Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy

Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by tenkabuto on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:09AM (#24481340)

Here's one such app, for people that are interested: https://shootismoke.app

It's currently giving me 2.3 cigarettes per day, and I live a decent distance away from any of the fires (Sacramento, CA).

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by cactus2093 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:59PM (#24483567)

Why in the world would this be a native app and not a web page?

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by toper-centage on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:30PM (#24484867)

Data collection, of course.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by patothon on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:54PM (#24485981)

Or maybe the developer only knows mobile engineering? Not everything has to be seen from an uncharitable angle.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by heavyset_go on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:43PM (#24485068)

iOS encourages developers to make apps for their services because Safari's features and compatibility lag behind other browsers, and it doesn't implement PWA functionality.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by buzzert on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:55PM (#24487669)

And one of these "features" is arithmetic and displaying a number?

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by krustyburger on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:05PM (#24485386)

And what a strange name. Why is “shoot” treated like an expletive? I’m actually not even sure I’m parsing the name correctly.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by drusepth on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:02PM (#24487260)

Shoot! is a common substitute for other, more abrasive expletives (Shit! Fuck!). I'd much rather have the former in a business/service name!

Interestingly, the Android package name is indeed com.shitismoke.app

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by krustyburger on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:20PM (#24500489)

Right, but the point of using it is not to have to blank it out in form like this brand does. It would be like putting heck as hk.

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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy by ivalm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:27PM (#24485664)

The latest update it is giving me is 5 months ago (I'm in San Diego, CA), that seems hardly relevant.

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