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I am debating making a better version where the bubbles are appropriately sized and look nicer and the background is smoother, but I thought it might take away the ‘memeyness’ of it.

I just went with the original background made by the person who seemingly invented the meme format on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/incorrecttintin/162088281738

Yes, that was a design goal!

It is probably technically possible to have the time continue to update with just CSS on the client (based on [1]), but the initial time still has to be set server-side.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/of-course-we-can-make-a-css-only-cloc...

TeX source is available if you want to modify the styling yourself: https://github.com/vEnhance/napkin/

The self-hosted app Actual Budget [1] sort of takes the second approach, where each client maintains their own SQLite database in local storage. However, instead of just hosting a single file database, the server maintains a list of migrations and is able to resolve conflicts between multiple clients. Clients push/pull the migrations when syncing to keep their database up-to-date. E2EE is also supported. The original creator, James Long, has done talks about the architecture if you want to learn more [2, 3].

[1] https://actualbudget.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dh_gtndayY

[3] https://www.localfirst.fm/7

I’d love to just use `font-face: sans-serif` and always leave it up to the user, but different font metrics result in different (usually way too big) line heights.

Out of curiosity, what’s your font of choice?

The plan is to eventually implement with CUDA:

"Currently, I am working on [...] direct CUDA implementation, which will be significantly faster and probably come close to PyTorch."

It generally requires more plant death to feed and then eat an animal than to just eat the plants directly. [1] Even if the "screaming" was indicative of pain, vegans who are motivated by reducing suffering would not be contradicting themselves by eating only plants.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/28/if-every...

Whether it is a bad idea for usability depends on what you are trying to accomplish. For example, Matthew Butterick's online book Practical Typography styles links so that they are not highlighted or underlined in any way. Instead, they are instead followed by a small red circle [1]:

"Vigorously styled hyperlinks on a page tend to move to the foreground of a reader’s attention, like an HDTV in a hotel bar. [...] The red circle is meant to be noticeable while you’re reading the sentence that contains the link. Otherwise it disappears, so as not to distract."

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/how-to-use.html

Mostly. There are some “seedless” fruits (bananas, grapes, etc) which have been bred to be defective, or have become defective because of some natural mutation. [1]

There’s also fruits like coconuts, which don’t have seeds like we normally think of them. The coconut we eat after removing outer layers (exocarp, mesocarp) is a seed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy

Spinach, onions, celery, broccoli, bok choy, carrots… These are certainly not fruits. Vegetable is a culinary term, but so is fruit.

Outside the context of a botany classroom, you’re going to have a hard time finding people who respond to the question “Is cucumber a vegetable or a fruit?” with the answer “fruit, of course!”

I asked if you had watched the video because you didn't raise any specific objections to the evidence provided. I'm not going to restate everything said in the video, but if there's something specific you disagreed with, we could talk about it in more detail.

I assume that by "slow burn," you mean to say that climate change takes place on a time scale that goes beyond just one or two decades. If that's true, then how can we possibly judge the accuracy of the newer "hot" models except by looking at how well they predict past climate data? And by that metric, some of them do just as well as the older, less "hot" models that we've been basing climate policy on for decades. Is there some other metric you're using to dismiss the new models? I hope it's clear why I think you're contradicting yourself, but maybe you have some other way of telling whether a climate model is accurate.

I think there is some validity to what you say about risk assessment, and I have the general feeling that there is some real hysteria among younger generations w.r.t. climate change. There may be more pressing issues, but again, if it is the case that we can expect to see much hotter temperatures than previously predicted, then everyone, regardless of wealth or location, should be concerned for their own wellbeing in the near future.

The video in the post addresses points 1, 3, and 4 quite well, in my opinion. Did you watch it?

Also, if we granted your fourth point, it would be impossible to establish the first point; you can't say both things at the same time.

Regarding point 2, if the "hot" models are accurate, then climate change is something that will effect us maybe one or two generations from now, if it isn't already (it's a little hard to tell whether we are in a particularly hot period right now and will regress to the mean). Even if you are completely selfish, anti-natalist, and atheist, you should probably still be concerned.

They send your Apple credentials to a machine (possibly virtual) that runs macOS, which sends and receives messages. Those messages get relayed through Beeper.

Do you have any evidence of harassment or doxxing? You come off as very aggressive in your comments, but that’s understandable if you’ve actually been harassed.

I think this could have been avoided entirely if you had given a shoutout to OP. It doesn’t seem like you copied their code, but it does seem like you were inspired by their idea. Open-source software is built on collaboration and recognition. Give credit where credit is due, even if it’s just a small credit.

Reminds me of the artist “⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ” [1] (although you can just search “Wingdings” on Spotify and you’ll find them).

[1] https://00000ooooo.bandcamp.com/

As far as I can tell, the Beeper official client is a fork of Element, and there aren’t any huge missing features (other than easily setting up bridges).