Northern Italian?

If you request data from a server, chances are that your server needs to request that data from another server - which is ‘upstream’.

There can be multiple upstream servers involved in responding to your single request

Not indian, but yes, one of our cats does use head movements to express her … requests

Apparently covering from the sale of Bag End, through Crickhollow, the Old Forest–meeting Tom Bombadil–to the Barrow Downs.

I expect this could be an interesting movie, I have missed these parts. They are less directly connected to the story of the ring (except where the Nazgûl appear), but I think it adds to the understanding of the background events occurring at that time in Middle Earth.

So, you now learned that human behaviour is often silly when observed without context

Because it is a word, or it’s easier to say, or funnier.

It’s definitely not the only case. NATO comes to mind, or GOAT, NIMBY. Yesterday I heard someone say (in a tv series episode) ‘fudney’ for FDNY

What it ‘actually’ is does not matter.

It’s ICE, as in: cold as

I have a small site with no robots.txt . Google search console still shows the same number of search results as in the last few months (around 800/month)

This is like one of our cats

Our other cat is much better at communication – she calls for attention, then guides us to the place where she wants us to do something (open a door, fill the food cups, or give scratches)

Good question. So, perform an experiment: put an ice cube without air bubbles in a glass containing a mixture of ice and cold water. The temperature should become 0°C (just before it freezes), measure it.

Your hypothesis: ice is heavier than water, so it will sink

Execute the test several times, preferably 10 times or more. More is better.

Please share your experiment results. Interesting data to know for each test would include:

• sequence number of the test
• temperature of the mixture before and after you put the ice cube in
• method of ice cube creation
• volume of the ice cube
• volume of water/ice mixture
• depth of the water/ice mixture (should be > size of the ice cube)
• type of water used (tap, bottled, …)
• did the ice cube sink
• if no, what volume of the cube remained above the surface level

please also share your conclusion.

Lies. Cats don’t ask questions, they assert their rightful place.

Stop doing whatever you do, adore me!

You mean I, II, III, IV, IX, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII

Not exactly what you asked, but close I think: a (paid) full gamified typing course for kids, in several languages including English: https://www.typetopia.com/

Hokkaido is also a type of ice cream. Apparently available elsewhere, too. The rest of the text is chinese (at least, deepl recognizes it as such)

It was not that long ago when Android changed my on screen keyboard to a different layout whenever I was in a different country. Really annoying - I don’t suddenly type in Danish when I’m on a business trip to Lyngby (near Copenhagen)

Sorry to have bothered you all. Now it works 🤔

Fairphone 5, running Android 14

Just updated apps on my phone. Appears to be doing three updates at once. Still, a huge improvement.

Same in Dutch: aardappel (aard=earth, appel=apple)

You are wrong, till is perfectly fine – and so is til. See Merriam-Websters article about this, at https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/should-you-use-until-or-till-or-til

There was no question in the post. I’m pretty sure that poster knows what “word size” is in this context.