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I think the issue is with something like algorithmic feeds — that's not content that can be allowed or blocked at the client-level, that's a setting that needs to be fed back to th…

There's no verification necessary. Instead, you'd just set a flag on all of those pods that says "this is an adult". Or more likely, you wouldn't set anything, there would be no ch…

But we already accept their right to ask. Certain websites have had age restrictions on them for years. There's nothing new to the idea that certain media is not permitted to certa…

But they could also just implement verification now, which many governments are trying to do. The idea that you shouldn't let a government do one thing because they might do anothe…

The advantage of the em dash is that it can replace pretty much any other punctuation mark and work well enough. Quite often I'll be trying to remember whether to use a semicolon o…

This is one of the more common definitions, yes, but it's not used very consistently. The comment I replied to used a different definition, and I also commonly see the definition t…

That's also true of Python, though, which is traditionally considered a strongly typed language. I'm increasingly convinced that "strong/weak" has no useful meaning. Some people re…

In theory yes, in practice, I remember reading forums on my phone in the days before responsive design was a thing, and there was nothing inherent about those sites that worked bet…

Not really, no. AAV isn't just a form of slang, it has distinct and measurable grammatical differences from standard American English, such as its own verb tense, or a requirement …

I don't think it's nationalism per se, more just a national identity. You see independence movements across Europe (Catalan, Wales, Cornwall, some of these have more realistic pros…

Tbh, that's exactly what I always liked about forums. They weren't as good as a searchable source of information, but in terms of discussion it really hit the sweet spot for me. A …

Timetables yes, but whenever I've bought a digital watch or set up a new device, the default has always been 12-hour. If you ask people the time in the afternoon, they will almost …

But I think that national identity doesn't exist in the same way, do you know what I mean? Like, being Black/African American in the US is an important part of a person's identity,…

In fairness, I think that's partly because AAV doesn't have the political and national identity that some other similar dialects have. I (as a lay person with no training in lingui…

Why would you even say something like that? Haven't those people suffered enough?

I don't do the "chips" one, because it's usually clear enough from context, and the people I speak English to generally know me and my foibles. But I do religiously say "half past …

Once you start going in that direction, a lot of things that British people say can require some amount of translation, see e.g. this table: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:6…

The time format in the UK is mostly 12hr, although people are generally aware of 24hr time. In my experience, while there are usually more similarities between the UK and the rest …

You can use one of the following: `allowImportingTsExtensions: true` ( https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#allowImportingTsExt... , useful if you're running `tsc` in noEmit mo…

The medium is the message — if the majority of people are interacting with a system via one of those mechanisms (say, threaded), then the conversations will look/feel thread-y. You…

TS has committed to not adding any more features like that. Features only get added when they reach a certain threshold on the TC39 standardisation track.

The other thing out of date is Svelte using compile-time tracking — Svelte now also uses runtime tracking, i.e. signals. At this point, I think React and Lit are the only major fra…

Haha, that was part of the reason we originally went down this route. In practice, as soon as you want to implement spills, you lose a lot of the benefits because the contents of a…

I've built quite complex applications (e.g. a spreadsheet app) using SolidJS as a base layer, and in that sense it scales really well. It's very easy to separate data management fr…

I think the biggest issue with Deno is that it fixes real issues but in the wrong way. Take the sandboxing stuff. In theory, you have always been able to sandbox your applications.…