benjamoon

Looks really good, well done! Just fyi, I noticed my phone (new iPhone) got really hot when looking at your site. I’ve had this before on sites and it’s usually a bug or a really tight loop somewhere that’s causing high cpu usage (maybe the animations). Sometimes it’s not high enough to notice on a laptop or full pc, but it’s enough to warm up a phone.

This petition was created by a z list celeb in the UK who lived their entire life like an open wound. Not saying I disagree with the idea of real identities online (maybe one social network could make it mandatory to ID and others could focus on privacy). She’s not an impartial voice though (I do feel bad for the sh*t her family gets). Plus, I doubt it’ll go anywhere, the debates are largely pointless from these public petitions.

I’m in the UK, over here we developed a vaccine to an unknown virus in about 10 months and then gave it to nearly 20 million people in 2 months. I’ll take that over the next generation of pointless aircrafts any day!

The hope is pod hosts would compete, some could be free and mine your data for ads etc, others could pay and focus on privacy. If that doesn’t work you host your own pod server, as long as it has an address that can be reached by the web that’s all that’s needed.

Tim Berner’s Lee and the Solid project have a good answer to these issues I think. Everyone owns their posts and likes and comments and friends etc. Any new platform can spin up and instantly compete because they just have to make your data more useful to you. It’d be like you owning all your music online and Spotify is just an interface, if you don’t like it you can jump to Apple Music. Or make your own or download some random app off the web that does what you want. The reason a new social network can’t just compete with Facebook is because they have all the data, if the data could stay with us then new platforms offering news ways of interfacing would be popping up all over the place. https://solidproject.org/

Ha, first time I’ve ever seen Coventry mentioned on HN and it’s getting bad press! I live here, it’s nice (if you stay in Earlsdon).

There’s an absolute ton of pro Trump material on TikTok made by young people.

If I ever need a quick colour to highlight something when testing I use #BADA55, it’s a rank lime green and it’s spelt BadAss so it’s easy to remember.

At least they announced it, google domains didn't mention it and I've now had about 50 emails from Nominet and they're still coming through. I think something's broken in their process and now they're spamming me!

We're a .NET dev company (all C# coders, but most of us have a background in VB as well), I asked my team if they had to choose would they rather have to develop with:

A: C#, but with WebForms (including using code behind and the built in web controls where possible).

or

B: VB, but with MVC and WebApi.

They all chose C# WebForms even though they all hate WebForms, just not as much as they hate VB.

Personally I love VB and WebForms, I never get to do work with it nowadays (I'm not even sure we have any legacy systems that still run it), but I built my company from scratch off that stack and coming from a classic ASP background I was blown away with controls like GridView and Repeaters etc. I remember our first designer being so confused with the mess of html outputted by these controls and the hatred our purists had for viewstate that polluted their lightweight designs.

I still remember how excited I was when I first used the AjaxControlToolkit and the UpdatePanel control, it was like magic!

Now everything's pretty much all C#, RazorPages, WebApi, Angular or Vue and I'd never go back, but I do miss the old days. It's not often I see tech that seems magical any more, SignalR was probably the last big thing that blew me away in terms of just doing something that felt so different, but it's really rare now.

I would add that we just finished a prototype app for a client using Blazor WASM and coding that did seem like witchcraft and certainly brought back some of the old feelings of being amazed, maybe we'll all look back on javascript frameworks in the same way we look back on VB in a couple of years if Blazor play outs.

Yeah, it looks bad, but the y axis on the chart only represents 1 degree. This is kind of my point, it’s so easy to show a chart with a big uptick and if you don’t dig deeper you come away thinking we’re about to catch fire.

The range between the min and max temps for the last 100 years is under 1°C globally. For the last 1,000 years it's just over 1°C (from wolfram alpha at least). It's clear that temps are slowly rising, but the constant reports of extreme weather seem at odds with the data to me. Is 1°C over 1,000 years really doing all this? When I read articles about the weather I have to remind myself what the data says. If I didn't check occasionally I'd think we'd increased by 10°C in the last 5 years.

For the record, I drive an electric car and my house is supplied by a purely renewable provider here in the UK. I hate the thought of polluting the planet and I do what I can to live a green life. I really love science and study as much as I can, but reading about global warming is very different to reading about quantum electrodynamics or special relativity. I'll happily watch the oil companies go under and I think dumping tons of crap in to the atmosphere is clearly terrible and shouldn't go unpunished, I just wish I had some better data to back this all up.

Source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+temperature

Has anyone got good sea level rise data for the last 1,000 years? Again, when I read any article I feel like the sea must have risen by a few meters already as everything is so dramatic, but I can't find a decent dataset that sets out what has actually happened.

Disney’s Moana already taught me everything there is to know!

This story is super relevant in the uk at the moment because one of our super markets (Iceland) made a Christmas advert about Palm oil and it was banned for being too political. Worth watching: https://youtu.be/oA10-oZi4Xc