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1. First release of the new High Resolution (WMMHR) model, 2. The South Atlantic Anomaly is expected to intensify during the period 2025-2030.

If this interests you, I highly recommend watching this talk by Pat Meenan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0H2DxdAPY

Ironicry

People forget that he already tried during Covid, when he tweeted that the election should be postponed.

CSS is a language, but it is 0.1% syntax and 99.9% memorizing the standard library, which expands monthly.

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; …

Example: Sindre Sorhus' FNV library uses BigInt to support hashes up to 1024 bits. It's quite popular (for a hashing algorithm) on NPM, with 80k+ downloads / week. https://www.npmj…

VT and chill. Add BND / BNDW if you wish.

I have a bumper sticker that says "Vehicle speed monitored by GPS / Speed limiter in use", like some commercial trucks have. It dramatically cuts down on the road rage.

I remember JSSS, but a more vivid memory for me is LiveConnect: another Netscape-only project that was incredibly powerful and groundbreaking: it allowed Java and JavaScript code t…

It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding. How far in the future probably informed this de…

Meanwhile, at Google: "Let's add our podcast app to the long list of Google Graveyard apps and further erode user trust!"

What do you use to create the graphs?

I thought it came from the shape of two mated swans with their heads together.

A big part of my childhood was playing black & white games on the Mac: the MacVenture games (Deja Vu, Uninvited, Shadowgate); the World Builder and action games from Silicon Beach …

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MSRP for LE Prius is not "premium" at all. If the premium you refer to is from dealerships, there are plenty of dealerships that sell for MSRP.

enshittification intensifies American Dialect Society nailed it.

They're both at Shopify now, and they have a new podcast, with a coincidentally relevant (to this post) title: Off The Main Thread. https://open.spotify.com/show/5clRioNPZJY8ORMhJZ…