What do you consider to be weird ingredients? I ask because there are many herbs, spices, condiments and so on that are kitchen staples in one part of the world, exotic rarities in another. As a quick example, Grains of Paradise are a standard in my kitchen, but unless you live in Africa, you've probably never encountered them. And, I remember once reading an article where the writer was complaining that he'd had to hunt down peppercorns to make a marinade.

When Heroes of Might and Magic II first came out it was sold in a box with a paper manual. I recently bought a new copy from GOG; the download included the complete manual as a .pdf.

Back when I was in college, in the mid to late '60s, I took a course on using a comptometer, just our of curiosity although I never needed to use one in Real Life. They were neat machines and could do a lot more than you'd expect. There was a way to put two sets of numbers onto the array in separate columns and have the machine do all of the sums, products and cross products for you that you'd need later for various statistical tests. And, you could even do square roots by using the odd integer summation algorithm, although I long ago forgot how to do it.

Code and graphics aren't the only things that people create on computers. There's word processing, spread sheets and various kinds of financial programs to be considered as well, none of which are practical to be used on a phone's tiny screen.

That said, i have had pretty good luck getting them to generate Python code. Never working right away, but you eventually get to that point iterating.

And how long does it take, start to finish, compared with how long it would take for you to do it from scratch?

When did Windows get virtual desktop support? Back when I migrated to Linux, about 20 years ago, I learned to use and love them. I showed friends using Windows what they were, using my laptop, but none of them were the slightest bit interested in them except as eye candy. I was once told, in fact, that Windows users "couldn't see the point" in having them. If it's taken this long for them to start to catch on, it's a clear indication of why Windows is concentrating on meaningless, useless changes: their target audience is mostly made up of people who can't adapt to change and wouldn't want to if they could.

Given a big enough body of water, it will float.

Yes, and so would Saturn. Of course, in Saturn's case you'd have to ignore the fact that it's a gas giant although it does have a small rocky core surrounded by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen.

Not always. Type I can be triggered by a serious childhood illness. As an example, I had a good friend who contracted rheumatic fever when he was three, and spent the best part of a year in bed. His parents ended up moving from the north east to southern California because he was too frail for the winter climate. It wasn't long before he was diagnosed with diabetes.

And, there's also LADA, which is just like Type I except it manifests in adults. That's what I have, and the root cause for it was exposure to Agent Orange, back in '72.

"...although the United States Navy might win a war without coffee, it hopes never to be forced to make the experiment." -- Samuel Eliot Morrison

Or, to keep me warm on those long winter nights, espresso with a shot of bourbon should do the trick.

I see. My father had 1% vision in his left eye, but he was drafted for limited service. Of course, that was during WW II.

So am I. In my case, my hearing loss and tinnitus was caused by exposure to too much "outbound" back in '72 when I was in the Navy. One morning, I woke up and learned that I'd slept through a 40 round shore bombardment. What's your story?

I read TFA, and it specifically says that this is the matter that's causing the gravitational effects that were attributed to dark matter. To me, as a layman, that means that dark matter is no longer required to make things come out right. If you don't agree, please explain why, preferably with citations so that people like me can understand it.

I always expected that some day we'd find a way to detect the so-called dark matter, and that when we did, it would turn out to be ordinary matter rather than something incredibly exotic. The conventional description of dark matter as some weird particle that didn't interact with the rest of the universe in any way except the gravity produced by its mass just didn't sound plausible to me; rather than making me believe in it, that description pegged my BS meter. But I never argued against it because I had no evidence to support my position, just my gut feeling. Now, however, new evidence has been discovered that proves that I was right. I know that most people in my place would be gloating, but why? I'm just a layman with no detailed education in the subject who happened to get it right.

GLOAT!

If those former coal mines can be cleaned by Mother Nature in only 200 years, that's not bad at all. The Zone Rouge in northern France and Belgium has been cordoned off for a little over 100 years, and it's estimated that parts of it may need another 300-700 years to become habitable again.