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Mainly just questioning in which direction the poisoned chalice is being passed

I think the comments and down votes are fairly self evident here, despite what I may or may not have meant. Discrimination is a fairly well defined term.

Another hot take - the healthiest communities are those that people self-identity into. Like HN ;)

Couldn't agree more. I'm using it for notifications, where icon colour changes depending on the type of notification (colours are also user editable) ... and the notifications can be disabled :)

Lanier Graham is my pick of the bunch. Finally a set that doesn't require a lathe or a chisel!

I use animated SVG favicons in a Firefox extension I've been building. They actually work a treat

As an aside we went to see the new David Attenborough film Ocean over the weekend. Equal parts stunning and heartbreaking - it sews a compelling narrative for the oceans, spread between climate and ocean ecology, the extent of our exploitation, and the renewed hope (if you could call it that) that it holds for humanity's survival ...

A hard watch but also a must see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAdCtKT_g

Two notes:

- is there a sly dig in there at Meta? Ice cream melting ... blue-suited hand

- the Ghibli style feels controversial

It's their movement that I find fascinating. It's like they just snap between positions [1]. They're incredibly fast.

Not to mention exceptionally beautiful (often irridescent [2]) and entirely curious.

I have thousands of happy snaps like those from around our old gaf of different pals that caught my eye or walked a web over one of us. So cool.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/kVK8z2p.mp4 [2] https://i.imgur.com/Ig3Nob5.jpeg

I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something like this in the last decade. But I'd also need to count the same number of times I've implemented a less than ideal solution that's ended up in prod. Great work!

Also doesn't really work when e.g. flex items are set to wrap

The Marshall Islands tests were carried out after the end of WWII.

It's worth considering that the US also used the islands as a dumping ground for waste from previous tests in the US [1] ... At a site which is now under threat of leaking due to the effects of climate change [2]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island

My wife is currently in the Marshall Islands commemorating an anniversary related to the nuclear testing. The trauma and fallout, cultural and nuclear, persists to this day - over 7 decades (and how many generations?) since the Bravo test.

I've heard and read a lot about the atrocities visited upon the Marshallese in the name of research in the last six months. Including around the potential "intentionality" of the human testing [1]. It is harrowing. And a hard pill to swallow in any context. The Nolan film did the islands little justice.

As an aside: while indirect, the journey to the Marshalls isn't as onorous as the article suggests - yes there's an island hopper, but United also fly direct from Honolulu. Though getting to Bikini is likely another adventure in itself.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1

Inchconnachan is one of the more interesting desert islands I came across while living in Scotland. My introduction to its local inhabitants, expat Antipodeans like myself, was wildly unexpected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchconnachan

Cannot wait. That said, somehow I don't think it will help us with a UK-based API provider we work with that provide us with ISO-encoded UTC time strings that are actually BST during northern hemisphere summer (or localised strings, e.g. +6 where the datetime component is actually UTC).

Wow. We have a "Queensland" Grouper here .. similar size to the goliath, but there is no way I would hug it. A mate was a skipper of a dive boat and went for a freedive on their break - got a little bit too close to one that was chilling under the vessel. It opened it's mouth and sucked their head in. Happened very quickly. This person has a pretty decent breath hold, and experienced all round. But they thought that was it - all over. Until they were promptly spat out - never to venture within 10m of a fish that size again.

During the pandemic / lockdown I was lucky enough to visit one of the reef pontoons off Cairns (Australia, on the Great Barrier Reef) that had been shut for several months. The resident Maori wrasse (a very large fish) at this pontoon, and others, has been known to have a relationship with some of the regular staff - often rubbing up against them in the water. When we jumped in the water that day the fish's reaction was the wildest thing I've ever seen. It was like a small puppy who has been locked inside all day. It literally jumped into my arms, flapping its tail to get closer. I'm going to repeat - this is a big fish, maybe a metre long and stocky, covered in a nice thick layer of slime. It would then swim away and come back and rub up against us. It did this to all three of us in the group ... only one of us was a regular. She hung with us for the whole snorkel and it was a bit sad when we had to get out of the water. Amazing experience. Made me feel differently about wrasses, that's for sure.

This is basically how my mind works. Mind projection.

I dropped into Fabric on a stopover in London in July (first time back on that floor in probably 15 years). I was surprised when they asked for my phone, but yeah it 100% made a difference. Would have spotted maybe 2-3 tourists taking photos at some point, but that was it. Great vibe. Mix of young and old.

Compare that to a recent bookashade gig in Sydney, which was smaller but was basically a film club event. 100 squares of light on record at any point (all with the same camera UI!) .. older crowd who probably should have known better, at least according to the article.

Re. accessibility, the main feature is that dialogs can be "modal" - meaning the rest of the page is non-interactive while the dialog is open - ensuring a focus trap.

Popovers are always non-modal, which can be problematic depending on the use-case. Of course it's possible to manually implement a focus trap, but it's complex and it's javascript.

I quite like this feature - so much so I've been pushing to build something similar out at work.

The main missing piece is mobile / touch. Not sure if anyone's aware of iterations that solve for this?

I love the <dialog> element, especially for its built-in / standardised accessibility considerations. I'm looking forward to the day I can roll it without a polyfill (once safari <15.4 drops out of our thresholds).

That said, my one major bugbear with it is the reliance on javascript. Yep, I expect all* users on my sites to arrive with JS enabled. But I also (selfishly?) derive some satisfaction from them not having to. Why can't I control the dialog's open state with CSS or a targeted button?

Would love to learn I'm wrong about this.

As another Australian parent (with school age kids) I heartily agree. Eager to see how this plays out.

Well, in Australia at least, the number of smokers in the 18-54 age cohort has almost halved in the decade upto 2022 (older smokers still tend to smoke), and more than halved in the 15-24 category.

A "national tobacco strategy" was introduced in 2011/2012 that brought plain packaging, increased taxation and a bunch of other measures.

Official data is here if you're interested: https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/insights-australian-smokers-...

There's also Wikipedia and any number of other resources that go into more detail on the history of decline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_in_Australia

Leaders don't hold all the power. As others have said, I think this is a good approach for everyone - showing a bit of empathy and "you don't know what you don't know" when corresponding with people. In fact it's good leadership 101.

Edit: can anyone suggest any good (free) tools for eliciting 360 feedback? Potentially anonymously?

Looking forward the taking a peek. Both at the foursquare data and datasette .. which I feel I've seen spruiked so much I want the tshirt.

As an aside a place in my (small, regional) city is listed in the sample gist. Feel like I should win something.

Yes! My point is simply that, unlike an investment property, it's often hard to "see" the upside on a home sale. OP appears to have reinvested significantly in the epic new land + gaff, and also makes the point that prices have since been declining in Austin. The fact it's a home means that all this is a bit of an aside to the real transaction.

to see that upside on a home requires you 1. sell and 2. buy somewhere cheaper (or not buy at all) ... Otherwise it's a zero sum game. Home for a home.

But is it a trade? Feels additive. Assuming same engineers will continue spending their carbon budget elsewhere ...

Bring back echo nest's Rosetta stone.

https://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/10/introducing-project-ro...

Not a household item so much. But wood block prints. There are stores where you can browse thousands of them, many hidden gems. Perfect for framing and lighting up a wall.