In vast sections of Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Quebec (and probably many other areas) anyone with a basement has to monitor for radon gas - it's just a normal part of the environment overall because of the geological makeup.
If you can keep a window or two open - it's not so bad - we use an smart bluetooth-connected monitor that I check daily - CO2 seems to be more of a problem than the radon.
Yes. Live in one of those areas and "radon mitigation systems" are common. There is a sealed lid that goes over your sump pump cover, and a fan constantly pulls air from it, which goes up a tube on the side of your house and empties near the roofline.
Relatively common is the cities around Madrid (Spain) mountains, and then to the west and northwest due to the granite there. Specially because lots of the houses in the area were built with that local granite.
Superior in performance and easy-of-use, which for most people is all that matters. Atom still won in general "hackability", which was one of its main selling points. Unfortunately that didn't stick, and the kind of people that want a hackable-to-the-core editor are probably using Emacs. I know I am.
TypeScript wasn't better than Flow when it gained dominance. It happened because Microsoft created an out-of-the-box experience with VS Code that worked great with TypeScript but made Flow types look broken.
More generally Microsoft treated Typescript as a product - they built it based on feedback from outside users and worked hard to make it easily adoptable and to grow a community around it. They are also "pragmatic" - willing to have weird, unsound semantics if it's needed to help people adopt Typescript and model existing JS ecosystem patterns.
Flow has always been an inwardly-focused project that is for Facebook's needs first. The Flow team at FB made an explicit decision to focus more on compiler performance improvements (what Facebook's usage needed) over outside users & community.
The way I remember, when flow was introduced, you had to do small changes to 3rd party dependencies your code might have had to make them flow-compatible.
With typescript you could just write a type definition file for any 3rd party library, so you could essentially make any 3rd party dependency "typescript compatible" without needing to change its code.
This small difference made a huge impact for adoption. Eventually flow also got that feature but by then the adoption difference was already too big.
From what I remember TypeScript was a superset of Javascript, so you could just rename your files and enable TypeScript and it all worked, and then gradually move stuff over. That probably helped a lot.
It was released. It was on a growing number of webpages and an important part of the Dev Tools of IE9+ (also giving them a massive install base from before Atom existed). If Atom didn't build Electron what became the VS Code team might have built something similar on their own eventually (though it probably would have been IE-based and Windows-only in that alternate history). It truly seemed convergent evolution at work.
The best tool I have bought in the last 3 years was a 3d-printer... It lets me make other tools - even if they aren't as durable as steel, I can design them chunkier, or print a new one if they break.
Thank-you - I was searching for "Ars Magica" here in the comments - as it is the only fantasy RPG that I have ever seen come close to having the "feel" of actual "medieval" times, except - of course ... for the magic... (It is also the absolute best magic system out there!)
>- His shows are scripted to varying degrees - I think this should be obvious to >anyone old enough to not think santa's real.
Anyone who watches 99% of media should not find scripting to be a surprise. And many posting here on HN, who have given technical talks and presentations definitely do some level of preparation/script in advance. You can tell which people on YouTube/TikTok/etc actually prepare and have a script - against those who just ramble on with absolutely no plan outside of "this is a cool thing I like, that I want to talk about for far too long". (I watch alot of DIY/maker style videos)
Because - even if it is "unscripted" - there are soooo many hours of footage required to cut together even a short news interview segment. Many many years ago, I was interviewed for a short (5m) segment on "wardriving". The camera crew and interviewer took more than 8 hours to get all of their footage/angles and my various sound-bites for 5 minutes of aired footage. (And who knows how long in the edit room) It was eye-opening for me.
I am from far enough back in time (started with 1st edition and then went to 2nd - and had almost all of the codexes, even though I only played a single faction/army) I would buy codexes (army books) for all the armies, because I liked the art and the lore.
The 2nd edition box set was about ~£35 in 1993, adjusted for inflation that would be ~£73 now - which then when converted into CAD is well...alot more than what I just paid for 10th edition (about $80 CAD+tax). So - it's a good deal - and I am sure that there is overlap amongst friends during edition changeover.
5-year cycle would be a happy medium, but "that's just like my opinion man"...
However - because I don't pay for a "blue checkmark", that's my best guess as to why I get zero engagement.
That's fine - I have always treated Twitter as a "post-only", "fire & forget" medium.