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By default, it uses a dash "-" as separator. I was mucking around with different settings when I discovered it. It also uses 4 words by default and I changed it to 5. Funnily enough, I read a few articles that specifically suggested 4 words is fine but 5 is ideal.


Depends on the application. For an online login account, 4 might be enough (not used for anything other than login, eg, not using the same password for encrypting your data in the backend). The are rate limits and brute force blockers (though sometimes those feature can be bypassed).

For file or disk encryption? Absolutely not. Use 10 words minimum (it depends on the word list, but 10 is a safe bet across the board).


> Arguably, Australia’s greatest cultural achievement is the Tim Tam.

After eating half a packet with my cuppa this morning (and feeling somewhat queasy for it), I can confirm timtams are one of our finest accomplishments.


The history of english podcast is a wonderful resource for this topic. Heck of a lot of episodes though.

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/


Chessbase owns Fat Fritz.


Having young kids, I'd love to see the changing of the clocks go the way of the dinosaurs. I don't care which way, just pick one and stick with it.


Same. Pets and other animals also don't care about the time on the clock. It's not like they notice it's DST or not and shift waking up by an hour.

Besides the software insanity it causes there's a real human cost, and it wears me down for at least 2 weeks until everyone starts adjusting.


I non-ironically refer to it as “we hate parents” day. Since the benefits are imaginary it seems like an easy win relative to the costs.


Do children not need more sleep in winter, like adults?


Perhaps in places that have winter.

Florida's 4 seasons are summer (13 months), not summer (13 min), wildfire and hurricane. Hurricane is usually the best of the lot.


When my kid was 1 year old, she was on a sleeping schedule where I would wake her up just in time for me to get her to daycare before heading to my 9am daily standup, and then falling asleep at night at whatever time she would be sleepy as a result of the morning wakeup time.

Maybe I could have planned for the clock change better and done something gradual but, the abrupt way we did it had the effect that she was totally thrown off and could only sleep a couple of hours on each of the two nights following the change.

As luck would have it, staying up with her all hours for those two nights that year left me with a terrible cold that left me miserable and exhausted for more than a week.

I don't know if this answers your implied question or not. But that's what happens to many parents every year.


Yes, and precisely on November 1st this year my child will start sleeping exactly one hour longer in the morning, because it is now official of course. Huge /s, obviously.

Whether or not children need more sleep in the winter, they'll by and large be waking up at about the same unshifted time tomorrow as they did today.


why not go halfway? AKA DST - 0:30


It isn’t a negotiation over how much to change. It is a debate as to whether it should change at all. And no one seems to be arguing that it should still change. This is just lack of political will to push the legislation.


Perhaps no one likes changing. But I bet, especially in mid-northern latitudes, that a lot of people really don't like having to choose between:

- sending kids to school, driving, and doing outdoor work in winter pitch black and

- having the sun streaming through windows at 4am in the summer at the cost of an hour of long summer evening

even less appealing.


You do know that institutions such as schools can change the time they start, right?


It actually can be quite difficult as school start time isn't independent of many other schedules, including school buses picking up other grades starting later. So, no, they can't necessarily. Kids going to school in the dark was one of the major reasons cited for not renewing the all-year DST experiment. I suppose you could find a way to change or just give them flashlights but, in any case, it was a public issue in the past.


Typically this is something that would be changed on the scale of the school system of a county. That resolves the school bus issue. As far as kids being picked up in the dark.. again, the school system can change start times during certain parts of the year so that doesn't happen.


When the argument is specifically about disruption, you could solve that by shifting the clock in 10 or 15 minute increments, weeks apart.


in that case, lets just go to universal time and let businesses tell you what time to come in


I'm in favor of a full global switch to TAI. UTC is another good option, but I don't really see the benefit of keeping up with leap seconds considering the complexity they add.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time


Stylesheet encapsulation is a godsend for my particular use case. I work on a web chat product that's placed on various sites - CSS scoping solves 90% of our deployment issues.


Is this in the US? Are midwifes an optional thing? I've had experience with births in Australia and the UK where hospital midwifes led the process, from antenatal to birthing and postnatal.


I think he is confusing midwife with doula. You don't hire a midwife to join you at the hospital. I think in the US, they are referred to as nurses more than midwives in hospitals. Here in Aus it's all midwives. Therein lies a bit of the problem as the profession should be seen as different to conventional nurses.


I don't think he's confusing anything; doulas aren't medical personnel.

Not sure how much this is regional, but in Poland, you absolutely can hire a midwife at some maternity hospitals. It's an extra private service, through which you can select a particular midwife from the hospital to be available to you for consultations and be there to lead and care for you during birth.


In the US it depends on what your obstetrician's office has in many cases. The practice my wife chose has about 50% APRN-CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwife). We had a CNM for our first delivery and the Dr for the second (timing didn't allow for the CNM to make it to the delivery).


Midwifes are an optional thing in the US; lots of hospitals are OBN/GY-lead & they handle all the ante-natal, post-natal, and delivery stuff.

We found one of the few midwife-led hospitals in the Bay Area and had a very similar experience to the NHS Scotland midwife-led birthing centres.


A nice video explainer from scishow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6v6OfoQvs


Please don't link to scishow. They produce trash, and often don't do due diligence with their videos.


That's a shame, I like their presenters. Are there any interesting science-related YouTube channels that you can recommend?


I like a lot of PBS's content. Like physics girl, and what the physics. Engineer Guy also produces good content. MinutePhysics is also a good choice. As for math related topics, I love 3Blue1Brown.

In general I find science journalism lacking.

My biggest problem with SciShow is that it's a bunch of people who lack a true science background commenting on topics. I really don't think that they do their due diligence in reporting, there's been cases where they present incorrect findings, and hype up the physically impossible.


Cool, thanks for the recommendations. I gravitated to SciShow because was produced by Hank Green, who's other YouTube offerings I really enjoy. I guess it's a lesson to be more critical with my sources, regardless of the author's previous work.


In the comments the author says they were offered a total of $130 for the model account and $400 for the photographer account.


Other way around, I believe. The model account fetched $400.


Excuse my ignorance, but how does this compare to a service like PIA?


From what I've read, there's a fair bit of concern about the trustworthiness of other VPN providers [1]. Perhaps this is more trustworthy because it's from the people who did ProtonMail.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/how-to-build-your-ow...


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