They only recently made it mandatory for three visa types, but since introduced in October 2016, it’s always been an optional field when applying for an ESTA.
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Not that not providing your social media handle will benefit you, of course.
The big one for me is grep/ripgrep. I’m a dev, so there are often times I need to search the contents of files to figure out where something obscure is mentioned. This is also possible on Windows, but as with most things on Windows, it’s slow.
The second mention-worthy thing is, oftentimes in conjunction with grep, is piping! It’s so enjoyable for me to find the files/content, pipe it to anything (sometimes through xargs and/or tee), so that I can replace the text en-masse with sed, remove all junk files that match a certain parameter with rm, and generally automatically act upon something that I don’t have to manually look for.
Although I’m a dev mainly on Windows, I’ve installed WSL as a compromise, and quite often find myself using its bash to perform tasks like the ones mentioned above.
You’re an awesome admin, Demigodrick! The transparency, the hospitality, the constant positive engagement with the community! As long as you remain, this community will thrive, I’m sure of it ;)
Happy Birthday! :D Love the microsite - great choice of stats!
And a big cheers to the admins for the incredible efforts! 🥂
It’s impressive to see that they save in the money they spend on licenses this quickly! It’s a little bit of work to transfer the current systems and get used to a different system, but it’s very doable it seems (albeit over years of work), as well as economically attractive. I hope this inspires the rest of the country!
Depends on the conditions, I’d say. If you have an area that has low oxygen and high saline concentration, one could potentially preserve large parts of the carcass. A big challenge though is the substances brought by the carcass itself, like enzymes and bacteria that are not directly exposed to the oxygen-deficient saline-abundant water, which can thrive and remain active for a long period of time. However, if this carcass sinks to incredible depths, where the pressure is really high, temperature is a constant 4 degrees, very low concentration of scavengers or thriving organisms, and potentially sinks a bit into the sediment for a long time, you’ll essentially get
pickle juicefossil fuel.