on Jellyfin at the same time before it even approached being a problem.

Payment processors do care, but not for the reasons people seem to assume. NSFW purchases have disproportionately high rates of buyer remorse and charge reversals, which understandably make them much less desirable for anyone to deal with.

Prudishness may also play a part, but the chargeback rate is a major factor.

symmetric right?

I talked about this in another thread recently, but my favorites are the ones that are so lopsided that you literally can’t send back ACKs fast enough to keep up with your own download speeds when using TCP.

Even now that we’ve by and large settled on 8 bits per byte it’s still useful to call out the communication rate as distinct from the actual payload data transfer rate, as there are other sources of overhead.

You’ll never actually see a 1MB/s transfer over an 8Mbps connection because some of those bits are going to be used for things like packet headers, keep alive messages, etc.

The difference between building your own car and designing your own internal combustion engine.

Rapid Eye Movement. The phase of sleep in which you dream.

It’s a matter of timing your waking up with the right part of your sleep cycle. If you sleep through the “wake up window”, which I think is right after REM sleep, then your reenter deeper sleep which is harder to wake up from.

Aren’t those things like the size of a fist? How long did she wash it for?!

Speaking it out loud is a great way to remember many things.

“Keys, wallet, phone” as you get ready.

“Door’s locked” as you leave.

“Oven’s off”

Etc

That tracks with my experience as well. Literally every single Seagate drive I’ve owned has died, while I have decade old WDs that are still trucking along with zero errors. I decided a while back that I was never touching Seagate again.

Definitely a timesaver. Much faster to get incorrect email validation that way then to try building it yourself.

…and do you think spiders wouldn’t like that?

Right. I’m saying both / and ÷ are ambiguous in that context. WA interprets both symbols as having equivalent meaning.

What’s especially wild to me is that even the position of “it’s ambiguous” gets almost as much pushback as trying to argue that one of them is universally correct.

Last time this came up it was my position that it was ambiguous and needed clarification and had someone accuse me of taking a prescriptive stance and imposing rules contrary to how things were actually being done. How asking a person what they mean or seeking clarification could possibly be prescriptive is beyond me.

Bonus points, the guy telling me I was being prescriptive was arguing vehemently that implicit multiplication having precedence was correct and to do otherwise was wrong, full stop.

…he literally used the ÷ operator in the top screenshot. WolframAlpha interprets it as synonymous with /.

You’re completely correct, but I want to explore it a bit more.

It’s not like YouTube didn’t also need to do these things, but they had the advantage of being more or less the first to even try, therefore had the fairly substantial benefit of being able to grow gradually as their traffic volume increased from the late 00s into the early 10s.

Any YouTube competitor entering the scene needed to hit the ground running and didn’t have the luxury of being able to gradually scale up. They need to match YouTube immediately, or be considered an inferior platform.

YouTube was first, and everyone else needed to play catch-up with a headwind.