Scarcity of instructors competent to teach such subjects? Followed by the natural bureaucratic response: Pretend no such need exists.

As others have suggested, photos of previous generations look a lot like strangers, absent a story connecting them across a lifetime, and ideally all the way to the present.

The story furthermore must have enough intrinsic drama to engage readers, and fall into the hands of a writer with the skills to turn the raw facts into a biography.

The biographic text provides a structure to hang the photos on, yielding a "photobiography". Search for the term and you'll find examples.

You wouldn't have to, to nevertheless provide great benefit to the grid. Look up "TOU billing".

> short form text

Underestimated. Turn off keyboard customizations that let your phone learn you're a literate adult. Then discover how much it really expects you to be swiping: butt, sup, lol, rofl, bruh ... Interspersed with plenty of emojis.

Absence of land borders simplifies the problem considerably.

There is a land border with Malaysia.

How many km?

But neglects to consider why it won a majority of votes. Why did it? And how does Prop 13 relate to the more recent Prop 19, which substantially weakened it?

The author quotes: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Then comments:

> I think that “beat” and “borne” lack visual concreteness. Shouldn’t it be “paddle”? “Paddle” sounds a little silly, but that’s the metaphor Fitzgerald is using. (Those boats must be canoes, not steamboats. A steamboat wouldn’t care that much about a current.)

A reminder of the obscurity of Fitzgerald's analogy, which is specific to the technology of sailing: A "beat" is a course that will take the boat upwind -- always a challenge. And if the current of the water is pointed downwind, perhaps impossible.

Somehow none of the New Yorker editors caught this either.

This is a good catch! The choice of beat here to my ear is meant to capture both a sense of urgency (beating a drum to set the pace for rowers) and beating upwind (tacking frequently). The whole article feels a little undercooked and peevishly underinformed for the New Yorker.

Even more lightweight is a tag -- 'git-log --all' will list these for you.

Naive question then: Where does Servo stand, relative to Electron?

> have this happen every morning at 5AM by creating a temporary text file containing this line: 0 5 * * * rsync -vax --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/Backup/

This leaves you needlessly exposed to this failure mode: Commit some "braino" that wipes out some recent work. Go to bed without noticing the loss. 5am rsync run wipes your backup as well.

The fix is to back up to not just one but to a rotation of images. Use --link-dest to reduce storage overhead to the size of the directory hierarchy only.