VisualStudio is different from VSCode.

I’m probably five years younger than you. We had rope climbing but it wasn’t part of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award (which I am seemingly deeply proud of actually having managed in the third grade, despite being crap at pull ups, and I was even worse at rope climbing).

Yes–elementary school (K-3) in Illinois, early 1990s. I was crap at it. We also had gymnastics rings.

I’m pretty sure none of the other schools I went to had ropes or rings in the gym, used or not.

I guess it’s not actually a widget, it’s a silent notification (that shows current conditions plus hourly if you expand it). The actual hourly forecast in the app is like that too, but since you can see the percentage chance of precipitation, it’s less annoying. I switched from the Norwegian Met Office to the NWS in the hopes Norway was just rubbish at forecasting the US, but it’s the same–it’s how Weawow maps the forecast data to icons.

I’d take a screenshot, but unbelievably Weawow doesn’t think it’s going to rain today.

The one thing that bugs me about Weawow is that the logic for when to display rain or thunderstorms in the widget is way wrong. It seems to show the rain or thunderstorm icon at the slightest possibility of precipitation.

I believe the Norwegian weather service (which is the default option, IIRC) does worldwide forecasting.

Twitter had the Arab Spring as this odd formative event, where it suddenly became a source of news information. I think it’s really hard to know how Twitter would have developed without that.

Chess is an interesting case study. For this whose don’t know, it’s not separated by gender, rather there are some competitions open only to women. At the same time, everyone knows Women’s GMs aren’t “real” GMs (they may even have killed off the Women’s GM title by now for this reason, I can’t remember), so it’s not clear that women’s chess isn’t at this point suggesting women are second class chess players. I’d expect women’s chess to disappear at some point (or for a few tournaments to stick around for historical reasons)–I’m pretty sure it’s less of a thing now than when I was a kid.

The value of women’s competitions is that it increases participation in sports where women were historically excluded (women were literally banned from FA football grounds in Britain) or where women’s participation was under-resourced (see… Little League softball, probably, which came into existence after a Supreme Court ruling saying Little League couldn’t bar girls from participating, so they made a separate competition to steer girls to). In some utopian future, that becomes unnecessary. However, over time, the women’s game sometimes develops a distinct flavor (men’s and women’s lacrosse require decidedly different skills, even if the difference in rules presumably originated in sexism) and then we have the problem of merging them back together without defaulting to losing the women’s game. There are sports where it wouldn’t be too hard–the ones where there’s little/no drift (shooting sports, maybe cricket) and the ones where everyone thinks the games are distinct (see baseball and fast pitch softball)–but others that are much harder. On the other hand, we manage with the fact there are two totally unrelated sports called “handball”, two lacrosse variants can’t be harder.

Shooting sports in the Olympics had one all-gender competition until a woman won. Mysteriously, she was prevented from defending her title because it became a “men’s” competition the next time round. (I want to say they didn’t even have a women’s event in the next Olympics, but I could be misremembering.)