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Many areas for sure, although there is the Lake District, the coasts of Cornwall, and so on which are fairly untransformed, so to speak. Looking at Great Britain overall, the Scottish Highlands of course come to mind, as well. I think your overall point stands though, farmlands and villages which are regarded as positive through the romantic lens nowadays are of course a man-made change to the whole ecosystem.
Many of the newer standards added to the web platform boil down to supporting development of web apps, not only web pages. For example, the current iteration of the File System API in Chrome (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...) allows web apps to request permission to read and write to the user's file system. This is great for many tools.
Of course, this can be fairly controversial: More app-like capabilities lead to more complex standards and harder-to-secure browsers. There's also overengineering where people use web app techniques to develop web pages. You don't need (much) JS or even any of the new standards for HN, but for something like Google Docs or Figma, it's a different story.
Shoelace is excellent, in my experience! Well document, accessible, and a large selection of components. To solve the issue you mention, you can cherry-pick the imports [1], which imports only the specific component you need.
[1] https://shoelace.style/getting-started/installation#cherry-p...
It's not a living space but a data center, that is why there are no windows.
It's mostly a tool to manage research literature. It allows you to add works you are viewing in your web browser to collections. Then, you can create bibliographies from these collections. As a researcher I use it a lot, since it makes working with references much smoother. There's also extra features like cloud syncing and most recently an integrated PDF viewer and annotator. https://www.zotero.org/
Lit is very close to vanilla Web Components, but makes the standard more convenient to work with. Especially when used with TypeScript and a nice plugin such as lit-plugin [1], you get syntax highlighted and checked CSS + HTML, auto-completion in templates, and so on.
Also, the reactivity offered by Lit is something you could implement yourself using the standard lifecycle methods of custom elements, but is quite boilerplate-y. Overall, Lit gives you a better developer experience with fewer foot guns and boilerplate without much overhead.
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=runem.li...
Looks great! Still eagerly waiting for Windows support: I have a specific use case where I need both a bundler and a package manager to run on the user's desktop cross-platform, and right now that's yarn + esbuild. I'd love to roll this into a single, performant solution. It's already being worked on as far as I know [1], excited to upgrade to Bun when that's available.
Fair enough about your existing cables, but cables would be thrown away if we enforced Lightning, as well (probably a lot more, but I have no numbers on that). I don't really get the arguments of durability and ease of plugging, both cable types seem very easy to plug. As for durability, that seems to depend on cable quality and not on the USB C standard.
As for evolution/innovation, sure, that's a real downside. Seems like a quite small price to pay though because it is just about charging. And if I understand this correctly, you can still innovate and add Super Charge 3000 to your device, it just needs to have USB C charging as well, and you need to be able to opt out of getting yet another charger with your new device.
As for working on actual stuff: They can do both - Regulating mining would be great, but this is also good.
But is it just a question of education, or also a question of usability? A nice, random sequence of alphanumerical characters that can not be connected to the user at all is, unsurprisingly, hard to remember for the user. Dumb stuff like reusing passwords and choosing pet names is a mistake from a security perspective of course, but also a mitigation of the poor usability of passwords. Don't expect the user to remember dozens and hundreds of strong passwords.
Rather, I would advocate password managers. For me personally, the simple usability of Firefox's integrated password manager (auto-suggests a strong password on account creation, auto-saves the credentials and syncs them across devices) has done more to improve my passwords than all education. I guess I am lazy, but many people are.
There's some research about this. [1] It seems tutoring is very effective as a teaching method, but of course, not very scalable.
Great site! The visualization style is very nice to get a feel for the distribution of the market, so to say. I noticed you can even switch axes, for example changing the y axis from screen size to storage.
You can switch that site to tablets, here's a direct link: https://www.productchart.com/tablets/
At a glance, you can filter by both screen size and weight, so that should work for your purpose.
I think the top commenter means the animation of the placeholder elements on your demo page (https://iamlocaljo.com/graphy-react-challenge/). It's a pretty minor glitch.
I agree up to a point: There were peoples with their distinct cultures that the Ottomans conquered, the most prominent example being the Balkans. However, "nation" is an 18th/19th century idea. The notion that distinct peoples should form distinct and independent units of state called nations was no driving force in the medieval and early modern period, in which we see the forming of multi-national empires. I think you refer to this as well, I just wouldn't use the word 'nation' in the same way.
Agreed on the point about maintainance!
As to your other points:
* There actually is a "scheduled send" send feature, but it is a bit hidden: The "Send" button has a little dropdown arrow, there you can select "scheduled send". Don't know how long that has been there, I remember missing that feature, too.
* There is "confidential mode", which I haven't used extensively, but that might be what you are looking for. It's one of the buttons next to "Send".
Well, speaking strictly logically: If they were both astronomers and astrologers, and their astronomy was sound, it does not mean that their astrology was, too. Many great scientists of the past were religious, and yet that is no proof of god.
It's just hard for me to see how astrology could work. Either the movement of the stars affects the fate of individual humans everywhere, in a weird semantic connection ("Mars, the bringer of war" and so on), or people seek out astrologers to confirm whatever they need confirmed (Confirmation bias). This just seems massively more likely and doesn't clash with anything in the scientific framework. Astrology simply plays into all the biases everyone is affected by, so I don't mean to belittle anyone who believes or practices it, but it can't be called a science in any sense of the word.
While school can and should be improved in many countries, I think it's not really fair to make it out as the root of all evil. That assumes school is an all powerful tool to mold children's minds, when there are so many environmental and genetic factors influencing behavior. As for the societal issues you mention: I think they all have massively complex root causes I couldn't do justice just in a HN comment. But in short: Can world peace be achieved through education? I don't see how.
I switched from Webpack to Parcel (https://parceljs.org/), it requires far less configuration (only command line parameters for me) and runs faster. It's "batteries included", and I find it's enough for most of my applications.
I like the way this is written. Very clear and to the point, with a tone of "Hey, check out this cool thing".
That's a fair point about the NATO! Didn't mean to marginalize it, but there's only so many words to a sufferable HN comment.
It's true that today's EU was only established in 1992/93, but it is the result of a very long process of European integration starting in ECSC in 1951 and the EEC in 1957. Cooperation between Germany and France started remarkably early after World War II. A few years earlier, they could not have been more bitter enemies.
I agree with you and would say that the EU is utterly useless in a military conflict, precisely because there has always been the NATO to fall back on. This might change in the future as the US is becoming less reliable and more isolationist from a German standpoint at least, then again, there might be no political power capable of reforming the EU further right now.
In short, I think the EU helps Europe have internal peace. For everything else, I am glad to sit under a nuclear umbrella.
I agree that the EU cannot guarantee peace, of course. However, it really pushed European integration forward. It's a bit mundane, but all the cultural exchange through trade, travelling, student exchange programs and so on has made the kind of war enthusiasm people had in pre-war Europe pretty unlikely. Afterall, I've been to Paris and can confirm that the French are actually people, not baby eaters (classic WW1 propaganda). Though they eat snails. Weird. Of course, there's also the economic argument: I'm definitely no expert in economics, so I'm talking in very broad and simple terms here (and open to arguments), but the European economies are heavily intertwined through the single market. At least, that makes it institutionally more complicated and more expensive to go to war, which is an achievement, I think.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! The EU provides considerable benefits for Europe, arguably the most important, but also the most invisible, being peace. World War II ended only 74 years ago. To be a little dramatic: As a German, I'll gladly pay bureaucracy for peace. There's trade benefits inside the EU, free travel for all citizens, and, recently added, no more roaming fees for mobile phones. This is just what comes to mind right now. There's plenty to criticize and reform in the EU, but I disagree that leaving would improve things for any country.
I think the point of civil wars being damaging is spot on, but the example of the Thirty Years War as a civil war is quite flawed: The Holy Roman Empire had always been a small aggregation of city states, as you call it. The position of emperor held some political power, and attempts to centralize into a state were made a few times (Most significantly with the Reichsreform of 1495, which could not be enforced), but ultimately, the Holy Roman Emperor was one noble among many, with the rest of the empire paying him nothing more than lip service. And a detail: Bismarcks Prussia didn't reunite the HRE, it formed a nation out of most of the culturally German parts of the former empire (which had been dismantled already during the Napoleonic Wars), notably and among others missing Austria since they were historical rivals.
A minor point: To be fair, minified JS is not exactly a hard barrier. Conventional minification is just removing extraneous whitespace, newlines, comments, etc.. Except for the lost comments (which are definitely a pity if it's well-commented code), it's easily restored with an unminifier.
What do you mean by dynamic here, exactly? From what I understand, in Scala, types are statically inferred (at compile time, not at runtime). I'd call this a very nice feature to reduce boilerplate.