The larger issue, of course, is that eccentric individuals and niche special-interest groups are able to use the planning process and the legal system to jam up all sorts of infrastructure projects in America, from simple turn lanes all the way to high-speed rail. This is not the only reason America has trouble building infrastructure, but it is an important reason. See Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson‘s new book Abundance for a long-form analysis of this… or for a contrast with the US’s “lawyerly society” (and, of course, the disadvantages of leaning too much in the other direction) Dan Wang’s Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future that just came out.

Both are excellent books and will probably appeal to a lot of Hacker News folks with an engineering/builder mindset.

I wonder what Pieter Levels uses, since all of his apps are PHP based and he has a number of AI/ML offerings these days.

https://levels.io/

The worst I heard was calling PHP “pup”. Yes that’s a u.

For the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. (https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa...)

> The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board systems, Gopher and more. When the World Wide Web came along, www.nasa.gov became the agency's primary home online.

> Today the World Wide Web is still one of the many, many networked services NASA provides, all based on the nasa.gov domain. But along the way the web became the public's most widely used aspect of the Internet, so much that the "www" became almost implicit. It started to disappear from the URLs of popular websites. NASA never made that switch, and our domain servers still do not forward users looking for nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov. (Though many web browsers now do that automatically once you've visited a site.)

Looks like FAA might still be that way, or the changes are still rolling out.

Same. It was my first CS class after transferring to NCSU in 2000. I was pretty lost at times but he was super kind and patient whenever I went to office hours. He was an older professor at that time and it was always cool to see was still teaching well beyond when I graduated.

For those unaware, what is uBO and how would it affect most extensions?