Fun. Maybe you could add some random features for a bit more variety. Shallows, islands, fog banks etc.

Thanks for playing! That's an interesting idea, thanks.

Well done to the journalist that uncovered this. Makes a change from copying and pasting press releases that many 'journalists' seem to do these days (partly because journalist organizations have been so hollowed out by Facebook et al).

Someone made a flag to express unity and we've just all come here to argue about it. How very human.

Are not ~all flags made to express unity?

However that one looks better: https://www.flagofplanetearth.com/

Fight me :)

What are these marketing sites advertising the Earth flag? Who's buying?!

Ford Prefect as a Souvenir?

I wouldn't trust any flag with a hexiform shape. I mean, hexagons can be found in the wild but one perfect circle reflects better our human nature

>Are not ~all flags made to express unity?

Usually the unity of some humans against other humns.

I remember seeing something similar to https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/capitals/. But the areas were weighted by the populations of the capitals. You ended up with something quite close to real political maps IIRC.

“You don’t choose anything. You’re born into it, man. One side or the other. You play it out.” Miller (the expanse)

Some people look great bald. Some don't. I am in the latter group, so I'm hoping not to go bald! If I do, I will probably buy a beret.

>Will the complex apps be discoverable though

That is the real issue. How to get noticed in a sea of slop.

Complexity doesn’t matter. Nobody jumps on the App Store and thinks, “I’m going to install something complex today.”

Presumably complex problems are lacking solutions and if that requires a complexity to solve, people will discover it. Not because it’s complex, because prior solutions were lacking.

And we've all seen what happened at Boeing when the MBAs and spreadsheet jockeys took over from the engineers.

I feel we are engaged in the same race to the bottom in the UK, although it is not as extreme as it is in the US. One of the few constraining factors in the UK is that our car parking spaces are generally quite small and no-one wants to buy something they can't park anywhere.

Why a chicken farm? The medium to large scale ones I have seen videos of look like terrible places, for both the chickens and the human workers. I expect they smell even worse.

It’s more a rhetorical thing than a reality. The appeal to me of raising chickens for eggs is not having to slaughter them,¹ but reality is much uglier than that, of course.

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1. Back in the 00s, I would buy our weekly supply of eggs from a woman who sold eggs at the Beverly Hills farmer’s market. She had photo albums of the chickens at the farm. One Sunday morning, I overslept and arrived towards the end of the market. The egg lady had no eggs, but was selling whole chickens out of a cooler. I was relieved to discover that she’d just sold out of eggs and the chickens she was selling as meat weren’t the hens who laid the eggs (although still, chickens were slaughtered to make meat). And yes, I’m the kind of urban hypocrite who is happy to eat meat as long as he doesn’t have to think about how it transformed from an animal into a food.

>The appeal to me of raising chickens for eggs is not having to slaughter them,

Doing that in your backyard with a few chickens sounds great.

>but reality is much uglier than that, of course.

Much uglier at any sort of commercial scale.

I've been programming for ~50 years and I still like it. When I retire I will probably do some recreational programming.

I was planning to write a book about how to start and run a small software business (which I have been doing for 20 years), but things are changing so fast recently that I am starting to feel a bit of a dinosaur and I'm not sure anyone would be interested.