I just saw an Ailanthus Webworm moth this morning in Michigan and was struck by how different it looked from most insects I see here. They're native to the south but have apparently been starting to adapt to colder conditions and move further north thanks to the massive explosion of the horribly invasive Tree of Heaven, which is somehow still legal for nurseries to sell even though it is extremely aggressive and is a host for Spotted Lanternflies.
Anyways, since I've gotten into native plant gardening I have gained a huge appreciation for insects. You can find some really amazing things in your own yard if you pay attention.
I like iterators in JavaScript well enough. I understand the syntax of this just fine, it doesn't seem that ridiculous. It's definitely a little less simple than Go usually tends to be, but it's certainly not impenetrable. And you don't have to use it. I personally probably won't use it but I don't care that it's there.
You don’t have to use it is probably the most common worst argument ever. The mere existence of the construction means it _will_ be used and you will have to know about it and eventually use it.
They'll be used primarily by library authors but most people will end up consuming them a lot. They'll eliminate a lot of unnecessary intermediate slice allocations.
I really really like Affinity. I'm not a pro but they offer all of the tools I would possibly need in a much better designed package compared to open source alternatives like gimp. Adobe has more bells and whistles like AI, but I don't need that. And I'm very happy to support their no-subscription model, it's very refreshing.
If the "unburning" could be done using zero-emission renewable energy it seems like that would the best or only way to effectively remove excess CO2. I'm skeptical that there will ever be a true magic bullet carbon capture technology like that though.
We have the tech today. Its just 1) too expensive, and 2) thermodynamics says it always will take more energy to suck the C02 out than we got from putting it there, so what's the point?
I have been wanting a simple CMS which is effectively just a layer on top of GitHub for a while, I took a stab at it a couple years ago but bounced off so I'm very excited to see this! Definitely going to give it a try.
Yes, downtown Detroit is a wasteland of parking lots. Some incredibly beautiful old buildings have been demolished and turned into vacant lots, it's a real shame. Downtown really needs more development and I think this is a great way to force the issue. When I lived downtown, I had to drive 20 minutes to the suburbs for groceries. And now I have a house in the suburbs instead of Detroit because of that.
> Gunpowder residue is not seen on the hands. A GSR kit is performed," the report reads in part.
> That GSR kit was sent off to the GBI Crime Lab for analysis. The findings were released Tuesday. This report "revealed the presence of particles characteristic of gunshot primer residue."
The autopsy did not find visible residue. That is quite different from your conclusion "the autopsy found there wasn't gunpowder on their hands".
If you're shot 57 times you will end up covered in gunpowder. If you're shot in the hands, like the victim, you'll have gunpowder on your hands. If a bunch of cops panic fire into you and then handle your lifeless corpse the gunpowder from their hands will end up on you.
I urge you to consider the owner of this media outlet and what political ties they likely have. Propaganda works best when veiled in a guise of neutrality.
If you don't like or believe reading the quotes from the reports on a right-biased media source, perhaps you'll like or believe reading them more on a left-biased media source (the details in which I find even more compelling that the protester very likely discharged their firearm):
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises.
Cox Enterprises is ringing extremely loud warning bells. This is the same Cox that is time and again accused of being an internet and TV monopoly and taking advantage of their customers with exploitative, borderline illegal tactics. I don't trust them one bit. I'm willing to bet in a place like Atlanta, with the history it has, there's still a good ol' boys club with deep roots, operating as the Chamber of Commerce or another faceless, buried, quasi-bureaucratic market-capture and -manipulation mechanism. It's such a mundane point to make because of how ubiquitous this pattern is, but bears repeating in this context. It always seems paranoid to point out this possibility until it's proven true. You can see a recent expression of this tendency in the raid on that elderly reporter in Kansas, the one that stressed her out so much she died.
Again, critical reading is imperative here. Especially considering how news media outlets today frequently rely on "access journalism" -- ie, favorable coverage and language in exchange for voluntary participation by police in accessing details about new stories -- we should expect that large outlets (especially ones with captive audiences such as "the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia"; looks like they monopolized Atlanta's newspaper market, too) play games with rhetoric to maintain legitimacy while peppering in propaganda, in the name of "both sides" and "neutrality", in order to maintain access.
You shouldn't trust that 'allsides' website any more than you should trust anyone else. I certainly don't. You should also note: "As of September 2023, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Lean left rating for Atlanta Journal-Constitution." This does not support your assertion that this media source is "left-biased". In fact upon further review that website relies exclusively on community reviews to label these websites. It has the same issues that any reporting mechanism of this form has, which makes it even less trustworthy.
ACJ is playing to their crowd just like the rest of them to maintain legitimacy and keep the money flowing. This isn't to say that everything in the news is fake, just that everything in the news is shaped by material forces working behind the scenes which helps to form the narratives that end up in the columns and webpages. Sometimes there's outright lies, sometimes lies by omission. It's as much about what is said as what isn't said. Sometimes even emphasis and rhetoric is enough to shift the narrative enough that certain perspectives are completely memory-holed.
If you don't trust that the multiple media outlets have managed to copy and paste quotes correctly, then go to the original source reports and draw your conclusions.
I'm challenging the lack of journalistic integrity in actually investigating the claims contained within those quotes -- not whether the journalists are capable of stenography, but whether they are capable of journalism.
What investigation do you want them to do on the gunshot residue point? Dig up the body, swab the hands, and run their own GSR test?
I get that it's inconvenient for one side in the standoff for gunshot residue to be found on their hands. I don't have any reasonable double that there was.
Asking literally anyone except police is a good start. Police are acting as privileged gatekeepers of information and saying "just trust me bro". I expect HN community members to carry themselves to a higher standard here and really dig in. I'm sorry to say it but I'm really starting to doubt your sincerity.
Plenty of experts on primer residue and other forensics topics out there. "Is it possible that this amount of residue is due to the bullets shot at and into Tortuguita and not due to shots fired from a weapon held by him? Do you find it credible that wounds such as those through the palms of Tortuguita coincide with the narrative that he was wielding a gun at the time of his death?" Easy peasy, and I didn't even go to school for journalism. I'm sure there's other means of finding credible information. They could also quote those other activists who were witness to the death and put those quotes on equal footing with those from the police, but they don't.
> I don't have any reasonable double [sic] that there was.
Assuming you meant "doubt": then you're playing a one-sided game while scolding others for what you perceive is one-sidedness. To me it is hypocritical to do so.
I'm not from Texas so genuinely asking, is there hard proof that anyone specifically invested in power infrastructure because of bitcoin mines in a way they wouldn't have otherwise?
> I'm not from Texas so genuinely asking, is there hard proof that anyone specifically invested in power infrastructure because of bitcoin mines in a way they wouldn't have otherwise?
In theory supply and demand still exists in Texas, and Bitcoin miners do demand a lot of energy. Assuming that energy companies are including Bitcoin miners in their demand projections (I don't see why they wouldn't?) then the default assumption is that just based on the market forces at play, capacity should have been built with Bitcoin miner demand included.
Agreed, everyone who complains about dependency arrays almost certainly hasn't used the linting rule. That being said, I'm not sure that an API is well-designed if the only way to use it effectively is by forcing you to even know there is an eslint plugin to begin with, and then once you do know that, that means now you're being forced to add eslint to your project whether you like it or not. And sometimes eslint just stops working for who knows what reason, I have a developer on my team who's constantly dealing with issues where his eslint/prettier setup isn't running correctly.
> That being said, I'm not sure that an API is well-designed if the only way to use it effectively is by forcing you to even know there is an eslint plugin to begin with
I don't really agree with this except to the extent that, sure, it would be ideal for all APIs and indeed the entire syntax of your programming language to be so well-designed that you don't need any lint rules to catch common mistakes. I'd love it if my static type checker could catch most mistakes like this (although the boundary between linting and static type checking is fuzzy).
But in practice, you're almost certainly going to either 1) have a linter or 2) have strong resolve that you will not make any easy mistakes that a linter could catch. And if you're in the second boat, it doesn't make sense to single out this particular easy mistake, given that omitting arguments is always an easy mistake to make in JavaScript.
> Agreed, everyone who complains about dependency arrays almost certainly hasn't used the linting rule.
Which linting rule?
> That being said, I'm not sure that an API is well-designed if the only way to use it effectively is by forcing you to even know there is an eslint plugin to begin with, and then once you do know that, that means now you're being forced to add eslint to your project whether you like it or not. And sometimes eslint just stops working for who knows what reason, I have a developer on my team who's constantly dealing with issues where his eslint/prettier setup isn't running correctly.
Yes, not to mention eslint is slow with large codebases. Fingers crossed for the Rust(?) rewrite.
The linting plugin is eslint-plugin-react-hooks[0], which enforces React's "rules of hooks"; it can detect when you access a value inside a React hook and will warn you that you should add it to your dependency array. It enforces some other rules here and there but that's the big one worth caring about the most. I would consider it essential for working with React hooks.
The only downside is that sometimes, the rule can end up being overly aggressive and tell you to add things which you explicitly don't want in your dependency array, but it's helpful probably 95+% of the time and not hard to opt out of or work around as needed.
I think we have more than enough data points around the globe to say that the temperature increase is statistically significant. Rural USA is not the center of the world where all temperature measurements should be based on.
Anyways, since I've gotten into native plant gardening I have gained a huge appreciation for insects. You can find some really amazing things in your own yard if you pay attention.