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It isn’t a zero sum game. It’s possible for all students to get As and for that to still be a meaningful measurement of skill. Grades don’t show your ability relative to others, th…

Perlmutter reportedly said audiences wouldn't notice a replacement actor because "black people look the same," and was a major blocker to woman-led superhero movies because he thou…

The apartment analogy doesn't quite work, as the scanning only happened with photos that were going to be uploaded to iCloud. It wasn't like constantly monitoring your private resi…

I have a vague childhood memory of looking through a large illustrated book about spaceships in our public library and being in awe. When I came back on another trip, it was gone. …

What’s vile here? The art looks unique, detailed, and dynamic.

They're saying neither; they're saying that politics is inextricable from life, and that work is part of life. You can't extract politics from work any more than you can extract pe…

I can confirm that in Thunderbird 102 on Windows 11, you can use View -> Font Size via the menu. It changes all UI font sizes I could find. I don't remember if this setting existed…

You think that China, famous for it's nationwide firewall, will provide open solutions?

> I ran Rails in production years back and swore it off then. We had constant memory leaks that seemingly came from Rails itself, and the only solution we had was "just restart the…

How do you celebrate one’s accomplishments while ignoring one’s behavior in the process of making those accomplishments? Or rather, is it actually too nuanced to think the ends don…

I don't understand your point here. In literally all these scenarios, you would still be billed, and it would be appropriate.

> What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do? A meager defense follows. I've worked both "midwest design shop" and FAANG-a…

Ted Lasso is the best thing there, but far from the only thing. The catalog is pretty solid. I personally loved Mythic Quest and Schmigadoon. I have mixed feelings about Foundation…

Is this sarcasm? Population controls are a massive change to quality of life for most people.

> Notably, text editors from 30 years ago still work fantastically. Email clients from 30 years ago still mostly work great (unless using certain popular anti-consumer cloud email …

For what it’s worth, the 2->3 update was by far the most consequential; they merged in Merb, rewrote how routes and controllers worked, and completely flipped expectations on how J…

You still need SREs for using cloud services at large scale, and they can manage more cloud infrastructure per person than if it was colocated

Unfortunately, the newest models do not have optical audio out, only HDMI.

I don’t think that’s an accurate translation at all! Skinning a cat is not a common thing. It’s not a normal food for English speakers, so the phrase carries some sense that what y…

There are 2^128 available addresses in ipv6. Encoding phone numbers isn’t even remotely a problem.

Along with iOS 12, Apple released a new app called Shortcuts. It is not preinstalled as far as I know. I think they got it via acquisition. There’s a bunch of new hooks that app ma…

What you’re talking about is already happening with podcasts. A group of players get together, record their session, and publish. The bills are paid via advertising, donations, and…

> The metoo campaign IM basically allowed anything from actual abuse to catcalling be called sexual abuse. It expanded the definition of sexual abuse to basically align with only t…

In React / Javascript land, isomorphism means, "the same code is used to render on the server and in the browser"

Not only that, but they did it a second time with Captain America: Winter Soldier.