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It sounds like a Ventian Snares track. Love it.

That might have been me! There were one or two M stations there. I heard a couple of stations calling CQ. Very difficult to pick out signals without any filtering.

73 de G4IYT :)

> The problem was that Emine's cell phone was not localized properly for Turkish and did not have the letter <ı>; when it displayed Ramazan's message, it replaced the <ı>s with <i>s.

So it was the wife's phone that changed the meaning of the message, not his.

Agree with the final part of this article that "programmable" configuration languages like Nix and Dhall are the way forward.

I've spent a lot of time writing YAML for Ansible, Cloudformation, k8s, Helm, etc. Some of the issues this article mentions are pitfalls but once you get a bit of experience with it, you know what to look out for.

I've also spent and a lot of time writing Nix expressions, which is much more "joyful" IMO. Seemingly simple features like being able to create a function to reuse the same parameterized configuration makes life much easier.

Add in a layer of type safety and some integration with the 'parent' app (think replacements for CloudFormation's !GetAtt or Ansible's handlers), the ability to perform basic unit tests, then configuration becomes more like writing code which I consider a good thing.

Kodi and Plex provide a way to play pirated content, but Netflix and their competitors still dominate.

They have an incentive to provide easy access to their media, so pirating is always going to be more complex, which will be a barrier to the majority.

Yes, Kodi and Plex have got that covered, and no risk of bricking your TV.

> Maybe the space is just more fragmented?

Android is pretty darn fragmented though.

I expect that aftermarket firmware would be an issue for content providers. For example, is Netflix going to allow third party firmware developers to create an app to access their content? They will already have contracts with content distributors like Lionsgate that mandate DRM in their own apps to prevent piracy.

If your aftermarket firmware doesn't support Netflix, Prime, HBO, etc then it might have limited appeal. Browser based apps might get around that in a limited way.

As for printers, I think of them as loss leaders to generate ink sales.

Don't know either space particularly well so might be wrong.

It's on the roadmap, can't do pinball machines without legs >.>

I wonder if it is possible to generate a ROT8000 quine, that is a phrase like "hello world" which yields a semantically matching phrase in some other language?

Nothing to do with me >.>

I love that effect. My JS changed a lot once I grokked LISP, and I finally understood why there was a Haskell course on my degree track.

One of the most rewarding training experiences was giving my old Haskell textbook to a junior team member and watching his (at the time .NET, w/LINQ) code change over the course of a few weekends.

Makes sense. I have a ZX Spectrum on my workbench and a copy of Sinclair Forth somewhere, maybe it will click for me in a more restricted environment.