jerrycruncher

This is a really canonical example of a "Yet you participate in a society. Curious!" post. Well done.

[0] https://imgur.com/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-T6abwxn

Honestly, the new professor wasn't too far off. I've often referred to "The Little Schemer" as "the best javascript book that isn't about javascript."

It's almost certainly related. I wouldn't be surprised if the sleeper hit podcast of the same name[1] that was released last year played a role in resurfacing the issue, too.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1427-broomgate-a-curl...

What a lovely, sumptuously-written piece. Thank you for sharing!

For me, this pattern is just common sense. I’ve had no more than one subscription active at a time for over two years. I keep a list of things that sound interesting, and when it gets to be more than a couple for a single provider, I’ll re-up. Why keep paying for content you don’t care about?

Of course, if you have kids, I can understand keeping the subscription meter running.

I don't know why.

'Whet' means to sharpen (whetstones are used to sharpen knives, for example), so whetting one's appetite means to sharpen appetite, or to make one hungrier (for knowledge, food, whatever).

Sitting on a call right now where a guy is going on about how excited he is to mock out the entirety of a large e-commerce vendor's platform. It's maddening.

Severance had stronger Philip K Dick vibes than other shows that were actually based on his work.

And the people who are more muscular _know_ that BMI isn't going to be accurate for them. The complaints seem to be somewhat bad faith arguments from the population for whom it is accurate, but wishes it weren't.

This is reminiscent of the coroplast fenders and bike bags that Kent Peterson has been making for years:

https://kentpeterson.substack.com/p/coroplast-handlebar-bag

http://www.carsstink.org/peterson/FendForYourself.html

As someone who also loves Bandcamp, I can't help but assume that enshittification is nigh.

Schwalbes are absolutely excellent (I've used the, regrettably discontinued, Marathon Supreme on my commuter for years), but they're still subject to pinch flats if you're using tubes.

I don't think you're being overly critical, especially since both user accounts seem to exist for the sole purpose of promoting the project.

You're generally correct about TNG, but I think that Worf's development and the machinations within the Klingon High Council roughly constitute a story arc that ran through the series.

SBF is more like the reverse Neumann.

Neumann went into WeWork's endgame looking like a fool, and emerged from it a rich wizard.

Bottom bracket, the part that holds the axle to which the cranks attach.

Karabiner Elements[1] should let you remap the Esc key.

And, while I don't have personal experience with it, it does seem like it may allow you to set up locale-based shortcuts, as well[2].

[1] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/manual/configuratio...

[2] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#international

I've used Capital One's virtual card service many times to close a card associated with a service that would've otherwise required me to chat or call someone to cancel. It's worked extremely well.

There was also an infomercial[1] for a product called "AirCore" in the US a couple decades ago for something similar.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIIWBvgyvmI

And _currently_ involves hiring consultants to force employees to sit through hours of anti-union fear mongering the second management smells a whiff of pro-union organizing sentiment.

The 'American Factory' documentary has a great example of what this looks like in real life. Hearing that Amazon or Google or whoever else worked to convince employees to vote against unionizing is one thing, seeing what that effort is like on the ground is altogether more eye-opening.

Concurrent with spacer.gif, there was also a `<spacer type="block">`[1] tag that was in use at the time.

Working at a boutique design shop back then, I remember trying endless combinations of the spacer tag along with spacer gifs to try to ship layouts that were at least semi (and hopefully mostly) consistent cross-browser.

Having lived through those web dev dark ages, I'm pretty baffled by the resurgence of 'markup as styling'.

[1] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_spacer_tag.htm

The ability to simply cancel any subscription without clicking through increasingly desperate "Don't go!!!" nag screens is easily worth an extra 30% for me, too.

Consensus may take time, but when you're pouring gas onto a fire, arguing that you need to dump out most of the can before you can be sure you know what you're doing isn't a defensible position.

They are likely referring to developer productivity and perceived code quality, not user satisfaction.

They've been my main bank for a number of years, and I second this.

The APR on their savings account is generally either the best or among the best available, and the small handful of times I've had to call their customer support, they've been a pleasure.

It's a very recent development in the language; one of the ripples that radiated out from the George Floyd protests.

The NY Times hosted a piece that explains the reasoning behind it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

And you don't need to continue your subscription unless you want continued updates. My PyCharm 'subscription' lapsed around two years ago, and I'm only planning on purchasing a new fallback license for the upcoming 2020.3 release because their excellent vim-mode plugin finally supports jump lists, but requires a newer version than the one I originally paid for - and I'm honestly happy to pay them again.

We used React Router's ssr process described here[1] on my last React project. It worked ok, but there's a bit of hoop-jumping to go through if your pages are populated by async data.

[1] https://reactrouter.com/web/guides/server-rendering

This is the resource I used (as someone who's been doing web development for ~20 years) to get a a basic understanding of React. It, plus some side projects, was enough to get me up to speed: https://daveceddia.com/pure-react/

I'm sure there are others that are free; but, this is what worked for me.

To add some detail, here, Mullvad allows the creation of accounts for which they truly have zero knowledge: an account number is generated on their site, cash is sent to their office in Gothenburg with a note containing the account number, and Mullvad will add time for that account commensurate with the amount received.