I am Mexican. Oh, but I do "look European", and have traveled all over the world, and have a quite good level of English, and hold a PhD, and have a good job with 20+ years of stability, and what not. I have been several times to the USA, to cities all over the map. And I have a valid USA visa. I know that I would have no problem visiting. Still, no way.
I got my visa (and used it, years ago) because there's always an interesting conference that happens there. There is also a good chance of finding good flights elsewhere that has a layover in the USA.
But no, for several years, I have decided I am not setting foot there. Who needs to go to the USA, frankly? Even interesting tech and academic conferences are leaving the USA, so I'm not missing out so much by sticking to countries whose politicians don't promise to make me feel unwelcome. ... ...And I'm sure all this hatred and isolationism will come back and bite them. In many aspects, the USA has ceded terrain to other world powers (mostly China), and is no longer #1 for innovation, science or computing.

Oh, it was beautiful and clear. But what I've seen from people browsing habits in the last several years is that they will enter the URL they want to go to, but not in the browser address bar â" in the search field of the content area. Just informing Google what they *already know* how to get to â" for no reason at all. Even well-versed users do this. It sickens me every time I see somebody use a computer.

This is an invaluable resource, and makes me very happy. I don't have any issues accessing the ACM DL, both because I am an ACM member (Senior Member, hah!) and because my university pays for our access, and I basically don't notice the paywalls when working from my office (and from home, a ssh tunnel works wonders ;-) ). I wouldn't have managed to graduate from Masters and PhD without them. But not everybody has the facilities I have being staff of a very big university. This (long-planned, slowly implemented, and finally active) move by ACM will help a _lot_ of people do their jobs better. And will, no doubt, increase the visibility of ACM journals!

But the UI for MacOS is terrible.

Yes, I understand, I am among the tiny minority here. But I have owned Apple products in the past. I have settled on a specific workflow and work environment on my Linux systems. I can decently work with Windows... But MacOS is beyond uncomfortable and I have been unable to get it to a usable state.

Granted, my latest Macintosh experience is about a decade old... but still. Sometimes you want a given piece of hardware --- and the software you want to run it with is very relevant.

...And that's your opinion.

There are legal migrants scared from losing their acquired rights for voicing their views in political issues, though. That should never happen in a free, democratic country.
Of course, nobody said the USA would remain either.

At least, Argentina and Mexico used to observe daylight savings (here: horario de verano, Summer time) until roughly 10 and 5 years ago. They are very different countries, in very far away parts of America. And yes, both switched away from daylight savings.
Of course, many other countries –the most tropical part– has never observed DST to begin with.

A thread you found at a bazaar?

Somewhere maybe 10 years ago, Microsoft was pushing for keyboards to include a Cortana key. It was a lone, blue circle. I was sure I'd remap it to something more useful, but... well, it never materialized! Has somebody ever seen a Cortana keyboard in the wild? How is that key mapped? Is that key the same as the Copilot one? Where was Cortana sent to retire in its old age?

Compose! A true Meta! Super! There are (too?) many keyboard modifiers in a good Unix keyboard, and it pleases me that PCs are finally giving us enough keys to represent them all.

I agree with you (and with your life experience), without being a PHP programmer.
I have written tens of web sites or components over the years. Started off with Perl (CGI.pm), then moved to the way-way-faster Apache mod_perl. No frameworks to speak of, although I used several templating engines.
My favorite language changed for many reasons to Ruby. I wrote several systems/websites using Rails.
But my systems... Tend to be kept running for many years. I still have at least one mod_perl system in production I first developed... 25 years ago. By following decent programming practices, it's still in production to this day, under modern server software.
Ruby on Rails? I did the update dance from Rails 1 to 2. Was too busy during the Rails 3 cycle, so I managed to migrate my code for part of the systems to Rails 4. But the changes were too deep, too frequent. While it was undeniably faster to write code under Rails than using raw mod_perl + Template Toolkit or the like... My Rails systems lagged behind. I'm not happy to say that I still have a server running >10-year-old, obsolete versions of a language and its framework.
OTOH, I have written a couple of (much smaller) Ruby-based systems using Sinatra. They are easy to be kept alive.
So, yes.... I think I am in your (and rzack's) camp.

I have owned a laptop sold as Windows-for-ARM for several years, and just _love_ it. Just what the article says. And yes, it's a bit slow to be my main driver mainly when compiling or doing similar stuff, but it's a great machine to bring along. I have a 2020 Lenovo Yoga C630, running on a Snapdragon 855 (two generations before the CPUs now sold). Of course I had my share of issues getting support on Linux, but thanks to the AArch64 laptops group, they have been solved issue by issue. I now even run a mainline kernel with no outside patches! (yes, yes, I know TFA is about Windows... But I cannot help brag about my fanless, no-moving-parts, 10-hour-battery laptop)

During the 2000s and 2010 there was surely a lot of advancements and "deliverables". I am still more impressed at the fact that AI translators can produce reasonably good output cross-translating across tens of languages than at their "production" of human-like speech.
Of course, I can understand the novelty that means for most people a computer that seems to exhibit rational thought and interesting dialogue. But, as many people here know, it's all smoke and mirrors... and I trust that people will eventually understand it. It is just a fad. Might I say, it can even be an useful fad. But it's no leading towards general / real intelligence, it's not leading to a Skynet, it is all so detached from what many bright and well informed people fear it might evolve to become...

So they are functionally equivalent to a Tesla? Interesting!