I think the sound effects got an update recently. There’s like stones going into a bowl when the game starts and ends, and a soft boop for something too, reminds me of lichess sounds.
I might be hallucinating though because the last update to https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com/tree/devel/assets/sound was last year 
Mystery solved:
I don’t remember setting those, but they’re pretty nice if you haven’t tried them!
Are 13x13 and 9x9 games EGF-rated? I couldn’t find the information on this page.
https://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/EGF_rating_system.php
Is this a 9x9 tournament?
Has it ever happened to you that a smoke detector had a false alarm? What could be the cause?
A few days ago, one of our smoke detectors went off, even though there was no fire or smoke. We turned it off and vacuum cleaned it. When we changed the battery (to be sure), then it continued to sound the alarm.
The really curious thing is, today morning another smoke detector raised a false alarm. We turned it off, and haven’t tried to reinstall it yet.
Now I’m a bit worried, because we’re two detectors down, and curious whether it is random, or if there is a reason why both had false alarms shortly after each other.
If two of them went off, my bet would be that they did detect smoke, although it might not be because of an actual fire.
Are the smoke detectors close to a vent that is susceptible to carry smoke from cooking or cigarettes? In some buildings, you can smell cigarette smoke in the bathrooms when someone goes outside and smokes just in front of the building’s vent (which might be often, if the building vent is close to a door).
Are they end of life? These things last something like 7 to 10 years and can go odd towards the end. If they were installed at the same time are they failing at the same time?
One is in the front-door-room, which is next to the kitchen, and one in the living room. We don’t smoke, and we didn’t cook today at 6 AM.
I doubt it, but I’d need to contact our landlord to find out for sure.
In the meantime, we re-installed the second one, and it has been quiet since. Maybe it was just dust, or an insect:woman_shrugging:
Today is the equinox. I looked at https://sunrise-sunset.org/ for Greenwich.
I was surprised to see that
I checked another city (Accra, latitude 5.6, longitude -0.2), close to the equator and to meridian 0:
Again,
I understand that day length must be longer than 12h since sunrise is the time that the top limb of the Sun is level with the horizon, but the sun’s apparent diameter is 0.5 degree. Since 0.5/360 x 24 x 60=2, I would expect a day length of 12h02, not 12h08. More precisely, for a place on the equator at longitude 0 I would expect sunrise at about 5:59 AM and sunset at 6:01 PM, so for Accra which is -0.2° west of that, I would expect sunrise at 5:58 AM and sunset at 6:00 PM. Does anyone know an explanation?
From a quick read on wikipedia, it seems the balance of the discrepancy comes from the refraction of light through the atmosphere.
In sunrise/sunset tables, the atmospheric refraction is assumed to be 34 arcminutes, and the assumed semidiameter (apparent radius) of the Sun is 16 arcminutes. (The apparent radius varies slightly depending on time of year, slightly larger at perihelion in January than aphelion in July, but the difference is comparatively small.) Their combination means that when the upper limb of the Sun is on the visible horizon, its centre is 50 arcminutes below the geometric horizon, which is the intersection with the celestial sphere of a horizontal plane through the eye of the observer.[27]
These effects make the day about 14 minutes longer than the night at the equator and longer still towards the poles. The real equality of day and night only happens in places far enough from the equator to have a seasonal difference in day length of at least 7 minutes,[28] actually occurring a few days towards the winter side of each equinox.
So our atmosphere causes the day to be longer than expected, but it still leaves the question why the midpoint between sunrise and sunset is earlier than expected.
the equinox happening at 06:50 UT(C) this year has something to do with that. At the sunset the sun is already farther in the south.
Is equinox the starting point of autumn?
Or spring, depending on whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere.
Near the equator there is almost no variation of day length. I still don’t understand the assymetry in Accra.
P.S. Maybe it has something to do with the ellipticity of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
I believe the midpoint being off is because it corresponds to apparent solar time, which does not proceed at a fixed rate (because Earth’s orbit is also involved in it, not just Earth’s rotation) the way mean solar time does.
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I can access the website https://pandanet-igs.com from my laptop but not from my phone. Is it the case for other people as well?
No.
I usually don’t pay attention during sponsor announcements in YT, but I just noticed that a youtuber said “Text (her code) to 500-500 for an Audible free trial”.
How does this work? Is it an American thing? Does anyone else have this in their country?
I’ve never seen texts (messaging) to be used for subscriptions that are not telecommunications-related.
Maybe the subscription isn’t handled by the text directly, and it just texts back a sign up link?
I don’t think subscribing via text is common in the USA. However, I have seen some television charity commercials offer a way to donate via text.
We have that here, too.
But Audible is a very specific service, tied to a huge corporation. It was very weird to me that you can text for it!
Audible gives you a free trial (annually - you can get the free trial, cancel and get another free trial next year) whether or not you have a code.
Maybe it’s the regular free trial but by getting the code it gives her credit for pulling in a new customer?
All the promo codes I’ve seen are either url’s with specific /influencernamehere or a code you use during checkout.
My question is “why text”.
