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As someone just getting into gleam, and without much functional programming experience, this article really clearly explained something that I hadn't really considered the significance of. Makes me appreciate the pipe syntax all the more now!

Arc are planning on building a built in adblocker https://x.com/joshm/status/1728926780600508716

Right.. I always assumed that one day I could dump my location history into a geospatial database and query it. Now I'm hearing that you can't even get historical data through takeout anymore?

What the hell?? Seriously? There's no way to get my historical location data anymore? I always assumed I could rely on my google location history as a way to look back at where I've been throughout my life..

How about the scenario of a stolen device that's logged into the service. The victim logs in on another computer to try and reset their password and lock the thief out of the compromised account.

This can't be done without revocation.

I think Morgan Freeman is a useful comparison to make. Imitations of his voice have been used in a lot of political campaign videos (not sure how many of them got permission). An imitation of his voice was also used in a UK "morethan" advert where they did seek permission and pay him. Another highly popular AI voice would be David Attenborough, used in any number of videos.

I agree, I find so much of the art of modern magic cards completely uninspiring. They all look the same. Old magic cards had an element of the strange and the quirky. Sometimes the designs bordered on naive. Hand painted illustrations had a distinctly human touch. And the illustrations were punchy and had contrast. You knew exactly what a card was from a distance. A lot of the modern art is just polished, air brushed fantasy cliche. Muddy. Too much detail. A distinct lack of the surreal or abstract. Too thematically consistent.

Just compare an old set to a modern set: 1995 https://scryfall.com/sets/4ed 2024 https://scryfall.com/sets/mkm

An abstract oil painting https://scryfall.com/card/4ed/104/stasis An unsettling watercolour https://scryfall.com/card/4ed/181/cave-people

Sometimes less is more! Realism is boring.

This is another Orson Welles classic, outtakes from a frozen food radio commercial:

https://archive.org/details/findusfoods_orsonwells

This seems like a pretty big deal! A huge number of libraries rely on Axios, and with the growing popularity of alternative serverless runtimes, these libraries can't be used because of the dependency on XHR.

Agreed, I've used this for a number of years and have been happy with it, very straightforward free service.

One thing that I didn't enjoy when taking Zed for a spin was the default of prettifying my code on-save. I feel like that's something that shouldn't be enabled by default. People are most likely going to try and jump in editing an existing project, and don't want the entire file getting reformatted.

Turso is sqlite not postgresql

You can even put a button on a sheet to trigger a script

Looks neat! Seems very limited though.. like you can't even insert multiple lines in one request?

This is beautiful! Definitely worth looking at the examples in the Github repo:

https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/

I particularly like the example of helicopters following the river Thames in London:

https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/?tab=readme-ov-fi...

This is super exciting! The bit about being able to chain methods and have it only make one request is wild!

Just made exactly the same comment, the xz maintainer is clearly the proverbial "random guy in Nebraska"

"Engineers have been circulating an old, famous-among-programmers web comic about how all modern digital infrastructure rests on a project maintained by some random guy in Nebraska. (In their telling, Mr. Freund is the random guy from Nebraska.)"

No, it's Lasse Collin the _maintainer_ of xz..

I never use cheques, but had a strange cheque related situation a few years ago. For some reason an empty bank account that I never use had gone £100 overdrawn, supposedly due to a cheque that had been cached, and was racking up fees.

After hours of phone calls, I learnt that bank account numbers are recycled (!) after accounts are closed.. so the previous owner of my account number had tried to cache a cheque using a legitimate chequebook that they still owned.

Still amazes me that the system could be so insecure!

Reading back my comment now, I know what you mean! I guess "piece" would have been a better word, or even just "music".

"While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play Go." - Edward Lasker

Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano.

Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he didn't.. he went _there_!?"

This webpage gives a little taste of that feeling. If you enjoyed it, try to give the real thing a go!

I wonder, were the waypoint IDs randomly generated and too short to avoid collisions (no pun intended)?

And why can't an invalid flight plan be rejected by the system? That seems like a fragile way for it to work..

There's a subtle distinction. "Like ... on crack/steroids" means a really good / fast version of something (I think steroids is probably the more common variation) e.g. "an e-bike is like a bicycle on crack". "They're on crack" means "They are crazy".

Anyone know if these are on the Internet Archive? Would make it much easier to jump around and listen without having to download FLAC versions.

I just watched the intro to one of the episodes and the music definitely brought back some memories!

I was left with the feeling that I'd heard the music before in a different context though. It then twigged that it was in another children's TV series, the wonderful Czech cartoon The Mole (Krtek). After a bit of digging I found it was in the Mole and the Rocket (Krtek a raketa) episode. https://youtu.be/LqGqqzTO8MQ?t=213

It turns out that the theme song was composed by Milan Kymlicka, a Czech composer, interesting! And lo and behold, the music for that episode was composed by the same composer! https://en.kinorium.com/390051/episodes/s1e3/

I agree, html works great for flashcards, and I make heavy use of images and audio

Reminds me of hearing the seedpods of gorse cracking and popping in the sunshine.

All 10 on my flagged posts were accidents. Think this probably highlights a UX issue and the need for an "are you sure?" popup.

Reminded me of this incredible collection of fruit stickers http://fruitsticker.de/4images/index.php?l=english