I've spent lots of time in India. It's good to learn what the mosquito that can carry Dengue looks like. They are smaller and fly much faster and more erratically than a common mosquito – way harder to swat! If they settle down, you can see white stripes on their long legs and body.
If you notice them, you can sometimes figure out why they are congregating, they need blood and standing still water to procreate.
At one place I stayed, next door there was a construction site where the workers also slept bare skinned at the site. That's the only time I caught it. Another place I stayed was also seriously infested, I couldn't sit outside. I went looking and found two barrels of rain water on the roof, full of larvae. I added a small amount of dishwasher liquid to the barrels, which worked. Mosquitos went away in a few days.
This style of reporting is so irritating. Surrounding facts and statistics in a heart felt drama of suffering and human angle. Of course I feel for Sonja Bingham, but if I'm trying to get my head around the consequences of Harm Reduction, I want facts, statistics clearly laid out with analysis by (named) experts in the field.
I disagree, you need both. Statistics sometimes obscure the reality of what's happening and can't be relied upon in a vacuum. I recently learned about on hn about a story where Amazon's statistics proved that there was no wait time problem on it's phone lines even though it was a common customer complaints. We need a mix of statistical analysis and first hand accounts.
You aren't required to install PWAs and can generally keep using the site that created the PWA just fine. PWAs are most often a courtesy for mobile users, not a requirement. Don't need or want that courtesy, don't take it. That you spent time to post here without understanding that is some kind of indictment.
For me the A380 is the most comfortable. I'm slightly scared of flying, and turbulence making the entire plane jump around makes it that much worse. I'm only speculating, but I think it might be the sheer bulk of the A380 making it the smoothest rides I've ever been on.
That's illegal then. But the pihole won't do the trick, you need to remove the mandated certs from your browsers certstore. If these certs are used for legitimate places (e.g. EU or state websites, and I'll bet they will) you then will get a certificate error.
Of course there is still HSTS, but that's not supported by all tech using TLS.
Which https proxy you're referring to? HTTP proxies capable of forwarding HTTPS just offer HTTP CONNECT method, which allows client to tunnel regular TCP connection and HTTPS inside it. These proxies do not do anything with certificates.
> The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. It was that or one of their B&Bs. I figured it'd be safer on the streets. For the first time ever I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat, and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them huddling in stations before, being loud but… this time I was surrounded. Everywhere I went it felt like they were watching me; fish-white flesh puckered by the Highland breeze; tight eyes peering out for fresh meat; screechy, booze-soaked voices hollering out for a taxi to take 'em halfway up the road to the next all-night watering hole. A shatter of glass; a round of applause; a sixteen-year-old mother of three vomiting in an open sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes. I ain’t never going back… not never.
I'm a big fan of Monkey Dust, but due to legal complications with the music copyrights, they were only able to release the first season on DVD. Pirating is the only way too watch seasons 2 and 3.
She's part of the Swedish upper class – the Swedish wikipedia page lists her as "baroness" (friherrinna), further accentuated by her name ("af" is the swedish variant of the german "von")
i feel like there's a difference between the author themselves doing the rewriting (which i'm fine with, because you're essentially just publishing a new edition of your book), and someone else who just happens to own the IP doing the rewriting (which i'm a bit uncomfortable with, regardless of what exactly is being changed).
it's like if a painter adds something to an already-completed artwork that they had painted and then describes the result as a refined version of the painting (fine), vs when someone who just happens to have bought the painting adds something and then argues that the resulting painting is now the "official" version of the painting, while still naming the original painter as the creator (not fine).
And then it typically interacts and fails without feedback. I've tried so many times to tell Siri "Send a message to x that I'm 10 mins away", only to realize much later that "message delivery failed".
No clear feedback, a weird timing issues where it just stalls and show the message it' about to send in case it got it wrong.
I've had to stop using Google Assistant to send messages. It used to ask the user to choose the correct word when it misheard something. Now it just makes a wild-ass guess and sends it on. It's caused me to send some very odd messages to people and/or look like an idiot.
Explains a lot. I remember having truffle shavings at the table on pasta at a posh italian restaurant in the early 2000, and it was reassuringly expensive. Didn't taste of much, I wasn't overwhelmed. A bit earthy, but nothing special. Then I read somewhere that some people can't taste truffle. So I put it down to that.
More recently if I get something that says "truffle", it's this crazy almost garlic style punch (without the aftertaste of garlic). I've been confused why my experience of this changed so much from then to now… should have known I was being scammed!
Truffles vary in taste and intensity, yet the price will easily be set on classes that ignore the quality of the single tuber. Some may taste horribly - it can happen - and yet be sold with a price following their class (not their individual merit).
I am afraid it is racist: all truffles of the same family are regarded the same by some, in spite of strong individual differences.
There's the kicker. Truffles aren't beloved because of their flavor (which is fine), they're beloved because of their rarity and expense, which allows you to signal your social status. They're the diamonds of the food world.
When I was younger I used to believe when people talked about how amazing certain items or experiences were. They were often very expensive, or very hard to get to. I used to believe that they really were such a unique and special experience and that was why people would go to the trouble and expense of having it.
Being older now, I see that the real value in the item or experience was being able to tell me about it. So many things fall into this category, if not completely, at least partially.
If you notice them, you can sometimes figure out why they are congregating, they need blood and standing still water to procreate.
At one place I stayed, next door there was a construction site where the workers also slept bare skinned at the site. That's the only time I caught it. Another place I stayed was also seriously infested, I couldn't sit outside. I went looking and found two barrels of rain water on the roof, full of larvae. I added a small amount of dishwasher liquid to the barrels, which worked. Mosquitos went away in a few days.