This made my day. Gen Z gives this geriatric millennial hope for the future.

anyone under the age threshold found with a cellphone with up to one year in prison

The theory being that a year in prison will be less harmful than phone use?

If we had a 1% battery improvement to market for every "major breakthrough" we see in the news, we wouldn't even need the breakthroughs.

I'm starting to feel like I should pay $11.99 a month to subscribe to YouTube Premium

Sounds like it's working as intended

First of all they are not building and running anything. It is interpreted server side code and front end code that gets loaded by the target browser at runtime.

It's been a while since Facebook ran on simple PHP files and static JavaScript.

if it was code that gets built they would build on the server

Yes, this is what they're describing in the article.

You simply have no idea how software development work

I'm not disputing that, but I do work for Facebook, and (anecdotally) I find that my beefy dev server helps a lot for my large builds and runs.

A network mount is not a good solution for working with massive server software in a monorepo.

You end up downloading a hundred gigabytes of source material across millions of files, with the associated latency of on-demand access, just to build and run on laptop hardware.

Would you be willing to bring me a club sandwich with fries for less than $3-5?

The first post that's not about how technology is dumb and how 1080p ought to be enough for everyone.

I wish I had mod points.

Caffeine pills are $0.05 each on Amazon. I'm surprised you're trying to save that cost.

The air pollution is due to the current forest fires, friend. The air quality was excellent a month ago.

Kids have likely been taking to dolls for hundred or thousands of millennia. Is this really that different?

What is it you get out of having a land line and cable TV that makes you put up with this? What do you use them for?

A cashless society brings dangers. People without bank accounts will find themselves further marginalised

I'm often fascinated by the hoops Americans are willing to jump through to avoid having to give people basic rights, but this is the first time I've heard it argued that we should keep cash around to avoid having to offer poor people basic banking services.

Europe does this right, food has 'calories per 100g' on every package.

I've been counting calories on both continents and I've found that it has its pros and cons.

For a bulk product like flour, I don't care how many calories are in a 27 gram serving. I want to know how many are in 100 grams so I can more easily do the math in my head.

For an appropriately portioned food like an individual piece of chocolate, I don't care how many calories are in 100 grams. I want to know how many there are in this 15 gram piece.

If people don't want modern preservatives, BPA, MSG, GMO, or whatever today's vilified buzzword is, I'm generally ok with it.

What peeves me is when the primary difference is labelling and presentation. It's increasingly a problem everywhere, but Whole Foods does it more than anyone:

* Sugar => Evaporated Cane Juice
* Contains 10% whole grains => Made with 100% Whole Wheat (and other ingredients)
* Raisins => Gluten-free, Vegan, Kosher certified dried grapes
* High Fructose Corn Syrup => High Fructose Cactus Syrup (agave syrup)
* Artificial vanilla flavor => All Natural vanilla flavor (made from fermented grains without any vanilla pods)

Even the cold, hard numbers of the nutritional facts are being gamed through reduced serving sizes and rounding.