I think $15 for a whole month of entertainment, tutorials, and useful content and to pay the people who create the videos is worth it.

e.g. The PSC 1000 microprocessor (1994) could run Java directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(microprocessor)

Stack-based microprocessors tend to perform worse than register-based ones and I assume there wasn't a huge reason to develop a Java-on-chip for a "Java computer.” (1) It would have not run non-Java software easily and (2) the future of stack-based microprocessors wasn't as bright.

Back then, CSS implementations had a lot more quirks and you had to keep all of this in your head. Just because one combination of CSS properties in Firefox worked one way did not mean it worked even similarly in Internet Explorer.

It’s because the video is being rendered on a different framebuffer for performance reasons.

Helpful for DRM too.

I go to a show. There’s maybe 50 people in a dark, dingy room. I want to support the band so I buy a shirt and a record from the merch table.

Sometimes I’m right by the record store so I stop and browse. I see an LP for an album I like, either used or new. I buy it.

Now I have a stack of records. I go home and play records. I still use Spotify.

[1] https://threatpost.com/researchers-show-how-popular-text-edi...

I think Xcode may be the exception but Xcode plugins also can’t do much.

But at the end of the day, the causes of inflation are not cause and effect. You can print money to save an economy without causing inflation as we did during the 2008 financial crisis[4] or you can print money and cause hyperinflation as in the case of Argentina[5] or Zimbabwe. It’s more about how you do it instead of what you do.

[1] https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/how-inflation-erode...

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/using-inflation-erode-us-publ...

[3] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/inflation...

[4] https://econofact.org/rising-inflation

[5] https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-money-printing-destroyed-ar...

Right of way seems to be the biggest driver of cost and seems to be a major blocker for transportation progress.

It’s not about breaking rules. It’s that I already know what you want.

If I buy you ice cream without asking you for the flavor, it’s because I already know what you want because I pay attention to you.

And it doesn’t matter when I get it wrong because you appreciated the 500 other times I cared about you.

Which means you cannot trust the My Maps feature if you are traveling anywhere with poor cell service. That’s how I know.

Been around long enough so I've written my own CSS framework, server-side framework, web browser, web server, sent bits over Ethernet, written assembler, programmed a FPGA, built circuits, AND have a electrical engineering degree... and YET, _ABSOLUTELY NONE_ of this is useful _99%_ of the time.

So meh. If I want you to do frontend, I will ask you frontend questions. Hopefully you can go deep on a11y and that's what I care about.

(But the 1% of the time when I can precisely step through a whole stack is also fun.)

Just because you can get something to work doesn’t mean it’s supported. Using an Amazon S3 library on a non-Amazon service is “works but isn’t supported.”

Stick to only supported things if you want reliability.

In the span of human history, not a lot of countries and civilizations have lasted long, marked by constant instability and uncertainty for the future. We have a boring and imperfect political system created by our founding fathers but at least it’s been stable for nearly 250 years. A lot of people have tried standing up their own political system… most fail and everyone suffers. Even the founding fathers completely failed once first.

I know times are tough now but, in the context of history, they can be much worse and I rather not lose what good we currently do have.

Guess what… the people who used AIM in 1999 are now middle aged…

But someone who has used a palm sander, orbital sander, belt sander, disc sander, and so on will be able to see a new type of sander in the context of existing tools and know what’s right for what job.

Your average junior will be in the first scenario. However, it’s possible to be experienced yet still be stuck in the first scenario.

If I have a “healthy” 300 calorie salad before a 3 hour run, I will crash very hard. Instead I will eat a high sugar and high fat candy bar.

If I have two “healthy” 800 calorie quinoa and chickpea salads when I am trying to lose weight, I will gain weight. Instead I could even eat a 500 calorie burger and lose weight.

Frankly if you are interested in your health, you have to understand how it all works. Sometimes you need carbs, sometimes you need fat, and sometimes you need protein. The amount that you need today depends on what you are planning to do this week. You need to know your own schedule and feed yourself accordingly.

Most of the “changing opinions over time by health experts” is because they are trying to answer “what one advice works for everyone” which is a non-starter question to begin with.