What could possibly be in the vaccines that would be worse than your child no longer existing?

The article says the man is a Mennonite, which means he probably believes in an afterlife. In his mind his child still exists and he'll get to see her again when he passes and spends eternity there.

I pretty firmly believe that afterlife beliefs account for a pretty significant distortion of values in people and helps explain a large number of frankly insane behaviours. Preventing deaths becomes much less important when there's an eternal paradise waiting for you and the "real" risk is doing something that bars you from going there.

Some people prefer it.

I maintain a small piece of Windows software and originally just provided an installer, but I received enough requests for it that now when I publish releases I provide both an installer and a zipped portable build.

Warp 8 was the most common warp factor used for general travel on TNG. Warp 9.2 was actually the maximum sustainable cruising speed of a Galaxy class ship. This was played for a laugh in Menage a Troi when Picard called for Warp 9 when returning Lwaxana to Betazed at the end of the episode.

That Concord episode of Secret Level is going to be pretty awkward.

"Imitation" very strongly implies that it is not in actuality the thing being imitated. Imitation butter is not butter. Imitation crab is not crab.

These medicines are the same chemical, therefore the same product.

I will however grant that while calling store brand painkillers "imitation ibuprofen" is nonsense, calling them "imitation advil" is okay because advil is a brand. Though in my opinion it should be avoided because it carries an implication of inferiority that is simply not the case.

Exactly this. I have a couple of small projects that are MIT licensed specifically because I don't care how people use them or what they use them for. If someone finds it useful then they're welcome to do whatever they want with it.

This idea that I'm being somehow hoodwinked or taken advantage of because the thing that I explicitly said could be used freely is being used in a way that doesn't align with the values of some other completely uninvolved third party is beyond absurd.

A pretty large proportion of "player shenanigans" stories amount to "we ignored the rules and allowed something ridiculous to happen". This is fine if that's what your group wants to do, but can't really be expected to be relatable to the community at large.

It's similar to the stories about level 5 groups who miraculously defeat an ancient red dragon or whatever. It invariably only happens because of some utterly absurd homebrew/ruling, or the GM just played the dragon as an idiot.

A docstring is a comment that is used to annotate types/methods/classes/whatever and can be parsed by the IDE and used to provide various hints/assistance when writing code. Tooltips, parameter type suggestions, intellisense, etc. for things that aren't native parts of the language all usually come from or can be supplemented by docstrings.

The specific format of a docstring varies by language, but many of them prefix meaningful tokens with an @, like @type or @param.

However, if your project is using GitHub it's also quite common to mention users in comments by prefixing their username with an @, so several vscode GitHub extensions will make any "@{real username}" in a comment into a link to that user, which will show a small user tooltip when hovered.

Edit: I appear to have conflated docstrings and docblocks, but then so has the initial post. I guess at some point "docstring" has just taken over to colloquially refer to all of it.

Yeah, there are different bluetooth audio profiles, one for high quality audio intended for media consumption, and one for bi-directional audio intended for telephony (and some others, but these are the relevant ones here). The "gotcha" is that in general, any attempt to consume the mic feed from a bluetooth headset will switch it to the telephony mode, so if you have them paired to a PC and an application is listening to the mic for any purpose you get stuck with much lower quality 64kbps PCM audio.

In fairness to requiring "excellence", I'd imagine most professionals have excellent skills in their field compared to the average person.

GOG games are DRM free and do not need to be cracked. They're freely shareable as-is.

The question is whether the crossplay works between the Steam and GOG versions, and a quick Google shows that the answer is yes.

Given the number of people in our last round of hiring who completely failed at producing said shed this step was 100% necessary.