If multiverse theory is correct, there’s an alternate universe where Imagine Dragons went with their second choice of band name, and Apple’s U2 stunt was so well received that they include a random free album with every new device.
We missed the temperature forecast today by a couple of degrees, but those degrees mattered and led to freezing conditions for most of Houston. With just a couple of hours of daylight left, temperatures are not going up today. Also: The Texas grid operator is calling for more energy conservation on Tuesday morning.
@spacecityweather Last time they said there would be rolling blackouts, the "rolling" part didn't happen for most people. Is there any reason to believe it would be different this time?
The United States Dept of War produced a film called “Don’t be a sucker” in 1947 specifically addressing the tenets of Nazisim and fascism in a bid to prevent this from happening again.
It’s amazing that almost 80 years later, that we are having the same conversation (about Nazis)
@hasani YouTube prefaced it with an ad consisting of a Trump monologue claiming that “in the lead-up to WW3”, “they” are going to “destroy America from the inside”
Inb4 you see some alarmist media/people screaming about it:
The “737 returns with cracked window” story from Japan involves an older 737-800, unrelated to the 737 MAX debacle, and although serious, the main reason it is being shared widely is because of the recent MAX issues.
@brunoph adding to this, if you search “cracked windshield” on https://avherald.com you can see that it happens all the time, on all kinds of aircraft, and almost never amounts to anything.
@dave “The zombies aren’t in the apocalypse phase anymore, it’s just a zombie endemic now. The few that are left (gestures toward street absolutely packed with shambling zombies) don’t bite as hard as they used to. Look, they’re not even biting each other! See, they have herd immunity!”
This is probably in the "why did you have to say it” category, but I have not seen Amazon make any announcements about how they're going to innovatively [sic] use generative AI in their shopping experience?
Rumor has it that in addition to the existing "Airplane Mode", the next iOS will include a "Boeing Mode" that periodically reminds the user to keep their seatbelt as tight as possible, and automatically starts recording video in the event of unexpected air pressure changes
Time for people in the neighborhood to wake up, see the pile of fireworks they didn’t manage to light before passing out last night, and still-drunkenly fire them in random directions.
@futurebird You know how cats calculate before they jump? They can levitate effortlessly wherever they want, they’re just calculating how to make it look believable to people who still think they’re bound by physics.
Is there an OS or file system that has support for revisions built in? It seems like an idea that’s been around forever, but has never gained traction.
I know that Time Machine exists on MacOS, but it seems limited to (somewhat unpredictable) back-ups, instead of part of a normal workflow.
Something like git but at the system or file system level, with more extensive support for apps to show meaningful/helpful diffs.
@SasquatcherGeneral MacOS has this, just not many apps support it! I assume it’s the same backend as Time Machine, but you can “save a version” with cmd+s and even open multiple versions side by side and copy/paste or drag and drop between them.
Apple’s iWork apps (only the Mac versions) and Pixelmator Pro come to mind as supporting it.
Well, this is disappointing: it doesn't seem like the #SwiftUI scrollTransition modifier works with effects that apply Metal shaders (layerEffect, colorEffect, etc).
You can use one and it shows up, but it only renders the initial value and doesn't animate when the scroll phase changes. 🙃
Oh! Even though you apparently can't drive a Shader using ScrollTransitionPhase, there's a different way to pass scroll position info into a shader that does work:
If you use the visualEffect modifier on the scroll view's children, it gives you a GeometryProxy without any of the side effects of wrapping your view in a GeometryReader. You can then use proxy.frame(in: .scrollView) to figure out where it is in the scroll view and drive your shader values from that
I have to admit this year has been destructively stressful for me. I wish I could feel some sense of accomplishment about work done, but it's just not there, just this sense of a million other things that are urgently overdue and another million I'm forgetting.
@Gargron ❤️ Take care of yourself and try not to focus too much on the work! You don’t owe us anything, if anything we all owe you and the team tremendously. Thank you for building this place!
Like they say on airplanes, put on your own oxygen mask before helping the people around you with theirs
