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zgluck commented on Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says reuters.com/technology/sp... · Posted by u/alex_young

zgluck · 2 years ago

Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors.

This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate west'.

zgluck commented on Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart medium.com/dartlang/dart-... · Posted by u/mdhb

pzo · 2 years ago

I was pessimistic about flutter 4 years ago but rechecked it recently (learning right now) and IMO it's really good user/developer proposition these days. They resolved most of issues on mobile devices and desktops - only web version still off but once wasmGC is ready (hopefully this year) probably things will improve.

Best way for developer elevator pitch just download few flutter apps and see how you like the experience:

1. wonderous - https://flutter.gskinner.com/wonderous/

2. flutterflow (low code + gui editor for flutter) - https://flutterflow.io/

3. appflowy (notion alternative) - https://appflowy.io/

4. flutter gallery (official flutter kitchen sink) -

Android (Google Play Store) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.flutter.dem...

web (gallery.flutter.dev) - https://gallery.flutter.dev/

macOS (.zip) - https://github.com/flutter/gallery/releases/latest

5. official material 3.0 demo - https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/material_3_demo/#/

zgluck · 2 years ago

Wonderous:

A showcase app for the Flutter SDK.

Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to showcase what Flutter is truly capable of on modern mobile hardware.

https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app

zgluck commented on The Prototype TOUCHSCREEN iMac From 1999 [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oZGsw... · Posted by u/RedShift1

zgluck · 2 years ago

A little clickbaity...

It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.

zgluck commented on Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe transparencyreport.google... · Posted by u/pjmlp

zgluck · 2 years ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...

zgluck commented on Outcry over loss of features on Bangkok’s landmark ‘robot building’ theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/rntn

zgluck · 2 years ago

It's a surprisingly cute building:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Building

zgluck commented on The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

wmf · 2 years ago

Note that RTGs don't provide propulsion.

zgluck · 2 years ago

Clarified this. Thanks.

zgluck commented on The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

zgluck · 2 years ago

The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years:

Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MHW RTG). Each RTG includes 24 pressed plutonium oxide spheres, and provided enough heat to generate approximately 157 W of electrical power at launch.

zgluck commented on Vim Boss neovim.io/news/2023/08... · Posted by u/bpierre

zgluck · 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life has a list of BDFLs. Bram is the first BDFL in that list who has passed away. We're in for a generational shift the coming decade(s). It makes sense to prepare - that is how you preserve a legacy, and the community.

I've been impressed with how Bram's passing has been handled by his family and friends with respect to his legacy and the future of vim.

zgluck · 2 years ago

So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.