For whatever reason, there are extraordinarily few references that I come back to over and over, across the years and decades. This is one of them.

Tangentially related, there is much insight about Unix idioms to be gained from understanding the key layout of the terminal Bill Joy used to create vi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21586980

Not 'man ascii'?

Indeed, the last sentence on the page is "Use it with caution, and at your own risk."

Which is what the comment you’re replying to means by “invent”.

Yeah as an Australian I thought this would be the case and I'd have to stop using Facebook etc (because there's no way I'm uploading ID or whatever to keep using it). Turns out because I created my account over 16 years ago they're happy to assume that I'm at least 16 years old. Which makes sense but I didn't anticipate it going that way.

Hmm yeah but that's a pretty long time.

Also what we see here in EU is that some sites (e.g. porn sites who already have to use age verification) demand it periodically, probably so you don't create one and give the credentials to a minor or something.

In fact it's becoming pretty insane here, even my bank and phone provider want me to come in and show my ID every few years. As if I suddenly became another person?? I kinda snapped at them last time because of these retarded processes and I felt bad then because I know it's not the employee's fault but it's just so ridiculous. I'm getting so sick of this pervasive tracking and monitoring in society with everything we do.

By any measure, both of your statements are patently false. You’re almost making a valid point somewhere in there but the hyperbole buries it.

What hyperbole?

If you can’t see the hyperbole in claiming that all studio albums only having one decent song is the norm then I can’t help you

Can you give examples of what your friends had to do for each platform? No one I know has been affected, so it does seem “invisible” to me. However I’ve also been an adult for quite some time now. If you don’t mind me asking, are your friends young adults?

One is young adult (20-ish), graduate, another is 40-ish "professional". They live in the opposite parts of the continent, have completely "normal" /mundane interests (we bonded over a specific book series and share one more hobby).

It did not affect them too much, but they had to use either their government issued id or consent to biometric scan (age estimate via camera).

Nothing particularly problematic, but nevertheless irritating and may become a deal breaker.

What, because they used a single em—dash?

Wasn’t the OG Space Jam website an image map? Not so different

I’m not sure what you mean, I stack PRs all the time with GitHub - select the earlier branch as the merge target instead of the main branch.

That doesn't work for cross-repo PRs which is by far the most common way of creating PRs on GitHub (at least for open source stuff).