Is GitHub deployed using GitHub Actions?
I was talking with some GH sales/marketing engineers last month and they said it deploys with actions, but they have a custom deploy queue
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It feels like quite the coincidence that hyperlocal weather prediction got worse after Dark Sky went away.
But, I don’t have any domain knowledge in this area. Perhaps, it is just more difficult due to climate change or other factors.
I did notice that Dark Sky's hyperlocal weather was getting bad in my area at the end. I wonder if it has anything to do with 5G frequency rollouts. I had seen some warnings about accurate weather predictions could be affected by it, but a quick search isn't showing any "Turns out 5G is/is not messing with our weather satellites" follow-up articles
Oakwhisper commented on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023) nightingaledvs.com/dark-s... · Posted by u/skadamat
The blog post does a good job of enumerating the nice interfaces in Dark Sky. But it spends no time comparing them to the equivalents in Weather app. If it did, then the parity of features would become clear, not only in terms of information presented but also user interface.
Also, FWIW this post is from 2023, and the Weather app has improved significantly since then.
For example, the post references a Reddit comment complaining about the lack of a precipitation map:
> there anything that has the precipitation graph similar to dark sky
This is available in Weather app. You can see the hourly graph, and you can also see the map with precipitation overlay.
The notification feature you ask for is also supported.
I repeat my original question: can anyone actually name a feature from DarkSky that isn’t present in the current Weather app?
Weather history/future. Currently you can look 1 day in the past in Apple Weather. Dark Sky allowed you to look years into the past.
Dark Sky also allowed you to look more than 10/14 days into the future. It used historical averages to show you for a specific day instead of some fancy prediction, but it was nice to have.
There was also a "Check out Cool Storms" feature that let you see the weather map for an interesting storm that was happening at the moment.
Notifications were also more configurable. You could set it to notify you if the precipitation chance were higher than a certain percentage or if the high were below or above a certain temp.
“ In those circumstances if you want figures to present to the board in terms of ROI”
This sentence shouldn’t be associated with anything “non-profit”
Proving yet again that, unless you structure your organization differently than every other capitalist thing (which means you won’t get funding through traditional sources) then you’re just helping capital further entrench their positions of power
But you should want an ROI as a non-profit. If you spend $1000 on advertising to get people to write their Senator to help push for/against a bill, you want to make sure you're spending it on the most effective way. If it gets spent on mail ads and no one calls, then that is largely a waste of money (regardless of funding model and org structure). If you don't have a measure, you can't really know if money is being wasted. You can guess and have a gut feel, but not scientific, actionable data to change how the org is working to best further the non-profit's cause.
Maybe you can call it something else, but for a non-profit ROI is just answering the question "Are we spending our money wisely?
Or were you referring to the non-profit having a board?