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New comment by Oakwhisper in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

Oakwhisper — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:32:49 +0000

There was a commit a few minutes ago that fixed the instakills for me

New comment by Oakwhisper in "Days since last GitHub incident"

Oakwhisper — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:37:38 +0000

I was talking with some GH sales/marketing engineers last month and they said it deploys with actions, but they have a custom deploy queue

New comment by Oakwhisper in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

Oakwhisper — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:12:20 +0000

I did notice that Dark Sky's hyperlocal weather was getting bad in my area at the end. I wonder if it has anything to do with 5G frequency rollouts. I had seen some warnings about accurate weather predictions could be affected by it, but a quick search isn't showing any "Turns out 5G is/is not messing with our weather satellites" follow-up articles

New comment by Oakwhisper in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

Oakwhisper — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:02:48 +0000

Weather history/future. Currently you can look 1 day in the past in Apple Weather. Dark Sky allowed you to look years into the past. Dark Sky also allowed you to look more than 10/14 days into the future. It used historical averages to show you for a specific day instead of some fancy prediction, but it was nice to have.

There was also a "Check out Cool Storms" feature that let you see the weather map for an interesting storm that was happening at the moment.

Notifications were also more configurable. You could set it to notify you if the precipitation chance were higher than a certain percentage or if the high were below or above a certain temp.

New comment by Oakwhisper in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

Oakwhisper — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:10:13 +0000

But you should want an ROI as a non-profit. If you spend $1000 on advertising to get people to write their Senator to help push for/against a bill, you want to make sure you're spending it on the most effective way. If it gets spent on mail ads and no one calls, then that is largely a waste of money (regardless of funding model and org structure). If you don't have a measure, you can't really know if money is being wasted. You can guess and have a gut feel, but not scientific, actionable data to change how the org is working to best further the non-profit's cause.

Maybe you can call it something else, but for a non-profit ROI is just answering the question "Are we spending our money wisely?

Or were you referring to the non-profit having a board?