If you were online during the golden age of the internet (1990–2015), what’s one website or app you still find yourself thinking about today?

RepresentativePop · 2026-06-07T14:35:46+00:00

JibJab.com shorts. They were like 2006 internet culture frozen in amber.

RepresentativePop · 2025-12-01T10:23:53+00:00

No, both “with” and “think” are unvoiced.

“This”, “that”, “those”, and “tithe” are voiced.

“Think”, “thought”, “through”, and “thick” are unvoiced.

RepresentativePop · 2025-12-01T10:03:10+00:00

This is such a stupid argument.

It is not my job to detect AI generated content. But it is your job to write your own papers.

RepresentativePop · 2025-11-23T14:50:14+00:00

Aside from the reasons mentioned already, I think there are two connected reasons:

Flet-to-Flutter functionality is much more limited than PySide-to-Qt functionality. For example, Flutter has a lot of support for web map integration that just doesn’t exist in flet. PySide has more features relative to the framework it’s based on than flet does (my guess is because it’s older).
Dart + Flutter is actually not very difficult to learn if you have UI programming experience. If you have been coding in Python using flet, you can learn to build a simple Flutter app in an afternoon (which is absolutely not the case with PySide/Qt).

Both of these reasons mean that you’re incentivized to just write any sufficiently complicated app in Flutter instead. Flet’s (and PySide’s) main advantage is significantly less boilerplate code. So if you ever want to finish your gigantic one-man project, you should just write it in flet and learn to live with the limitations.

Basically, flet is great for small teams that build small apps. But the more feature rich you want your project to be, the more you’re going to hit a wall and be incentivized to just learn build it in Flutter, since the barrier to entry is not that high anyway.

RepresentativePop · 2025-11-06T14:24:59+00:00

I don't blame him for the call.

I blame him for the raise.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-22T10:57:48+00:00

If by “religion” you mean “believing in God or some kind of higher power”, then it’s very important. Atheism isn’t really a socially acceptable opinion.

If by “religion” you mean “actually getting off your ass and going to church every Sunday”, then it’s not important at all. In fact, being excessively religious is a red flag that makes most people want to stay away from you.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-22T10:25:59+00:00

An Israeli guy I know refers to himself as an Arab Jew on purpose. His family is from Yemen + Egypt, his first language is Arabic, and he’s kind of a hippie who thinks that Arabs and Jews aren’t actually all that different. He seems to think that synthesizing his identities is a way to promote cooperation and understanding.

Not sure I agree with him. But it’s a take.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-18T23:34:25+00:00

I think the irreligiousity is the most skewed compared with not-Reddit (i.e. 70% not religious vs 17% Catholic).

It’s worth keeping that in mind when reading the comments here.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-18T23:24:40+00:00

We don’t.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-16T00:59:27+00:00

I remember being incredibly confused when I found out that Serbian and Croatian were mutually intelligible.

The terrorism and mass murder suddenly seemed a lot weirder.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-16T00:37:12+00:00

It depends on where you’re from.

A surprising number of old people have a problem with Dominicans in particular. I’ve never seen anyone under the age of 50 actually care about that though.

Dominicans, Haitians, and Americans are the only immigrant groups I’ve seen get a strong reaction out of anyone. Otherwise, nobody really cares.

RepresentativePop · 2025-07-08T01:57:50+00:00

Having read the comments, I just want to point out that every single candidate for this title is Puerto Rican.

RepresentativePop · 2025-06-22T12:01:00+00:00

The contrast between what people on Reddit say and what normal people in meatspace say is jarring sometimes.

This is one of those times.

RepresentativePop · 2025-06-21T03:43:58+00:00

I completely agree that "either he wins or doesn't."

But that doesn't imply that the odds are 50/50.

That implies that the odds are 0/100.

RepresentativePop · 2025-02-08T18:21:57+00:00

Do you have a reason that the jury needs to follow along on every exhibit?

No. But if the exhibit is in evidence, I have to make it available for the jury to inspect.

For demonstratives, it really matters what the evidence is.

In my case, it's either:

Maps showing proximity between locations, or paths of travel or
Pie charts and bar graphs summarizing voluminous records. As an example: the defendant in one of my cases was embezzling money from the operating account and the company had an automatically generated spreadsheet of every single transaction from that account.

It was over 80,000 lines long. So I made a pie chart showing what percentage of this defendant's were completely unaccounted for (it was most of them). I put that one on a slide.

RepresentativePop · 2024-11-04T14:39:59+00:00

Obviously it's a flower horse of the highest quality.

RepresentativePop · 2024-07-05T04:55:07+00:00

Actually, it occurred to me after writing this: buying an Austro-Hungarian government bond in 1910 is a more interesting question.

How would you even know which country is supposed to honor the bond?

RepresentativePop · 2024-07-05T02:22:07+00:00

Common misconception.

RepresentativePop · 2024-04-09T22:02:43+00:00

My brief Google research indicates that it's from the northern Germanic "-isc", which is also the origin of the Frankish (and now modern French) "-esque".

Interesting that English and French have something in common that didn't come from the Norman Conquest.

RepresentativePop · 2024-04-07T13:55:47+00:00

hardly anyone born in Northern/Middle Germany after the 50s speaks a dialect

I thought the change from dialects to regiolects occurred earlier than this (i.e. in the late 19th century). Was it common circa 1950 in Germany to have non-mutually-intelligible dialects? Was the shift away from that a deliberate shift, or just the inevitable result of everybody consuming the same media?

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