Am I missing a joke about captain Picard's family having a vineyard (don't remember if they rode horses), or are you confusing Patrick Stewart with someone else? His family was poor as shit, and his dad had PTSD, and was prone to violence. He was anything but born into wealth.

• There's a new proton drive CLI
• That's good
• The CLI is implemented in TypeScript
• That's bad
• It is available on Linux
• That's good
• It pulls in a massive node_modules directory
• ...
• That's bad

I think you mean raising the price of the end products, because they're a responsible company that is helping the environment.

Last time he made a bet, he just cut contact with the person when he lost. Bets are meaningless to him

I've heard of this before, and I don't understand... How far back do people bring their knife to whack the pit?

I bring my knife a couple of centimeters up. I don't think I bring it down hard enough to do any serious harm to my hand... But the way people talk about this, it seems everyone is doing an anime stance of pulling a sword from their sheath, going as far back as they can, and scream while trying to cut the pit in half with their oversized sword. Obviously missing and cutting off their hand in the process.

Kikkoman, when he's down.

Shaka, when the walls fell.