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> "I suspect that a similarily configured Raspberry Pi 4/5 with all the accessories added on top would result in a price that’s quite similar to the cost of a top-of-the-line Zimaboard."

With respect to the author, why would you not take 10 seconds to verify this claim? A cursory Google search shows that an 8 GB Pi 4 with passive case and PSU is ~$100 all-in. If you can wait a couple of weeks the Pi 5 offers a nice performance bump (and PCIe!) for about the same price factoring in the official active cooler and case.

The two aren't mutually exclusive; for example the Samsung Galaxy XCover has a removable battery and an IP68 rating.

Lord, what I would give to see Haiku gain real traction. BeOS was something truly special and I often wonder what the tech landscape would look like today had Apple chosen to acquire them instead of NeXT.

These changes really are a shot across the bow of every single developer who bet on Unity. Even if this particular change doesn't negatively impact you, why would you continue to invest your time and energy in a product which has shown that it's willing to retroactively alter licensing terms?

The ongoing enshittification of Unity is great news for Godot.

Oh no, their digital tulips!

Though on second thought that's hardly a fair comparison. At least if you planted a tulip bulb you might get a beautiful flower for your efforts. An NFT of a mutated ape is good for precisely bupkis.

For the impatient: the game stores much of its state in global variables which may easily be manipulated in the console.

$44 billion so he can finally call something "X" without any grownups in the room to tell him why it's a terrible idea. Well, I guess we all have our hobbies.

I wonder what the CEO thinks about this?

Didn't Elon himself try to do something to prevent it when he tried to weasel out of the deal?

From these comments I can only assume that the Thunderbird project is going to have a lot of new contributors in the near future. :) Create the future you want to see!

What is it that you think he's building?

Different app altogether.

I love how they snuck that in at the very end, like it'd soften the blow.

The site is totally unusable right now unless you're a paid subscriber, in which case it's only very slightly less unusable - so by definition I'd say yeah, Twitter as we knew it has been destroyed. Whether Elon intends to backpedal in the next 12-24 hours as seems to be his MO remains to be seen.

Elon says a lot of things, like last fall when he was crowing about how Twitter had the bot problem licked. Fast forward to today and bot spam is worse than ever before.

You can believe what you want. I choose to believe what I see with my eyes.

I always assumed Yaccarino was merely a figurehead installed in an effort to make Twitter more palatable to advertisers. Elon never stopped making policy pronouncements from his personal account despite nominally giving up the CEO title.

The fact that even paid subscribers are limited to 6000 posts a day (seems like a lot, very much isn't if you're a remotely active user) is utterly bonkers. What other platform works like this?

It really feels like we're witnessing the end of an era. Elon is doggedly piloting Twitter into the ground and Reddit seems strangely compelled to follow his lead. Reddit may recover - I'm not so sure about Twitter. What technologies will take their place? In a time where it's never been easier to stand up your own website/forum/what have you, could we possibly see a gradual return to a pre-corporate Internet?

Americans are slaves to cars. We treat the ability to drive a monster truck to the grocery store as a sacred right and anyone who would dare impede our progress for a handful of seconds (pedestrians, yes, but ESPECIALLY those rotten tree-hugging cyclists) are to be scorned and intimidated at best, summarily executed at worst. We've hollowed out our cities for parking lots and leveled neighborhoods and green spaces to make room for ever-expanding freeways, but god forbid we invest in public transportation - the domain of socialists and poor people. And so many of us have effectively brainwashed ourselves into believing that all of this is right and good and not, in fact, utterly insane.

Everyone knows conservative views are censored. You can tell from the way we're constantly bombarded with them across all forms of media.

Yeah, I think it's something you just have to get a feel for over time. Sometimes prop drilling is the lesser of two evils, other times it makes more sense to break related state up into a shared context.

At least the React ecosystem as a whole seems to have broken free from the delusion that Redux is the be-all-end-all of state management. Those were dark days.

> State in Svelte goes in stores. State in react seems to go in one of eighteen different mechanisms, which all begin with a 45 minute video of the author’s opinions about the true nature of reactive programming, when all I want to do is store a string.

So... useState? :)

Of course then I got to thinking about how I'd answer the question "How can I put make that useState value accessible at different points in the component tree?" and the answer was "Make a new context with createContext and wrap the context provider in a component which provides the state and write a hook to easily consume the context within a child component" and, yeah, that's not exactly a frictionless dev experience.

FWIW for simple state management in React I've heard lots of good things about zustand: https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand

Svelte tries to improve upon the relatively complex/heavyweight runtime of something like React by shifting as much of that complexity to the build step as possible. It also takes a more "batteries-included" approach compared to React by including some opinionated features like state management, animation, transitions and the like.

I haven't dug too deeply into Svelte because last I checked it didn't play particularly nicely with TypeScript but this release may prompt me to give it another look.

If the banging hasn't been heard since could the sounds be related to the vessel imploding? Oxygen tanks or similar rupturing? You'd think if the passengers were still alive they'd continue to make noise at regular intervals or at least try to bang out an S-O-S in Morse code.

We have the best package repository in the world because of jail.

If they start today they could complete the migration by the mid-2040s!

This is the question people should be asking rather than trying to identify which Digg employee should be retroactively thrown under the bus. Just a completely insane design decision.

DOA at the announced price of $3499. I don't think even the Reality Distortion Field can overcome the intrinsic problems with VR/AR, namely that most people simply do not want to deal with the hassle of strapping something to their face or clearing a sufficiently large area for room-scale experiences.

Did the original "digital cash" thesis ever make sense? It's my understanding that Bitcoin can never hope to scale to meet a fraction of daily real-world transaction volume outside of adopting a so-called L2 solution like Lightning Network, which would seem to defeat the point somewhat.