Sept 7, 1993. It’s a college-oriented chain email that ends with “pass the beer” that a friend who’d just gone to college sent to about 30 people, which caused ancillary reply-all conversations for the next year or so.

They might look like they’re exploding in the US, but not at all compared to what could have been happening in the same time period had Trump allowed even the milquetoast Biden-era policies to continue (to say nothing of expanding on them). China, who has invested heavily in solar and battery R&D and manufacturing, installed more solar power than the rest of the world combined in 2025 and holds over 80% of the global market share for solar panels. They are the world leaders in the nearline battery chemistries that already make solar+battery the cheapest form of power by a longshot, and have half of the world’s installed capacity of battery storage systems. We could have had a seat at that table, but we’re now a decade behind in tech R&D and manufacturing capability. The private sector knows this, which is why they won’t touch it without strong federal support.

It’s probably the stage separation - the payload and booster push away from each other with jets of gas

Forget about the predictions and look at the growth only. It’s the legendary hockey stick. The stuff MBAs dream about. US manufacturers, engineers and the less shitty VCs should be fucking furious that they were kneecapped at every step and basically forbidden from participating in this market in any real way.

Depending on which client you use it may or may not show in thread view. I think they always show if you view a user’s profile page though.

Nope, not intentional, I wonder if that’s common. I’ll consider changing it.

That, there, is the stride of pride.

It may be circumstantial but I just checked and Netflix and Disney+ are both only rendering at 720p in Linux (Kubuntu 26.04) in Firefox and Chromium for me. Maybe official chrome is better, I don’t have it installed at the moment.

The trouble you’ll quickly run into is that with a non-iOS/Android/Windows platform your streaming sites won’t go above 720p, and your attempts to run sandboxed Android apps will pretty much all fail. Now if all you mainly do is serve local content from e.g. Jellyfin that’s not much of a problem, but as you already own an AppleTV that’s probably not your only use case.

I would have thought it was the excerpt explaining the differences between function foo() { … } and const foo = () => { … }

I thought parents didn’t do corporal punishment anymore?

You could always tell they were pissed off. Visibly confused. But definitely pissed too.

My grandparents lived near an estuary and had to put the dot stickers on their big, west-facing sliding glass doors to stop the high-speed waterfowl crashes that would happen every month or so. While I certainly understand it’s best for the ducks, one of my oldest memories is of hearing a BANG! And looking out the door to see a disoriented duck staggering around on the deck before shaking it off and flying away unsteadily.

The sun is a deadly laser.

Level 4 is thinking “how can this even working?!,” spending the next 3 days delving into the bowels of the code, being so horrified by the unholy string of decisions that allows the prod codebase to function, and then having the experience and maturity to know it’s better to leave it the hell alone.

Especially relevant in these trying timDISCONNECT: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

The fediverse is nice people and great tech, with a marketing problem.

I’m really interested in seeing how this turns out. Multi-year federal grants in the US almost always have to be re-applied for every year, and are almost never guaranteed past 1 year (and are subject to budget cuts). So on the one hand, you could argue that a multi year budget could make projects prone to being too expensive or full of unnecessary stuff, but on the other hand, you have to wonder how much innovation and discovery we’ve lost by having our brightest minds spend so much time reapplying for grants every year.

That’s exactly the kind of person he was IRL. Very mentally disturbed and convinced he had a message from the universe that urgently needed to be shared. Pretty sad.

We use lots of acronyms like regular words, it just takes a little time for them to become embedded in the language. Everyone knows what a LASER is, if not how it works or what the letters stand for. We check the weather RADAR, put in our PIN codes when checking out at the supermarket, and write out our addresses with ZIP codes. Eventually the acronyms just turn into regular words for most people.