And the right decision would be for phone operating system publishers to provide functionality in the included web browser to let a website act as a progressive web application. Safari for iOS has a history of lagging behind other platforms' browsers in PWA features.[1] This is particularly evident with respect to what the browser allows websites to do in the background. For example, Apple implemented Push API seven years after Mozilla did, and it requires the user to add the website to the home screen to enable PWA features.[2] Do you want Nintendo Music to pause when you switch to another application? Or if you've chosen to let Nintendo's website notify you when something becomes available, do you want to miss the notification if Safari suddenly decides that your domain's notifications shall be silent (without vibration, without sound, and at the bottom of the list)?

[1] "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell
[2] "Push API" on Can I use...

These types of store are actually common in parts of Europe, and there are some in the UK. People end up squeezing through the checkout queue to get out.

The technical term is a lexical unit. Sometimes two words together mean some specific thing, most often with nouns. Sometimes the space disappears over time, sometimes it gets hyphenated, sometimes it just stays as two words that refer to some specific thing.

Basically, if it would appear in the dictionary, it can be word of the year, even if it's two or three words.

With two exceptions I can think of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:

1. For lightweight web hosting, a low-end VPS from a company like DigitalOcean is likely to be less expensive than upgrading a home office from home-class home Internet to business-class home Internet to unblock inbound ports 80 and 443.
2. SMTP is still an old boys' club, with major mailbox providers (such as Gmail and Outlook) blocking connections on port 25 from on-premise IP addresses as likely sources of spam.

These days with WebAssembly anything can be made to run in a browser. There are C to WebAssembly compilers out there that do most of the hard work - it's how DOSBox runs in a browser (archive.org has a collection of DOS games playable in a browser - it's just DOSBox in the end) as many other runtimes like ScummVM and such.

Many games are simply being retarged for WebAssembly - and many game engines have already been ported making the retarget fairly low effort.

The alternative is developing a progressive web application (PWA) that runs in Safari instead of a native iOS application.

Odds are if you really push it just sounds an obnoxious alarm while letting you out. Kind of like pushing against the gates at my walmart to go out the entrance area rather than the checkouts.
I just give zero hoots and do it anyways.

Thanks for the insightful post. And to build on your survival instinct misadaptation point, consider that our preferences were tuned through evolution or a scarcity of certain things (salt, sweet, fat, excitement, novelty, startling, etc) and work against us when there is abundance of those things made possible by modern technology (e.g. ultraprocessed foods, algorithmic feeds, several scene changes a second in Videos, etc). See:

https://www.healthpromoting.co...
"Dr. Douglas Lisle, who has spent the last two decades researching and studying this evolutionary syndrome, explains that all of us inherit innate incentives from our ancient ancestors that he terms The Motivational Triad: the pursuit of pleasure, the avoidance of pain, and the conservation of energy. Unfortunately, in present day America's convenience-centric, excess-oriented culture, where fast food, recreational drugs, and sedentary shopping have become the norm, these basic instincts that once successfully insured the survival and reproduction of man many millennia ago, no longer serve us well. In fact, it's our unknowing enslavement to this internal, biological force embedded in the collective memory of our species that is undermining our health and happiness today."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose is a book by Deirdre Barrett published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010. Barrett is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. The book argues that human instincts for food, sex, and territorial protection evolved for life on the savannah 10,000 years ago, not for today's densely populated technological world. Our instincts have not had time to adapt to the rapid changes of modern life. The book takes its title from Nikolaas Tinbergen's concept in ethology of the supernormal stimulus, the phenomena by which insects, birds, and fish in his experiments could be lured by a dummy object which exaggerated one or more characteristic of the natural stimulus object such as giant brilliant blue plaster eggs which birds preferred to sit on in preference to their own. Barrett extends the concept to humans and outlines how supernormal stimuli are a driving force behind today's most pressing problems, including modern warfare, obesity and other fitness problems, while also explaining the appeal of television, video games, and pornography as social outlets."

https://tlc.ku.edu/
" "We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life." - TLC Principal Investigator Stephen Ilardi, PhD"

And to take that even one step further, see my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

IDK, after seeing Trump elected for a second term, do you REALLY still think EVERYONE should get a vote? Why? People that detest education, can't keep up on current affairs yet still think they should get a vote? Please.

Yes, because Trump winning his second term has zero to do with his voter base. Fewer people voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020. That's the simple truth - Republican voters stayed home because they didn't want to vote. It's just more Democrat voters stayed home as well. Could mean nothing, or it could mean Democratic voters are just as racist and sexist as it seems and voting for a black woman was just unfathomable.

The voting system is rather simple - the person who gets the most votes wins. You can do this in two ways - you can try to appeal to the widest number of people possible and thus get votes by people wanting you. Or you can do the opposite - by making the other side not want to vote for their candidate. Either way you win.

If you know you are going to get a solid 500 votes, but know your opponent would get 600 votes, that means you need to flip 50 of those voters, or disenfranchise them to the point where they don't vote. If you can get 101 of those people to not show up, you win. That's why the Republic playbook is to disenfranchise voters - to kick them off the rolls of voters. To ensure a Republican win, you have to make sure Democrat voters can't vote. That's why the whole movement to show ID - knowing non-white Americans are far less likely to have ID. Or the erosion of women's rights - to try to reverse the suffragette movement that granted women the right to vote.

The end result is Trump wins because Democrats didn't want a black woman president, and Republicans who didn't like their options simply stayed home as well - they didn't want Trump, but they're lifelong Republicans, and they can't vote for Trump either.

The suggestion by many here that people are somehow involuntarily coerced into buying these trucks is ludicrous. It is not a conspiracy. People buy them because they are nice and capable conveyances and they can afford them. Manufacturers make them because people like buying them.

No, they're made and heavily advertised because they are very profitable. The 90s is when the Big 3 realized that profit margins on cars and small trucks was pathetic, and the goal was basically get everyone into a Suburban.

Which they why they heavily pushed SUVs and pickups . Many of which were basically a passenger away from being over axle limits. They blinged them up to appeal to the consumer - to tempt them away from the "sensible" econobox they were going to buy and into this luxurious over the top truck to which they could make major profit from. The fact that interest rates were low, 0% financing and other things, well, you could choose the econobox you saved up for and pay off, or get into debt for the monster you really want.

And yes, many pickups as sold by the factory with all the top end luxury features were really about 1000 lbs shy of their max axle weight.

The average new vehicle cost is around $50,000.

Of course, the EV boom has lead to a resurgence in wanting smaller vehicles that are more nimble and you could park it in the space between two pickups in a downtown core. But the Big 3 have proven they cannot make a car anymore.

Trump can complain about Americans buying Toyotas all he wants - but if people want small nimble vehicles and the Big 3 are only making huge trucks, well, they're buying imports. And the Japanese have less use for a full sized F-150 than the smaller cars.

That's the market - the American consumer was convinced they need a large vehicle because the Big 3 found them really profitable for them. Stellantis (GM) tried to make a smaller vehicle (aka, a car) and it failed horribly because they were so addicted to profits they lost the knowledge, so foreign imports are satisfying the demand

The little Japanese Kei trucks which are super nimble are popular in the US to the point where some states have to ban them because they're too practical over the pickups but in a crowded urban center extremely useful where they fit well into a car sized parking space but have reasonable cargo carrying capabilities.

Waiting for someone to create a 'LaCie Joule Drive'-like tower where you can just plug in Mac Minis, one after the other.

https://ifdesign.com/en/winner...

Three more payments and this 10 year old couch is OURS!

Boss, Boss, duh cloud, duh cloud!

I thought Macs were just toys running a toy OS and only useful for folks looking to enterain themselves instead of real tough serious business machines that are designed for work and not games?