It’s the same with flats being ♭ and not b. Mostly an engraving choice.

A question can be both not stupid and not appropriate.

To be fair, the FSF is partially incorrect; a government can indeed craft their copyright laws such that OnlyOffice’s license restrictions are valid. However, to my knowledge, no government has done so to date, so the FSF is correct in practice; the extra restrictions in the repository violate international copyright laws.

In music, # denotes a sharp key or note and b denotes a flat key or note — this is Italian notation.

Traditionally in English, the # symbol was called the hash, because it looked like the end of a cooking implement used to hash vegetables (nowadays everyone would say mash instead).

In US typewriters, there was no £ symbol, so # was used to denote british pounds instead.

When the telephone button pad was created, there was room for two more symbols and tones, so the creators took the asterisk and hash from the typewriter and added them as extra signals.

When Twitter needed a way to denote a tagged word in a tweet, they decided to use the hash symbol.

Really? There’s something appealing to me about decoupling my cellular modem from my phone; I used an iPod Touch instead of a smartphone for years (with Wifi and VoIP).

At this point I have zero interest in a dedicated audio player.

And if I wanted one… my watch holds more MP3s than the original iPod did. I can just play music from my watch.

Or my graphing calculator.

Or, for that matter, my over the ear headphones which have a microSD slot.

I find that with black beans, I need to add a bit more acid/spice to gat a good balance

I knew someone who was like this; eventually they discovered lawyers, and all their relationships fell apart, including their marriage. They seemed to think that punishing someone by suing them (even if they lost — it was always their lawyers fault then) was a way of resolving their relational difficulties.

Personally, I did both — service jobs are generally part time, so you can use connections with teachers, family and friends to start up some tutoring, while also picking up shifts where you can.

I got to know the special education staff in my school district, and they connected me with kids on the spectrum who needed assistance that required someone who understood how they thought. Between the two, I made enough to get by while going to school.

I found Indeed and LinkedIn worked for keeping an eye on what was available and what people said they were looking for, but every job I’ve ever got was due to a personal connection.

Let’s play a word game. You can say “kill” and “all Christians” on TV, but put the two together and you’re likely going to be censored for inciting violence.

Words have meanings and so do sentences.

“Oh, God” when taken literally just means that you’re appealing to some more powerful being to sort out what you’ve witnessed.

“Damn it” means that you want ”it” to go to hell and stay there, with no chance for salvation.

“God damn it” means you’re calling on a specific interpretation of a deity that is associated with damning things to do so on your request.

And that’s all stuff that’s OK to say if you mean it. The blasphemy comes in when you say it without actually believing or wanting such a thing to happen, but just use the phrase as an outburst of frustration.

Kind of like shouting “bomb” in an airport. If you really believe there is one, you’re going to want to do it; otherwise, you’re going to get in a heap of trouble precisely because those in charge don’t want the word to lose its meaning in that context, because then people won’t respond properly when it’s said in earnest.

Higher learning teaches students how to think critically (or develop a very good short term memory).

But it doesn’t necessarily teach students TO think critically.

They’re taught the tools they can use, but using those tools takes effort and causes discomfort. So most people choose to use them as little as possible.

So, the main difference is: people (speaking generally) who have some post-high school education have developed the tools to approach a topic in an intelligent manner. This means that, given enough effort, you can help them understand a topic. Without that toolkit, trying to show them how something is more likely true based on evidence is often pointless. But having that toolkit isn’t going to make them automatically come to evidence-based conclusions.

The right is selling that vision… in private education. They want to do away with the public school system. At that point, it doesn’t really matter what vision they describe, as only the wealthy will have access to, and the market will provide the type of education they’re willing to pay for.

The left is selling a vision of equal opportunity education.

What do you think about him now being a millionaire?

Not much. I’m a millionaire and so is everyone on my street, and on all the adjacent streets. A million dollars doesn’t go as far as it did 60 years ago.

You should install an eBook reader like MegaReader; if you run your own Calibre server, it does a good job of reading books.

Realistically, there’s not going to be much you can do with an iPad 1.

An iPad 2, on the other hand, is still a very functional jailbroken device. SNES and older emulators work great, it can play streaming videos, works with various ePub and PDF readers, and handle email and site-specific web browsing (including Lemmy).

The other answers are missing out on the key reason: licensing.

Copyright law differs between regions, and so different groups need to be paid when the video is “sold” to a customer. Before the early 2000s, this was even more the case than it is today; the US hadn’t yet tied its own definition of copyright to all its trade agreements.

End result? Selling a US DVD in Japan would have been illegal; not because of the region restrictions but because the people who had to be paid to play it in that region hadn’t been paid so the DVD was effectively a bootleg.

Indeed… the program is sustainable at the expense of the environment.

But it’s a step up from not sustainable at all.

I really really hope the moon program gets beyond both those issues (figuratively and literally).

You’re not wrong… that’s what happens when you reduce a situation past meaningful statements.

Everything you say is correct, and it’s great that the mission is actually in progress.

But that is neither here nor there with the point I was making.

I’m just glad that things have the potential to turn around at NASA now. I’d love to see them back at the forefront of space exploration and technology.

The Republican national sport appears to be goalpost moving.

Sustainable rocket program.

Like SpaceX does it.

The current launch used supplies and technology that can no longer be produced, is single use, and has enough potential points of failure that it’s taken them months beyond the original launch date to achieve conditions for a reliable launch.

At least Isaacman has them on a path to achieve something repeatable in the future.

This launch included a bunch of “American superiority” drivel, and was done on a rocket that is unsustainable and uses leftover parts from the last millennium.

I wish they’d gone with “for all mankind” — instead they went with “America America” even though one of the mission specialists is Canadian and the module was made in cooperation with the ESA.