CottonMcKnight

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Comment · 1 year ago
1. First release of the new High Resolution (WMMHR) model, 2. The South Atlantic Anomaly is expected to intensify during the period 2025-2030.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Ironicry
Comment · 1 year ago
People forget that he already tried during Covid, when he tweeted that the election should be postponed.
Comment · 1 year ago
CSS is a language, but it is 0.1% syntax and 99.9% memorizing the standard library, which expands monthly.
Comment · 1 year ago
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States..."

If the Line Item Veto was unconstitutional, then Congress surrendering its power to the President to not only impose tariffs unilaterally but then to _exempt_ favored parties from them, is not only blatantly corrupt, but clearly also unconstitutional.

But I'm not holding my breath for sanity from the Originalist Court.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
VT and chill. Add BND / BNDW if you wish.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a bumper sticker that says "Vehicle speed monitored by GPS / Speed limiter in use", like some commercial trucks have. It dramatically cuts down on the road rage.
Comment · 2 years ago
I remember JSSS, but a more vivid memory for me is LiveConnect: another Netscape-only project that was incredibly powerful and groundbreaking: it allowed Java and JavaScript code to communicate directly, e.g. plain JS could invoke the JDK and instantiate Java objects. In retrospect, also a truly terrible idea, but at the time, it was amazing.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding.

How far in the future probably informed this decision.

Comment · 2 years ago
Meanwhile, at Google: "Let's add our podcast app to the long list of Google Graveyard apps and further erode user trust!"

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