Readit Newsllambda commented on The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed apps.npr.org/plant-hardin... · Posted by u/geox
There have been 3 updates to the zones in the past 50 years. Some of the updates are due to better accuracy after years of collecting data, but the 800-pound gorilla in the room is climate change. Where I live, winters are 4.5 degrees warmer. It has definitely affected my gardening.
> but the 800-pound gorilla in the room is climate change. Where I live, winters are 4.5 degrees warmer.
The George W. Bush administration (e.g. via Frank Luntz) advocated for the term "climate change" because Republican strategists wanted to leverage perceived uncertainty about global warming as much as possible.[0]
This is a PR effort that seems to have largely succeeded (both in adoption and its goals) and it's unfortunate that when we are literally talking about warming we adopt a term that is less precise; you are talking about global warming here.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.c...
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My city doesn’t even have sidewalks. Bikes aren’t happening.
While I understand your point is likely that sidewalks would come before later advancements (like support for bikes) I want to make it clear that bikes do not belong on sidewalks.
If you ride a bike please ride it in the street with other vehicles. This is the law in some jurisdictions (such as where I live) but frequently ignored.
Failure to do this poses a serious risk to pedestrians. Please do not use sidewalks as an alternative road.
llambda commented on Is liberalism digging its own demographic grave? (2022) thearticle.com/is-liberal... · Posted by u/neverminder
The problem solves itself; the societies that are pro-natal will survive and the ones thay are not will die out.
Well, no.
That assumes that offspring follow their parents' ideology directly. While many may, some will not.
What we've seen over time is a defection from e.g. religious right upbringing, especially as offspring move into denser urban areas.
How does htmx compare with alpinejs (https://alpinejs.dev/)?
llambda commented on Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions supabase.com/blog/edge-ru... · Posted by u/creativedg
just use a regular server for mid/larger sized apps.
i started my web dev journey with JAMStack, Vercel, the "edge". everything is easy as long as one only deploys a full-stack NextJS app. the moment other apps come in, just use a server deployed as VPS and avoid "edge runtime hell". edge runtime hell refers to "you can't do this (function with over 2MB payload), you can't do that (because not supported by X)".
EDIT: I implicitly meant with "deploy as VPS" -> deploy your server via Render/Heroku/CI-CD instead of serverless functions running on the "edge".
I'm coming around to building everything for a VPS from the outset. There's a lot of upside to VPSes, such as:
1. Can be purchased as a fixed cost, usually at a rate that's much cheaper than on-demand pricing, and especially serverless--this tends to only get better with time as competition keeps prices low
2. It's "just" a Unix/Windows/Mac box, so the issues with runtime constraints you mention are bounded differently (and often more favorably); serverless is also just a box, but the constraints tend to be more onerous and limiting and it's not usually accessible in the same way
3. With containers, it's trivial to move between providers, so the hardware itself becomes fungible
4. On containers, I'm having a great time shipping Docker Compose configs--this works really well for the scale of application I'm targeting while avoiding the dreaded complexity of e.g. k8s
5. There's decades of high quality tooling already built and battle tested which makes operating VPSes much easier; the fact you can SSH into the machine, for instance, has huge leverage as an solo person working on independent products
Going forward, I'm planning to skip edge compute altogether unless there's a really compelling reason to want it. I should also mention that when a VPS is paired with a CDN, you can layer on bits of "edge compute" where it's warranted; or, you know, use it to cache static assets close to your users. :)
All-in-all it's kind of a funny return to where I started ~20 years or so ago with web development.
I built this because a number of projects I work on need a robust, resilient way of deferring work but I didn’t want to add another piece of infrastructure or another language to my stack. Plus as soon as you start to reach for APIs that offer some kind of workflow concept, your options become fewer and further between.
[0]: https://github.com/maxcountryman/underway