@Tinkeringbell or maybe @rene is locked inside a dark room...
@Mithical why so early again??
Hmm... weird. Anyone have any idea why the video in this answer is stuck in the "processing" mode? It happened to me too few times with random vids that I tried to upload. Does YouTube really suck that much, as that user said before leaving, or is there something wrong with the video itself?
I never bothered to dig into it, just re-uploaded the vids until it worked.
spammers listen! I just posted about video.... x_X
@ShadowWizardWearingMask What @rene said makes sense. If you start uploading a video but then close out of it while it's still uploading, it will permanently show as "processing". (Links to videos are created upon beginning the upload, not when it's done, and there are even some videos that take advantage of this to "know" their ID "before" they're uploaded.)
@Mithical more accurate you have trouble getting back to sleep after waking up, I'm pretty sure I also wake up at least twice during my four hours sleep, but just fall asleep again quickly, without really remembering being awake.
Anyway, if this keeps going on, and cause you actual trouble... maybe a doctor can help?
@ShadowWizardWearingMask I read somewhere that it's normal to be briefly but not fully awake after a REM cycle and before another one (one is ~1.5h give or take). My personal experience bears it out. Sometimes I remember being awake briefly, sometimes not.
> however, sleep researcher Dr. Rafael Pelayo reports that when his colleague Dr. William Dement, the sleep scientist who coined the term REM, reached out to the band, Dr. Dement was told that the band was named "not after REM sleep"
LOL
> After considering names such as Cans of Piss, Negro Eyes, and Twisted Kites,[9] the band settled on "R.E.M."
Heh. It's about the same here, so I won't judge ;)
I do feel both are 'useful' in a sense that they've given me a level-headedness I haven't experienced in a long while, perhaps due to the absence of travelling to and from work... I have a better, more regular day-to-day rhythm now that seems to be doing a lot for my capacity to think.
A question on Stack Overflow’s Software Engineering site caught our attention recently. It tries to come to terms with the impact of scrum on developers’ ability to do a great job. The claim is a bold one: Scrum is turning good developers into average ones. Could that be true?
> Proto-Indo-Iranian was a satem language, likely removed less than a millennium from its ancestor, the late Proto-Indo-European language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda, its descendant.
The richest cigar rollers have money, and could afford to leave Cuba; settling in the Dominican Republic, where growing conditions are great - thus, the best cigars actually come from there, and not Cuba.
@JohnDvorak They don't earn enough to smoke what they roll, and theft looses you a highly paid job.
I used to buy them when I was a teenager (able to because people thought you were buying them for someone else, not yourself). When you're paying 40-50 for approximately four cigarettes weight of tobacco it needs to be well rolled and good quality, no filler or glue.
Unfortunately, but good for my wallet, my tobacconist decided to go out of business; never did find another place with such good product at reasonable prices.
Yes. Too much money and no car / house to pay for. Made more decades ago that the last few. Earned up front, poorer in my later years.
@ShadowWizardWearingMask One of the worst reasons, other people did. Also back then there wasn't as much info about the hazards of cigarettes; the govt was busy pushing that MJ is poisonous and causes insanity, etc.
@Rob heh. Well, my friends also tried to pull me in, but I was able to resist because my father died from smoking. So far it even works with my own kids, I told them at young age that their grandfather died from smoking, so they now know that Smoking it very very risky. :)
Also, I was a total nerd... smoking didn't fit the image, so guess it was also a factor. lol
(friends who tried to pull me in were in different... circle.)
I was in several circles back in highschool, though naturally spent most time and efforts with those who were more like me.
i had friends who smoked, but they never pushed it on anyone and were very respectful about it, going outside, not smoking around people who don't smoke, etc
Highschool was a lost cause for learning, for some people, I did OK; but I also went post-sec s few times; whilst others from highschool serve coffee or gas jockey.
I don't give out my location, but it's not there; also people born there have a better success rate, it's the outsiders who go there seeking fame and fortune that make up the lower percentile.
@Glorfindel You might consider to reverse the order of duplication of this question since my answer covers all aspects (close voting and flagging). Finally you could mark both as duplicate of this one.
@M.A.R. It's particularly hard on most people, to go from The Sticks (or even anywhere in NA), into the super high density; where nothing you can do stands out or sets you apart - it's a combination of luck, right place/time, talent, secret sauce, etc. Otherwise you're a blink in someone's eye. It's difficult to appreciate the huge difference in density:
@DavidPostill No. It's controlled mainly in the Charcoal HQ (Metasmoke respectively). I don't know for sure which of smokey's messages make it in the tavern and why.
Fortunately for my tastebuds we can get something very similar in the UK (I can't tell the difference between them and the real ones I used to eat in NL).
