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Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.

From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m³ at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m³, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m³ per m³ released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?

Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three.

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

It’s not about the ideas spreading genetically, it’s about sending a clear and unambiguous message that if you act in a particular way you will be met with particular consequences.

The problem is ensuring the consequences actually occur. If that was an easy problem to solve we wouldn’t have anything like the crime rates we do.

Fastration?

I think the author is just sick of the bloat and pointless garbage that so many sites now include. I was all ready to argue with them from the title because, to me, an SPA is a Single Page APPLICATION, which can run without communicating with the server. There’s places where those are useful, but the pointless, annoying trend of loading bits of pages via javascript that the author is calling out needs to stop.

If you’re making an ecom system, don’t, for example, make the product page load a page frame work, then load the description, price, stock levels and whatever else with javascript initiated requests. Instead render the whole thing server side and return it in one request. It’ll massively reduce the load on your servers, perform better for your users, and make your pages more indexable. Feel free to use the fancy CSS animations the author suggests, at least they degrade sensibly, with no loss of functionality.

It’s been two hours and I don’t see a PugJesus explaination post. This has me worried. Have they been “saved” by Vikings?

It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn’t identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

Thanks for a well rounded write up. I always enjoy reading your posts.

Defenestration.

How does that benefit the community? Unless you manage to cut off a significant chunk of their trade they’ll survive and have even more reason to oppose pedestrianisation. You’re not giving them a way out, or a chance to change their position, so they can only harden their opposition to it.

Let them experience the benefits of pedestrianisation and you’re likely to see their attitude change, and see them become a proponent of it instead.

Revenge is sometimes an enjoyable fantasy, but it rarely ever brings positive changes to people’s opinions.

I’d say buy from them as well. They’re a business owner, so showing that pedestrianising the area helps their business thrive is just about the surest way to change their mind.

I read the title and expected this to be about some new, bawdy, sport.

You would be too if your day consisted of trying to hit a tiny ball into a hole with a stick, then spending ages trying to find it, again, and again, and again.

They can succeed, their modifiers might push them over the line. The title suggests a 21 DC, so even a +1 modifier to wisdom would do it. The ominous face is just because a DC that high means it’s really tough.

RAW in dnd, criticals only affect attack and death save rolls, there’s no such thing as a crit save, so they should apply the modifier. Rules vary from table to table though, so if your group prefers crits to apply to saves, go for it.

Building up tolerance? That’s a smart move. When the vampire hoards attack you’ll be able to fend them off without risking harming yourself.

It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one’s spirits if you didn’t think about it too much.

That’s pretty much what a mercury thermometer does. As the temperature changes so does the volume of the mercury, which causes the level to move up and down, and the temperature scale on the side is just a measure of how high the mercury reaches.

“…ok”

I’d love to think that his next words involved acknowledging that he didn’t know what he’s talking about, but they didn’t, did they?