It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.

I remember as a kid asking how many possible speeds there are between 60 mph and 0 mph. Infinite right? So how does the car get from 60 to stopped when mom hits the brakes?

> how does the car get from 60 to stopped when mom hits the brakes?

The sum of an infinite series can be finite [1].

[1] https://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/mc-ty-conver...

That you can split any finite length into an infinite amount does not equate to having to traverse infinite numbers.

Not infinite if we take into the account that we have a physical car. Speed many but not infinite steps.

Everything is infinite if we think this way.

Zeno’s paradox.

The car (and people) never truly stop moving, the earth is in orbit, spinning and rotating around the galaxy.

In the same way a single second occurs.

Just makes me happy I'm not the only one. I always feel like I'm an idiot when I resort to setting position: relative and nudge icons a pixel or three here or there.

Hey Peter.. many thanks! My husband is from Gibraltar and his spousal green card application has cleared USCIS and is with NVS.

Gibraltar has changed the name of the criminal record document it issues but NVS has not updated its system. So they keep rejecting his documents even though we included a letter from the police commissioner explaining the situation.

Any suggestions?

Call or email the NVC (there's an email address for questions) and if that doesn't work, get your Congressional representative involved (something that is done all the time and probably would be helpful here).

Anybody who says newspapers and other "legacy media" are obsolete isn't aware of journalists like Dominic Gates.

> Perhaps unusually, the authors of this paper are not convinced of the correctness of their proposed hypothesis.

A refreshing conclusion to an academic paper, and beats the hell out of "further study is needed."

I'm not sure if it's made my life better or worse, but this book above all others has had the most profound impact on how I have lived it.

This may be pedantic, but I'm baffled that PBS page doesn't mention every PBS station is available for free over the air.

PBS is "free to air", meaning it can be redistributed verbatim within the US with minimal delay without permission from the parent company.

As a result, they have no incentive or negative incentive to advertise that other stations carry their content.

Content created by PBS and its member stations carries a copyright notice and cannot be legally redistributed without permission.

Not so. The local PBS stations do fund raising / pledge drives. It's definitely in PBS' interest to push people to local PBS stations.

Or did I misinterpret your point?

Has no one told the one about the USB guy's funeral? They put him in the ground, but realized he was the wrong way 'round so they pulled him out and put him in the other way.

Pretty sure this was a thing in Victorian England. It's in Jack the Ripper stories and possibly where the word "hangover" came from I think.

Possibly apocryphal: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hangover-drunken-sailors-r...

I refuse to believe it's a thing until I see someone do it on youtube.