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Re:WASM Wayland Web (WWW) on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:58PM (#43209052)
It's using a Flutter web build that's over 2 years old. We've gotten a LOT better.

Context: I'm a product manager on the team.

Re:Costco Denies Shareholder Demand to Back Down from DEI Hiring on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:11PM (#42532485)
I say that as a straight white boy, BTW. :-)
Re:Costco Denies Shareholder Demand to Back Down from DEI Hiring on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:11PM (#42532480)
If I understand correctly, this was not a majority of shareholders. It was a small group of investors.

Actually: National Center for Public Policy Research is a "reprehensible radical right" organization that has a history of filing anti-DEI lawsuits against various companies, including Starbucks, Nasdaq, and more. Its funders include right-wing groups like the Coors foundation.

Yeah, I work at a company with a strong DEI policy. It's great. Diversity is great. Making sure the company supports equality and inclusion is great.

Well done Costco standing up to the jerk-funded, straight white boy club.

My 13-year-old just got her own phone. Wired up with https://www.pinwheel.com/

She is NOT going to be touching social media or similar until at LEAST high school.

Yes.

Next question.

Re:It pays to be a double major in college on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:25PM (#40418462)
Yep!
Re:Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:53PM (#39867633)
There's some consolidation here. Podcast support in YouTube music is a real thing.

There is SO much overlap between YouTube Music videos and listening to music. There is also overlap between YouTube podcasts and listening to podcasts.

Trying to align here makes a lot of sense. Tricky to pull off, sure, but it's not a dropped ball.

Re:Le Grand K (2018) on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:13PM (#39596189)
I heard the explanation that one was from physics and one was from chemistry.

And they were both important to get the error bars low enough so they could move over with confidence.

See https://youtu.be/KBZD3tFny_E?si=VyqjpainWVgbY_NF

Re:Le Grand K (2018) on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:10PM (#39596150)
This is THE explanation.

It's long, but it's AMAZING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZD3tFny_E

Re:Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:44AM (#35830762)
It's possible the folks who made this demo – which was created years ago – didn't do an a11y pass. Something things need to be wired up for specific scenarios.
Before 3D printing, likely. Now: not sure. Folks are printing seamless chainmail. Pretty crazy.
This is peek internet. Amazing!
Re:Why doesn't flutter.dev use flutter as their front end? on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:20PM (#33601276)
Great question!

While we'd love to be the best solution for every problem, it turns out the HTML-based web has been highly optimized for decades for text-heavy, linear, reading experiences.

So we're staying focused on the places where Flutter does the best job: interactive, non-linear, more-create-than-consume.

So our sites use HTML & CSS: flutter.dev, dart.dev, pub.dev

And our devtools are built in Flutter Web: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/tools/devtools/overview Along with web experiences from rows.com, reflection.app, rive.app, supernova.io, and many more.

FYI: I'm the product manager working on Flutter and Dart web tech at Google

(edit: fixed domain, mis-added one app)

Re:Apple to Move a Part of Its Embedded Cores to RISC-V on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:25PM (#32874502)
I wish I could buy stock in RISC-V (in the abstract).

See also today: https://twitter.com/SiFive/status/1570880204804849671

Re:D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:58PM (#32652588)
Agreed! Interesting idea, but charging for this is not going to get them very far.

Gotta find a way to do an "open core" or similar.

Re:Guetzli vs. MozJPEG on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:34PM (#30622256)
FYI: Guetzli seems to have not been touched in ~5 years.

See https://github.com/google/guetzli/tree/master/guetzli

Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @08:02PM (#28767384)
Ranked Choice (IRV) is better than Plurality, but there are better options.

Read about the Condorcet Method

Seems that rage is justified, no?
Re:H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:27PM (#28543284)
Super cool, yo! Very unix – do one simple thing well.
See a Flutter Web demo app here: https://flutterplasma.dev/
Re:Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:25AM (#25835037)
Google and Apple can simply make software disappear. Software that gives access to child pornography. Software to buy and sell black-market drugs. Software that lets people organize terrorism and sedition.

There's a point where free speech crosses the "clear and present danger" threshold.

I consider this a feature, not a bug.

Re:The Base58 Encoding Scheme on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:50AM (#25289347)
Read the authors:

S. Nakamoto, BitCoin

Huh?

Re:Why I've stopped saying 'hey guys' (as a male in tech) on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:24AM (#24826639)
Amen. Should NOT be flagged. Be professional. Be respectful. Be thoughtful. Be flexible. Be kind. It is NOT asking too much. This is a pretty low bar – especially for "smart" people.
Came here to post this. Glad someone else thought of this first!
Re:Dart: Sound Null Safety on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:41PM (#23479866)

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