Martijn Been just two days since their last post. Give them some time to build another site they want to link

Martijn I don't want people to feel like they have to be available at the same time, and IRC may make people feel that way. I know several people who would be interested in playing an asynchronous game. I imagine the DM sets the scene, and then the players reply with what they want to do to it. When all players have reported in, the DM updates the scene. I am just not sure if it would work in a way that is enjoyable.

John Olinda Would the players reply to the DM for each turn, or would it be one single, ongoing thread? My gut reaction is that IRC would be easier.

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Simon Janes This would be even better if they had thrown one weird emoji in the middle of it like .

😀 Tom Sure... That's why you're following them :-)

Martijn The amount of people who don't understand the "mt" in mt_rand is astonishing though But really, the function should never have shipped broken and I believe it is fixed in PHP 7.1. This older test and its comment is simply amazing still.

Mark Dain Hahaha well I'm glad they're preserving backwards compatibility! You can't really fix a bug in mt_rand as it's not truly random so there's a chance someone will depend on the output - of a function called rand - being predictable, amazingly. sigh. Just use random_int on 7+ and paragonie/random_compat on 5.x if you want quality random numbers (you probably want that)

Martijn That might still have you miss content from high throughput sites. E.g. sites who limit their feeds to the 5 latest items, but have made 6 posts between your computer's download moments.

Martijn I think the reason you will see web apps being used is that people end up needing an always-online system that keeps check of feeds when their own machines are offline. When you have the server based system, it often makes sense to turn that into a web app.

Martijn This is probably exactly why the bioethicists mentioned in the article linked like to talk about this, because the lines are extremely fuzzy I also do not have a stake in this, as I am not a woman. So it is easy to test the borders. An ovum or sperm cell cannot divide, true. On the other hand, cancer cells include evolved (well... changed/mutated, which is arguably what evolution is) DNA, they adapt, and have the ability to grow and multiply.

Martijn It depends on the definition of "after-birth". Is birth the moment we agree gestation is done? Or at the moment any cells are delivered from a womb? The term needs a definition before it can be discussed. "Doesn't life starts when fertilization occurs?" No. Biological life starts the moment a cell is active. I would personally argue human life starts the moment the brain can (and does) receive impulses through the nervous system. Prior to fertilisation both the ovum and sperm are active already. Can these be killed? At fertilisation is just the first point they form a zygote. Is a single zygote a human life though? I would say no.

Martijn The real problem I am seeing here is establishing the line during the gestation process before which an abortion is allowed to take place. This line is somewhere around 22 weeks of pregnancy in the Netherlands. With modern technology it is possible to keep prematurely delivered outside of a womb until fully gestated, and the earliest surviving might have been delivered before that 22 weeks line... It is completely feasible that we will learn to support a fetus to full gestation outside a natural womb. So when are these born? When are you still allowed to terminate the gestation? Is this really bound to a location (natural womb)?

Martijn I mean the actual app when opened. Used to be a purplish blue for me. I also think the home screen widget uses a bolder Font but hard to be sure.