except it's a matter of months, a couple years tops, until your old app stops working o doesn't work with your new phone

Nova Launcher is 13 years old.

Having to change your launcher every 10 years isn't too bad.

Very nice and polished looking.

Logic wise, it took me a while to get it. I thought that a bridge could be valid as long as every tile in it could be construed to form a word with the adjacent tiles. i.e. a word could be valid across bends and words could overlap on more than one tile.

I got the idea because the example has the words "T U N E" and "E A T" as part of the bridge, but it could also be interpeted as "T U N E" and "N E A T" with "N E" being part of 2 words.

Maybe you could adjust the example to avoid any ambiguity for first-timers?

Great work. Looking forward to tomorrow's puzzle :)

Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll see if I can do something to make that clearer.

Italian national broadcaster RAI still has the equivalent of this, up and running on the DVB-T2 digital broadcasting standard and also online: https://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp

The piece of software I miss the most since moving from MacOS to Windows is Cheap Impostor: http://cheapimpostor.com. It lets you turn any PDF into a correctly imposed 2-up/magazine/n-signature PDF ready for printing and assembling. It does it all with total control over margins, gutters, zoom lever, with an instant preview.

It was so nice to have it during university. I would use it for printing out papers as A5 "magazines" that I would bind myself. Very satisfying.

I never found anything quite like it for Windows

Is there any demand for such a tool?

Ages ago, I created an n-up imposition engine for bookwork. Also adjusted pages for creep and shift. And very basic printer marks.

It was just a simple UI form, not a graphical app (Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Preps). It'd output both a Preps template (for imposition) and a JDF with the fold and binding specs. Though the plan was to impose PDFs natively.

Alas, we were bought (by Creo), and my work was abandoned, then lost. Billion dollar company had no interest in a $50 utility (or InDesign plugin).

FWIW, Rohan Holt recreated the bookwork engine for his Metrix product. So my algorithmic innovation wasn't lost completely. Metrix is a professional general purpose tool, whereas mine was just for bookwork.

With the shift from litho to digital printing, on top of the decline of print work industry, I've assumed there's no commercial market.

But maybe with nostalgia, there's now makers and tinkerers who'd use a simple tool.

Thoughts?

There is a linux command-line tool for that as well; I used it once a few years ago, but I cannot for the life of me find it now.

Oh, perfect—thanks! I was wondering if such a tool existed.

Tons and tons of Movies and TV shows are streaming-only releases nowadays.

Also, a bunch of old movies get restored in HD and released on streaming services only. First example that comes to mind is the classic 1993 comedy Look Who's Talking Now.

Adding insult to injury, a bunch of old movies get remastered physical releases... on DVD only. That's right. SD content encoded with a 30 year old codec.

So if I want to watch a movie from my childhood in HD, more often than not my only legal course of action is to subscribe to a streaming service.

Very sad, really.

In terms of things that appear in theaters. I don't expect to see Netflix exclusives on the aisles.

And the market for discs isn't what it used to be. The long tail seems nonexistent now, it's a shame old remasters aren't coming through it any more. The last one I bought was the Star Trek TNG remaster, which was on blu-ray (and looked fantastic)

JustWatch is great.

There's a trend in my country (Italy) where old movies are being remastered in HD but not published on Blu-ray. Instead, they're only made available on one out of a half dozen or so streaming services. JustWatch helps me immensely to spot new releases like that!

There's much less competition (if any) in rail travel for any given route.

There's also no tax on jet fuel.

A high speed train almost always has a lower speed competitor, although it may be run by the same company.

Definitely not the case in EU and where so, it's only because of governmental inference in the market. Czechia deregulated few years ago and instantly (literally the first day the deregulation came into effect) there was 10+ new rail travel companies operating on basically every conceivable route.

after about 3 or 4 iterations of me reviewing my email setting, I got seriously fed up and I've gone for the nuclear option: all my facebook emails are marked as spam and binned.

Surely more people are an asset for the local government, not a liability? You'd have 3x the tax revenue, 3x the purchasing power, plus the logistic efficiency that allows for local business to spring up and mass transportation to be viable.

That's the point the GP is trying to make: those services rely on property taxes, not income tax. So more people in the same area means either lower revenue per capita for the local government, or much higher taxes for the existing residents. Usually, proposing the second option is political suicide.

It depends on who the "more people" are. Schools are the vast bulk of many town budgets. Young families are a net user of town services and enough of them would drive higher property tax rates. (In my case, the town also has negligible commercial activity and no transit--and is spread out enough that transit is basically a non-starter.)

Maybe, maybe not. People are not equal. You can nly tax someone so much. 3 people making $10k/yr (this is below poverty in the US) at 100% is the same as 1 person make $100k at 30% - but the first group couldn't live after taxes while the second could.

Of course when the people are more equal your math works out. However things are never equal.

Google Maps works just fine with the GPS from my phone's sensors, but _every single time_ I bring up the app, it asks me to enable device location and Google Location Services.

I stubbornly (and maybe foolishly) keep opting out of every Google tracking option, it's crazy how annoying they are if you do this.

I refuse every time, but the message is made to look like GPS is disabled. Definitely a dark pattern.

This happens to me too, various opt-in nags on both desktop and mobile. Using google maps has become a chore for me. I used to like going to the site or the app and browsing around for fun to learn about a new place. Now I only use it when I absolutely need to.

I'm now trying to use OSMAnd wherever possible. If there's a location I can't use it to find, I'll revert to Google Maps (and click 'no' to the opt in nag). When home, I'll make sure to update OpenStreetMap to make their map more useful.

I'm convinced that open data is the better option. Certainly, I'm happy to volunteer my time and effort to contribute to things like OSM (and Wikipedia), but I'm loathe to part with my personal data for 'free' to a huge advertising behemoth.

My biggest gripe with OsmAnd is the fact that plug-ins are actually part of the source code, meaning that I would need to recompile the entire project to accommodate, say, a plug-in that could pull in traffic data. That's my largest use case for maps apps - avoiding traffic on my lengthy commute.

There are some gross hacks to get traffic overlays on the map, but the navigation still chooses routes independently of that data (driving you right into traffic)

I do exactly the same thing. I've raised support requests, given feedback, starred support items for years about this knowing full well that it is a by-design choice. Other map apps seem to cope without it and manage to record your preference.

It's like trying to brush off an unwanted advance -- it gets creepy after a while.