Not sure about Morse code, but early teletype terminals had special characters that would act as "backspace a symbol" or "backspace a word". I imagine it's the same thing.

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Alot of updates and a good communication between the developers and the pros/casuals. There are games which are less balanced - could be a budget problem or a lack of communication with the community. I play tekken and csgo. In both games there are alot of updates based on the feedbacks from the community and the results of the pro scene.

How does the sender figure out the receiver's top efficient speed? Is there some sort of "hey slow down" or "go faster if able" code (formal or informal)?

Hey, thats super interesting! I have another question if you don’t mind. How would people be able to correct a mistake if they made one while using morse code? Would they Pause and start before the mistake and the listener would have to use context to make sense of it? And you know people using it daily as in their hobby or profession and if so what profession still uses morse code? Military?

As tectonic processes move the crust around, smooshing it together, bending it, stretching it etc, it also has lots of fluid moving through it. Some are hot, some are cold, some are water based, some are magmatic. They can have wildly different chemistry. As they interact with different rocks at different pressure and temperatures those fluid can dissolve some things. And like putting milk in chocolate cereal - some stuff dissolves into the fluid and others don't.

So while a rock might only contain, say, 0.003% gold, hot fluids with the right temperature, pH and other conditions might be able to dissolve the gold and not much else. That will remove the gold from the rock and put it in the fluid.

As the fluid moves through cracks and other fluid pathways it can cool down or change its solvent properties, and particular minerals will get dumped out of it in highly concentrated volumes.

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Just wanted to add that I grew up across the street from a WW2 vet who still used Morse code into the 90's. He would communicate with people all over the world. From how he described it, it was sort of like random connections but you could also dial up buddies.

There was, probably still is, some government agency monitoring those communications. Every time he spoke with someone he'd get a post card in the mail several days later listing the address and the length of the conversation.

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Navy intelligence made it

Former submarine sonar operator on youtube is always talking about when they were following a target around, they eventually learned the differences between the drivers and such on each watch just by the differences in sound they'd hear.

It's amazing the amount of information trained people can glean out of enough noise.

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I'm no expert on Morse code, and several others have given far more detailed information than I can, but I will add that from watching a British reality show in which contestants were put through Ww2 SOE (counterintelligence/espionage/sabotage) training, one of the tasks was learn how to transmit and receive Morse code messages. The show mentioned that mistakes were pretty common, but could usually be corrected via common sense. Just like in modern day texting conversations, missing he "t" in "the" is usually a pretty simple and easy to override mistake.

I worked with an experienced coder who had a hard time with me because I was sending letters while he worked with whole words. It’s a whole different mind set for sure.

You may be right. When I last checked, years ago, it was no longer required for the most basic license. The internet says no longer required, abut works better than voice in difficult conditions. Thanks for the correct, current information.

The longest character in Morse code (which includes numbers and punctuation) is only 6 "characters" Long. For example 5 dots in a row is the number 5. 5 dashes in a row is the number zero.

Punctuation is typically 6 "characters" of dots/dashes. For example ? = . . - - . . But there is no official Punctuation for 6 dots in a row or 6 dashes in a row.

A mistake is typically indicated by a series of 6 or more dots in a row.

"Shorthand" in code is huge and can greatly increase word count and comprehension with practice. Think of it like all the acronyms that people use while texting sometimes. Same thing happens in Morse code. For example DE in code means "this is" as in introducing or announcing who you are. WX = weather. HIHI is laughter because it rhythmically sounds like it. 88=XOXO (hugs and kisses). 73=thanks for the chat.

Mineral ores came from material that was created from a single energetic event and later smushed together. As objects like planets form, lots of different materials get smushed together. This caused a dynamic to develop that spreads the original material out in string-like structures.

It is like when you mix food or stir drinks.

Neurons don't mean shit in isolation; what matters is neural connections (AKA synapses). When you're a tiny baby, first you make a ton of synapses, and then you get rid of a huge number of unused ones and make the most useful synapses efficient and well-connected; this "efficient, well-connected" structure is why you're smarter than a two year old (as opposed to more sensible or knowledgeable).

Think about your brain like a computer: a laptop model having a few percent more space to install a big CPU is okay, but the quality of the code it runs will have vastly more say in how fast the computer actually is.

As I understand it, things are deposited essentially flat over an area. Then the same sort of metamorphic processes that create things like marble take over and you end up with veins between layers of rock

Time to put on some tea.

Theoretically it's even more than that. As several people have explained the timing of the [space] is important as well.

So there is [On Short] for dot, [Off Short] for spacing within a character, [On Long] for dash, [Off Long] for spacing between characters, and lastly [Off extra long] for spacing between words.

What Tor does isn't technically illegal. Just because Tor is frequently used for illegal activity doesn't make the creators of Tor culpable for the illegal activity that happens on it. You wouldn't arrest a Toyota executive if it was found out that Toyotas were the most popular vehicle for drug smuggling, would you. Not unless the executive was specifically marketing to or enabling drug dealers.

The United States could probably introduce legislation that would make Tor illegal and then spend the decades working with other countries to try and get it shut down. However by the time they got any of that legislation Tor would be changed just enough to be legal or would be replaced by a copycat that did follow the new legal guidelines.

Honest question, who is still using Morse code and in what capacity?

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