Thank you so much for this.

This struck me as well. Flash's video format, .flv was transparent out of the box and we used to do a lot of fun things with video floating over flash things.

When flash met it's untimely death, the advertising creatives that I worked spent 10 years asking for solutions that involved transparent video in html; we had to tell them no.

I hadn't really considered that browser blend modes have turned that party back on.

Cross your finger that they let us use the API on the 13th.

While I see what you're saying, the issue is that when you eyeball the graph, you think, "wow, it's 4x what it used to be".

Here's the thing... It might actually be 4x standard deviations higher, if not more. "Almost 2x absolute value" conveys less information here as the absolute minimum co2 value in the entire known history if the earth is non zero. And it is non zero. If I recall correctly it's closer to 80% of the value of recent preindustrial values (one should check this).

Would be cool to see that value on the graph, also a median/average/max preindustrial value.

It does not convey less information, it conveys accurate information. At the scale of the x-axis, the viewer can see that it was always at 280 so no information is lost. No information is added by breaking the scale, if you want to convey standard deviations, add a secondary axis.

While I mostly agree with you, my Canadian Mechanical Engineer father will gladly express his concern.

I've never been able to use the phrase "software engineer", despite having 20+ years of software experience because I was raised to believe that Engineers have silver rings, engineering degrees and professional standing.

And perhaps most relevant to the software engineering/not-engineering conversation, a code of ethics.

We let theology professors call themselves doctor. The definition of engineer is "a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works." Are we arguing that software is not a machine or in the case of social media, a public work? Many machines and public works are privately owned at that. Further, there is regulation for software and engineers are held accountable to it.

Iron rings.

Whoops, Iron! Of course. I can't believe that I made that mistake. Please don't tell my Dad.

Agreed - especially when you consider the provincial and federal tax dollars needed to prop up the various privacy commissions and launch an investigation like this one.

Neat product. Apologies for the nitpick but I noticed a typo on https://www.woice.me/pricing.

"nibmle" should be "nimble".

I had to fill out a Google survey about my wireless habits just to read the article.

Bite the hand that feeds you much, FT?

This is similar. I've never used it but it looks fun: https://handwriting.io/

this is pretty cool. I would love to see a service takes writing samples in your own handwriting and produces a letter that looks like you wrote it.

> this is pretty cool. I would love to see a service takes writing samples in your own handwriting and produces a letter that looks like you wrote it.

That would personally be horrifying to me. Imagine, someone can make it look like you said _anything_.

There are services that will take samples and make a ttf font. Here's one: https://www.calligraphr.com/en/

I run handwrite.io, which does exactly this!

Thankster.com can do this as well.

Are you on Rogers or Bell? I'm on Bell and it's slow. Also slow at Starbucks which is Bell...

everything's back up for me

Rogers