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It's a common mistake that newcomers to the language make. You assume empty is an empty string check when it's really a falsy check that is equivalent to: (!isset($var) || !$var)


There are a lot of dead podcasts in general. It's tough to sustain a podcast and many people give up after doing a handful of episodes.


V4V is a concept and not a technology.

It's simply that the podcaster provides something valuable to you with their podcast and you're expected to return an equal amount of value back to them in whatever form you choose. It could be a Paypal payment, cool artwork for the show, topic research for the show, or whatever value you can contribute back.

Check out value4value.info for a more detailed explanation


No surprise since he spends most of his time on Nostr nowadays.


This was old news on bsky months ago


It was known that Jack had deleted his account and that he was bullish on nostr, but the news of him leaving the board is new and only a few days old.


Technology connections has a good video about retroreflectors https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_Tp1H9CDs


This shows why it's important to have open alternatives to Apple's podcast index.

The Podcast Index still has it indexed https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1112548


I thought Apple Podcasts was more like a GUI index to RSS feeds


Apple runs the Internet's defacto index of podcasts, due to iTunes popularizing podcasting, and provides an API that many/most podcast applications use to find podcasts. When they delist a podcast from their index, it's like Google delisting a website from their index.

You can see that the feed is no longer in their index: https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Что+случилось&media=pod...


I was hoping they would do more than just put ChatGPT into Bing.

For instance, the question about travel should generate a result of suggested places that includes photos and links to more information. The result should be easily skimmable to let the user narrow in on things that are interesting and skip over things that are not.

Instead, it just generates a text essay in a chat bubble that you have to read through each time.


PHP 8 does exactly what he suggested and omits the token name:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "::"
https://3v4l.org/2T8qQ


It's indecipherable to most people in the U.S. who refer to it as "military time".


... I understand the U.S. has a pretty woeful education system in some parts, but has it reached the point where converting 12 and 24h time is considered an advanced task that is beyond the reach of most people? I'm morbidly curious.


The vast majority of clocks in the US use 12 hour time. 24 hour time just isn't used here outside of limited applications (military, computing, etc).

People generally aren't used to seeing time expressed in a 24 hour format. Most would choose a clock that shows the familiar 12 hour format over a 24 hour one that requires them to subtract 12 to get the time.

I think it would be similar to selling a Fahrenheit thermometer in Europe. Most people could learn to do the conversion, but they would probably just buy a Celsius thermometer instead.



if time.ampm == PM: return time.hour + 12 else: return time.hour


if time.hour == 12 && time.ampm == AM: return 0

elif time.hour == 12 && time.ampm == PM: return 12

elif time.ampm == PM: return time.hour+12

else: return time.hour


You’re right. Stupid question. Easy fix.


12:24 pm?


Thanks will need to fix that then.


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