Chesterton’s Fence applies to some gatekeeping. Not all, but for life-safety thegatekeeping tends to be for sadly good reason.

It’s a Barn Swallow, not a Peregrine. Closer, faster horizontally, and smaller. I’ve got a few Peregrine photos, though none I’m particularly happy with yet.

Not quite anything. And veal works better in many cases.

Mayo is an emulsion of oil, vinegar, and eggs. Aioli is an emulsion of oil & garlic, usually without eggs.

Please no. I like my kidneys. The next lens up in quality is over $15,000.

If you want to save money, don’t get into bird photography as a hobby. Gear Acquisition Syndrome is fatal to your wallet.

Timbits. English Canadians have Timbits. Those aren’t just doughnut holes, they’re Tim Horton’s doughnut holes.

I’ve seen monthly AWS bills bigger than that, every time I look at the damn dashboard.

there are actually plenty of reasons to NOT want any kind of bi-directional data transfer between your device and the TV

I’ve got bad news for you about HDMI then…

It will destroy the soldering iron tip’s plating. This will quickly result in it being unusable for soldering.

It’s not dangerous. It won’t emit any toxic fumes as long as it’s just a stainless steel scrubber & not one pre-impregnated with soap like a brillo pad. But since it’ll destroy the iron’s tip it’ll quickly be more expensive than brass wool.

That’s not the question. The question is “do a lot of rural folks think people they dislike are getting hurt more than said rural folks are getting hurt?”.

My field (cryptography) is unlikely to run into this, despite having some advanced math. There’s just not that much use for anything in 2D, and abstract algebra doesn’t bother with things as mundane as “numbers”.

I want a 16-1200mm lens, with a 300mm front element for f/mount_limited-f/4 aperture size, that weighs less than 2kg and is fully aberration corrected & costs under $10,000. And world peace, while we’re at it. That’s probably easier.

Except that the signoff with the same phrase every time was made up to dramatize the movie. They did often have predictable messages, like including the time & a weather report, which allowed crib dragging to work by guessing which of a few possibilities had been transmitted.

The US still dominates freight rail.

A US customary mile is 5280 US customary feet. 1 US customary foot is 12 US customary inches. 1 US customary inch is 25.4mm. So a US customary mile is 1609344mm, exactly. It derives from the roman “mille passus”, literally 1000 paces, where a pace is the distance between two impacts of the left (or right) foot of a Roman soldier on the march. Quite a few other cultures used a “mile” of some sort even after the fall of Rome, for example the old British imperial mile was 1760 British imperial yards, one British imperial yard predated the definition of the meter but was most precisely measured to be 0.914398415m, so the British imperial mile was 1609341.21mm. Other culture’s miles varied even more than this.

Cacio e pepe with macaroni as the pasta shape works fine. Not traditional, but far less heretical than this old repost’s creations.

Energy & material extraction also create value.

Some salts smell. Table salt (what’s pictured in the meme) doesn’t have a detectable smell in solid form, not enough vaporizes to notice. Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate, not sodium chloride like table salt, and they do smell strongly. “Salt” can refer to either table salt or to any ionic compound whatsoever. The latter is chemistry jargon, but then gets used in colloquial terms like “smelling salts” or “salty licorice” neither of which have table salt but both of which have other ionic compounds.

When was that, 1980?