I would add to this that tag URIs (see RFC 4151) are a fantastic way to mint entry IDs.

Fun fact: even though "There is no authoritative resolution mechanism for tags" and they're "not designed to support resolution", you're totally allowed to resolve them anyway. You can, for example, bodge your server to do it at the HTTP level:

    GET tag:alice@example.net,2013:15fb-4628-94d3 HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.0 302 I love you
    Location: https://example.net/~alice/2025/11/03/go-vote

(You can even respond to requests to resolve other people's tag URIs that you didn't mint. No one is going to stop you.)

When doing the right thing regarding things like addiction are tried in the US, there seems to be a habit of learning the wrong lesson. Attempts to apply the successful Portuguese model have failed because decriminalisation by itself is just an enabler of what _really_ helps, which is all the follow-up support.

And don't get me started on how public health interventions in general seem to end up treated as moral hazards or wasteful in the US, even when they're _saving_ money...

Decriminalization isn't necessarily the optimal solution.

For hard drugs, something closer to Sweden's Systemboaget [0] where the drug is carefully controlled (and taxed!) by a state monopoly, with the proceeds of this monopoly being used to fund rehabilitation efforts or other support/public-health efforts might be better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget

You don't. Just choose a block of RAM to write stuff to and use that. The block on the right shows the printable ASCII value of each address.

It's not the 16th century anymore. Can we please just give this up?

If you want to be pedantic, then this also wrong: half of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Scotland are actually on the Laurentian plate, which split apart. The Scottish Highlands used to be part of the same range as the Appalachian. Plates are not continents.

I thank you for correcting me! I learned something today.

Geologically speaking, Scotland had a lot more to do with Appalachia than the rest of Europe…

Lake Ontario wasn't a "nationalist" name. It's an anglicised version of the Wyandot name for the lake. The Canadian province is named after the lake, not the other way around.

Don't be a ghoul.

Either way, America is more inclusive. Don’t be a ghoul

The term "cartel" might be useful here.

NATs are not firewalls. Any firewall-like functionality provided by NAT is entirely accidental and better provides by an actual NAT.

There are really two things here:

1) The typical "NAT" is a "PAT", which requires state for mapping traffic flow. An implementation is going to look very similar to a stateful firewall, by necessity, not accident.

2) The use of RFC-1918 addresses behind the router / NAT box provides some protection. If your address is not globally reachable, it's much harder to reach any hosts behind it. Yes, a poor implementation might allow direct routing from adjacent networks, like your ISP or neighbor. But that still isolates you from 99.99% of the internet.

s/actual NAT/actual firewall/

And a fun extra one is that Lithuanian "gobti" is cognate with English "give"!

Another cool one, Svet in Russian and Schwet in Hindi, both meaning white/light and both being in names (Svetlana, Shweta)