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My guess is as a species it will relocate to somewhere with the right temperature zone but because coral takes so long to grow from the perspective of those of us alive the existing “old growth” coral will die.

Today it’s Nue. Tomorrow it’ll be Olde and we’ll complain about all the boilerplate or repetitive update logic we now have to write.

What do you think constitutes a collapse? Can you give a modern times example of a country collapsing in a way you’re imagining the US might?

This is fantastic! I hope you can foster a truly open, high quality, light and fast operating system that draws in multiple hardware vendors each with their own take on what a watch should be.

The material changes shape based on the amount of humidity in the air. The article doesn’t explain how that makes it respond to sunlight, which is what their demonstration system does. I didn’t think sunlight and humidity were always correlated. Am I missing something obvious?

Censorship is different than learned bias.

I’ve heard this all too. My father grew up and lived in the former Yugoslavia. He’s since spoken about how well regarded Tito was and the opinion many had that he played a big hand in keeping Yugoslavia united whilst he was alive. He’s also talked about how Yugoslavia was sort of a buffer zone between the east and west and so a lot of freedoms were available to citizens there that weren’t in the full on communist countries. E.g when he was younger he did some work trips to Germany and on top of earning deutschmarks had a side hustle smuggling back jeans and records to sell.

Oh yeah and my folks gave me the impression growing up that Albania was scary as hell back then.

Ahh Tintin. This takes me right back to the pre-internet era perusing the Tintin section at my school’s library. It was such a delight to occasionally come across one that I hadn’t read yet. Somehow this happened surprisingly often, I guess a bunch of us borrowers kept the series under heavy rotation.

This was my takeaway from the article too.

This. Same in Australia.

You’re even forgetting the supercomputer they’re carrying on their wrists.

A centralized service runs on computers wholly under control of a single entity. They can change, monitor, amplify and bury all information. They can read your private messages. They can delete content, promote other content, and even impersonate you.

Apart from reading your private messages, does that mean you still need to trust that the server you’re connected to isn’t doing all those other things?

Having all the data of the entire network on all the Big-World Servers. That's what you need to do if you want to crunch the data, make it searchable, and provide algorithms that help you discover new content and new people to follow.

How is this all possible if the data is encrypted? Also, what’s the economic incentive for building and maintaining the software that runs on the servers?

As an affluent tech industry Australian living in the US (Bay Area) I’d say there’s very little practical difference in my standard of living here compared to back home. It’s more the poorer parts of society here where the figures quoted in the article apply and that feels just as removed from my life here as it does to you sitting in Australia. The US is a big place.

As a counterpoint I’m an Australian living in the Bay Area and drivers here are more considerate than back home. In law abiding Melbourne where I grew up, drivers will happy run you over if you’re jay walking because they supposedly have right of way.

I’ve noticed this trend as well around my neighborhood since the pandemic.

Since the second amendment doesn’t specify what arms I have the right to bear does that mean I should be allowed to wander down to my local gun store to pick up a surface to air missile so that I can shoot down an airliner? Of course not, that would be insane. So why not put similar limits on automatic weapons that can mow down an auditorium full of kids?

Teaching programming via the technologies in fashion and practical for getting a job today is flawed. Teach the fundamentals - math, logic, algorithms. But, most importantly, teach how to learn and problem solve. If your students can’t figure out how to quit their editor they’re doomed in this career. Forget about React and hooks, those will be out of date by the time they’re entering the workforce.

Yep, that’s been my experience as well. This might actually turn downtown around if it’s forced to convert more to residential.

With its hills, access to green space, forests, ocean, waterways and culture it’s a fantastic city to live - up there with the best in the US in my books.

I’ve even grown to love the fog and wind, it feels amazing to come back to in the summer when everywhere inland from the coast is baking in 100+ degree weather.

I run into frustrations whenever I search for anything to do with products or something popular like parenting. Results are swamped by garbage as filled SEO content some of which I swear is written by chatGPT. I don’t know why Google doesn’t penalize those results. Come to think of it they don’t seem to mind surfacing content that’s behind a paywall either. I’m really not sure what’s going on over there these days…

What a huge step backwards! I have an infant and am trying to move more of my content consumption including news to Kindle vs iPhone. Even at one years old she’s already forming an unhealthy relationship with smart phones given how much she sees her parents using them so I’m trying to cut down as much as possible. Interestingly, like a physical book, the kindle doesn’t get much reaction from her.

I’ve been wondering lately how small one of the indoor inverter heads could be scaled down to. Specifically, whether it could approach the footprint of a ducted heating outlet (with most of it under the floor). It seems like it would be more efficient to run coolant lines to the heads rather than blowing all that air through ducts as well as making it easier to have separate temp zones in the house. Does anyone know what the physical limitations are?

That's awesome, thanks for sharing those components with the world!

This is neat! Is the idea to go in the direction of low code app builder or a high fidelity design tool? (or both??). What parts are planned as open source?

Co-working spaces should take note

It's surprising they're not free or mandated as part of health care in the US given our falling birth rates and xenophobic fear of immigration.

Source? I’d like to go look.

Chromatic | Cloud Systems & UI Engineers | REMOTE, Americas | Full-time | https://chromatic.com

We build open source and cloud devtools to help engineers ship better component based UIs.

You’ll work on building services to handle thousands of requests a second across a cluster scaling to hundreds of machines as well as contributing to the popular Storybook open source project.

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Yes, it can

Storybook is pretty flexible if your work can render in a web browser. We recently rebuilt Chromatic's CLI and as an experiment decided to write stories to record and regression test the many states the CLI can be in. We were able to use Storybook as we used a React based library to output to STDOUT.

We're loving the result so far as it makes it really easy to answer questions like - "what will the user see if they have passed flag X but their workspace is in state Y and Z their build has failed to upload". You can check out the Storybook here:

https://5d67dc0374b2e300209c41e7-kgfpdfjsbm.chromatic.com/?p...

If I was building a game I'd find the component driven methodology (https://www.componentdriven.org) with a component explorer like Storybook or something specific to the game dev environment ideal because of how many hard to reach key states games have that could easily break as a result of code changes somewhere else.