What information do you store about the users? Are you storing all of the identification documentation, or do you only store proof about the fact that you verified the user identity and age?

Atlassian is down as well so they probably can't access their Atlassian Statuspage admin panel to update it.

When you know a service is down but the service says it's up: it's either your fault or the service is having a severe issue

It's interesting that the "E" in GEO, LEO, MEO, HEO is short for three different things: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ty...

It looks like (if I've parsed right) every one of them stands for "Earth", except that HEO alone can also be overloaded three ways (high-earth, highly-elliptical, and highly-eccentric).

This is unimportant, but: a site:nasa.gov search shows all three "HEO" acronyms in common use, there; and even Wikipedia abbreviates it inconsistently across entries[0-2].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Earth_orbit ("A medium Earth orbit (MEO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an altitude above a low Earth orbit (LEO) and below a high Earth orbit (HEO)")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_elliptical_orbit ("A highly elliptical orbit (HEO) is")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Earth_orbit ("In this article, the non-standard abbreviation of HEO is used for high Earth orbit[2]")

[edit]: I overlooked the abbreviation of "geostationary equatorial orbit" for GEO, which brings it up to four different "E's"!

The phrase "highly elliptical" is one where I know exactly what they mean but the more I think about it the more wrong it seems. It should be "Highly eccentric orbit".

All shapes which satisfy {(x,y)| x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 = 1} for fixed values of a,b in R are elliptical. Something is either elliptical or not - it's not a matter of degree. A circle is just as elliptical as a more eccentric ellipse in the same way that a square is just as rectangular as a more elongated rectangle.

> geostationary equatorial orbit

I thought GEO stood for Geostationary Earth Orbit, since a geostationary orbit must be equatorial anyway. But actually "Earth" would also be redundant, since "Geo-" already stands for Earth.

I understand it's both, but "equatorial" is more precise to distinguish it from GSO, a non-equatorial [g]eo[s]ynchronous [o]rbit. Otherwise, they would both be "GEO".

LEO is Low Earth Orbit

MEO is Medium Earth Orbit

The E is short for the same thing in this case.

GEO for Geostationary and HEO for High-Eccentricity are interesting, though.

MEO is Middle Earth Orbit. We have to keep an eye on what Gandalf is up to.

That orbit has only really been possible since the sinking of Numenor. Better make use of it now that we can.

SubEarthOrbit for the dwarves

…but they orbit too deep, and too greedily.

It is the most common letter, but I agree that is funny.

> Let’s not forget the very same year they stopped including the charging brick they started including USB-C to lightning cables in the box, so that their supposedly environmentally friendly practice forced their users to buy a new brick unless they saved previous cables. Why didn’t they switch to USB-C back then? To make users do another transition a few short years later?

Maybe I'm missing something here but how does a transition from having a charging brick to not having one relate to the transition on the other end of the cable going from one port to another?

I’ll explain:

The status quo is that I have an iPhone with the included USB-A 5W charger. On the other end is a lightning connector.

Next iPhone comes out and Apple stops including the charging brick, but the included cable is now USB-C to lightning.

So I can’t keep the brick that I already own and actually use the new cable that Apple includes in the box. If I want to sell my phone with all accessories then I’m left with a cable and nothing to plug it into. If I want to keep using my old cable and brick I now have a spare USB-C to lighting cable that does nothing for me.

Basically Apple created a situation that doesn’t really make sense for any hypothetical user. Someone somewhere is buying a new brick or cable or has an extra wasted cable because of it.

You can events as tentative in Google Calendar by responding with "Maybe".

Yes but that would require booking a full-day event for all 7 days in the week if you wanted to say "sometime next week," or at least I assume it would.