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> “The more the ice melts, the more sea surface is exposed, the more iodine is emitted, the more particles are made, the more clouds form, the faster it all goes,” Kirkby said.

A positive feedback loop. Not good.

Reminds me of a passage from Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael". A man jumps off a cliff in a winged contraption. As he plummets to the ground, he truly believes for a short period that he is flying. If our biosphere is more fragile than once thought, I wonder if our current period will be humanity's short flight?

Crikey, that's going to be confusing. Why not separate capture variables from comparison variables by using tuple-style brackets?

  RED = "red"
  colour = "green"
  
  match colour:
    case (RED,):
      print(f"The colour is {RED}")
  
  > The colour is green

  match colour:
    case RED:
      print(f"The colour is {RED}")

  > The colour is red

The most egregious violation I've seen is weather.com's cookie process. Go to https://weather.com/en-GB/ and click "Proceed with required cookies only". It's almost theatrical: first a spinning loading wheel, then the message "We are processing your request, this could take up to a few minutes to process." Then wait for their "Processing 0%" countdown take a few minutes to reach 100%. Anyone would think they are trying to discourage people from choosing that option?

I find it disconcerting how many people here are allowing a random service, most probably unheard of till now, to view their Spotify profile.

I wouldn't say so. People are using Vue.js in lieu of jQuery these days.

I love Noah Kalina. He also has an amusing newsletter filled with wacky and random anecdotes about life in rural NY. About the only subscribed email I look forward to receiving.

A good, and succinct, little introduction to fibre cables. I didn't realize the speed of light drops 31% inside silicon glass. Thanks for posting.

France is a primary actor in the EU seeking to regulate Facebook. It appears the company is now publicly calling out the country's shady activities on their own platform -- clever, and no doubt a good bargaining chip.

Neither are KLM in my experience.

Typical nature of doing business in Europe. Arbitrary laws, borne in good faith but implemented so badly and erratically that everyone is forced to ignore them. The same laws are then wielded as a baton against whomever the state wishes to punish at the time.

I've been generally happy with startpage.com, they seem to mirror Google's results. And it works with dark mode. You don't get the contextual niceties that you get with Google though e.g. results for "70F in C".

I happily switched to Firefox Quantum when it first came out, but have periodically switched back to Chrome because Chrome feels faster and snappier. Not sure why that might be the case. I'm using the latest MacOS X with the same set of extensions/add-ons in both browsers.

Sounds like the Chinese system of incremental improvements. The value is in successful and fast execution, not the protection of the idea.

Good work by the BBC, introducing us to the technology that many of us use without even considering its complexities.

Perhaps it's time to take a couple of minutes to watch the sources and destinations in Slate's The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes animation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...

Reeder with feeds from Feedly (manually added feeds, not suggested).

The arguments are mind-bogglingly outdated now. -- "Men and women are equal, but they have different missions". "Don't bog our women down in party fights, they have more noble tasks to complete." -- They really were different times, and only 60 years ago.

Catalina is a dumpster fire compared to Mojave.

Waking up a Macbook Pro with two USB-C monitors plugged in, only one monitor comes on. I have to fiddle around by opening the laptop's lid or pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject and waking it up again from scratch for all the monitors to respond.

Leave Catalina running too long, its Watchdog process times out and it has a kernel panic. During the night every two or three days. After booting and reporting to Apple (again), it's time to rearrange all the windows and reopen all the documents I was working on, again.

Inadequate is the polite way of describing it.

Android One held lots of potential, but Google managed to stuff that up too. They need to wrestle back control over the OS from the OEMs. Until they do, Android handsets will be disposable beyond a life of 2 years.

Ironically, a company that understands that model is Microsoft. It's a pity they aren't competition for Apple in this space yet. As an iPhone/Macbook Pro/iPad user, I am eyeing the Surface Go 2 w/WSL as a potential future replacement for the iPad.

I'd recommend you don't upgrade to Catalina. It's really awful. Go straight to Big Sur.

"Minitel use peaked in 1993". The closest technology at that time outside France would have been bulletin board services (BBS). Each was run as a separate walled garden but many were linked by Fidonet. So not too dissimilar to Minitel, just more diverse and decentralized.

It's been progressively so throughout the entire 20th century. George Orwell wrote about the suburbanisation of rural life in his "Coming Up for Air" [1] back in the 1930s. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air

I couldn't agree more. After the original's nuanced characters and landscape, the harsh sterility of the sequel was so disappointing.

I've read that Amazon warehouses mix every vendor's products with the same UPC code into the same box. If that's true, then it's pot luck whether you receive a legitimate or fake product.

Having a HomeKit home is easier than you think. An IKEA or Hue gateway connected to your router, a few lamp bulbs, and an iPad or Apple TV to control it all. That, at the least, will give you "Hey Siri turn on the lights".

Contributors and adopters: <every large company but Microsoft>

Whilst it's healthy to have competition, I'm not sure a rip-off of VS Code is in the spirit of open source. Did they try to work with the team at Microsoft to improve VS Code before forking it?

Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but I miss my BlackBerry Bold.

A buzz in the pocket, email symbol on the screen, main button to open the email, right-click button to forward, physical scroll to a recent colleague and select, lock & back in pocket.

All that before 3G. Easy, quick and no fuss, muscle memory took care of most of it.

It's a long o-umlaut. Pronounced like "err" (thinking) or a stretched out version of "ea" from earth.

Incidentally, Erdős in Hungarian means Forester.

You beat me to it. I find the references quite perverse, and detracts from the rest of the article.

I agree with your sentiment, just not your delivery.