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kevmoo1··on WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
It's using a Flutter web build that's over 2 years old. We've gotten a LOT better.

Context: I'm a product manager on the team.

kevmoo1··on Costco Denies Shareholder Demand to Back Down from DEI Hiring
I say that as a straight white boy, BTW. :-)
kevmoo1··on The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
My 13-year-old just got her own phone. Wired up with https://www.pinwheel.com/

She is NOT going to be touching social media or similar until at LEAST high school.

kevmoo1··on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
Yes.

Next question.

kevmoo1··on Netflix wants managers to ask whether they would rehire their employees
See also: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SRLtGOjEHkI
kevmoo1··on From Steampunk to Solarpunk (2008)
Also recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQJHja9qxU

kevmoo1··on It pays to be a double major in college
Yep!
kevmoo1··on Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
There's some consolidation here. Podcast support in YouTube music is a real thing.

There is SO much overlap between YouTube Music videos and listening to music. There is also overlap between YouTube podcasts and listening to podcasts.

Trying to align here makes a lot of sense. Tricky to pull off, sure, but it's not a dropped ball.

kevmoo1··on Le Grand K (2018)
I heard the explanation that one was from physics and one was from chemistry.

And they were both important to get the error bars low enough so they could move over with confidence.

See https://youtu.be/KBZD3tFny_E?si=VyqjpainWVgbY_NF

kevmoo1··on Le Grand K (2018)
This is THE explanation.

It's long, but it's AMAZING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZD3tFny_E

kevmoo1··on The Speed Project: A Race Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDZdsqbcGTU

kevmoo1··on Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design (2020)
It's possible the folks who made this demo – which was created years ago – didn't do an a11y pass. Something things need to be wired up for specific scenarios.
kevmoo1··on Ask HN: Are there 3D twisty puzzles that can only be simulated on a computer?
Before 3D printing, likely. Now: not sure. Folks are printing seamless chainmail. Pretty crazy.
kevmoo1··on Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
This is peek internet. Amazing!
kevmoo1··on Why doesn't flutter.dev use flutter as their front end?
Great question!

While we'd love to be the best solution for every problem, it turns out the HTML-based web has been highly optimized for decades for text-heavy, linear, reading experiences.

So we're staying focused on the places where Flutter does the best job: interactive, non-linear, more-create-than-consume.

So our sites use HTML & CSS: flutter.dev, dart.dev, pub.dev

And our devtools are built in Flutter Web: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/tools/devtools/overview Along with web experiences from rows.com, reflection.app, rive.app, supernova.io, and many more.

FYI: I'm the product manager working on Flutter and Dart web tech at Google

(edit: fixed domain, mis-added one app)

kevmoo1··on Apple to Move a Part of Its Embedded Cores to RISC-V
I wish I could buy stock in RISC-V (in the abstract).

See also today: https://twitter.com/SiFive/status/1570880204804849671

kevmoo1··on D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
Agreed! Interesting idea, but charging for this is not going to get them very far.

Gotta find a way to do an "open core" or similar.

kevmoo1··on Guetzli vs. MozJPEG
FYI: Guetzli seems to have not been touched in ~5 years.

See https://github.com/google/guetzli/tree/master/guetzli

kevmoo1··on Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
Ranked Choice (IRV) is better than Plurality, but there are better options.

Read about the Condorcet Method

kevmoo1··on Estimated 216,000 children abused by French Catholic priests, report finds
Fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tu8Y5g8pXg
kevmoo1··on Open letter by Blue Origin employees on safety and culture issues
Seems that rage is justified, no?
kevmoo1··on H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
Worth reminding folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
kevmoo1··on Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees
Super cool, yo! Very unix – do one simple thing well.
kevmoo1··on Google announces Flutter 2 with support for the web and desktop apps
See a Flutter Web demo app here: https://flutterplasma.dev/
kevmoo1··on Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
Google and Apple can simply make software disappear. Software that gives access to child pornography. Software to buy and sell black-market drugs. Software that lets people organize terrorism and sedition.

There's a point where free speech crosses the "clear and present danger" threshold.

I consider this a feature, not a bug.

kevmoo1··on The Base58 Encoding Scheme
Read the authors:

S. Nakamoto, BitCoin

Huh?

kevmoo1··on Why I've stopped saying 'hey guys' (as a male in tech)
Amen. Should NOT be flagged. Be professional. Be respectful. Be thoughtful. Be flexible. Be kind. It is NOT asking too much. This is a pretty low bar – especially for "smart" people.
kevmoo1··on Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
Came here to post this. Glad someone else thought of this first!
kevmoo1··on Dart: Sound Null Safety
See https://flutter.dev :-)
kevmoo1··on Crafting Interpreters Is Complete
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738
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