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bgs113··on iOS 17 is available today
Please reconsider your use of the r-word. It is offensive, and there are better ways to convey what you mean.
bgs113··on What Happened to RSS?
Unless a site chooses to make RSS, especially full content feeds, part of a subscriber benefit. Ars Technica, for example, provides full content feeds to subscribers, while the general public can access title + preview snippets.

Approaching it this way (similar to paid mailing lists) is the best of both worlds, providing revenue incentives to users while removing site ads for users who care about and pay for the content.

bgs113··on Ask HN: Anyone else quickly losing confidence in Amazon?
I still buy tons of things from there, but usually only if it's sold by Amazon.com specifically or the known manufacturer selling there. And if I can find it through Target, it'll get here almost as fast with free shipping, from a company with stronger values, so I prefer that when possible.
bgs113··on AWS CloudShell
Except that Cloud9 requires an EC2 instance and associated spend, whereas CloudShell is free.
bgs113··on AWS CloudShell
> CloudShell is intended to be used from the AWS Management Console and does not currently support programmatic interaction

Which unfortunately means I can only access this from a browser window and can't start up a session from my own terminal. Sure would be nice to be able to launch a secure, remote CLI without all the limitations of a web client.

bgs113··on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
Availability seems to be an issue all around. After an early lockdown surge of restaurant additions in DoorDash, now listings which appear to be available and open have a decent chance of getting your order rejected, or just dropping off altogether. Restaurants are having a tough time right now, and it remains to be seen if poorly-advised re-openings will have any short-term positive effect on business.