Deebster

I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.

It's long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you're storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

I used to run a plugin on my Kodi that would make TV-style channels based on the original airing channel, complete with EPG and everything.

However, it wouldn't let you add lists of shows and create channels that way. I never got around to making my version, but perhaps someone else has done the work since then.

It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.

This is probably too late to be useful, but what's on markdownguide.org works:

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
   • Indented item
   • Indented item
4. Fourth item

Or

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
   1. Indented item
   2. Indented item
4. Fourth item

It's not 1a, but it is how you do sublists.

Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

I was wondering if it was something like the first word of every task they did, but then I remembered they don't do them in the same order (and some don't get shown to us at all). So perhaps it is just a secret envelope somewhere in the house (like behind the Metropolis Greg painting).

Parth Ferengi's Heart Place

It's can't be anything else, surely! I kinda want that ep to have a character that can't act.

I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tells you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right in his logic and history.

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I'm not going back to "free" search engines.