Yes, but it's more like UDP than it is TCP. TCP has acknowledgements and retries. UDP is "fire and forget".
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(a) It's almost never used by anything else and (b) <3 Doom
Unfortunately, I showed some software in a sprint demo once, using 666 as an arbitrary port. I was very clear that this port can be anything, because the software was made to be configurable by the user, and of course the project manager wrote it down and put it in the "official" and released documentation that the customer must use port 666. facepalm.
I lived on the Wasatch Front for a while, and mountains always ran north-south on your East. Now I work on the Front Range, and mountains run north-south on your West.
I know the feeling you're describing.
I can adjust all the climate and media controls without taking my eyes off the road. You could make the argument that I know my car and have them memorized, but as much as I know my phone I can't control the media without looking.
CDs... I keep my music library in MP3 format on my home system. I can load 6 or 8 albums worth of music onto a single disc, then flip through songs, albums, and folders using the touch controls. Because I can burn discs whenever I want, I don't care if the ones in my car get scratched, so I don't stress over it.
This makes sense when I try to indoctrinate my teenager who grew up on Halo and Call of Duty. But I began noticing this hangup in the late 90s with friends my own age.
Coast Redwood needles look more like a fir tree - flat and extending from a central spine. Coast Redwood cones are about the size of a small marble, about the diameter of a fingernail.
Giant Sequoia needles look more like cypress or juniper - strings/ropes of needles. Giant Sequoia cones are about the size a large chicken egg yolk.
Dawn Redwoods are native to China, previously thought extinct and only recently (1940s?) discovered to be living. Their leaves look more similar to Coast Redwood. I have no idea how common they are in cultivation/landscaping.
Forgive the hotlink...to an image [0]. Image Source [1]
[0] https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/sites/plantid7/files...
[1] https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/sequoia-sempe...
Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are two different trees!
Note: It seems that my California nomenclature uses "Redwood" to refer specifically to Coast Redwoods, whereas other regions use "Redwood" to refer to all 3 species of Sequoioideae (Coast Redwood, Giant Sequoia, and Dawn Redwoods"). Also, funnily enough, Coast Redwoods are of the genius "Sequoia", whereas Giant Sequoia are of the genus "Sequoiadendron"
I've long been aware of a thriving population of S. Sempervirens (Coast Redwoods)[1] and a non-zero population of S. Giganteum, but such a thriving population of S. Giganteum is new to me.
The article focuses specifically on S. giganteum, but the references to "redwoods" throw me off.... I'm sure it's accurate, but I'm going to have to read the source paper.
For those in Southern California, there's a grove of Giant Sequoia's on Mount San Jacinto that were planted in the 70's by the Forest Service. [2]
[1] https://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/locations.htm
[2] https://gizmodo.com/these-sequoia-trees-are-thriving-175-mil...
I say I dive for lobsters... I do dive, but I have yet to actually catch one! I caught one out of season just to practice, but put it back.
I have my mono-spaced typefaces, my variable-width typefaces, my serif, and my sans serif.
It was outside of bear season. We always suspected that he shot it first, then dragged it in front of his truck to hit it. We'll never know.
I dive for lobsters. You need to measure them before you put them in your bag. You can't put them in your bag and measure them later and release the small ones. The reason is if you could bag first and measure later, people would use this as a loophole when confronted by wardens with undersized lobsters. Similar regulations with fish and open alcohol containers while driving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sche...
Also: A more fun and technical sounding term for "finder pattern" is "Fiducial" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiducial_marker
I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important, but I think most folks know that when the year comes first, then what follows is the month. If someone sees 2024-03-05, I don't think most people wonder Is that March 5th, of May 3rd of 2024? And I like YYYY-MM-dd because it's (a) In alignment with ISO 8601 and (b) sorts so much easier as plaintext.
In documentation, I'll use dd MMM YYYY for signatures and document dates, but for things like big tabular data in the body of a document or in spreadsheets, or logging, or CSV exports, I'll default to YYYY-MM-dd
For example: There's a fluorescent light above my desk that flickers and has been driving me crazy for years. I can't get facilities to fix it because they need a ticket that's approved by management and has an approved budget, and all their other tasks are more urgent.... so it slowly drives me mad for a year. Finally, a facilities person says "You know what... I'm not supposed to do this without management approval... but I'll just fix this real quick and it'll be our secret" ..... Me: "Oh, thank you, you're doing God's work"
I've always thought "Capital" referred to assets, whereas "Capitol" referred to government. And it irked me that the headline used the wrong version, as I thought D.C. was the nation's "Capitol".
Turns out, I was wrong. "Capital" is correct to refer to D.C., whereas "Capitol" is correct to refer to the building that houses the legislative body, but not to the body or event the city itself.