“Thrice” is a somewhat obscure word that otherwise fits.

“Adventitious” is a good one. It means “non-inherent” or “acquired” (as opposed to inherent.)

Where do you get these questions?

I use dmenu_run because it’s ridiculously minimal, has zero dependencies, is very fast, and fits with the i3 aesthetic well.

I once had an interesting conversation with a nurse at my GP’s office. I was scheduling an appointment with my GP. The nurse asked what I wanted to see him about. I mentioned light headedness, dizziness, globus, chest pain, palpi-

She stopped me at “chest pain” and said “I’m going to write down chest pressure, because otherwise, they’ll send you to the ER.”

At the time, I was scheduled for all the heart tests you can think of and a few neurological tests and had been having chest pain daily for months during which I’d had plenty of heart tests already. And the nurse was familiar with my case. Had she not been, she definitely would have just sent me to the ER.

She made the right call. All the heart and brain tests came back fine. Nobody ever saw fit to give me a diagnosis beyond “your nervous system is too sensitive.” (I asked if he was talking about “dysautonomia” and he agreed to that. Not a “diagnosis” per se, but better than nothing.)

We have to go deeper.

Did people think they meant something else? Or was it more that they didn’t really elaborate and folks didn’t know quite what they meant?

I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long before Elon’s hostile attitude toward basic safety results in a high-profile catastrophy involving human deaths under the ospices of Space X.

I’ll take the grape ones if you don’t want them.

Particularly Pixie Stix. Grape’s the best flavor of those.

Jesus told me it doesn’t have to be alcohol. He once turned piss into Mtn Dew. I’ve only ever done the opposite.

“Have?”

If by “we” you mean humans, we only “have” one planet. And it’s habitable for now.

Aside from Earth, we have found some that might have liquid water, an oxygen-rich atmosphere, a relatively-close-to-Earth gravitational acceleration on its surface. But there’s no real likelihood that we’ll ever be able to get to any of those… like… ever. And I’d think probably even those would require some teraforming to be habitable.

I think what you’re talking about is called a “LAN”/“Local Area Network”.

And how much are you asking for in research funding?

planetary, planetary, intergalactic

But seriously, even so, I think it’d be reasonable to still have per-galaxy navigation systems.

Probably arbitrarily one of the two vectors perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way? (Assuming it wasn’t necessary for this navigation system to work outside of our galaxy.)

It’s published under a CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license, according to Wikipedia. (Look at the “written works” section.)

Good call on both counts!

I went ahead and fixed the suit/denomination mixup. I’ll leave the reast as-is so folks can learn from my mistakes and your post continues to make sense.

Cheers!

Yeah, #2 is both more space efficient and more time efficient.

How I’d generally do something like that:

1. Create an empty linked list.
2. Generate a random integer between 0 and 51 inclusive.
3. Iterate over the linked list and increment the random integer by one for each integer in the linked list less than or equal to your newly-generated random integer. You can break out of that loop as soon as you hit the first integer in the linked list greater than the newly-generated integer.
4. Binary insert that integer into the sorted linked list.
5. For the denomination, output the newly-generated integer modulus 13 plus one. Translate 1 to ace, 11 to jack, etc.
6. For the suit, output floor of the newly-generated integer divided by 4 plus one. (Translate zero to “hearts”, one to “diamonds”, etc.)
7. Loop back to step 2 51 more times.

Step 3 can definitely be optimized much more with a B-tree and a little thought. If you want jokers included, it’s pretty straightforward. (Just change step 2 to generate a random integer between 0 and 53 and tweak steps 5, 6, and 7.)

“Dysautonomia.” Which my doctor hasn’t stuck his neck out so far as to say was from COVID, but it was. Heh.

I was an “early adopter” of COVID, so there weren’t tests yet when I started having symptoms, so I guess take it with a grain of salt because I don’t have a positive test result. But all the weird symptoms I had match up with COVID – though to be fair it’s really wild the range of different things COVID can do to you – and there were visitors from the London office at my workplace just a few weeks before I had that syncope and subsequently got long-term sick. (I’m in the U.S.)

Good to hear you’re able to drive! Fortunately I didn’t have any syncope after that one time, but I do sometimes feel symptoms that might be syncope coming on. And if I get that while driving, I always pull over somewhere and do the machinations to fix it.

Democracy Now. Really ought to watch more often.