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In case anyone isn't aware:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com

– is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.


ADSBX used to be volunteer ran until JETNET paid the guy who controlled the domain name $20 million dollars to "sell" it to them and steal everyone else's source code and data. They now do selective filtering to appease their commercial clients.

Everyone has moved to https://globe.airplanes.live/ and https://app.airframes.io/flights now.

Here is the lawsuit from one former group of contributors: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23963235-golden-hamm...


Yeah that really sucked. It was a great volunteer platform and I was sad the guy sold out. It didn't filter anything. Not rich guys' jets, not military etc.

The community never really recovered. The airplanes.live one doesn't have as many feeders and the airframes.io is hidden behind a login.

I was hoping the community would simply move in unison to a new platform just like what happened when freenode got ruined. But it seems to have kinda fallen apart.

Especially the MLAT abilities (receiving traditional transponders pre-ADS-B) was really cool but it really needs a lot of feeders to be able to pinpoint them.


How do airplanes.live and airframes.io compare to FlightRadar24? I've only ever used the latter.

Unfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights

Untrue

Click on the aircraft, then click on Flight Activity.


The inscrutable buttons in their UI are terrible for mobile/tablet access. I wish the discoverability was better

I still lament the loss of nvALT. The GOAT.

Mine is still coughing along on Ventura. I'm more upset about the one-decade-in-beta, almost-certain-never-to-be-released, quasi-vaporware nvULTRA.

I used to love nvALT. Want to check out https://hashy.ink. It's an open source markdown editor inspired by nvALT. Still rough around the edges, but it's coming together.

Lost me in the first sentence with the AI chat.

It's optional btw, it's bring your own key. I'm debating taking it out too as I find if I wanna use AI with it, I usually just open claude code in the folder in the terminal..

You can just use neovim with fzf and that pretty much replicates nvALT.

I am familiar with nvim and fzf but not nvALT. Could you give me a brief explanation of the workflow here? Is fzf just used to jump between separate note files or what? Personally I have a general notes.txt as well as more specific ones like what I order at a specific restaurant or what I'm working on in a game. I don't use fzf with nvim, moreso with shell scripts.

nvALT is a mac app (developed by brett terpestra) that would store notes in a directory (txt files) and you would type in a few words to search/find the file you wanted to edit, and if the search string didn’t exist, hit enter to create a new one (or cmd+N)

it was rather simple, and is reminisce of using fzf with telescope (<leader>fg for file grep, or <leader>ff for file search by filename). type in a few letters, select your match and hit enter to edit.


> 2. Can you explain how an ants sense of smell leads to anthills?

Ant 0: doesn’t seem to be dangerous here. I’ll drop a scent.

Ant 1: oh cool, a safe place. And I didn’t die either. I’ll reinforce that.

Ant 142,857,098,277: cool anthill.


The dynamics of ant nest creation are way more complicated than that. The evolved biological parallel of a procedural generation algorithm. In addition, the completed structure has to be compatible with the various programmed behaviors of the workers.

And yet when my $100 CC Pro renewed last month my instinctive thought was wow is that all?

That can be read in two ways:

1) It's only $100, well worth the money.

2) Surprisingly little value was provide for all that money.


I'm not sure how you'd read it the second way.

$100 per month is a lot of money, in that case "wow is that all?" must refer back to how little you got from it.

You can already put op:// references in .env and read them with `op run`.

1P will conceal the value if asked to print to output.

I combine this with a 1P service account that only has access to a vault that contains my development secrets. Prod secrets are inaccessible. Reading dev secrets doesn't require my fingerprint; prod secrets does, so that'd be a red flag if it ever happened.

In the 1P web console I've removed 'read' access from my own account to the vault that contains my prod keys. So they're not even on this laptop. (I can still 'manage' which allows me to re-add 'read' access, as required. From the web console, not the local app.)

I'm sure it isn't technically 'perfect' but I feel it'd have to be a sophisticated, dedicated attack that managed to exfiltrate my prod keys.


It doesn’t even need to be motivated: just forgetful.

> Constitutional changes

Y'all have proven how worthless that piece of paper is.


There are many countries that have functioning constitutions that are regularly revised.

It’s not impossible for the USA to get there one day.


We still haven't fixed things caused by putting chattel slavery into the Constitution almost 150 years after a civil war.

Well, that's why I wrote "not impossible" rather than "likely"...

These things can be fixed even though it's difficult. Sometimes the pressure just boils over. Americans are a lot more defeatist about their politics than in many other democratic countries.


Hell, we deliberately left it in.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


it is impossible and it is great that it is impossible because you need one party to basically run everything at the federal level and vast majority at the state level which means that any changes to the constitution would be heavily politically motivated to one side of the isle.

Looking at the results, it's obviously not great that there's no reasonable process to update the constitution. It's the most dysfunctional democracy in the West.

Change that seems inevitable in retrospect often feels like a surprise in the moment. France its on its fifth republic. A second American republic is not impossible.


>there's no reasonable process to update the constitution.

Au contraire, a Constitutional Convention of the states to define the way they can all agree to be united.

Just like the first time.

There weren't that many states back then anyway.


You talking theoretically or in practice. Theoretically we could have Constitutional Convention of the states to define the way they can "all" agree to be united (just like the first time). In practice there is a higher chance of me marrying Beyonce

Doesn’t this decision exactly prove the opposite?

What piece of paper is worth more to you?

The difference with many other countries -- I'm Australian -- is that we don't constantly bang on about how glorious our constitution is and how it's the be-all end-all. We just get on with it.

And I wouldn't mind if the American constitution did provide all of these tremendous benefits that everyone bangs on about all the time. That'd be great! But it turns out nobody's really tested that, until now.

And you get an F, my friend. Hard fail.


The problem with the US Constitution and its religious status in the US is that it contains both fundamental rights and protections for citizens, AND the mundane details of implementing the government.

If you put 500 mock Constitutional conventions together at universities and cities across the country, I would polymarket my 401k that none of them would come up with the same structure we have today in the US. Many republics founded since 1791 have far better democratic structures than the US does. I call the US a semi-democracy because of our Senate, Electoral college, gerrymandered House districts and first-past-the-post voting.

Edit: I got "danged" so here is my response to the person below -

Consider the bill of rights and federal limits separately from the structure of government.

I believe France and Australia have better "democratic infrastructure" and I'm sure they aren't the only ones.


Which later republics, specifically? Who has stronger rights?

France and Australia pop to mind.

I'm not talking about legally protected rights, I'm talking about the "democratic infrastructure". Voting systems, legislative assembly design, power balance, and so on.


I mean, it was the world's first codified constitution, written after the world's first successful war of independence.

Which later constitutions do you grade higher? Who has stronger rights?


This is moving the goalposts, but I'll entertain this. What does the time / date of the original document have to do with the fact that it's rarely updated and that there's seemingly a constitutional crisis every week for the last year and a bit? No one is arguing here about the strength of rights or the 'grade' of the constitution.

I think this is a terrible argument.

I assume you use JavaScript? TypeScript or Go perhaps?

Pfft, amateur. I only code in Assembly. Must be boring for you using such a high-level language. How do you learn anything? I bet you don't even know what the cog of the engine is doing.


    variable assumption "wrong"

    switch $assumption {
        wrong { puts "your assumption is wrong" }
        default { puts "perl, erlang, Tcl" }
    }

Totally. I get screenshots from my 79yo mother now that are the Gemini response to her search query.

Whatever that says is hard fact as she's concerned. And she's no dummy -- she just has no clue how these things work. Oh, and Google told her so.


Discourse is more forum software than it is chat. At being forum software, it's excellent.

They do have chat-channel features now. I've had a look. Meh.


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