Which is great because then I can use my domain expertise to add value, rather than writing REST boilerplate code.

Having to write boilerplate code is a sign that libraries are just not up to the level they should be. That can be solved the regular old way.

I quite like the weather app on my laptop. Not seen any ads or news in it yet.

> Imagine trying to take a basic browser function we’ve all taken for granted for decades

What basic browser function is that? Video playback with the video tag? It's only been around for about 15 years and mainstream for 10 years.

This is disingenuous - we were all watching flash video for about a decade before that. And before that we were watching (terrible ~160x120) video in realvideo* or asf format using browser plugins, since maybe 1997-1998, certainly before 2000.

* tangiential rambling old-person side-note: RealPlayer was a weird early example of a piece of software that was actually _better_ on Linux: The windoze version was notorious for also installing a thousand other pieces of spyware/adware and other trash, taking over your system and making it worse, to the point that people avoided it like the plague... But none of that crapware supported Linux, so the Linux version was just this relatively clean player that came as a self-contained, easy to install rpm and worked pretty well. I used to use RealPlayer a fair bit back in my early Linux days. When I used to tie an onion my belt, which was the style at the time.

You could watch those in backgrounder windows/tabs too.

You still can.

You'll probably find that most of us don't share links all that much. You're probably an outlier that they're not going to care about. They'll just look at the aggregate of lots of users not generating much revenue, and not encouraging revenue from others.

Thats what happens where I live when each random fibre network wants to add boxes.

> It just means we don't let you starve if you don't work and we stop making you work out of fear of leaving you starve if you don't.

Seems inefficient to pay for everyone to have kitchens in their house and pay them cash to get ingredients to cook. Couldn't we just employ some of these people as cooks and have them make meals in a centralised kitchen in every neighbourhood? A bit like the British Restaurant idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant

I don't see the connection with what we were talking about but:

- soup kitchen are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_kitchen

- community fridges too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_fridge

- and historically in france where I'm from, when we started having freezer technology it first appeared in shared houses for the whole village. People would go there once a day to fetch what they needed and would eat it. Can't find english sources but it seems very efficient. A least much more than every one having a fridge. https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/pays-de-la-loire/mayen...

Big goat

Because I'm only an average driver. Definitely not the best and have done no advanced driver training.

They could have driven with more care and attention if they're passing large vehicles that block their view of any children.

I mean legally. But your suggestion is ridiculous. Might as well say "don't drive ever".

You learn how to put those signs into context during your driving lessons, and fail your test if you don't apply that correctly.

My driving test was so thorough that I had to parallel park between two entirely fictional cars. There was certainly no consideration of eccentric signage.

I apologize if I gave the impression that I did not understand how to put them into context. Although I don't think my driving lessons ever mentioned it.

This is idle XKCD-style musing.