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I gladly paid $1,499 for an iBook G4 in 2005. (~$2,572 inflation adjusted)

I've tried the LG UltraFine and LG UltraGear (w/144hz) ... still went with the Studio Display. Expensive, but my previous Thunderbolt display gave me 12 solid years – hoping the SD…

Dear Apple, Please do not add liquid glass to your professional applications. Keep it simple, gray, performant, and functional. Thank you.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

I feel the same way about my M1 Macbook Air ... it's such a silly small and powerful machine. I've got money to upgrade, I just have no need. It's more than enough for even demandi…

> If you own dead/brown/unoccupied land, you're an asshole. Well said. But yes, we should all be re-reading Progress and Poverty (1879), as our world shares many similarities.

Indeed an S-tier insect build: https://youtu.be/g9BMcIxrkF4?si=lkvIrU5CiAdEpJeX&t=1224

My daughter said there are 5 oceans ... I said she was wrong, then we looked at a modern map. Who forgot to send out the memo about the Southern Ocean?

> Astronaut James Irwin, the eighth person to walk on the Moon, experienced a religious epiphany during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. The following year, he resigned from NASA and…

More trains please. High-speed rail between cities, lightrail between suburbs, streetcars between neighborhoods, and better shoes for everywhere else.

I love reading things like this that reinforce my belief that I personally know very little about anything. _back to writing CSS for me :)_

multipass

"Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

BYU Scientists Convert Matter Into Mormonism [1] 1. https://www.theonion.com/byu-scientists-convert-matter-into-...

Our first canaries at 9:21 PDT

I'd love to see a git history for our current US legislation

Biblically accurate iPhones

Also worth mentioning Roy Underhill [1], who for 35+ years has been on US public television teaching traditional woodworking. [1]: https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/

Era 1: Nobody knows what they're doing Era 2: Everyone uses jQuery Era 3: Everyone copies Gmail and Grooveshark using Backbone and Angular Era 4: React is all the hipster bootcamps…

I've been brainwashed by consumers – they demand and expect a certain experience on the modern web. Also, you can run Next.js on a Raspberry Pi and free Cloudflare DNS+SSL. :shrug:…

At some point in each of our lives, we'll be dependent on the empathy of another to keep us alive and comfortable. Designing and discovering technology now will help us all then, a…

Probably a time traveling technology historian?

Thank you for bringing up WISV-IV – it's a fascinating way to categorize intelligence. My son (11yo) is autism spectrum and recently received a WISV-IV evaluation and found him off…