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.

It’s so rare that we get a new video, but it’s always a special day when it happens.

Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

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:

1. He’s talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
2. 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.

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.

Yes, uBlock Origin works brilliantly on Firefox for Android (can’t comment on other mobile OSes).

https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

This takes you to the search results so it’s an extra click to get to the actual page.

My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that’s the gist.

I’ve been using Kagi for two months and I’m loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

• remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
• rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
• rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
• rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

What’s this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don’t work, and humans aren’t much better, unless they’re subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn’t go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

I can only answer the first part: .jxl

• PDA: I loved my Palm Pilot and I can still write using that script (was quite nice when I noticed my Android keyboard supported it)

• Raspberry Pi: this feels weird to be on this list! I still have one in the living room running Kodi

• No to the others, although I did have one of these beauties:

socialism confirmed to be effective at the atomic scale, got it.

I just tried to decode that acronym for a bit too: “mystery kanban bunny haired boss”? He’s a tech YouTuber.

The line breaks haven’t worked, here’s it formatted correctly:

Explanation: it’s mostly due to how js does type conversion.

For the Ls, it’s:

• [] is an empty array
• ![] is treated as false
• combining a boolean with the empty array returns “false” as a string (so true + [] = “true”, false + [] = “false”)
• ! + [] is treated as true
• ! + [] + ! + [] is treated as 2 since true + true = 1 + 1 = 2
• so you have “false”[2], which is l

for the o it’s:

• [] is an empty array
• [] + {} returns “[object Object]” as a string ({} + [] returns 0)
• ![] is false
• !![] is true
• +!![] casts it to an integer
• so that part is “[object Object]”[1], which returns “o”-

This looks brilliant! I love how simple the sending API is.

It had occurred to me that I could do something like this, but I’m happy you did all the hard work for me (especially the always-on feature of the Android app).

I always think this joke is more of a linguistics/grammar joke than programming. The kid resolves the ambiguity in the ellipsis incorrectly, but why is this a programmer joke?