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I tend to write guthub.com and then chuckle to myself imagining a social network where people have beer bellies as their profile pictures

Would you tell someone who doesn't have legs that they'd be better off without a wheelchair because then they'd be free to "find their own way to be productive/have fun"? Or is this reserved for disorders that you can't see?

My medication doesn't fundamentally change who I am, it just makes me less shit at the things I am most shit at, so that my daily life is less of a constant struggle.

And sure, it's possible to imagine a world where having ADHD wouldn't be such a problem, just like it's possible to imagine a world where not having legs wouldn't be a problem. But that's not the world we live in!

Try not paying your bills and telling your landlord and credit card company that it's fine, you're just not one for rigid schedules and you're finding your own way. Or instead of doing your job at work, do something completely different and see if your boss accepts that you're just quirky.

I'd say it's more of an easy to make justification than a real argument. History is incredibly long and full of varied situations in which creatures have survived in many different ways, so it can be mined for examples to support almost anything and claim it to be "natural".

Yup, just like a library

I've never seen a place selling books not have them organized alphabetically! They might not be libraries but they have an interest in their customers being able to find what they're looking for

At least on Intel even very old systems often do support TPM 2.0, it's just not enabled by default. However many of these systems are still not supported by Windows 11, for no clear reason.

Another important point is the flexibility of wind and solar. The minimum investment to get some power out of them is very low, and a park can start generating power before fully completed and can easily be scaled up or down in capacity during construction if estimates change.

Nuclear on the other hand is a huge up-front cost with little flexibility and no returns until completion, which could take a decade or more.

Even if it wasn't more expensive, nuclear would still be financially risky. Many things can happen that effect power consumption and prices during the time it takes to build a nuclear plant. It can still be valuable for diversification though.

We have! Thermoelectric generators that make electricity directly from heat exist, they're just often not very good compared to the spinny wheel.

We even use them to make nuclear reactors with no moving parts, which I think is really neat. They're used in places where maintenance or refueling is difficult or impossible, like space probes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

It's essentially just a bunch of pre-made css classes that do a specific thing that you mix and match from.

AFAIK the programmatic part is so your served CSS file will only include the classes you actually use, rather than all available ones. You could always just not do that.

It always seemed to me like one of the least overengineered front end tools.

Decentralization greatly decreases vendor lock-in, lessens the damage of a single actor and adds competition. These are serious long-term benefits for a service and its users.

There's a reason why something like email is still around and being innovated on 40 years later, while its proprietary competitors are long since dead. And it's not that the technology is very good.

Bluesky is just another ICQ/AIM/Slashdot/Digg, a little walled garden that will eventually be ran into the ground. Which is fine. The issue is that it's trying to embrace and extinguish the fediverse by pretending to be decentralized.

The point is that bluesky has no interest in being actually decentralized, it's just a gimmick

I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn't see Pitch Black until later (and didn't find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.

I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it's unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.