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An island in Florida facing the Atlantic, Xi doesn’t need to do a thing that a hurricane won’t do first

We need a burning flag emoji specifically for Texas

Anyone working with dates and times was cursed in a past life. Timezones are a pain to work with. Daylight savings sucks. Some countries change daylight savings at different times. Some countries change timezones sometimes. Go further back and some countries had their own leap days. Different calendars don’t form neat cycles and must be manually synchronized every few years. Did you know Easter, for about 300 years, needed to be announced by the Pope each year because it was a lunar holiday based on a Jewish calendar but the Christians followed a different one? Also, every now and again we throw a leap second into the computers because the Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing down and 365/366 days isn’t quite precise enough anyways.

What a grand and intoxicating innocence to presume Marx did not consider these things

I’m sure it was revolutionary back in the day for warlords to learn that keeping your supply lines defended was important and also you shouldn’t fight a battle against an uphill defender with the sun at their back on muddy ground.

It’ll be fine. There’s always some cohort of people who take an actual interest in the magic boxes enough to want to learn compsci.

This was the peak. Every meme since this fella has been “thing good, thing bad”.

Swartz had good beliefs about freedom of information but politically was kind of a weirdo. What happened to him is an unlimited tragedy and outright criminal.

Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

It did though? I don’t know what point you think you’re making but the internet did in fact grow from a technology limited to universities and the armed forces to a publicly accessible network, mostly off the back of publicly funded researchers and various techies that started their own neighborhood ISPs.

Just close your eyes. Illusions don’t work if you can’t see them

Ehhh, not really. If showing 10,000 people an ad costs you $10 and even one person made a purchase off that, you’ve paid for the ad buy. Internet ad conversions are considered unbelievably excellent if 1% of viewers click on the ad and 1% of those people make a purchase.

Also, if you don’t advertise, then your competition that do advertise are going to eat your lunch.

I’ve got a Windows desktop and a MacBook. For the life of me I cannot figure out why coding on the desktop feels like ass.

Does a more recent stack translate to any real benefits?

I want for very little. Therefore I clearly want ads personalized to me that try to make me feel inadequate so that I do want more.

Nah, meters are very straightforward and easy to work with. How far is a kilofoot? God only knows, but a kilometre is a trivially visualized distance. What’s 1/100 of a foot? Dunno, but with meters it’s a centimeter which is, again intuitively easy to grasp.