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I would have assumed an unknown caller was defined as any number not in your contacts. what is it instead?

A solid series, with descriptions of thought process feeling truly alien. I'm currently enjoying "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler for more octopus based speculative fiction

I've said that the US needs an elected king. The guy you want to have a beer with, to throw out ceremonial first pitches, even to welcome other heads of state is the king. The person who runs the government and balances congress is the president and should be super boring. I'm imagining George W Bush as idea King material while Gore would have been ideal President material.

Can't have a conversation about inbetween frames without sharing this[1] Noodle video. Now granted the interpolation there is pretty rigid, and the goal of this dataset will be to train an LLM replicate hand tweening, but I can't help but feel there's going to be a massive uncanny valley.

[1]https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g?si=vtDvfLU6XYz5QwWV&t=355

It links off to `https://sylvan.apple.com/` which has a name mismatch cert error. If you follow the url in the console (and ignore the cert error) you can download it. Not super convenient but there you are.

I have a slightly longer one that also makes gets rid of the various `overflow:hidden` stylings since it seemed like I'd often kill an annoying popover with the content _right there_ to find that I couldn't scroll down anymore.

``` javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("body ").forEach(function(node){if(["fixed","sticky"].includes(getComputedStyle(node).position)){node.parentNode.removeChild(node)}});document.querySelectorAll("html ").forEach(function(node){var s=getComputedStyle(node);if("hidden"===s["overflow"]){node.style["overflow"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-x"]){node.style["overflow-x"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-y"]){node.style["overflow-y"]="visible"}});var htmlNode=document.querySelector("html");htmlNode.style["overflow"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-x"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-y"]="visible"})(); ```

Just did a very similar road trip with a similar experience. Saw several Caddo plates around Craters of the Moon and an overland vehicle with plates from Brazil. Never did spot a District of Columbia one though and it appears there are no "standard" plates for DC?

As someone perpetually thrown off by Libby's UI it'd be awesome to learn more about that. Is it a blog post anywhere or just inside knowledge?

That's one of the things I appreciate about BazQux as an RSS service. I get a reminder that my year "subscription" is coming up and if I'd like to continue I need to purchase another year. Perhaps it's because of their billing platform but I'm happy its a pattern.

That is a fascinating read (and the perfect level of depth in this field for me). How did you happen across it? Always looking to add a good source to my RSS feed list