If you really need an implementation that works in all modern browsers, a simple keyframe animation is the way to go.

Finde ich jetzt wenig verwunderlich. Meine Telefonate mit der Familie bestehen auch häufig

1. daraus, dass ich über Dinge ausgefragt werde, die Partny schon weiß (wie geht es euch, was habt ihr so am Wochenende vor, was gibt es zu Essen, bleibt es dabei, dass ihr in zwei Wochen vorbei kommt?)
2. aus Dingen, die ich nicht als “was Neues” bezeichnen würde (es geht allen so wie immer, die Familie verbringt das Wochenende mit Bekannten, die ich nur vom Namen her kenne, es gibt Reste von gestern, man freut sich auf uns)

Diese Gespräche könnten eine E-Mail sein. Nein, ich weiß auch nicht, wie meine Mutter es schafft, das auf eine Stunde zu strecken.

Am Ende geht es halt auch häufig mehr darum, eine vertraute Stimme zu hören, als tatsächlich Informationen auszutauschen.

I basically did the farmer once. My character was a winemaker with barely any skills that would be useful on an adventure. When his sister’s fiance and that fiance’s cousin - both wizards - got invited to visit some rich uncle at the other end of the realm, he took the chance to see a bit more of the world. By the time they arrived, the uncle had been killed by demons and my character basically got stuck at “I want to go home” and “Can we just let the inquisition handle this?”

Edit: to be fair, this wasn’t D&D but The Dark Eye, so a lot more social and knowledge based skills that can make a non-fighting character useful.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a collaboration between Ensemble Studios and Lucas Arts to reskin Age of Empires 2 for Star Wars. The base game had campaigns for the OT and Phantom Menace and a bit later there was an Attack of the Clones expansion.

I would really love for them to port this to the AoE2 Definitive Edition engine and add more content.

Hard to say. I notice that I understand more and more when listening to Japanese media but it’s more on the level of individual sentences or “hey, the english subtitles are completely different from what they said”. If you dropped me into a remote Japanese village where nobody speaks English, I would probably manage to keep myself fed and find my way home but not enough to hold an actual conversation.

So? It’s not like pregnant women are planning weeks in advance for an exact date to give birth. An estimated due date is exactly that: an estimate. I don’t have exact statistics on hand but if I remember correctly, your 10% are even a bit high and it’s more like 3% on the exact date. But about 50% are within +/- one week of the original due date and 80% are within +/- two weeks which is pretty good accuracy for a 40 week time span¹. If you adjust based on ultrasound results, you can get even more accurate estimates but the original due date gives you a good timeline when those ultrasounds (and other examinations) should be done.

¹ seriously, try estimating any other 40 week project to within a week with 50% accuracy.

The latter. This is not about politics but about medicine and it’s nothing new. Calculating weeks of pregnancy from the previous menstruation is generally a lot more reliable in predicting the date of birth than calculating from conception.

The mother may not remember the exact day she had sex, she may have had sex multiple times and not know which time led to conception and as an additional hurdle, sperm may need multiple days to to reach the egg so even if she had sex only once and remembers the exact date, that doesn’t really help to know when the egg was fertilized.

On the other hand, there is a relatively narrow window (a few days) during a cycle when fertilization is the most likely, so calculating from a known point of reference relative to her cycle gives good results.

There is no “new calculation”. This is how medical professionals have calculated weeks of pregnancy for decades if not centuries. The reason is that it’s a lot more reliable than going by date of conception (which is not necessarily the date the parents had sex. Sperm can take days to reach the egg).

Source: I’ve spent 12 years writing accounting and quality management software for midwives.

I spend a few minutes per day learning Japanese.

It started years ago in university when when I needed a two hour per week course that didn’t relate to my major and I wasn’t in the mood for public speaking. Out of all the available courses, it was the right balance between interesting and no consequences if I drop it once I have my credits.

Now I’m continuing out of habit and a vague hope that I’ll soon have an opportunity to visit Japan. Being able to play some video games with the original voices while not constantly having to read subtitles is a nice bonus.

Und natürlich auch nirgends eine zentrale Übersicht, welcher Bus an welchem Steig fährt. Weder in der App, noch vor Ort. Hatte ich am Freitag erst an einem Busbahnhof, an dem ich vorher noch nie war. Also schön alle Steige abklappern und die Aushänge durchforsten.

If it is because you’ve never asked: not at all.

If he actively refuses to talk about it: at least a bit weird.

There could be a hidden quadratic cost because the string needs to be reallocated and copied multiple times.

Aber Herr Bundeskanzler, doch nicht am frühen Morgen! Das könnte Teile der Bevölkerung verunsichern!

They have gone the safest path for over a decade now, making reskins of the same three games over and over to the point where Assassin’s Creed and FarCry which used to be real innovations in their fields are now just boring copies of copies. They haven’t taken a single risk since AC2.

They got negative feedback to including Yasuke - a real historical figure who did exist in the era the game depicts - and now they’d rather preemptively cancel their own game than tell a story about freedom and rebellion from an unusual perspective.

Cowards.

Cowards.

Not sure about the US but where I live, all medical records need to be stored for thirty years, mostly so you have legal protection in case complications arise.

Imagine that a woman has an abortion, then years later she is pregnant again, this time with a child she wants to keep. She has a miscarriage and tries to sue the abortion clinic because she thinks they permanently damaged something during the abortion.

Also in case someone claims that a medical procedure was performed against their will or they were not informed about the risks.

And this works both ways. Because the clinics (and also all other medical professionals like midwives) must keep those records, the patients can demand them to be used as evidence to back up their claim.

I really need to look into that. I liked the setting in the original Tainted Grail board game but hated the difficulty level. If I remember correctly, you fail a skill check that’s relevant to the story, the board game punishes you by sending you back to the beginning of the chapter with an additional debuff which of course makes it even harder to get a success on the check the next time around.

The major problems for me are small accessories for electronics like SD cards, cables and so on. I could go to Müller or MediaMarkt but especially for those smaller items, they often only have stuff from HAMA which is insultingly expensive for the quality they offer. Specialized online stores like Reichelt may have a cheaper option but when my 5€ cable comes with 6€ of shipping costs on top, I’m back to square one. The optimal solution would be to wait until there are multiple things that I need to spread the shipping costs over multiple products but when something breaks and I need a replacement, that’s often not an option.

Another point are niche ingredients for international cooking that I can’t get at any of the local Asian or Middle-Eastern supermarkets.

So yeah, ebay, probably…

Honest question: what do you use instead? I’ve been trying to reduce my reliance on Amazon but often find that other stores are either a lot more expensive or so shady that I wouldn’t trust them to actually send what I ordered.

Fortunately I’ve found some good stores for board games and home electronics / gaming / multimedia but often, when I just need some random thing like replacement pads for my headphones, it’s hard to find a good source that isn’t either Amazon or Ali Express.

Oh yeah, the guy who fights for fair wages, universal basic income, free healthcare and equal rights for everyone criticizes that your favorite „non-profit“ organization looks more and more like a for-profit corporation every year and comes begging while wearing a gold watch. He must be a fascist.