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The actual list of sites who have built their own CPUs: https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/

You aren't "programming", you're "wiring gates together". In other words, you can build custom hardware to solve a problem without using a generic CPU (or GPU) to do it. FPGAs are implemented as a fabric of LUTs (Look-up Tables) which take 4- or 6- (or more) inputs and produce an output. That allows Boolean algebra functions to be processed. The tools you use (Vivado / ISE / YoSys / etc.) take a your intended design, written in a HDL (Hardware Design Language) such as Verilog or VHDL, and turn it into a configuration file which is injected into the FPGA, causing it to be configured to into the hardware you want (if you've done it right). FPGAs are a stepping stone between generic hardware such as a CPU or GPU and a custom ASIC. They win when you can express the problem in specialized hardware much better than writing code to do something on a CPU/GPU. Parallelization is the key to many FPGA designs. Also, you don't have to spend >$1MM on a mask set to go have an ASIC fabricated by TSMC, etc.

Back in my BBS days, there was ANSI color with IBM-extended (CP437) block graphics to liven things up, so I can see it has gone full circle a bit.

You'd be wrong. I, grudgingly, moved from mutt to Thunderbird after it was clear that email was turning into MIME-encoded web pages.

Yup, already hate it. I much prefer not looking through a list of buttons on the To line for the one I want to remove. Additionally, I can instantly see if I'm sending and email to my coworkers company or personal address without some damn tag after his name.

I'd flag your insulting "stupid conclusion" statement, but I'm sure someone else will do that for me.

From my reading, social anxiety has only recently been suggested as a disability under the ADA, in one state. I am unable to locate ADA material which outlines if, and to what extent, accommodations for this disability are to be provided.

IANAL. You could also sue and see how it comes out.

1) I call in my order. 2) I drive to the restaurant. 3) I put my mask on. 4) I go inside, get my sack of food. 5) I drive home.

We do a lot of cooking at home, which we find to be enjoyable, so this doesn't happen very often. Costco same-day (via Instacart), even when it tacks on 20% to the cost of items, is perfectly acceptable to me.

Let's take the first-order approximation that 15% of the population is disabled and cannot get their own food. A quick, but by no means, thorough search shows both government and private programs to help these people obtain nutritious food. We could delve into this and go down the rabbit hole of what % of that 15% cannot prepare food or even feed themselves, but I don't have data on that. Yes, delivery might be a need in some of those cases where family, friends, programs, etc. don't exist. These can be a special case, perhaps < 10% of total population.

My comments are directed at the other 90% of keyboard pushers who whine that they're getting charged too much / businesses are being harmed when they click a button for Beef Lo Mein.

So what if the food providers sell off to the delivery services? Perhaps it will result in a better match for the market demands. Preserving jobs isn't the goal of capitalism, profit is. Those businesses who try to go too far toward extreme profit usually fail when smaller, more nimble upstarts dig the foundations out from under the bigger ones.

However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.

Physics tells us that we should accelerate to spend the least amount of time in the danger zone (rail bed). Since the velocities are orthogonal, it doesn't matter if you are hit by a train when your car is going 55 or 5 MPH (probably, unless trees in the resulting vector of your now pulped car).

It never made any sense to me to see school busses stopping at a grade crossing, then taking an extraordinarily long time to cross those tracks. What happens if the engine fails while on those tracks and a high speed train appears.

No, my vote is to make sure you have a clear view of the tracks in both directions and punch it. Less probability of interacting with a train.

Professional aerial displays are likely harmful to no-one.