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A major example is the US drinking age. Federal highway funds, which provide money for interstate highways, major US routes, etc, are partially contingent on states (who are given …

Agreed. I think in and visualize in words, generally not images. I see something akin to [Spreeder]( https://www.spreeder.com/app.html ) in my head most of the time, and I often ca…

I've found they are increasingly doing this in ways that are somewhat creepy. For instance, you might share something, and the AI will say, "One of the things I most frequently not…

If Canada is similar to the US, a mixture of SMS, Discord, and iMessage. The kids use Snapchat, your aunt uses Facebook messenger or iMessage, and occasionally someone might be int…

Interesting, I’m an American English speaker but that’s how it feels natural to me to use dashes. Em-dashes with no spaces feels wrong for reasons I can’t articulate. This first us…

Inevitably windows search fails to highlight what I’m looking for almost all of the time, and often doesn’t even find it at all. If I have an application installed, it picks the in…

My interpretation of what happened here is that a legislator who opposed the bill inserted the names of the lobbyists as a joke against the bill, which has now paid off. The articl…

You’re entitled to your experience and spirituality, but nothing about Twitter or Bluesky has ever struck me as ‘divine.’ Rather than being a nihilistic flight from value, I think …

Not quite. In order to make TLS certs work on a per-site basis, requests sent over HTTPS also include a virtual host indicator in cleartext that shows the hostname of the site you’…

Yeah -- it's happening as we speak.

For what it’s worth, I’m a student, and have had the benefit of seeing both the AWS and Azure web interfaces for the first time in the past couple of years. Azure was astoundingly …

> Imagine what we could have had in our communities if we hadn’t wasted $3,000,000,000,000 on Iraq. What we would've had was $3,000,000,000,000 less debt, and still no splash pad f…

Microblogging is one of the many aspects of the internet where the only winning move is not to play.

I see it used more often by hobbyists interested in crowding out alternatives they don’t like. “Why are you using snap? Flatpak is the future !” “What, you’re still using Xorg in n…

A phrase I hate even more than “modern” is “ x is the future”, especially when used to describe a technology that only works for certain use cases. It’s an attempt to use social pr…

I think Apple cares a lot about software. On iPhones. Macs used to be so great, but a lot of their sheen has worn off, and Microsoft has really improved their UI generally in the p…

> and also has the fun side-effect of being a cute easter egg to anyone who went to star tours. I don't think that was an explicit callout to Star Tours -- which opened at Disneyla…

Windows 2000 was part of the professional NT line, though, and was the companion of Me for the millennium releases. As far as I know, 2000 wasn't marketed to home users. I think wh…

Did blockchain startups ever provide any real value to end-users? Like, at all? Speaking from my technical but not SWE perspective, the only things I'm familiar with using the bloc…

As it turns out, the massive money generated by software produces quite a lot of status. But the IT world is meaningfully different from software engineering. IT infrastructure (as…

I used to do the same. And I got it to a point where my feed was great, I could check it every few days and get updates from people I know and community organizations. But the issu…

Soma-zone software in general is pretty neat for Mac power users. I especially like Launch Control, which lets you configure and inspect launchd (the mac service daemon) services.

A question: where did the hobbyist/small business crowd go?

And this is why, as a hobbyist, I’m very skeptical of, for lack of a better term, the consumer cloud. We’re not talking about AWS here, we’re talking about companies’ servers (that…