I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn't go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

Yup: Backblaze Product and Pricing Updates

Some great lines in this film. Perhaps my favourite is

toilet aura

I guess your downvoter is pro toilet aura.

Oh, it definitely wouldn't be the same - five seconds with a history book could tell you that - it's just a question of how quickly we'd go savage 😅

I love that it's got the summary at the start, very respectful of readers' time 👍

Interesting idea. That would perhaps wreck a lot of pixel art, but I guess it'd be fine scaled up to 2x2 pixels as you often see it like that anyway.

If that happens, it should be a surprise - would really throw a spanner in the works and make it a unique event. The more I think about this idea, the more I like it!

Reddit hardly came up with that thermometer-style fundraising display; it's older then the internet.

I just tried to decode that acronym for a bit too: "mystery kanban bunny haired boss"? He's a tech YouTuber.

This looks brilliant! I love how simple the sending API is.

It had occurred to me that I could do something like this, but I'm happy you did all the hard work for me (especially the always-on feature of the Android app).

This bit made me laugh the most:

The TerrariaClone.init() method, which is over 1,300 lines long, actually grew so large that it hit the limit hardcoded into the Java compiler for the maximum memory that can be taken up by a single function! The solution? Copy half of the init() code into a new method, called codeTooLarge(), and call that from init().