Don Edwards

The only v-tuber that I follow at all - and that only indirectly - puts her own face on camera. But then, she's got a rather distinctive face.

That appears to be unnecessary - Sarah apparently figured out who Hope is. (Although she may not be certain yet.)

Cecil the seasick sea serpent.

There's a passenger train that runs about 700 miles across northern Montana. The largest urban area it stops in has fewer than 10,000 people, and is the 12th-largest city in the state. This passenger-rail route is obviously not intended to provide much inter-city travel for residents of Montana. Rather, it's for people traveling back and forth between Seattle and Chicago. But that's a straight-line distance of over 1700 miles, and the train's route is not exactly straight. Normally a 45-hour jaunt (can be much longer in winter - one time I rode it, it was 18 hours late getting to a city near the middle of North Dakota), with fares from US$180 to $600. You'll probably want about 6 meals plus a few beverages; those cost extra. In comparison, one can fly between Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport and Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a flight of about 6 hours, for about $120. Some beverages and the one maybe-needed meal probably included. Gee, I wonder why passenger rail isn't more popular in the US...

The article I linked to discusses multiple factors about railroad operation and track design that contribute to Europe's low freight-rail usage. Train-length rules, functionally allowable train height... ... doesn't mention that western Europe doesn't have the vast quantities of nothing that can be found in the central US, central & northern Canada, eastern Russia, western China, most of Australia... (I'm currently near the north end of a 70-mile stretch of US federal highway, running through desert, that has a single-digit number of stop signs - and no traffic lights - facing down intersecting roads. Most of which aren't paved, have no identifying signs, and have no buildings near them that are visible from the highway.)

As stated, no. Modern PASSENGER rail, yes. But the EU is reportedly on a campaign to increase the share of internal freight transport that goes by rail to 30% by 2030. The US has been running 50% for at least a couple decades. "Why is Europe so absurdly backward compared to the U.S. in rail freight transport" - Freightwaves

Or if you can quickly make a pile of dirt that looks like a tank to the AI...

If my stuff were that time sensitive (no argument, music is obviously more-so than stories) I'd add a couple lines to an existing script, which would make a backup attempt immediately fail if the music software is running - before the backup even looks at any of the files. And then have that backup attempt to happen every few minutes. Or, create a new script that would (optionally: wait until a backup isn't in process,) run the music software, and then as soon as that exits start a backup of the relevant data. Some small dataset - it takes less time to decide to make a new copy of one file out of a folder, than one file out of your entire computer. And if there's a time of day where you are reliably NOT actively using that software, even if it's still running - 4AM works for most people but not everyone - then schedule more time-consuming backups for then. Basically, the amount that you have to do over and over again, to make backups happen, should be minimized. Preferably to "everything relevant is turned on and properly connected." (I'm also wondering why full-image backups. I'd never want to restore a full image of my system - the OS, yes, my own data, no - and it certainly doesn't save any time or space.)

Your backups aren't automatic? You need to fix that! And your music should be backed up on a very short cycle, probably no longer than hourly. My writing (and a few things closely related to it) is backed up to an external device every ten minutes, if anything's changed and saved since the previous backup. (That sounds like it would take a lot of space. But with NTFS, and pretty much every filesystem that Linux supports other than the FAT family, it's perfectly acceptable to have a single file with multiple directory entries pointing at it. And modern backup software takes advantage of that. So making yet another backup of something that hasn't changed takes almost no space - or time. I currently have 14 time-stamped backups of my writing, and each one takes a hair under 31MB. 14 * 31 = ... in this context, 33.)

...yeah. I've done both image editing and audio editing on a slow computer with not enough memory. It sucks. When your compressed image file is four times the size of your RAM...

And I've seen a phalanx sink a battleship...

1) In canon, do we know Ashley's surname? 2) Does Principal Verrückt have a given name? (Thinking it should be Halb.)

But rather less cute.

And if the company is sufficiently cheap/lazy/uncaring, what you'll get back is a new computer, period. I hope you have backups, Professor.

Last week: "we aren't sure if you're corrupt or just incompetent, but either way you're fired." This week: "Looks like you're corrupt. And under arrest." (Or something vaguely in that general direction.)

There are a fair number of people who will quickly agree with you on how bad Trump is, but find no reason to believe that the Democrat leadership isn't worse.

"It's easy to make up attributions." -- Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes traditions are important, and some traditions need props. This just wouldn't be the same without the medieval weaponry.

I don't miss them - or the games, or the half time show - at all.

My suspicion is that this memory either: a.) relates to the relationship between Pandora and Raven, or b.) is from two (or more) lives back

The 8 eggs seem improbable but not absurd. That's an unusual quantity of eggs to eat at one meal, but not an unusual quantity of food. And eggs are pretty easy on the stomach.

Might also work for post-surgery anaesthetic-plus-pain-killers loopiness.

And it's kind of in the nature of "exploratory" that you may find things you didn't anticipate. If the stuff that was supposed to be holding the patella in place wasn't actually working, but nothing had happened to cause it to be out of place when the doctors looked - then opening things up for an exploratory surgery could easily allow it to go cottywompus.

And I'm battling with space heaters that think 60 Fahrenheit is plenty warm enough while 77 Fahrenheit is too cold.

In the context where "break a leg" is most commonly said, it doesn't appear to be customary to specify whose leg...