Could she be correct in her assertion? Are we spending more on areas of physics which don’t require it?

She's correct. If you want theory of everything energy you need accelerator the size of our Solar system. Source: Stephen Hawking's Universe in a nutshell.

Minor chronological point but Zapier is an IFTTT-type glue provider.

IFTTT was announced Dec. 14, 2010 and launched on Sept. 7. 2011.

Zapier was first pitched Sept. 30, 2011 and their public beta launched May 2012.

Minor point but arguably both are Yahoo Pipes-type glue provider, which itself is basic no-code glue thing. The difference is that IFTTT erred on the side of dumbing the product down too much, and Zapier erred on the side of being too much B2B-focused - so they both missed the mark on becoming the universal glue.

Then of course we have Node-Red too, which probably is too developer focused (and generally just lacking any sort of focus at the same time, strangely), so also doesn't sit somewhere closer to the middle.

Do we really not having anything coming close to the usefulness of Yahoo Pipes yet? What would a modern alternative look like and how would it work? Someone has to thinking about this.

If we're considering Node-Red, it would not be amiss to also mention N8N - which, mirroring the IFTTT/Zapier split, is basically the opposite of Node-Red on the "let's turn this into an enterprise product" scale.

> Do we really not having anything coming close to the usefulness of Yahoo Pipes yet?

I don't know of anything. There's some new products I saw heavily promoted on LinkedIn, but at first glance they feel like IFTTT with a shiny coat of paint.

> What would a modern alternative look like and how would it work?

At this point I think ComfyUI or the node editor in Blender would be the best; they're oriented for different kinds of workflows, but UIs of both are excellent in their own ways, and the rest is a matter of implementing the right blocks.

And to answer the obvious next question: yes, there is an MCP for IFTTT https://mcp.pipedream.com/app/ifttt

It’s more useful the other way :p

But zapier is easily Google-able and therefore useful as a reference name even if the commenter hasn't heard of it.

Not as easily Goolge’d as “IFTTT” with five characters versus six.

Presumably those needs are handled on the habitat where the orbital maintenance team lives when they aren’t visiting satellite data centers.

Treat each maintenance trip like an EVA (extra vehicular activity) and bring your life support with you.

Given the audience on HN I expect will be up on Hugging Face within an hour or so… :)

trained with data up to 1999.

Now you're on to something.

You know it’s old school when it’s not “built with love”. :)

"Built with ♥ by our code monkeys"

"Buy me a coffee"

Your unexpected anecdote perfectly encapsulates why I love HN!

If I was in power and wanted to continue said rule, I’d definitely discourage the adoption of any standardized formatting for election results.

Not, you know, for any nefarious purpose…but because what we’ve used forever was good enough for grandpappy, so it’s obviously good enough for us.

/cough

As far as I can tell, the ingredients described by Cennini[1] is close to the “traditional” preparation:

* Gypsum (Hydrated calcium sulfate)

* Zinc white pigment

* Clean tap water or distilled water

* Rabbit skin glue

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[1] Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea, The Craftsman's Handbook "Il Libro dell Arte," Daniel V. Thompson, Jr., trans. (New York: Dover Publications, 1960) pp. 69–74.

…but don’t click this button.

Multiple impressions per interstitial domain, I imagine.