Example: Twitch still doesn't let me login from Firefox if I'm on Alpine Linux.
It only happens when I try from Alpine Linux, so they might be testing for some musl-specific quirk and denying access just for not being the Firefox from a different distro.
You can side load android, you can't side load Apple (without jailbreak). Having to deal with two review processes instead of just one saves money and headaches. Also since they are dealing with US sanctions they probably had to fill out all kinds of stuff and submit that to Apple which they would also have to do for Google but again, they can just side load instead.
Tell that to LinkedIn and every single social network out there. The “successful web” is successful because of dark UX. That’s the harsh truth. HN’s success is the exception, not the rule.
• that’s a solved problem: packages shouldn’t bundle CLI tools. Sindre Sorhus has been separating “CLI” from “API” for many years. “Unused dependencies” in general isn’t a solvable problem because a dependency might only be used if a certain parameter is passed. By the time that piece of code is reached, you either have it installed or it’s too late.
• that’s an issue that never got solved for the same reason: “package.json is never going away so we won’t add more ways to do the same thing” — ok so node/npm is going to suck forever, fantastic.
I think feature dependencies are better modeled than simple package splitting.
> For example, let’s say we have added some serialization support to our library, and it requires enabling a corresponding feature
> In this example, enabling the serde feature will enable the serde dependency. It will also enable the serde feature for the rgb dependency, but only if something else has enabled the rgb dependency.
Npm has optional dependencies and there are libraries that error when you use a code push that requires them. Features would formalize that pattern and improve it with clear errors, and composability.
The last time I pointed this out, some npm dinosaur said npm allows publishing of any type of package so it cannot enforce a structure. Wow, really, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Whose fault is that? So the result is that nobody knows how to publish anything so npm is in shambles.
You can publish a package that has zero files in it, even if it mentions them in main/exports. That’s a very basic check they could do, but they don’t.
Ideally you wouldn’t be able to publish a type=module file that contains “require”, but if npm doesn’t even want to validate the existence of the file, we can never get to how to validate anything else.
At the very least warn the user that they’re publishing a broken package, but still allow it if you must.
$1k USD and you get 1KW of solar and storage. I don't know how this compares to alternative grid-scale solutions over a ~15-25 year lifetime but that's ballpark how much you'd pay for retail solar without the storage.
On the other hand, still much cheaper both to build and operate than the equivalent in conventional power plants. But I do wonder where all that money is coming from. Foreign investors?
Seems it was funded by the IPO of "SP New energy Corp"
> Funded by proceeds from its P2.7-billion initial public offering, the first 50 megawatts are targeted to start delivering power to the grid by the end of 2022, driving profitability for the firm - https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/815990/spnec...
> Mr Leandro Leviste, 28, will seek to raise as much as 2.7 billion pesos (S$74 million) by selling shares in Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija, a unit of his Solar Philippines Power Project Holdings. The funds will go towards constructing the first phase of a 500MW plant in a province about 130km north of Manila - https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/a-28-year-old-...
Interesting enough, seems the founder initially got the funds by selling their Tesla and SolarCity shares:
Yeah, I imagined. Also guessing Leandro Leviste had help to acquire their shares in the first place, as it's not super common for people to have funds available for stocks when they join university, unless someone help them afford it.
That, plus they don't have energy sovereignty. Similar to China, they want energy sovereignty and want to derisk from global political instability. So they're turning to renewables. It's smart. The cost curve pushed the decision over the edge.
Also being near the equator, the sun is stable. Countries like Denmark who are far from the equator will probably keep pursuing wind more aggressively than solar, unless the solar cost curve continues down.
Both are popular in Denmark. Denmark has about 3.5GW of solar, mostly on people's houses. So, about the same as this project is installing. Of course the grid is dominated by wind power. Especially offshore wind.
Being further north makes a little bit of difference but not as much as people think. Winters are darker, obviously. So, that means solar isn't great then. But summers have much more daylight. Those long summer days are awesome for solar energy. From early morning until late at night basically. And obviously, Danish consumers like cutting a bit off their electricity bills just like people elsewhere.
Another issue is the angle of the sun. The light loses some energy having to pass through more of our atmosphere compared to blasting straight down at the equator. But otherwise, the difference in distance to the sun is negligible.
And of course heat pumps are pretty popular in Denmark as well. As are EVs. People that have those, would benefit a lot from solar panels.
> I am from the Philippines, we have only two types of seasons, sunny and rainy.
There's a buried third in there: "typhoon season"[1].
I do wonder how they intend to both lean into and protect such a massive, fragile investment when all it'll take is the debris from a single tropical storm to wreck some serious infrastructure carnage, let alone a full-blown super typhoon.
Speaking as an outsider that has no emotional attachment to those wallpapers: wow, they’re really awful (except maybe the first one)
I mean one of them is bright green and red? The holy grail of what not to set as a background, as well as one of the most awful color combinations (unless it’s Christmas)
Many are undeniably garish by today's standards, on today's devices, and although they were maybe more refreshing to our palettes at the time and less intense in the default monitor color spaces back then, I must confess, I distinctly remember vetoing several of these desktop pictures as a late 90s Mac user, including the ones you pointed out. And the era of subtler, muted colors and tones showed up pretty quickly after these for valid reasons.
Data from analytics.usa.gov [1] reveals that Chrome leads browser usage at 48%, closely followed by Safari at 35.7%, highlighting the competitive proximity of Safari to Chrome. Definitely much higher share than I thought.
Not for long. IFF you are geographically located in the EU and using an iPhone (not iPad), you may one day have the option to use an alternative browser engine. You know, once browser vendors get around to making a version of their app that conforms to Apple's asinine requirements.
The whole malicious compliance shebang. EU mandates browser choice, so Apple implements new technological measures to ensure that browser choice will still not be offered outside the EU
This news doesn’t mean that it just will stop working in Firefox, it’s just that they don’t test and they don’t care.