The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.

As in 'please', from 'if you please'?

> I work with senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain in the URL by looking for the first forward "/" after the "https://" and then scan backwards but they find that mental algorithm confusing and those instructions don't stick.

Might try explaining it this way?

It works the same way as a postal address. The first part before `/` is the envelope: by analogy it runs streetaddress.city.country.

You can give a name to your house, or add an apartment to the front - but that doesn't change the most significant part.

I'd pay to cook with WiFi. Just imagine the signal strength!

Isn't that just a microwave oven, more or less?

Just need to amplify it 10000 times

So - I know folks who have mulled over attaching the emitter of a microwave oven to a parabolic 2.4ghz antenna (indeed, same spectrum).

It would be cool... For anyone who does not want children one day.

Or 40dB. This is why those working with RF use dB --- power varies by orders of magnitude between the transmitter and receiver.

If you can cook with it, just imagine what it's doing to your brain! Forget about 5G...

Language: Metallica lyrics (https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=metallica+lyrics)

Input:

    happy birthday. Did you get any nice presents? It's nice to see you.

Output:

    Another year decays!
    Darkness falls upon your day!
    What offerings did you seize from the void?
    The ritual of your birth is complete!
    I behold your face once more!
    YEAH!

Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info

    most searched:

    69 29504 searches
    67 13640 searches

edit: ...presumably due to the HN effect, 69 has jumped up to ~33k while 67 stagnates at ~13k!

There are no units of exercise and no units of depression either.

In my opinion the best measure of exercise is perceived effort. So while you're asking for objective answers, I think a lot of this is inherently subjective.

The benchmark you're asking for is also ill-defined. For example: How frequently to be as effective as what type and what frequency of therapy?

This is a big part of whatmade me take up knitting as a hobby – one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.

As an avid knitter, I can confirm it really is. In practice there might be multiple knots as you change balls of yarn for example but topologically each sweater is just a very fancy knot.

In fact, the words are etymologically linked, they’re really just the same word! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/knit

> knit(v.)

> Old English cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind together, fasten by tying," related to Old Norse knytja "bind together, form into a knot," Middle Low German knütten "to tie, knot," Old English cnotta "a knot," from Proto-Germanic knuttjan, from stem knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Intransitive meaning "do knitting, weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread" (especially in reference to plain stitch) is from 1520s.

Death, and some science. That's it?

Horseshoes.