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I have to be honest, I'm still not entirely clear what Frigade is. Everything seems to reference it being a set of React components....but I see there's an API involved and some sort of CMS? Plus there's features like a mobile checkout flow, which doesn't sound like onboarding?

imo there's a piece of the service explanation missing on your website, which probably lies somewhere between the intro video and the list of components on offer.

I think that's an unfair view of Vice. It got acclaim for its writing and attitude as an independent outlet and seemed to be a legitimately profitable business for the first decade or so. It was only when it decided to become a media giant early/mid 2010s (and ironically people started to like it less and less) that it started hoovering up cheap investor money.

You're not responsible for a bowl of noodles for the rest of your life.

It’s a little from column a and a little column b in practice. Puja Patel (editor in chief) is fairly open about being in a mission to increase diversity and specifically covering fewer white male bands. You may spin that as “wokeness” (note: the parent never used that phrase) but it’s one and the same to covering what younger listeners were interested in over most of the last decade too. In lots of ways raging against wokeness is just the latest era of “old man shouts at cloud”.

The issue with that is it’s the same shift a lot of outlets made to try and keep pace too, which has resulted in a bunch of legacy outlets with little distinct editorial voice left. That’s not a barrier to keeping clicks, but it does feel like a failing strategy to retain cultural cache.

Though I digress, by all accounts Pitchfork had actually gone from losing money pre Puja to actually making money, so this was probably not about the outlet failing in some way. I personally agree with those noting how soon this has come after the staff unionisation vote

He also said he’d knock out Ian Cohen on sight if he saw him down LA Fitness after that review, man of many opinions lmao

Recently visited South Yorkshire for the first time in 4 years. I didn’t notice a big difference between 3 and 4G coverage, but it was shocking how much of the city area has complete coverage blackspots. Both for myself connected to EE and a friend connected to Vodafone.

Shocking I know, but what Trump says and American cultural interpretations of it don’t really hold sway over here.

Pretty harsh descriptor, but I’m from the North and often have referred to my area as a shithole. It’s not the area’s fault, it’s 40 years of mismanagement and underfunding, but still not a good place.

I replayed 12 a couple of years ago, the new Zodiac Age version. The quality of life changes in that have made it a significantly more enjoyable game, you can see now what they were aiming for and where they were up against the limits of the PS2.

Story is still a bit of a mess, pacing wise, but its voice acting has aged well (unlike X).

It’s a different game to the classic run, but I would rank it up amongst my favourites in the series now.

But did they purchase every non public domain book they used? Highly doubt it.

That’s convenient.

Well, shit, maybe Altman shouldn't have stoked that by signing letters how about AI was an extinction risk then.

Having worked in Kingston and had to endure Southwest trains, their service is still an absolute dream vs most of the rest of the country. Trains are cancelled, but the next service is 20 mins away, not hours, and they're not 1970s road bus bodies stuck on rails like Pacers.

What’s the advantage of server side WebAssembly over just running a Rust/whatever application?

Being able to take a cab in a single tiny part of the world remains firmly in “sort of works” camp.

It's about 12 months ago now, but I worked on a GL project where Firefox was significantly slower than Chrome – and, agreed, it was often on lower end devices. This was to the point it was easier to just drop features wholesale from Firefox, in order to ensure a steady 30 FPS (with Chrome solidly performing 60). I believe a large amount of it related to WebAudio APIs.

A model processing all that data doesn't sound fun. Sounds like the next generation of Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen, but this time it's information on every facet of your life.

I realise this is completely permited by Slack/other services and you agree to it as part of ToS, but people did with Facebook too. Doesn't lessen the rude awakening that awaits the majority of users.

Their issue with the UK bill is the required data collection of users. The Digital Services Act is more about requiring them to more clearly state what profiles are being collected, how they are being used, and provide mechanisms for reporting illegal content.

Looking through the Wikimedia blog post you linked, it looks like the final DSA takes most of their problems in to account?

You have to take quite a narrow view of the business world to say Apple and Microsoft aren't comparable. They might have different products, but it's not like Apple is a greengrocer.

What advantage does this offer over composing using standard CSS classes, and maybe even using something like `classnames` to simplify the conditional logic? Feels like tying your project in quite heavily to a library that might become deprecated.

Apple should open up and allow other browsers, but they shouldn’t just adopt Chrome themselves. Aside from throwing us back to the days of a browser monopoly, relying completely on a service provided by Google is becoming an increasingly questionable decision.

If someone from Netherlands accessing your website puts your data at risk, someone accessing your site from the US puts your data at risk.

Or they've worked with them for more than four years, before the UK left the EU.

I still can't believe major corporations thought the shift to ecommerce from the pandemic "looked to be permanent". More people than not spent 2 years complaining they couldn't leave the house and rushing out to the pub/shops/holidays the minute restrictions dropped.

It was certainly a possibility, but staggers my mind that companies of this size all decided it was a sureity.

If I were to be uncharitable, this is the effect of senior staff at these companies having been completely detached from the pandemic experience of the majority of the population. Lots of people still had to go to work F2F, lots of people spent it cooped up in 30m2 apartments with flatmates they hate.

I've definitely done this before, though mainly in non-critical situations (eg: shuffling a bunch of product images to display on a screen in store) where I didn't care too much if it wasn't TRUE shuffling.

Is there a name for this approach/any info on why it doesn't work?

I think this one benefits some consumers, who are in to it, but overall it's more the principal of avoiding monopoly practices. The push to allow other rendering engines/browsers on iOS is a much more beneficial and clear cut positive imo.

I honestly have to clean up once I hit 5 or 6 tabs, so genuine question to those who keep many open – once you are having to search through a list, what's the advantage over just using history/bookmarks?

How is 3 debunked? The Tweet is still the first result on Google: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776

Not sure about the timtam example. Couldn't this:

  const flow = (...fns) => x0 => fns.reduce(
    (x, f) => f(x),
    x0
  );

  function slamTimTamsUsingFlow(timtams) {
    return timtams
        .slice(0, MAX_TIMTAMS)
        .map(flow(
            biteArbitraryCorner,
            biteOppositeCorner,
            insertInBeverage,
            drawLiquid,
            insertIntoMouth));
  }

Just be written as:

  const slamTimTams = timtams => 
     timtams
        .slice(0, MAX_TIMTAMS)
        .map(timtam => timtam.biteArbitraryCorner()
            .biteOppositeCorner()
            .insertInBeverage()
            .drawLiquid()
            .insertIntoMouth());

Feels much more concise and readable than the flow example

Great tip, thanks

I never justified it because that quote is nowhere in my comment.

Regardless, it’s not as “stupid” as you claim. How many social networks have added a premium tier for non commercial users, while degrading the quality of the free tier and been successful?

Closest I can think of are dating apps, which have a unique driver behind them that Twitter doesn’t have.