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dinglidinglion Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests

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dinglidinglion Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests

The article was alluding strictly towards external catastrophes

dinglidinglion Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through

Static images are fine, but you lose the benefit of interaction particularly when presenting. Wifi isn't always available so it's nice when the user can have a fallback compiled HTML to use.

As for extensibility - I understand that your focus is system design, but I don't really see any reason for this to not be more broadly available for any sort of process design, particularly for use as a UX tool or in the product ownership space for understanding how systems and physical processes might be interconnected. I see that you can add any custom node in the code, and they just get a little gear icon, but it would be nice if the user could define the nodes themselves, add meta data, conditionals, loops etc. I've been using BPMN for years but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't outdated and a pain to present to people.

dinglidinglion Show HN: Agent Purge – Scrub any mention of anything agent related

But, why? Is it more for fun or does the visual noise help?

dinglidinglion Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through

This is really beautiful, but like others said, being online only is a bit disappointing (though understandable). Are there any plans for extensibility in the future?