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"It's like having an autistic but thoroughly competent comp sci grad student as an assistant." - my PHP guy

Fortunately, it also makes that easy by providing a downloadable, versioned zip file with each iteration. They unzip over top of the existing files, so only one production set of files, but if anyone of them doesn't work, I just unzip the previous version over top of it. Oh yeah. One other...

Totally agree. As with all things: the right tool for the right job. Useful as it may be for many other things, I would not use an internal combustion engine to clean my ears. There are safer, more appropriate tools for that.

I'm old and I want to get stuff done. I have other hobbies than programming web applcations. I just vibe-coded a complete GUI control panel for my dad's painting gallery. Didn't write a single line of code. Backstory: I built the gallery a year or so ago by-hand, to facilitate family and...

Apparently a real installation. Tesla would be proud.

OK. Fair enough. That was not what I was suggesting. People keep talking about the dice being rolled one after another, and then equivocating about when, exactly, the six is revealed. I'm trying nip that in the bud. Well I hope that's not the fallacy I appeared to be committing. See above...

Again though, remember: if you are at sea level the whole time, these forces do not come into play. Every molecule of water is subject to the same forces you are. If it did take took work to navigate from the pole to the equator, then sea water would pool at the poles. The Mississippi's mouth...

No. My belief is thus: there is a best answer if we make some reasonable assumptions, and don't make unreasonable ones. The debate then becomes which ones are reasonable (eg. the reporter does not lie), which ones are unreasonable (eg. the supposed ambiguous definition of fair die). If one is...

(I know we're essentially meta-analyzing now, as long as everybody agrees that the answer to the problem as intended is 1-in-11 and not 1-in-6).

That is a different problem.

I believe it is justified. If, in a problem simple as this, you cannot trust what are told, then it is unanswerable. They might as well be rolling lemons or washing masodons for all you know. It's not a trick question.

Than the other way, presumably.

As pbuk alludes to: the shape of the Earth is a product of those very same forces, so it is not "uphill" walking from pole to equator. Think about walking along the shore of the ocean. Everywhere you go is sea level, even if you are farther from the centre of the Earth. Ans even if you are...

Exactly. The premise is thatcitcis not a trick question.

You failed to specify from whose frame of reference. They only can't say that for a FoR that is less than c wrt Earth/Jupiter. That does not, in itself, rule out the photon's case.