I see, the reference is lost on my on multiple levels. Oh well, it happens.

Help a guy out

Honestly I have to disagree. All my recently purchased appliances: microwave, washing machine, dishwasher and induction cooktop, had detailed instruction manuals that were genuinely useful, especially where the finer details aren’t obvious from the device itself.

Heck, even my wireless earbuds had a little bit of useful info, like how to force them into pairing mode.

Of course, all those manuals contained those nonsense safety warnings too (and I read every word of course! :P) but that’s neither here nor there.

I never smoked anything.

I hardly ever drink alcoholic beverages but that’s mostly because I don’t enjoy their taste and mouth/throat feel.

I have nothing against drinking, as long as it’s not overdone and (obviously!) not combined with driving or other dangerous activities. Under those conditions it’s genuinely harmless fun and socializing.

The only time I was remotely drunk was at a wedding where I found a wine I actually liked. I think I drank the whole bottle, or maybe half of it, something like that. I liked the feeling of how my muscles are loose and don’t react normally. I didn’t feel like my thinking was compromised, but who knows.

Even if my mind was intact, it’s obviously no state to drive if my muscles don’t do what they would. I have no idea how some people actually get behind the wheel in this state.

I’ve seen Megamind. This is true.

Emoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you’re right that it’s up to the TLD whether they’re allowed or not.

For example: http://📙.la/🐶

📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://📙.la/

🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6

Giving the ‘true’ URL http://📙.la/🐶 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face

Emails should generally use @xn--yt8h.la instead of @📙.la for maximum compatibility. I’m not sure if the email spec allows punycode.

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

This was fun!

Edit: people, upvote the OP, not me

While you’re right, I think there is no right answer here and actually the decisions are probably the best they could have made.

Taiwan flag up for 12 years, fair enough.

China complains? Well, don’t want to make an enemy of China and it’s a tiny change, why oppose it? Just do as China asked and be done with it.

Taiwan complains? Oops, don’t want to make an enemy of Taiwan either, so their flag is definitely going back up. But we can’t take down China’s flag for the aforementioned reasons. But now the Taiwanese flag is up because Taiwan asked for it, not because the council insisted on keeping it.

After this “stay neutral” comment, any further complaint from either Taiwan or China won’t achieve anything. They are literally treating both parties equally, i.e. neutrally.

We’re all playing checkers and this council is winning at 4D chess without even realizing it.

Great question, very interested to hear the answer if anyone knows. Please mention me, future posters!

I expect the answer to be very different for Gaza and for the west bank.

My best guesses (NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE, JUST SPECULATION):

West Bank perhaps can connect to Israeli telecom service providers. I’m guessing that’s what Israeli settlements in the west bank do, so no reason why Palestinian cities wouldn’t do that too.

As for Gaza, again their only telecommunications have to be through Israel. It appears that Israel can literally just stop the internet service (and electricity and water for that matter), and Gaza would be in the dark. The fact that Israel isn’t doing this is a bit of an enigma to me - not because I think they should (I don’t), but because it’s very obvious the the Israeli government thinks it should. Some ministers have literally said as much.

Relevant: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous speech, Don’t Ever Call Me a Self-Made Man https://youtu.be/DOldEbWxgdQ (you can probably easily find it not on YouTube with a web search). It’s not 100% what you asked but it’s along the same lines.

Edit: full speech https://youtu.be/RJsvR_gSEjg

I take issue with “fully functioning”. I believe no person on earth is fully functioning, at least not in the developed world. Everyone has to rely on others for some tasks, including basic tasks.

For me it’s mostly cooking, which is a huge gap in my function.

Just off the top of my head:

• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Home maintenance
• Exercise
• Paperwork/bureaucracy
• Socializing (friends, family)
• Pets (optional)
• Children (optional)
• Work/Study
• Digital safety (e.g. using a password manager, keeping devices up to date, avoiding malware)
• Culture (books, movies, games etc.)
• News (at least on subjects you care about) from trustworthy sources
• Hobbies

I consider all of these necessary to be “fully functioning”. I really don’t see how it’s possible for one person to have the time and the knowledge for all of these diverse tasks.

We’re humans, and we live in a society. We specialize, and if we’re lucky, we have people close to us who can fill in the gaps where we fall short.

I can’t cook, and I rely on my family for proper food, otherwise I usually go for frozen stuff. But in return I make sure my family doesn’t make any digital safety blunders, and I fix things around the house that my mother just wouldn’t know where to start.

Loads of people hire a cleaner to regularly clean their home. Are they not able to clean for themselves? Are they not fully functioning? No, of course they could if you take cleaning in isolation, but they can’t do everything, and more importantly, they can’t do it to the same level of quality. Replace cleaning with whatever.

The fully functioning adult is a myth. Everyone offloads.

Didn’t read many other comments, don’t know if this was already said.

Out of the loop, why is this about the UK?

If you didn’t link that, I would have

The Pitch Meeting video is how I first learned this movie exists. Sent it to a friend with the message:

I haven’t watched the pitch meeting yet but there is no chance in hell this movie is better than the original

Secretly I was hoping I was wrong, but oh boy, that turned out to be an understatement. Turns out my friend had actually already watched it with his mother… Or rather, tried to watch it. They had to stop hallway through because of how shit it was.

So glad I didn’t have to experience that.

(Note: I have since learned that the movie I was thinking about is not the original, there was an older movie and they’re both based on a book)

Never used Rust but I’d like to point out the YouTube channel Low Level which covers security vulnerabilities (CVEs). He ends each video with “would Rust have fixed this?” and it’s pretty interesting.

A very recent one is this: https://youtu.be/BTjj1ILCwRs?t=10m (timestamped to the relevant section)

According to him, when writing embedded software in Rust (and UEFI is embedded), you have to use Rust in unsafe mode which basically disables all the memory safety features. So in that kind of environment Rust isn’t really better than C, at least when it comes to memory safety.

That’s not to say Rust isn’t still a good option. It probably is.

Again, I never used Rust so I’m just parroting stuff I’ve heard, take all of this with a grain of salt.

how do you hijack a sentient plane?

I’m glad you asked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis