I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.
It's long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you're storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.
I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.
I used to run a plugin on my Kodi that would make TV-style channels based on the original airing channel, complete with EPG and everything.
However, it wouldn't let you add lists of shows and create channels that way. I never got around to making my version, but perhaps someone else has done the work since then.
Surely he now has a new nickname, I wonder what it is.
It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.
This is probably too late to be useful, but what's on markdownguide.org works:
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Indented item
- Indented item
- Fourth item
Or
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Indented item
- Indented item
- Fourth item
It's not 1a, but it is how you do sublists.
Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.
I was wondering if it was something like the first word of every task they did, but then I remembered they don't do them in the same order (and some don't get shown to us at all). So perhaps it is just a secret envelope somewhere in the house (like behind the Metropolis Greg painting).
Parth Ferengi's Heart Place
It's can't be anything else, surely! I kinda want that ep to have a character that can't act.
I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:
- He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
- Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)
It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.
The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tells you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right in his logic and history.
As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I'm not going back to "free" search engines.
This guy's got great taste in films, I'll have to watch some of those that I haven't and then I get to enjoy the book cover.
It's so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I'm older and wiser(?).
It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.
Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.
It's the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it's taken on a few extra duties since it's always online). It's been going for a good few years now, 8+?
I've been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.
He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it's time for him to have to testify in court. Once that's over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.
There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun's website claimed Murdoch was dead.
Does winning an on-pitch fight help a team achieve victory?
Results from academic studies suggest psychological momentum gained from winning a collision may not actually deliver the expected momentum boost
AI summary:
> The article explores whether winning a fight on the pitch can help a team achieve victory. Some players believe winning a physical altercation can change the momentum of a match. A famous rugby fight between the Lions and Wallabies in 1989 is cited as an example, with the Lions going on to win the series. Studies of hockey data found that winning fights did not predict momentum shifts or scoring the next goal. However, a judo study found winners of bronze medal matches that followed losses in earlier rounds won 69% of the time, indicating psychological momentum. This effect was only seen in men and likely due to increases in testosterone levels following victory. While fights may energize individual players like in judo, their impact is diluted in team sports. The persistence of the momentum narrative helps fighting players preserve their status despite evidence against its influence. Ultimately, the story we tell ourselves about what shifts momentum is not always correct.
Mounting Backblaze B2: s3fs / rclone / GeeseFS / goofys?
I want to mount some B2 buckets on Linux for read/write access. What do people recommend?
s3fs, rclone or GeeseFS seem to be the sensible choices, but please share your hard-won opinions with me.
edit: or goofys?
Spelldrifter (free on epic) - has anyone played it?
This month week's free game is Spelldrifter:
> Introducing Spelldrifter, a hybrid tactical role playing game and deck building game that features the best parts of both! Spelldrifter combines the puzzle-like positional tactics of a turn-based RPG battle with the deep customizability and replayability of a collectible card game. The result: a hybrid, wherein players must juggle the resources at their disposal using both time and space.
> With Spelldrifter's innovative Tick System, players are challenged to think of card game strategy in a new light. With each character action, the turns interweave on a single timeline. With mastery of the timeline, players gain great advantage in battle and earn the satisfaction of decisive victory. Select your party of heroes, build your decks, and embark on an adventure deep into Starfall as you search for the entrance to the mysterious Labyrinth!
Has anyone played it?
Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?
cross-posted from: https://lemmyrs.org/post/257873
> This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.
Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?
This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.
XKCD's Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)
For non mathematicians, ABS() returns the absolute (i.e. positive) value of a number, e.g. abs(5) = 5 = abs(-5)
Too close to home
Image transcription:
O'Reilly book cover with a crab and the title "Adding and removing & and * at random until ructc is happy"
Watch and play Flash with ruffle.rs on the Internet Archive
Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the...
Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator built in Rust, is being used on archive.org to allow modern browsers access to classics like n, All Your Base, Weebl and Bob, Strong Bag Emails, Happy Tree Friends and many more.
> Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.
> Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:
> We can do multi-swf flash now!
> A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.
Joplin server is ready for use?
I see that Joplin Server is now at v2.12.1, but still seems to be described as beta. Is it stable and ready for use?