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FWIW I use USAA, it’s a quasi-credit-union, and they’ve been great. But they’re also an outlier.

Not sure why this is getting downvoted (or why IE6 is being brought up in 2026). But yes, banks are super-highly regulated and for good reason. They’re subject to all sorts of acce…

Although I’m 100% in favor of credit unions over megabanks, I would not count on most having remotely decent web or app experiences.

it would be such a blessing to America if the cool-midlife-crisis-move went back to sports cars and got more of those SUV urban assault vehicles off the road

This is a thing about Sanders that gets lost in the discourse. He’s famously soft on guns for a Democrat, for example, because that’s what his voters want from him. This isn’t to s…

It’s a shmup, they can’t all be Ikaruga.

The soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal. I pull it up on Youtube once a year or so just for kicks. Silpheed by Sierra On-Line for the PC — ported from the Japanese PC-8801 — was si…

This is what the Bluesky “AT Protocol” is meant to solve, though I fear it might be a bit too late.

I’ll tell you an easy way to get away with absolutely no exercise: design your life in such a way that moving around is a normal part of it. Live in a "fifteen minute city." Work s…

> Fortunately, an even better location for a barrier existed: the Darien Gap, on the border of Colombia and Panama. At this narrow stretch of land, the barrier would need to be jus…

> The Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation (SWAHRF), an organization formed by a small group of Texas livestock producers… broke the logjam by raising millions of dollars in…

punishing customers for not using BitTorrent seems like a weird strategy but I’m not an MBA so what do I know

yeah I concur Great little arcade game. Not a rogue-like.

I haven’t seen a new product with USB-A in years. It’s long past time to move on.

Okay, but Windows isn't cross-platform. Adobe is but they have a ginormous multi-decade codebase that mastered cross-platform UI ages, an LLM coding assistant ought to be able to "…

hey, I have a question for any product managers who are in charge of making decisions re: rebuilding app UI in Electron, like 1Password with their entire app, Adobe with their dial…

Yup. It’s exactly like the dismal state of CSS frameworks we're mired in. All these new kids walk in and learn the CSS framework du jour first, then find themselves stranded when t…

I mostly agree with you, but I do think they’re highly skilled at taking advantage of whatever messes they cause. “Chaos is a ladder” might as well be the theme of this decade.

My two favorite Apple products are the iPhone Mini and the iPad Mini. This foldable iPhone looks like it might give me both? Personally, I think it's nice that companies make produ…

Funny, I don’t think the screen is small enough . I was hoping that this would be a return of the 2015 12" Macbook, but good. I’d love to have a sporty little alternative to my 16"…

with blue LEDs, an instant demerit on any consumer electronic

> t's interesting because I think that varies widely from person to person and from job to job. The guy standing on the corner in the 95º heat with the "NEW HOMES >" sign isn't doi…

I’m of the (possibly unpopular) opinion that ~80% of these new data centers are never going to see the light of day. None of the economics or supply needs of these things make any …

also treaties I imagine?

Yeah, Disney, the company that recently tried to bankrupt several novelists by claiming that when they bought Star Wars, they didn't put themselves on the hook for respecting contr…