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> He named his BBS "TacoLand".

It certainly wouldn't have been unusual for a young Beto O'Rourke (or any other Texan) to have tacos on his mind for any number of reasons, but "Taco Land" was the name of a punk bar in San Antonio. It was well known to Texas punks and their ilk and was immortalized by the Dead Milkmen in the late 80s by their song "Tacoland".


Indeed. "You'll understand, when you go on down to tacoland." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDmUcvrCbI


Whatever data Apple has on me evidently tells them that I have giant hands and inexhaustible disposable income.


I doubt that specialists are keen to adapt their terminology to reflect popular usage and would much prefer things to work the other way around. It looks like the word we should be using is 'avemetatarsalians'?


If one can't pedantically correct people then why even bother being an expert.


I love the name. I realize that the word appears in many contexts, but it invariably reminds me of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.


I had a lot of fun building a small app with Ratpack several months ago, but its online manual is full of TODOs. If you're comfortable with Groovy or Java, I'm sure they would welcome your contributions.

https://ratpack.io/manual/current/


A probably apocryphal story claims Cutlar said to Griffin, "It was eating my potatoes." Griffin replied, "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig."


Webpack supports the former if you use [hash] (or [chunkhash]) in the output filename. [1] This is what create-react-app uses. [2]

[1] https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-filename

[2] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...


Yep, the tricky part is just rewriting your HTML so that it includes the right file. However, it looks look my comment was incorrect and most frameworks have considered that issue. Neutrino and create-react-app use html-webpack-plugin.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...


> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we?

Politics is a process of conflict and negotiation between varied, competing interests. In a liberal democracy, "people have a right to their beliefs" is the starting point for that process, not the endpoint.


Yes, but it's a starting point we shouldn't loose sight of.


That's true.

http://www.economist.com/node/1897472

"Initiatives are also responsible for another feature that makes the Assembly unworkable: term limits. These may sometimes be desirable but in California they are simply too short. Proposition 140 set them at six years for Assembly members, eight for state senators.

"As a result, representatives do not have a good grasp of the details of bills, have little long-term loyalty to the institution they serve and can sometimes be unduly influenced by more experienced lobbyists. No sooner do people become head of the assembly, or of an important committee, than they are term-limited out. Legislative leadership becomes almost impossible."


"When the pointer is locked, users will see a banner explaining that the mouse cursor is hidden, and that they can get out of pointer lock by pressing the Escape key."

I beg your pardon — which key?


Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use


Unless of course you touch type in which case you end up looking at the keyboard now....


No you don't. Why would you? Touch-typing relies on you knowing where each key is, and the Escape key is still in the same place it always was.


In my experience (with Thinkpad X1 Carbon, which also had a capacitive touch strip for function keys), it doesn't actually work that way. Your muscle memory might involve hitting the key away from the center or at a slight angle, which registers properly on the usual keyboard, but is sufficiently ambiguous with touch that sometimes it does the wrong thing, or sometimes it does nothing at all.


If I use a normal keyboard, even on my 12" Macbook, I never need to look at the keyboard, but with the touch bar, I simply cannot press the esc key, i put my finger there, touch it, and sometimes nothing happens, its like it doesn't register that you press it, or maybe im touching it wrong.

Regardless I feel like I'm trying to re-learn to type.

I'm moving to a Dell XPS 15 tho. Done with Apple if this is the direction they are going.


What do you mean by "the direction they are going"? Are you implying that next Apple is going to replace the rest of the keyboard with touchbar-like keys? Because I highly doubt that's going to happen.


Sometimes I actually miss and hit the area just above it. I have nothing to catch as my finger goes to the area.


Except not really, because the hitbox for esc is the entire top left of the bar, as long as you touch the corner, you esc.


The tocuh bars pretty accessible, you can use ^[ as well.

I've remapped my caps to escape since I never use capslock.


Whether or not that's true for someone, "looking at the keyboard" != "impossible to use".


Agreed, but still not 'impossible'


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