Caught my attention as eesel means donkey in my mother tongue. Privacy policy and terms of service links lead nowhere. Does not seem like those topics are considered seriously, just to make the footer look right. Seems like a scam.
I just checked and the footer links work fine for me, and I'm not sure which links you're referring to. Privacy is really important to us, we've gone through security reviews in a bunch of notable companies, and we all take a lot of personal pride in our attention to detail here. Note how you can use eesel without even logging in.
Having been in the aviation community for some time and having seen more than a few accidents with these things, it's worth to mention that they are way more dangerous than they appear. The thing to look out for is "collapsing" the wing, which is likely fatal at the kind of low altitudes normally flown. That "wing" always needs a positive loading. Downdrafts at the perimeter of a thermal, orthographic winds, rotors, fronts, convergence lines, other causes of turbulence and vertical drafts - there is a reason why you often see paramotors in the calm of the evening, when you can cut the air like butter. If you like flying, a more safe hobby would be gliding.
Collapses of a paraglider are a normal operation and a normal occurrence, and can be recovered with much less than 50 ft of altitude loss. With a wing designed for fast recovery (rather than maximum performance), think closer to five feet under normal conditions.
I also fly sailplanes (and, for that matter, powered planes) and I find it hard to compare the safety directly. Paragliding definitely has a higher incident rate; but the incidents happen at so much lower energy due to the speed that you're dominantly concerned about things like twisted ankles. I will say that I feel much safer paragliding than downhill skiing due to the lower kinetic energy and higher allowable reaction time.
> and can be recovered with much less than 50 ft of altitude loss.
What if a gust of wind blows when you’re closer to the ground. Falling 50ft with a large engine strapped to one’s back sounds like would lead to more than a twisted ankle.
I mostly fly unpowered, so engine weight is something I don't have as much experience with. Terminal velocity with 300 ft^2 of fabric above you, even if it isn't a functional wing, is pretty low; but yes, a collapse near the ground below recovery height and below reserve parachute height is a worst-case scenario. In general, flying below reserve height for any length of time isn't a great idea.
As an Estonian, I can relate to this. "How are you" and similar drivel gets me every time and borderline drives me mad.
There is a brilliant comic called Finnish Nightmares that covers many situations like this. For anyone not Finnish (or Estonian) it is probably an inside joke.
As a Norwegian who finds most Norwegians too chatty, my first experience with Americans saying "how are you?" as a greeting rather than a question still haunts me 15 years later.
Also explains why I enjoyed my (so far only) trip to Estonia so much.
The top comic is a bit odd, though? I know a lot of wonderful choral music from Finland (more than from most countries!) so they can't all be afraid of singing in public.
Excellent tutorial for bitwise arithmetic this is. The key is the motivation you receive from the prospect of being able to do something that seems "l33t".
The plain utf8 covers the "basic multilingual plane" (x0000-xFFFF), so it will get you very far, actually.
In our app, we finally went for utf8mb4 to allow people to enter emoji. As a side "bonus" you will also soon see some clever people entering their names to stand out, such as "𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗". Note that this is not "John". It is actually a series of mathematical symbols:
U+1D679 MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE CAPITAL J
U+1D698 MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE SMALL O
U+1D691 MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE SMALL H
U+1D697 MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE SMALL N
One fun thing you can do in MariaDB is define a collation based off of the Unicode confusables list. The result of this is that select * from usernames where user = 'John' would still work :)
It also avoids registering both 'John' and 'John'. (changed the o)
That's a great feature. I was running a community site once where impersonation became a popular game. So we had dozens of users registering accounts with Cyrillic i,o,a,e etc.
For looking up relevant further material, this is called a 'homograph' or 'homoglyph attack'.
It was also popular for site-spoofing by sending links with these cyrillic character to lead people to a fake bank/search_engine page, until that became widely used, and then owners of the tech-stack (browsers, registrars, dns-operators, etc) shut down this attack vector mostly.
This is unfortunate as it makes things unreadable for screen readers. I have seen many tweets from companies and organisations that use these characters to replace funny "fonts" or create emphasis effects in the text, rendering them inaccessible in the process.
In my own service I plan to offer users the ability to define a "stylised" nickname and an alternative text for screen readers, should they be interested in it (like an alt text for images). If Twitter had such a feature, I'd use it because I really like the effects, even if they're cheesy. :)
