Deebster
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- Comment on Use your database to power state machines 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need 1 year ago:
It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.
- Comment on Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead 1 year ago:
Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) 1 year ago:
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:
- He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
- 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.
- Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) 1 year ago:
The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tell you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right and fair.
- Comment on Just wanted to thank this community for helping me have the best birthday I've had in years 1 year ago:
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
- Comment on How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.
Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
It's the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it's taken on a few extra duties since it's always online). It's been going for a good few years now, 8+?
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
I've been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.
- Comment on All the Ways Rupert Murdoch Left His Grubby Fingerprints on Tech 1 year ago:
He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it's time for him to have to testify in court. Once that's over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.
There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun's website claimed Murdoch was dead.
- Comment on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog 1 year ago:
https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1This takes you to the search results so it's an extra click to get to the actual page.
- Comment on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog 1 year ago:
I've been using Kagi for two months and I'm loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:
- remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
- rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
- rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
- rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers
Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.
- Comment on Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns 1 year ago:
What's the easy fix then? Just a lower number?
AI detection tools don't work, and humans aren't much better, unless they're subject experts. How do we stop AI books?
- Comment on The GNU Project turns 40 this month 1 year ago:
The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn't go into any more details.
After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
- Comment on First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service 1 year ago:
I can only answer the first part: .jxl
- Comment on Mounting Backblaze B2 - s3fs or rclone or GeeseFS? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Mounting Backblaze B2 - s3fs or rclone or GeeseFS? 1 year ago:
I plan to switch over later when it makes sense to - the nice thing about Backblaze is that it scales with your storage, whereas with Hetzner you have to jump from 1 TB to 5 TB.
- Comment on Mounting Backblaze B2 - s3fs or rclone or GeeseFS? 1 year ago:
It's for storing a few terabytes of fairly static media (for the most part, write-once). The codebases using it don't natively support object storage (and will be in Docker containers).
It's on a Hetzner server, and Backblaze (even after the price increase) will be a lot cheaper than normal drives, although their storage box option is probably better value over about two GB.
- Comment on Riker sits down 1 year ago:
Wil Wheaton confirmed the furniture-moving story: https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1dx9y7/riker_sits_down_always_with_the_leg_over_the/c9v52pj/?context=2
What makes you say it was a car accident?
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- Comment on Spelldrifter (free on epic) - has anyone played it? 1 year ago:
oops - fixed, cheers
- Comment on Spelldrifter (free on epic) - has anyone played it? 1 year ago:
Huh, I thought that bit sounded interesting but each to their own. I like card games in real life, but not having to deal with bothering to shuffle all the time is nice.
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- Comment on Love my PS4 1 year ago:
Uncharted
That's still a series I've yet to start but I'm sure I'll love them.
- Comment on Prime 1 year ago:
Surely you meant to link to their Mastodon account: https://universeodon.com/@STDeltaShift
- Comment on [discussion] The Nice Guys (2016) 1 year ago:
Some great lines in this film. Perhaps my favourite is
::: spoiler spoiler Holland March: “Sweetheart, how many times have I told you? Don't say ‘and stuff’. Just say ‘dad, there are whores here’”. :::
- Comment on [discussion] The Nice Guys (2016) 1 year ago:
I watched this the other day and was shocked they didn't make more (particularly as I'd noticed some other Nice Guy titles in imdb but they're all shorts or what would have been DVD extras once upon a time). Given that this was initially developed as a series, I'm sure they have more stories to tell, It's a real shame.
I hate seeing new IPs not get traction as it just leads execs to churn out more of the same old remakes and repeats.
- Comment on Why would someone choose ubuntu server over a headless debian installation? 1 year ago:
When I last used Debian, I found myself very annoyed with the lag in the package manager. This is a very long time ago (15 years?), so probably isn't the case any longer. However, due to laziness (or proactively avoiding a bikeshed rabbit hole) I didn't check and just chose Ubuntu over Debian the other day because of that.