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A lot of people will spend $30 at a coffee shop in a week. Maybe $150 in one month.

I think $15 for a whole month of entertainment, tutorials, and useful content and to pay the people who create the videos is worth it.

It's not a directly mappable to a register-based microprocessor but it's directly mappable to a stack-based microprocessor.

e.g. The PSC 1000 microprocessor (1994) could run Java directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(microprocessor)

Stack-based microprocessors tend to perform worse than register-based ones and I assume there wasn't a huge reason to develop a Java-on-chip for a "Java computer" when it would have not run non-Java software easily and the future of stack-based microprocessors wasn't as bright.

CSS has way more features today than 15 years ago but is easier to master in my opinion.

Back then, CSS implementations had a lot more quirks and you had to keep all of this in your head. Just because one combination of CSS properties in Firefox worked one way did not mean it worked even similarly in Internet Explorer.

I don't find it to be a curse to be honest. There are things I am hyper-sensitive about (color) and things I am not (smells) and I actively seek out the things I care about and notice because they bring me joy.

And to be honest, the things I am hyper-sensitive about don't seem to really require more brain power. To take a very contrived example, when some company adjusts their logo's color by a smidge, it takes other people a while before they notice a change but I notice it absolutely instantly. To use electronics as an comparison, it's like my brain has a silicon wired to notice color instead of relying on 'general purpose computing' like a lot of other people's brains and so the cost of differentiating color is practically free.

And interestingly, because I am sensitive to color, much of my interests revolve around subjects where color matters (fashion, art, design). I like to meet other people who are equally sensitive to color because they will notice the things that I notice.

I couldn’t screenshot non-DRM videos on Windows XP either.

It’s because the video is being rendered on a different framebuffer for performance reasons.

Helpful for DRM too.

You’re way overthinking it.

I go to a show. There’s maybe 50 people in a dark, dingy room. I want to support the band so I buy a shirt and a record from the merch table.

Sometimes I’m right by the record store so I stop and browse. I see an LP for an album I like, either used or new. I buy it.

Now I have a stack of records. I go home and play records. I still use Spotify.

While it is, the same issue exists in Sublime, Vim, Emacs, Gedit, pico/nano[1], IntelliJ, Android Studio, Eclipse, and every editor.

[1] https://threatpost.com/researchers-show-how-popular-text-edi...

I think Xcode may be the exception but Xcode plugins also can’t do much.

Actually it goes the other way. Inflation erodes public debt [1][2]. It is, however, not necessarily good[3].

But at the end of the day, the causes of inflation are not cause and effect. You can print money to save an economy without causing inflation as we did during the 2008 financial crisis[4] or you can print money and cause hyperinflation as in the case of Argentina[5] or Zimbabwe. It’s more about how you do it instead of what you do.

[1] https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/how-inflation-erode...

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/using-inflation-erode-us-publ...

[3] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/inflation...

[4] https://econofact.org/rising-inflation

[5] https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-money-printing-destroyed-ar...

At least in my area, we also don’t build new highways. We only widen existing ones.

Right of way seems to be the biggest driver of cost and seems to be a major blocker for transportation progress.

Dark mode is difficult to read for me.

Have been doing all my life and it has never backfired.

It’s not about breaking rules. It’s that I already know what you want.

If I buy you ice cream without asking you for the flavor, it’s because I already know what you want because I pay attention to you.

And it doesn’t matter when I get it wrong because you appreciated the 500 other times I cared about you.

Force closing Google Maps on iOS also does it for me.

Which means you cannot trust the My Maps feature if you are traveling anywhere with poor cell service. That’s how I know.

100% a generation thing.

Been around long enough so I've written my own CSS framework, server-side framework, web browser, web server, sent bits over Ethernet, written assembler, programmed a FPGA, built circuits, AND have a electrical engineering degree... and YET, _ABSOLUTELY NONE_ of this is useful _99%_ of the time.

So meh. If I want you to do frontend, I will ask you frontend questions. Hopefully you can go deep on a11y and that's what I care about.

(But the 1% of the time when I can precisely step through a whole stack is also fun.)

While it’s true we came close during Civil War, we still decided to keep the same system of government. In the end, while the Civil War did result in some constitutional crises, the root of the problem was more that one half of the country completely disagreed with the other half… I don’t think any political system can really work with that level of division and yet we kept the same one. Obviously the Civil War did very much bring into the question of states’ rights but, for better or worse, the founders were a little vague on that so we can still keep most of the same system and quabble over the details for the rest of eternity…

Agree too.

Just because you can get something to work doesn’t mean it’s supported. Using an Amazon S3 library on a non-Amazon service is “works but isn’t supported.”

Stick to only supported things if you want reliability.

I understand why some people vote for some parties and why they’re “voting on inflation” or “right to abortion” but I guess, for me, keeping checks and balances and democracy is the one value above ALL for me.

In the span of human history, not a lot of countries and civilizations have lasted long, marked by constant instability and uncertainty for the future. We have a boring and imperfect political system created by our founding fathers but at least it’s been stable for nearly 250 years. A lot of people have tried standing up their own political system… most fail and everyone suffers. Even the founding fathers completely failed once first.

I know times are tough now but, in the context of history, they can be much worse and I rather not lose what good we currently do have.

Look at AOL Instant Messenger in 1999 and this is how everyone in school wrote.

Guess what… the people who used AIM in 1999 are now middle aged…

If someone has only used a handheld wood sander, they will be ecstatic when someone shows them a powered belt sander.

But someone who has used a palm sander, orbital sander, belt sander, disc sander, and so on will be able to see a new type of sander in the context of existing tools and know what’s right for what job.

Your average junior will be in the first scenario. However, it’s possible to be experienced yet still be stuck in the first scenario.

“Healthy” is meaningless. You should provide calorie counts and strive for nutritional balance.

If I have a “healthy” 300 calorie salad before a 3 hour run, I will crash very hard. Instead I will eat a high sugar and high fat candy bar.

If I have two “healthy” 800 calorie quinoa and chickpea salads when I am trying to lose weight, I will gain weight. Instead I could even eat a 500 calorie burger and lose weight.

Frankly if you are interested in your health, you have to understand how it all works. Sometimes you need carbs, sometimes you need fat, and sometimes you need protein. The amount that you need today depends on what you are planning to do this week. You need to know your own schedule and feed yourself accordingly.

Most of the “changing opinions over time by health experts” is because they are trying to answer “what one advice works for everyone” which is a non-starter question to begin with.