Deebster
@Deebster@programming.dev
New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.
- Comment on How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the post about Trying to use a terminal only laptop.
- Comment on Another offensive pub name 3 weeks ago:
I assume Peta just wants to be in the news? The Sly Old Fox is not an offensive name.
- Comment on How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Quality post, with plenty of useful and good advice.
I’m happy to see sqlite being recommended - I think people don’t realise how resilient and performant a database it is.
Very surprising to hear you need to restart GoToSocial to add new users!
- Comment on Petrichor 4 weeks ago:
Not funny, but interesting!
- Comment on Petrichor 4 weeks ago:
Their spelling was moulded by the US
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
sweet stop
I think you mean sweet spot. Now I’m wondering if it’s a typo or an eggcorn.
- Comment on dream job 2 months ago:
Found the source: ireland-live.ie/…/i-hurl-18kg-rocks-for-a-living-…
- Comment on dream job 2 months ago:
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
- Comment on Blood Meal 3 months ago:
what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
I’ve never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.
- Comment on Carrots help you hear better. 3 months ago:
That doesn’t sound heatlhy.
- Comment on The Electric State | The Russo Brothers' $320m sci-fi is reportedly streaming on Netflix in March 2025 3 months ago:
Has anyone read the novel? I normally like to read the source book before watching the adaptation, but my to-read list is already longer than a human lifetime.
- Comment on Ooo Duff! 3 months ago:
After duffing the ball all over the golf course, I sat on my duff, ate some duff, drank too many Duff beers, then some duffer threatened to duff me up because he thought I’d got his sister up the duff. After this duff day, I went into the woods and lay in the duff.
- Comment on A Smartphone Can’t Help You Now: How Horror Movies Solve Their Cell Problem 4 months ago:
Paywall!
Here’s a mirror: archive.ph/UJ8JF
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 4 months ago:
I don’t know enough to know how correct your pedantry is (technically or not), but to explain the meme it made sense to go through the symbols in the order you see them. I never got any points from the proof questions in exams anyway.
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 4 months ago:
When all you have is an imaginary hammer, everything looks like a rotation around the imaginary unit circle.
Explanation of maths
x = -10, i = √-1 so i² = -1 and 10i²=-10
- Comment on Kurt Russell Had To Drag James Spader Out Of His Trailer For Stargate 5 months ago:
When it works, it’s Arby’s. When it doesn’t, it’s hour-old Arby’s.
This is too American for me - Arby’s sells food? Is fresh Arby’s great or merely ok? I assume hour-old is bad.
- Comment on Audiences Want More Independent Cinemas, According to Art House Convergence Study 5 months ago:
People say they want that, but do those independent cinemas get enough people through the doors to stay open?
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's manslaughter trial over Rust shooting has been dismissed 5 months ago:
A bunch of people got away with the Panama Papers stuff because of chain of custody shenanigans.
- Comment on Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short) 5 months ago:
I guess it’s the King’s English now. I’m always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there’s some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory’s a sticky bugger.
- Comment on Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short) 5 months ago:
curtesy of zagorath
fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.
- Comment on Grab life by the ball again: Happy 20th anniversary to 'Dodgeball' 5 months ago:
I forgot that Lance Armstrong was in this - quite fitting for a satire.
- Comment on Finally: ‘Fresh Kills’ Is the Best Mafia Movie in Ages 5 months ago:
Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there’s plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?
- Comment on ‘Jurassic World 4’ Set to Shoot in Thailand, Malta and U.K. 6 months ago:
I thought Jurassic World Dominion was the final one? Wasn’t that why they brought back so many of the original cast? And it was pretty terrible, and dragged heavily towards the end.
Hollywood is addicted to established IPs, find some courage and be inventive again, please.
- Comment on VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now 6 months ago:
VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now
Article includes screenshot from The Mummy Returns which is from 2001 and is therefore old enough to watch any of the other films mentioned.
- Comment on Stare at it. 6 months ago:
One place I worked had a small park, so sometimes I’d go for a lap or two to think something through - the fresh air, mild exercise, change of scenery and lack of distractions wroked wonders.
- Comment on Stare at it. 6 months ago:
@Yondoza@sh.itjust.works this is good advice
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that’s used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.
House ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.
- Comment on Boimler is the One Punch Man of Star Trek 6 months ago:
A fun article, and I really like the idea of pataphysics. I’ve klnown of SCP for a long time but I’ve never delved into it - it seems more bottomless than TVTropes, and I’ve spent/wasted enough time there already!
- Comment on Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post 6 months ago:
I was referring to this trivia:
Picard’s scene with Guinan was not in the original script. Melinda M. Snodgrass was told that they needed a “Ten-Forward” scene to accommodate Whoopi Goldberg coming in that week.
I took it as true, although I had a quick go at finding where this claim came from and am drawing a blank
- Comment on Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post 6 months ago:
I watched that one last night and had the same thought - she’s been the face of nonacceptance towards Data and although Bruce Maddox is far more extreme in his views it seemed like a waste of her character building.
That said, they’d already shoehorned in a Guinan scene so I don’t know where they’d find the time.
