Smart acquisition by Canva, imo. Canva is already sort of the third horse alongside Adobe and Figma, but they’ve got a chance to compete more head to head now. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canva-acquires-affinity-design-suite-004813952.html
CSV is one of the most annoying file types to parse through code. Apache Parquet seems like a decent solution for machine to machine data transfers. https://kaveland.no/friends-dont-let-friends-export-to-csv.html
That would be a good way to make it free (for the bot developer: me). Nice idea
For the first time in its 38-year history, a woman has finished what’s considered the most grueling race in the world. https://run.outsideonline.com/news/barkley-marathons-2024-results/
Pretty cool. A CSS layout engine for node-canvas and canvas. https://github.com/chearon/dropflow
A video from during our hike when there was light snow falling.
I think Apple is going to be in for a rough year. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-20/doj-to-sue-apple-for-antitrust-violations-as-soon-as-thursday
Did I miss something in the article or are you saying it's misleading? The article makes it sound like this actually has practical impact same as the lava lamps.
I just gave it to my wife to read. She’s been waiting patiently for me to finish.
Another frenemy arrangement in the works. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools
This doesn’t actually answer the question of whether the use of lead in Stanley cups is safe but vaguely indicates that it is. https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-lead-in-stanleys-quencher-industrial-ct
Nice look at the risk and risk mitigation techniques for refactoring code. https://webup.org/blog/the-high-risk-refactoring/
Same reason people hate their coffee so much that they buy Starbucks.
Imagine the big bets you have to make to (probably) knowingly grow in such a way that you’re going to have many multimillion settlements to pay out in the future. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/uber-to-pay-272-million-to-australian-taxi-operators-20240318-p5fd4p.html
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin review: Just finished and I absolutely loved this book. It’s not my normal style but it was so good that it’ll be hard to immediately jump into another novel. My brain needs time to absorb this one. Submitted from @readcast
DARPA’s work on preventing deepfakes is ready for commercialization https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-03-14
Can someone smarter than me tell me why we can’t fold extremely long wind turbine arms? https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-biggest-plane-would-supersize-wind-energy-2f116e9b
Terrifyingly low battery. But also, I know you solved this already but I run into this it seems every time I try to create signers. It’s hard. Even with guide and code samples.
I’ve had time to consider Arizona’s loss tonight and my conclusion is that they deserved to lose and they played their worst half of the season in the second half. Hopefully this is the jolt they need heading into the tourney