I gambled on bit of their stock after their big drop last year, but if their senior technical folks are bailing, time to get out.

Prior to Stumpy's reign of error, the best and the brightest worldwide wanted to come here to learn, collaborate and frequently stay and continue research or start new businesses.

Now he and his xenophobic self-defeaters are being deliberate assholes, trying to scare anyone sane into going elsewhere. And it is working.

So if you're a smart, capable kid who can attend a top-tier school, do you want to go to the US school in that's in decline, or to the overseas school where all the other smart people are?

I will happily commify my numbers forever more if that comes bundled with the metric system.

Sorry, Liberia and Myanmar, it is time.

BNPL is structured a bit differently than credit cards, and the lending decision is made at purchase-time.

It is also typically more expensive than credit card transaction fees for merchants. The more it is used, the more it raises prices for everyone.

Think of it as a simple notation for a subset of HTML. The idea is it is easy to write inline as you're composing text without having to think about markup.

If you're a long-time front end developer, it probably won't do much for you. The target market is folks who want basic layout and typographic control without having to become a front end developer.

Personally I question it as an export format. There are several different implementations that all behave a bit differently, what does interop look like? But maybe it is just someone in Apple giving John Gruber a little ego boost.

"I used to do my taxes and masturbate at the same time while driving to work. I'm a good driver, those nannies can't tell me no different."

I'm glad you don't drive here anymore, too.

Their entire existence is predicated on the mass-objectification of their user base, this is just innovation in market segmentation.

It turns out, some customers will pay substantially more to kill certain audience segments than their expected lifetime NPV from advertising would ever provide, so to someone like Zuckerface, it is just good business, right?

Growing up, we lived in a tiny southern town. Let's just say education was not emphasized and curiosity made you a nerd/troublemaker/heathen, depending on what you were asking about.

One of the things that saved me was an army surplus store in the bigger down down the road. Aside from enormous tents and bayonets and such, the owner was a Ham, and sold radio-relevant stuff, too.

He was a surprisingly nice guy, and over time he encouraged me through getting my license, drilling me on Morse (this was back then) and teaching me about basic electronics theory. I ended up hanging out there quite a bit and did odd jobs for him.

I was saving for my own radio when he called us one day, saying he had something to show me. It was an old radio he said was pulled from a WWII airplane, and he'd give it to me if I built the buck circuit to power it - I remember the radio was a 28 volt system. He verified I wasn't going to burn myself down with what I came up with, - I didn't really trust myself with AC, and my mother certainly didn't.

That radio was a lifeline for me. A little window where I could talk to random folks from all over, reminding me that tiny town was just that. The most common response from other kids was, "Well, what do they have that we don't?" It seemed to be a mantra there, this weird shared inferiority complex.

I moved away for school, then my family left. The only time I've been back there was for his funeral, and I still kick myself for not making time to visit him before he died.

(The radio was destroyed in a move. First time I paid someone to move houses and they somehow crushed it.)

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

Show your proof that Zelenskyy is corrupt or stop promoting black propaganda.

We have reams of proof of Stumpy and Vlad's corruption.

We have bullshit and innuendo for the opposite case.

Put up or shut up.

And frankly, I'm coming around to the idea of partitioning Russia. Russian folks, at least the ones I know, are lovely people. But left to their own devices, they have given the world some of the ugliest, nastiest governments across centuries.

At some point, removing their ability to keep doing so is self-defense.

I'm surprised we haven't seen more autonomous weaponry.

Me too.

I think it is still coming. Normal criminals are not that creative. They're just working stiffs working mostly pretty terrible jobs. But some enterprising asshole will figure out the FPV-flying-grenade to take out a rival dealer or something, and then it is a proven method, and more of them will start thinking about how to use them.

And then there will be a booming civil drone defense business, as every wealthy person and office building suddenly decides they need air defense.

President Miller will probably be selling them immigrants soon enough.

So long at the man with too many Ts has the power to continue inflicting his mental issues on users, I wouldn't have anything to do with it. He's shown the world what he is.

Which is hollow, because I haven't played with WP is probably 15 years. But people do ask me what they should run for their small business or vanity domain, and WP ranks somewhere near blogging via a keyboard sniffer.

First, we're down in the weeds down here. I replied to someone who said "SF median teacher salaries are between 100k and 150k" and "and that doesn’t even account for benefits", providing a source that shows mid-career teachers make $98k on average *including benefits*. So that was pretty much fail.

> And this doesn’t change the easily verified overall fact that the median teacher salary in virtually every state exceeds the states’ overall median salary

Given that all of the teachers have above-median education, it would be rather extraordinary if this *weren't* true.

When presented with a choice of changing energy sources or moderating use, of course the only rational thing is to begin digging underground nations big enough for hundreds of millions of people.

... I guess you expect that they'll all just order Grubhub?