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A little disappointing that this isn't mechanophilia. Anyone see David Cronenberg's film Crash?

I just remembered about this and today's was more challenging.

I love that he also had to sort his SSL, so he could resurrect his blog, just so he could post about this and spread the word/shame.

It's saying modern marshmallows are made with corn syrup, starch, sugar and gelatin but originally it was made with mallow plant.

Now I want to try the mallow version - has anyone here tried them?

Including English: æppel meant any kind of fruit, which is why you have names like pineapple and elephant apple.

Pretty much, yes - the Stadsbuitengracht was a defensive moat originally, then they converted part of it into a motorway in the 70s.

Brilliant writing, but I can't recommend unless you're happy not to get to the end of the story:

• The Name of the Wind (2007)
• The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
• The Doors of Stone ("forthcoming")

First time playing and today's seemed very easy. We'll see if they throw in more difficult puzzles, since I'm curious what happens if you're wrong (I assume there's only one valid route and you have to guess each step until you match).

Makes sense - the article says it's just a regular piece of plastic, but it's printed and clearly isn't just a copy (unless you can photocopy onto plastic?)

Yeah, the article says

What transpired in the nearly 30 years since the story unfolded is bittersweet

and I was waiting for the sweet part. Turns out, apart from his mum's good intentions, everything in the story's pretty much on the bitter side.

I was reading through hoping they'd show they'd considered the impact on life, but nope. Two to three volts doesn't sound a lot, but if you're a small creature living half in brine it might be a big deal.

Plus the change in the sand that is the whole point, as you say.

Has anyone read the novel? I normally like to read the source book before watching the adaptation, but my to-read list is already longer than a human lifetime.

After duffing the ball all over the golf course, I sat on my duff, ate some duff, drank too many Duff beers, then some duffer threatened to duff me up because he thought I'd got his sister up the duff. After this duff day, I went into the woods and lay in the duff.

Patrick Delaney's salute:

I know News Corp are evil, but this pic looks more mocking than heartfelt.

Probably not; I'd expect the places where you need something like UUIDv7 (large, eventually-consistent systems) to not be entirely suitable because you can have records added out of sequence. You'd have to add a received-at field - but in that case you may as well just use a standard incrementing ID as your primary key.

I haven't seen Prevenge, but I loved her (and everyone) in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

In time-based pagination, the suggested fix to lots of data in a selected timespan is:

simply adding a limit to the amount of records returned (potentially via a query parameter) transparently solves it.

This means clients can't see all the results, unless you add a way to view other pages of data, which is just pagination again. Or is the intended design that clients view either the first x results (the default) or view all results?

The problem with articles like OPs and others is that they don't allow custom sorting, which is often a requirement, e.g. interfaces that present the data in a table, where column headers can be clicked to sort.

I thought the "after a few pints" bit explained that already!

It mentions The Sex Lives of the Potato Men so I looked it up - it has an impressive (in the bad way) 0 on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ah, I didn't know that - thanks