Well said. We're on the same page, and I totally agree.

Although I absolutely think we've gone overboard on tipping, I genuinely think tipping shouldn't be completely banned. Rather, ban expected tipping.

For instance, last time my wife and I were in London, we, as a clueless American couple, visited a tavern during their busiest period after work. We left a few pounds above and beyond the bill because it was clear they went above and beyond to serve us promptly and excellently despite the fact that they were literally overflowing with patrons. That's how tipping should work.

This seems like misinformation... The House is in recess until September.

Like, I know the "no ragerts" thing is funny and all ... but this is legit a great take. I wish more people took this approach. Take the small failures in stride.

Yes, because he actually cares about what the Constitution stands for, not just some adversarial power game. Claim the paradox of tolerance all you want, but fighting fire with fire here is just participating in the same race to the bottom that's destroying our democracy here in the USA.

Both kinds of trees have blossoms. Granted, people do call ornamental cherry trees "cherry blossom trees" ... but, technically speaking, a "blossom" is literally the flower of any stonefruit tree.

cherry trees and cherry blossoms are two different trees

Do you mean "ornamental" cherry trees and "fruiting" cherry trees? A "cherry blossom" (or "sakura") refers to the flower of a cherry tree, usually of the "ornamental" variety. The article seemed fine to me.

This reads a lot like the Indiana Pi Bill. Granted, that one never passed, but it's a pretty old story: politicians think they know better than experts.

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.

Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.

...or the cost of unethical behavior is greater than the cost of ethical behavior. In either case, we can't rely on the "ethical behavior" of any organization without changing the rules of the game.

Momentum. And it's likely most people won't be about to tell, or regularly run comparisons to find out for themselves. Theres enough value added to Chrome that people kind of assume it's "the best" ... It took me years to convince my boss to switch, but the one thing that did it for him was just that the PDF viewer is better in Firefox.

People have weird preferences that don't always line up with what software developers expect.

I switched to Duck Duck Go and Firefox and have never looked back.

Brave always seemed kinda scummy to me, like they're robbing Peter to pay Paul.