Questions you want answered.

Jonman wrote:
strangederby wrote:

How do I learn not to put two spaces after a full stop? I've been doing it all my long life and now I've found out that people don't do that anymore it's making editing my stories a chore.

Same way I learned not to tear the heart out of my vanquished enemies and eat it.

Eventually I got tired of the disapproving looks.

Own it. To the victor goes the freshes.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Jonman wrote:
strangederby wrote:

How do I learn not to put two spaces after a full stop? I've been doing it all my long life and now I've found out that people don't do that anymore it's making editing my stories a chore.

Same way I learned not to tear the heart out of my vanquished enemies and eat it.

Eventually I got tired of the disapproving looks.

Own it. To the victor goes the freshes.

Tell it to my colleagues at the office.

I mean, jeez, talk about being uptight about what I put in the fridge. It's not like I was microwaving fish.

I never microwave office fish, but when I do, I make sure to use lots of fish sauce.

I am looking for an emergency, my-normal-cell-phone-is-dead 911 option that can hold up in long-term storage.

First I was thinking about the SpareOne phones that are purpose made for this, but I think the company is out of business, and the existing phones are lagging behind the updates to cell phone networks.

My next thought was a $10 unactivated TracPhone flip phone paired with a AA-battery cell phone charger. AA batteries can sit on a shelf for a few years. Any phone can charge/run off the AA charger, but I figure a flip phone can stretch that battery while a person's high end smartphone would obliterate that battery pretty quickly.

Question: Am I overlooking some obvious flaw or better alternative?

If you're considering a AA chargeable phone, is a cheap USB power bank that you leave plugged in all the time viable? That way you just charge your regular phone.

Other low tech options:

Write down the address of your nearest police station, fire station and hospital. Like, I can run to my nearest fire station in less time than it would take me to get a charge on my phone.

A landline.

Just something I've been curious about with ipv6. A tree fell over in a windstorm yesterday and cut my power, as a result my router was off for the day and when I booted it back up my ISP had given me a new IP.

I'm looking at the login logs for some of the websites I visit. My old IP started with 72 and the new one starts with 59, imgur shows my IP changed today but has otherwise been the 72 one for months. I'm looking at google's log and it now lists addresses in ipv6 which is basically a 8 section barcode separated by colons. According to google the first 4 sections of my IP haven't changed, the the last 4 sections change every day.

Does that mean I'm getting a new Ip6 address from my ISP every day? Why doesn't that change my Ip4 address at the same time?

It sounds to me like your provider is using an IPv4 address for your router on the internal network, with a rotation every few months or less. But since you're looking at website logs, you're looking at the other end of what happens to your packets before they hit the Internet. Most likely they are converted via NAT to an IPv6 address (sounds like Unicast from your description, which would make some sense if they know you just have the one endpoint IPv4 address, I think), and then they change the virtual interface each day (the last four octets). Could even be a different external address for each website.

That would save them having to actually change your ipv4 DHCP address frequently, and makes the ip change invisible to you since it's on the other side of the NAT.

I got a Sega Genesis Ultimate Portable Game Player (sorta a Sega Nomad with some cool games and some shovel ware).

Are Phantasy Star 2 and 3 still good? I didn’t play them back in the day, and I think those would be the only things on it that I would want to play through rather than just tool around with.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

I got a Sega Genesis Ultimate Portable Game Player (sorta a Sega Nomad with some cool games and some shovel ware).

Are Phantasy Star 2 and 3 still good? I didn’t play them back in the day, and I think those would be the only things on it that I would want to play through rather than just tool around with.

Not particularly. 2 is very boring and not very attractive. 3 at least has interesting plot, and 4 branching plotlines, but the dungeons and combat still aren't very interesting. I would say skip 2, and maybe try a few hours of 3 to see if you dig it. They are both pretty old-style JRPGs, though, closer to Final Fantasy 1, than 2.

I’ve been kicking around the idea of getting a Nintendo 2DS XL. But I’ve also been considering buying a Switch. The DS is much less expensive, but I would enjoy the Switch much more. Even though I think I just answered my own question, what do y’alls think?

I think you should get a Nokia N-Gage. They're collector's items!

Assuming you aren’t a spammer since your first post is a link to another site, welcome to GWJ!

Why do you want to invest in real estate, what do you think it will get you? What is your time table? Right now SF is in a huge bubble which will pop at some point and Austin is also in a smaller bubble. I personally would not invest in either for the next few years.

What do you mean by IT expat? Do you mean go work in IT in another country so you aren’t really retired? Have you already figured out how you will get a work visa or permanent residence to do that? Many of the countries you mentioned do not just let you travel to and stay as long as you want and work. Not to mention the language barriers in places such as Beijing. Lots of questions....

When did they lift the restriction on coffee grinders posting links?

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’ve been kicking around the idea of getting a Nintendo 2DS XL. But I’ve also been considering buying a Switch. The DS is much less expensive, but I would enjoy the Switch much more. Even though I think I just answered my own question, what do y’alls think?

It depends a lot on what you want to play, I think.

The 3DS, by virtue of being a more mature platform, has a much deeper and richer library than the Switch. There are solid exclusive entries from all of Nintendo's franchises, a robust library of JRPGs, and a decent collection of indies, mostly retro platformers.

The Switch, on the other hand, has a more current library, and while its catalog has far fewer unique entries, it has a nice collection of slightly older games that are portable for the first time. If you're looking for a nice set of new release indies and 360/PS3/Wii U games on the go, the Switch is great for that.

Personally, I have both, and after a torrid love affair with the Switch have gone back to the 3DS as my most-played platform. I'm waiting for the Switch to get more of the kinds of games I like, and the 3DS still has plenty to offer me. But I'm also not a big fan of indies and played a lot of the Switch's first party catalog already on the Wii U.

I'd say to browse through the libraries of both platforms and see what one has more games that stand out to you.

An easier way to teach my almost 7 year old about Singapore math.

Dakuna wrote:

When did they lift the restriction on coffee grinders posting links?

As far as I know, they didn't - Coffee Grinders just have to have an account that is old enough to post links. I don't think they've ever said how old an account has to be, but it is long enough to attempt to discourage spammers from waiting it out.

NSMike wrote:
Dakuna wrote:

When did they lift the restriction on coffee grinders posting links?

As far as I know, they didn't - Coffee Grinders just have to have an account that is old enough to post links. I don't think they've ever said how old an account has to be, but it is long enough to attempt to discourage spammers from waiting it out.

Well the person in question posted a link on the same day they registered and it was their first post, so whatever the restrictions are they might not be working.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Well the person in question posted a link on the same day they registered and it was their first post, so whatever the restrictions are they might not be working.

I believe the links retroactively become active once the account is old enough / they post enough. But I don't know for sure.

Unless it is a small number, I don't think so. I posted about 7 hours after they registered and the link was active at that time.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Unless it is a small number, I don't think so. I posted about 7 hours after they registered and the link was active at that time.

So that's not it, then.

Why do food freezers need to be -18°C and not like -8°C?

Mermaidpirate wrote:

Why do food freezers need to be -18°C and not like -8°C?

Two reasons: To get food down from an unsafe holding temperature more quickly, and because keeping food at -18°C or colder has shown to prevent it from degrading in quality as fast.

...and because it's the same as 0°F which keeps imperial measurements relevant.

THREE! THREE REASONS!

Also, obviously, you can’t go lower than zero degrees, so it just happens that equals -18C. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Mermaidpirate wrote:

Why do food freezers need to be -18°C and not like -8°C?

Interesting trivia: If that sounds cold viable biological material like genetic samples are done at -80C (-112F) for long term storage because that temp keeps DNA from degrading, and cryogenic storage of embryos can go as low as -196C (-320F) (those fridges are wild: a bath of liquid nitrogen and a refrigeration system to keep it at liquid temps)

Even short term storage of extracted DNA in a -20C (-4F) walk in freezer (edit: whichi guess was probably the same kind of freezer for food storage?) at my previous job. Sorting boxes and getting samples out of that thing was not a fun experience, let me tell you.

LouZiffer wrote:

THREE! THREE REASONS!

Ah! Ah!

My brother worked at an industrial bakery, and they kept their “flash-freezers” at -55C. You did not want to go in there un-gloved... your hands would stick to any metal surface.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

THREE! THREE REASONS!

Ah! Ah!

Amongst our reasons...

Amongst our reasons are such diverse elements as...

I'll come in again.

I heard The Count, instead of Monty Python. Funny either way!

The Count was what I was going for, but you're right: funny either way!

With me it's nearly always Monty Python... but that totally looked like The Count as well once you waltzed in here with your Ah! Ah!, Clocky.