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The point is that the sticker would have to be taken off deliberately. If you are caught taking a photo, you can't claim you just forgot about the rules. You broke the rules on purpose and depending on the club they either get very angry with you or kick you out without warning.

The stickers you see on the walls could have accumulated over month. The system usually works fine and you rarely see anyone taking photos. Certainly way less than in clubs without those stickers.

I have no idea why they bother but the sticker on my post box and those of some neighbors were removed the third time now in the last 2 years. I know that they didn't remove them themselves because I talked with them and gave them new stickers. The kids in the house are either too small or to old to remove them so I can only assume it's the people distributing flyers. It sure is not the postman, he actually wrote a note asking everyone to put up those stickers because he didn't want to carry stuff that ends up in the trash anyway.

I have exactly the same experience. It began in my early thirties during a few stressful months. It stayed for about a year but then it was slowly getting better and was gone a few month later.

All cures seemed like snail oil to me, or like placebos for people who can't handle the thought that they can't do much about it. So I simply accepted it, knowing that it will either go away on it own or it won't. My partner was actually more stressed over it than me.

For anyone who wants to avoid storing the Keepass database in the cloud store I can recommend Syncthing.

For extra security I use a key file in addition to a password which I manually transfer between devices.

"the story in my head" sounds really weird to me as a non-native speaker. Is that a common phrase?

I guess "The story in my head is that you asked me to send that status email ..." means that this is what they remember. On the other hand "... the story in my head is that you think owning that number is part of my job, and now you’re upset with me, or you think I’m incompetent at my job" sounds like they mean "the story [that I made up] in my head". Can someone explain?

Also if I type two characters, I expect to see two characters - and not a single character that is somehow not aligned with every other character's columns. And because it is not aligned, the space left and right seems to be off. Everything about monospace ligatures feels unintuitive to me.

If your goal is to lose weight, it seems like diet coke is the better choice short-term (because it has much less calories) and normal coke the better choice long-term (because according to studies, NSS don't help long term and to reduce their other long-term effects).

So I guess if you drink a coke once in a while, diet coke is better and if you drink coke very often, you should stop drinking coke.

Even brand new kitchens get replaced if new owners don't like the style. Just like perfectly painted walls get repainted in different colors all the time or like some people move around furniture to get a "new room feeling".

Also I would say software may not deteriorate on its own, but in the context of other software/technologies moving forward it does deteriorate. For example many old games kind of have deteriorated because they don't easily run on modern OS any more.

Even better is this comment by another support team member:

> I'm chiming in to ensure you've got the answer you're looking for. Feel free to let us know if you have more questions about this.

Totally void of any helpful information or even remotely understanding of the issue. Of course at the time the comment was posted, no useful answer had been given by any support team member.

But to be fair though, the support team did follow up a few month later:

> Thanks all for your patience on this post, and sorry for the confusion. I originally pinned a response by @knewland397 as a helpful workaround for some folks on the thread, but I understand that it didn’t answer the whole question. Happy to shed some light on the situation here!

> Prompts like this are intended to be easier than entering a verification code to log in, and you can receive them from not only the Youtube app, but the Gmail app, Google Photos app, and more. To learn more about prompts and how they help keep your account safe, stop by our Help Center [1].

> To answer your question of why your Nest Community account is impacted, our community uses the same Google Account authentication as the rest of Google services.

> For future reference, our friends over at the Google Account Help Community are best equipped to help you with these types of questions. This forum is meant to host discussion about apps and accounts as they relate to Google Home and Nest.

The help center [1] indeed documents the apps (under the "iPhone and iPad" tab):

> Gmail App, YouTube App YouTube, Google App, Fotos App Fotos, AdWords App or Smart Lock App.

[1]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7026266

I would also say "Mainboard" has been the established German word for motherboard for a long time. I almost never hear anyone call it Motherboard anymore in German (and even less the actual German word "Hauptplatine")

Even manufacturers like MSI for example use the term "Mainboard" in German [1] but "motherboard" in English [2]

[1]: https://de.msi.com/Motherboards/ [2]: https://us.msi.com/Motherboards/

Also if there are multiple elevators, the one you actually called might stop unnecessarily.

Overall it's the same amount of stops regardless whether you take the right or the wrong one. But for some reason being in an elevator that stops without anyone getting in or out irks me.

> Neither SHA-1 nor SHA-256 are signing constructs, they are hash functions

Well that's why they said "stronger digest algorithm". As far as I understand, the repository index is hashed (now using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1) and this hash is then signed as usual, using whatever public key signature scheme they are using.

On the other hand I've seen test suites where each test consisted of 98% boilerplate that got copy&pasted every single time. Depending on the tests setup, they would mix and match hundredths of lines from other tests, which sometimes introduced subtle, hard to spot errors. There wasn't much magic and it was nightmare to read and maintain.

> librarians would close new questions I was in the middle of penning a non-trivial answer to because they'd misunderstood what the user was actually asking

By the way, if you don't want your answer go to waste in this situation and the question was on-topic, you could open your own question (reword the original question if it wasn't clear) and then immediately self-answer it.

About half of my questions are self-answered. Many because I found a solution before anyone else answered. Some because I found a solution while preparing a question but didn't submit it yet (this happens quite a lot to me). Some I even planned as self-answers from the beginning, when it took me a lot time to find a solution an issue that wasn't on SO yet. All of those questions were well received.

I also think immediate closing is bad because it can waste your time like in your case. Maybe some grace period before closing would help, then closing also wouldn't be perceived as so bad

> I think you can also argue that the dictionary is a difficult read sometimes, in spite of its existing style.

Dictionaries can be difficult to read but I would compare SO more to Wikipedia in its writing style, which is very readable. Wikipedia is much more strict and without those style guidelines it would be way less useful.

> Point is the founders made a choice

Unless you mean recent choices, I would say the founders choices made SO so successful. There are a lot forums/platforms that are better suited for getting help, were discussions and expression of individual personalities are welcome and beneficial for community building. But at the same time those forums mostly help the people who are asking questions, but not people who google their issues, because long threads are less searchable and answers are harder to find. That's were SO shines, it scales because it prioritize people looking for answers instead of people looking for individual help. I too used to contribute in such forums, but knowing the limited reach of my answers there, I stopped helping individuals and choose to contribute to the much larger audience of SO (even if that means being subject to occasionally questionable mod actions or a few downvotes)

Using quirky metaphors and swearing can be problematic for people who aren't fluent in english though. I think the removal of all greeting lines and thank you comments is a bit over the top, but generally pushing a consistent, impersonal scientific writing style does help a lot to make SO more accessible.

"Closed as duplicate" has nothing to do with effort or question quality. The only thing that matters is whether the linked questions/answers contain the solution.

A subdomain like 2002.gu.com would work without introducing changes to URL specifications, with the domain registrar giving control of that subdomain to the owner of that year. But its such a niche case and also domains are probably sold because the old service is being shut down, so it would not work in most cases.

I think an external service like archive.org that also captures redirects, so it can list all shortened URLs for a page, would be the better solution.

You're right to be confused, sorry. I meant to day "Automatic installation of updates when Firefox is not running is enabled by default there."

I said "no" to "have it set to not install before prompting you" because I use the default settings. Now I'm actually also a bit confused whether you meant "it installs in background [while browsing]" or "it installs in background [while Firefox is not running, using the background update server]"

With the default "when Firefox is not running" setting, the updates should _download_ in the background and then inform you that it will be installed next time you restart.

The freezing and forced restart as reported by pontifier does not sound like default behaviour, it sounds like "when Firefox is not running" is unchecked.

No, I'm using the default settings of Firefox for Windows. I just installed Firefox in a new Windows VM to confirm this. Automatic installation of updates in the background is enabled by default there. There's also a checkbox to use use a background service for installing updates which is enabled by default, though that's likely a Windows specific feature.

> the tendency to freeze, and then say "restart to keep using Firefox" because it updated in the background and can't continue.

I never encountered that, neither freezing nor being forced to restart. By default Firefox will only download updates in the background and inform you that the update will be installed if you restart.

I think they mean "test code is documentation". For example if there's a unit test that expects an error for a certain input, it serves as documentation that this kind of input is not allowed.

It not always feasible to document every little edge case in natural language and keep it in sync with your code. If you "document" edge cases as tests, they _have_ to be in sync with your code. It shouldn't replace traditional documentation though and is better suited for internal components and not for public API.

That just seems to shift all concerns from one device to another. Is AppleTV or similar devices so much better when it comes to privacy? Or is the selling point just that they don't show ads?

I have also never seen a single ad on my LG TV in Germany. I'm mostly using the Netflix and Prime Video apps, but still the overall user experience seems way ahead of Samsung TVs.

Where's the oxymoron then? Open-source can be monetized. Marketing can help with that. I don't see any issues with the term "open-source marketing".

It's also hard to articulate power if the people have no need for that power. People stay with nano because it's intuitive and good enough at editing some config files. What else would someone learning Linux even do with a text editor?

I've tried to get into vi and emacs but I honestly never found a good use case for them, even as a developer. When I edit files, the changes are usually very small and I spent most time thinking about what to change. The time it takes to execute that change is negligible. If I need to process large files, those are usually in some kind format that can be manipulated with other tools much more easily. And when it comes to programming, modern IDEs are far superior.

I don't doubt that you can be very productive with these editors but the "it's more powerful" argument always seems to mean "look how I fast I can manipulate large unstructured text files with some keyboard shortcuts magic", which is irrelevant to me.

There are some comments on this article that are a few month old. To me it looks like they accidentally updated publication the date.

> Maybe this changes too in the future?

E-Rezept was supposed to launch in 2022 but has been postponed until mid 2023. Some regions already tested it. It didn't work out well, so some regions dropped out of the testing phase. I'm pretty sure it won't work well at launch and we will have to rely on printed prescriptions for quite some time until all pharmacies and doctors use the new system.

I appreciate the beauty that comes with the organic evolution of these buildings but if it leads to a "break lock in emergency" door, it is definitely not better.

Even without millisecond precision, you could embed multiple assets that are served with slightly different timestamps to encode a unique identifier.