$41k doesn't sound that cheap to me, for what it is

Backup cameras don't require touchscreens, they just require a screen in general. Lots of makes are getting by with just putting a little 3" screen in the rear view mirror or similar

Most people suggesting taxing the rich more aren't saying that the middle class should pay very little tax

Mancala is roughly 1D too!

"They" has always (in our lifetimes) been used to refer to a singular person of unknown gender. For example "someone left their coat here. They must be cold"

Indeed. What's new is not referring to someone of unknown gender as "they", but rather people identifying as non-gender-specific, and wanting to be referred to as "they". That's the part that feels so awkward, IMHO, not simply they as one person.

tell that to the public universal friend

No that's incorrect. Use his/he or her/she if the coat appears to be one that would be worn by a male or female. If uncertain, use male pronouns, which are gender neutral in that scenario.

Incorrect according to who? You? Your Sainted Mother? Sounds innovative to me, and hardly traditional. Saying male is somehow gender neutral sounds even more bizarre.

No, usage makes correctness in language, not people trying to invent some weird conlang they wrongly insist is correct English.

> Incorrect according to who?

All my English teachers from Grades 1-12.

Using "they" as a singular pronoun would bring out the red pen.

Well, they were obviously incorrect.

There is a difference between "correct" and "how it is actually used by real people."

male pronouns wouldn't be the default to a woman.

I must have missed the brief somewhere, but there was/is a very clear trend to replace the default male pronoun for gender neutrality with the female pronoun she. Just recently I noticed this in Judea Pearl’s Book of Why. When and why did this start happening? It feels so forced and unnatural. You can sense he’s trying to kiss someone’s ass or appease an authority. At least mix it up a bit at best if you truly give a crap.

Grandparent comment was being sarcastic

Wow I'm just learning so much today. First I learned that heat shield engineers can work on space toilets, now someone is teaching me about sarcasm. It's great how everyone here on HN is so dedicated to teaching me things.

I especially liked the part where mission control referred to using the toilet as "donation"

Strava just happens to be the most popular run tracking app. If they banned it, another would take its place. If anything, they should be working with Strava to create an incognito mode. At this point, the US military should be willing to spend millions of dollars supporting that one feature

Why did you need circular maps?

Plots of polar Regions. I was working with data from the martian South Pole.

Meta is short for metagame. In videogames, and even in some sports, there are decisions made above/outside of the typical strategy of the game which players call metagame. For example, drafting players in football is metagaming. Or choosing what pickleball paddle to use is metagame.

An expanded view of that is that there's usually a "current" meta strategy that people tend to adhere to, kind of like a convention. And if you stray from that, you lose, even if your strategy would succeed in a vacuum.

For example, if the current meta is for employers to mainly use referrals/networking to hire, it would be a bad strategy to apply to postings.

Thank you! Very helpful clarity, indeed sounds like an incredibly useful term!