The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you'll see hot water sooner.
Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn't be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.
He was awesome in Face Off. Never knew he could pull off such a great John Travolta. I almost thought they just switched the roles between the two actors. Though John Travolta's Nick Cage was kinda weird.
I was editing a very large confluence page a little while ago in FF and was getting frustrated with how slow it was getting. I figured it must be better on edge, surely there's been a bunch of optimizations there for the whole thing to have been deemed viable.
Nope, FF was faster. By a decent margin, even. The editor was still usable in FF while edge struggled just to render it at all.
Any time you want hot water, you need to wait for all of the water between your house and the heating facility to drain before you get hot water. It can help to coordinate with your neighbours.
I can't recall if it was COBOL or FORTRAN, but I tried learning one of them after being pretty confident in picking up any other programming language I've tried to learn, including assembly (wouldn't want to use that for large projects but I've written context switches and such), but I ended up giving up because it felt like the learning materials themselves were in some other language.
Which sucked because I'm the kind of guy that thinks a task like refactoring millions of lines of legacy code into a more modern language would be fun (or satisfying at least). Phase 1 would be a 1:1 conversion (probably involving implementing various old language features in the new language or assembly to do it piece by piece), followed by phase 2 which would be a full redesign and rewrite, using the knowledge from phase 1 to ensue full feature parity. Because "we rewrote software but the new version doesn't do x, y, z that the old one did" sucks. Glances at Blizzard.
Don't be so hard on yourself. It is a bit cringy but who cares? It's a game where you basically just play against yourself for fun. You fill out your own score card and you can write down any number you want without affecting anyone else in any real way. I'd find someone getting upset at your cheating at golf when you were a kid even more cringy.
When I was a kid, I played t-ball one year. My only memory from it was one time I was on defense but was more interested in drawing in the sand than paying attention to the game.
Or when I was a bit older, I was playing softball (parenta really wanted me to be interested in some baaeball variant I guess). I was on 2nd base and the pitcher missed catching a throw from the catcher and it rolled towards me. Instead of stealing 3rd, I stepped off the base and stopped the ball with my foot to be helpful. Lol the 3rd base coach wasn't impressed. Technically I should have been out, but it was just a recreational game so they let it slide. I was really embarrassed at the time and would remember that moment for years with regret. But eventually I realized it didn't matter in the slightest bit and I can laugh at how much of a dork I was.
Because the reality is all kids are dorks and doing stupid shit is a part of growing up and learning to be a bit less of a dork going forward.
Yeah though at least they won't be in fear of their own lives in the moment.
Though proper prevention is the best option. It's probably only a matter of time before a shooter goes in with strategy and tactics to take advantage of the chaos in such a situation.
Or if it could handle a case where someone manages to disarm a shooter and tries to turn their weapons on a second shooter.
Though I don't have any confidence someone in that case would survive cops either, assuming they don't just sit outside.
Heh, on that note, how well will the automated drones be able to differentiate shooters from police? Especially if it ends up being an off duty officer like in the case where they just sat around outside.
The sun is so bright that even when a sliver of it is still showing, it's blinding. So a partial eclipse, even at 99%, just looks like the sun only a crescent instead of a circle. Oh and the shadows can look funny and you might notice it's a bit darker.
Then you get to totality and it is something new. It gets noticeably darker, first of all, but in a different way than normal. Not like a storm or night, it's eerie and hard to explain.
But you can also look at the sun without protection. And you don't see any of the main disc itself but you get a clear sight of what's around it: the waves of plasma coming off of the sun, moving while you watch.
After seeing totality, partial eclipses are now meh. In fact, once totality ended, there was still like an hour of partial eclipse left, but I didn't care, it was time to drive home. I won't even bother looking at future partial eclipses at home in the future, but I might fly out to a future total one. Seeing one made me understand how people who knew about them back in the day could use that to control those who didn't. It feels profound.
In general, if there's an abbreviation that doesn't make sense given the English word, Latin being involved is a good guess.
Like the elements on the periodic table that have symbols completely different from their name, like Au, Ag, Pb, Sn, K are all from the Latin name for those elements.
The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you'll see hot water sooner.
Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn't be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.