This actually hurt to read, having used Postman since its launch. It was such a great, simple product then with a simple premise - easily make http requests from a simple ui. Since then, feature after feature has been added, now it's just total bloatware cruft, to the point where after having taken a break for several years, I found it relatively difficult to use upon return (especially if you want to avoid sign up). I see they've recently gotten a series d (!?) of $225 million, so good for them I guess, but it's not something I almost ever use any more, and no longer feel drawn to...
What percentage of consumers purchase new cars on a < 5 year basis? People who take out leases do, so there could be an uptick of these folks getting into EVs, but the majority of existing car owners aren't likely to hop over just to get on the EV train, I don't think, and the second hand car market is / will continue to be massive. I can't see a significant decline in gas vehicles for a decade or better, probably likely two before a significant portion of gas vehicles are off the road.
Yeah, I'm confused about this as well. Two years ago, this claim saying "we're now independent" would make sense, but now it almost feels like we could say the reverse; we've become less independent (less production, more demand) - situations like the current Ukraine problem could cause more trouble, not less
The taco bell bit makes sense; promotional period items like that might be entirely missed by infrequent guests, and may be enough to drive them in.
I guess I hadn't much considered the ability for something like a billboard to influence a traveler like that. A very good portion of their audience would see it day after day, but if you were just passing through the area, you wouldn't otherwise know some of the local options, interesting point.
A couple of genuine questions for you, not to lessen the good fortune advertising has brought you.
Did you go to eat at Taco Bell because of the ad? Would you have already, and perhaps seen it on their menu boards and tried it as a result?
Were you really not aware of these other taco places, and only became aware of them due to billboards? I know of 2/3 of them, I haven't heard of Taco Time (live in the midwest), but I've heard of the rest from people I know. I don't think I've seen any of them advertised here, but I could be wrong.
A similar case for a company I previously worked for. They started out making high quality photo albums, I believe targeted primarily at pets. They built in the deep-linking experience, so that you could send links to friends, etc. They eventually realized that every app ends up building in their own linking, and in turn became branch.io
A follow up nitpick question, would a hip altimeter be part of the jump suit he's wearing already - assuming the "he just wore what he had" theory, which it seems isn't plausible, but just playing hypotheticals.
I don't know a whole lot about skydiving or piloting (nothing in fact), but to each of your points:
> gave up too early
You and a couple other commenters mention this and not trying to land. Do we know how long it was before he gave up? Did he float 15 minutes before bailing after failing to restart, and that's just not included in the video? I understand landing on a small road would be possible in a plane like this, but since he's over mountains (3rd disclaimer, I don't know this area) - is it likely there would be roads available to him?
> skydiving rig
Is this because he is already a skydiver and/or was going paragliding (is this the same rig? Another thing I don't know). Would it make sense that this is just "what he has," as opposed to owning both a bail out and a sky diving kit?
> gopro on wrist
Wasn't it mounted on the plane dash, and he took it with him when he bailed?
> long/stable freefall
What is the norm for this? My thinking was this was to distance himself from the plane, which he later mentioned "came back around him" after he pulled.
I don't have any opinion either way, but I'm curious to know more about why some of these details are "give aways" on it being fake
I think the one bit you've not covered here is the children. While the parents likely will live a life of difficulty and work, their children become part of the American education pipeline that makes it quite likely they will be, if nothing else, integrated into society in a manner that will make their taking the next upward class step much easier. The parents are taking the hit to their livelihoods and careers to enable the next generation to be more successful. It's not a guarantee, but probably more upward mobility here.
Could you explain what you mean by this? From their launch at 80, they pretty quickly went up to ~90, then dropped back to 83-84, which is up a few percent for the day. What sort of bump do you expect? (Legitimately, I'm not familiar with this sort of thing)
He's since moved, I'm not sure if he had spoken to them, but I think you're right that it would have made him a hero of the area. This was a pretty densely residential area of Waukesha, WI - the fire department near the airport.
I wonder if the siren thing varies from location to location, a good friend of mine lived right next to one and it seemed you couldn't go 15 minutes without being drown out by them heading out.
It's a bit of the "look, it's not the next unit up," but it's also a bit of a tongue in cheek "this last 9/10th of a cent is the government collecting tax." It's no longer really true, since taxes make up much more than 1 cent of the cost of fuel, but it's stuck around as a reminder anyway.
As someone who bought a mid-2018 with the escape key on the touchbar, then watched the next model have it's own key, then watched all these ports get added back... I'm extremely frustrated to say the least. Trade in is valued at $840. If I had known either of these two updates would have gone "backwards" like this, I would have waited to purchase
Interestingly, the ship itself doesn't appear on any of the "vessel finder" type websites that I can locate, but if you zoom on the same region on vesselfinder.com, there is a green dashed line box in the same region you've linked here - wonder if that's a naval no-go zone or something? Don't see a legend for it.
Random, I guess, but what does "fewer than 5 in 100 will exceed these values" mean? Does that mean 5/100 would be more drunk than what's listed there? Less drunk? "Exceed" the weight on the high end?
I am very confused, how does the "Young People and Porn" section of this article in any way relate to the rest? Is this section actually another, unrelated article that snuck into the bottom?
This is largely my thought too. This exact story we've seen repeated how many times now? What is the outcome? It seems the users are left in the lurch, having lost access to their accounts and any associated resources without any recourse, and that's that. The end. What will it take to have them create some mechanism for recovery?
Oh, are you referring to some sort of conflicts with the "boundary" separators? I would be interested to hear more about this, I haven't personally had encoding issues with dashes, or thought to try to encode them (or w/e) to avoid any issues
Could you explain your concern with dash in url? To my knowledge, that shouldn't be in conflict with anything else like a slash, space, or plus, what sort of issues do you see?
Bringing in Material-UI actually feels like a good example - the last time I used that framework, it felt fairly large. I guess it was ~3mb as of their last publish (0.20?). Now, it's large enough that they've split it into ~4/5 packages, although it appears you would want to take the @material-ui/core to get started? This is 6mb alone, and the other pieces that are just material bring in another couple of megabytes, and then there are additional dependencies. So, a fairly sizable starting point, and then you've got your own code, and then you've got whatever additional components you want to pull in (more widgets, a drag-n-drop, etc), and suddenly you're looking at what the GPs were saying. The package file is probably still pretty clean, but pop open node_modules or the network tab when the page is loading. Even a small number of dependencies pretty quickly bloats up size
1. That's basically what I wrote :) although I collected different info. It can be really time intensive for bigger / older repositories...
2. Just going off commit author / email (and then corresponding gravatar) seems like enough. I get hand tailoring for something like this, but for a more "general purpose / throw a repo at me and I'll figure it out," I think using whatever you get is ok
3. Could try using tags for this, or I think specifically from Github, milestones / releases are stored differently? Don't know. I feel like this could also be an "include if present or ignore," although I do appreciate how it breaks up the history into a timeline
I don't have any specific projects in mind - for my own playing, I just used my own personal / work repos that I had available on my computer. I think the bigger, popular projects like Angular, React, or even language projects .NET Core or TypeScript could be interesting. I don't know if they would make great graphs or not though, I imagine it would be largely trial and error.
This is really cool. I started a project in a similar vein a few years back that I loosely called "What Did I Do" that would allow you to track blame / "ownership" over time. I could write out content to the command line, but once it got to the point of starting to put visualizations into the browser (in fact, I also went the D3 route), I started to lose drive. Finding a way to make it visually appealing escaped me - but you've captured it well here, I think. With the work you've done, can you also represent other repositories, or is this heavily focused on the Git repo specifically?