On iOS at least. And it does it for DuckDuckGo as well. Probably all the built in search engine selections. In some ways I like it as it’s easier than trying to decode a URL with +s and & codes in it. It only shows that way for your configured search engine, not if you visit another.

Bits of code don’t need a swap file or partition to swap. As they are read-only the system can (and does) just dump them, and re-read from the original file if required.

This is important because it can be a reason for terrible performance on systems with no swap space configured. The system’s only kind of swap available is to drop executable code pages which it may then have to immediately re-load if they weren’t actually cold. This causes the disk to thrash, and performance declines suddenly and dramatically. The same system with some swap space would still have had performance degrade, of course, but typically more gradually, and with some more time for the user or operator to find and fix the issue.

My current car has sonar. That’s what feeds the beeps to tell me I’m about to back into a lamppost. :-).

I know you were joking, but the pedant in me can't resist pointing out that Egyptian
hieroglyphs were not pictograms, but just a fancy font. Each one represented a syllable or sound (eg a sun is pronounced ra - the god of the sun is Ra, but as a letter the sun would be used for the sound ra)

I have used Tynker with my son. Block code language with lots of teaching exercises. Also includes a Minecraft modding course which is what really sold it to him.

I lost my account password for years - same issue with dead email. I eventually recovered it because I remembered that early period slashdot did auto-login by storing your password in your cookie. Double BASE 64 encoded! I dug out my old PC that had died around that time and was able to pull my cookies off the hard disk, decode the slash ones and finally regain access to my account after 4 years. This probably doesn't help you, but it might work for someone else out there....

That's an awfully big bribe - which makes me think I smell desperation... But I don't live in the US so I don't know. Is Verizon really doing that badly? Are they on the brink of some sort of collapse? Or is there some sort of fishook in the deal (like only applying to $100 / month plans or such) that would make this run-of-the-mill and more of an advertisement than news of import.

I'm flying across the date line and missing it entirely.

I'm an Architect. Also with a long technical background. Similar size organisations. It's not normal to have admin access. Largely because that level of detail can overwhelm you. It's also easy to get dragged back into your old job if you can be dragged back. In one org I worked in where the Architects did have access (before I was one...) one of our vendors develops the habit of finger pointing when mysterious issues occurred that looked like unauthorised change. We stopped that with some config monitoring software that notified us of any settings change - but I mention it to show what can happen.

One of the hard concepts to grasp is what is Architecturally significant. Mostly that's big block level stuff, but sometimes certain details can be significant too. Working out which without looking at every detail is where your experience comes in.

Most of the time the team members doing the design and implementation work can show you the detail when you need to see it - and by asking them you can discuss what you're looking for and why. This builds up trust that your solutions aren't just ivory tower creations from some distant figure but things they're connected with.

If you must have some ability to see every little detail you could always try asking for read-only access. It might be a reasonable compromise.

This has been a bit of a rambling post, but I hope it has something useful....

What would I want with one of those? :-)

extension of Australia's current Goods and Services Tax to include digital services, adding 10% to virtual items and services purchased online

Not quite. Digital services are already taxed. The tax is being extended to digital services provided from offshore, because Netflix have discovered they can skirt the current tax provisions by having no footprint in Australia and hosting entirely offshore. As the monthly fee falls below the threshold at which personal goods are normally exempt from taxation on import (as it's not worthwhile to collect it) they can charge no tax. However the existing rivals
(eg Quickflix) do have an on-shore presence and so have to charge their customers tax, creating a distinctly unlevel playing field.

I expect New Zealand to follow suit shortly as the same issue is present there.

Not NMR anymore - they've shuttered that part (formerly Varian), thereby giving Bruker an almost open field... well, JEOL was well in 3rd place and the upstarts like Magritek (with their benchtop, non-cryogenic NMRs) are almost a separate market.