Light from the sun that is reaching us now escaped the surface of the sun 8 minutes ago, yes.

But photons are generated in the core through nuclear reactions, where they take their sweet amount of thousands of years bouncing around until they get out.

I think this is right in a certain sense, but not precisely. From what I understand no visible light photons are created in the core from nuclear fusion, it's mostly a bunch of gamma rays that get almost immediately absorbed. The energy, but not the photons from fusion, gets transfered up through the layers of the sun, through radiation and convection, eventually heating the photosphere. It is then the photosphere, white hot, which ultimately radiates the visible light we see as sunlight.

And thats a fact you don't need to learn in high school, at least you didn't in my time.

When we got notifications through Growl.

Have to love the tone of the article.

Builtwith reports this website is built with Framer, is this an official EU asset? If that's the case it's also a declaration of intentions.

the FAQ clearly states that it isn't an official EU website, it was used for petitioning the EU to consider this proposal.

Thanks for poiting this out

... but it seems most casualties in this accident are the passengers in the first carriages of the second train.

You never know.

Adobe could have benefited from doing this acquisition but they can be somewhat forgiven as they are already pushing Edge Delivery Services which is based in NextJS although it's a different approach. Combined with the Universal Editor they have a solid headless authoring setup for enterprise CMS.

But I really feel like Akamai is who dropped the ball here, this was a low hanging fruit for them and they're lacking offering this capability to offer their corporate clients as they transition to full headless. Now it's going to be their competition (Cloudflare, even Fastly through Adobe & the EDS push) who will try to take a portion of their cake.

It's not outrageous, for sure, specially if you happen to have a use case for all the bundled apps. But things change if you consider that the one time payment for Logic Pro equals about 18 months of the subscription. In my case, I bought Logic Pro in 2013 for 180€. Obviously a subscription seems expensive no matter what the price is.

If a students needs Logic Pro for 3 months for a class then they can get it (with the other apps) for $9 total ($6 if you count the free month). That makes more sense than a one time fee of $200. On the other hand, if you're planning to use the software for over a decade like yourself then $200 is very cheap.

So you bought Logic Pro vX for 180€. Did you receive Logic Pro vX++ for free?

Yes, Logic updates have been free for many years. FCP as well.

Well what I didn't receive for free is the 3 macs that have been running the same licensed product ;)

Indeed, and considering the 14 years of free Logic upgrades I'm surprised they bothered charging the initial $199! (I do remember being a bit miffed that it was $199 regardless of my existing license for the giant $999 box that was Logic Studio.)

> Ruby used to be cool around 2010, but it lost to better options.

I'd argue that it lost the cool kidz mindshare but not to better options. People jumped to Node.js because of async but in the end the relevant industry change was the switch to SPA based architectures in the web space. Rails never embraced that approach and hence lost the popularity.

Jump 15 years ahead, and now the Enterprise world is built with React and Angular apps, not with JSPs or Spring MVC apps. Can Rails do a comeback? Who knows, but it's still a bona fide web development stack with terrific productivity gains for those who want to optimize that metric.

IMO I think that the industry will start to move away from React and Angular. These apps take too much developer time for basic functionality, are too slow, and too much of a maintenance burden. The Future^TM is HTMX like functionality, which Rails is very well positioned for with Turbo + Stimulus. I rewrote some pages that had Rails backends with React front ends to Turbo + Stimulus, and the code base size drastically shrank, the performance increased, the maintenance time for features dropped, and it was even more reactive than before.

This! It’s of course a lock in, but a very important feature for governance, nonetheless.

Oh the reference to Rails made me ponder how long have we come after the initial Joyent Slingshot vision for desktop apps based on, yes you guessed, Ruby on Rails.