Deebster

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[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 5 points 11 months 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:

  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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago

This guy's got great taste in films, I'll have to watch some of those that I haven't and then I get to enjoy the book cover.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago

I'd add that Picard now also has spoilers for DS9.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I'm older and wiser(?).

 

I want to mount some B2 buckets on Linux for read/write access. What do people recommend?

s3fs, rclone or GeeseFS seem to be the sensible choices, but please share your hard-won opinions with me.

edit: or goofys?

 

This ~~month~~ week's free game is Spelldrifter:

Introducing Spelldrifter, a hybrid tactical role playing game and deck building game that features the best parts of both! Spelldrifter combines the puzzle-like positional tactics of a turn-based RPG battle with the deep customizability and replayability of a collectible card game. The result: a hybrid, wherein players must juggle the resources at their disposal using both time and space.

With Spelldrifter's innovative Tick System, players are challenged to think of card game strategy in a new light. With each character action, the turns interweave on a single timeline. With mastery of the timeline, players gain great advantage in battle and earn the satisfaction of decisive victory. Select your party of heroes, build your decks, and embark on an adventure deep into Starfall as you search for the entrance to the mysterious Labyrinth!

Has anyone played it?

 

This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.

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Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator built in Rust, is being used on archive.org to allow modern browsers access to classics like n, All Your Base, Weebl and Bob, Strong Bag Emails, Happy Tree Friends and many more.

Jason Scott writes:

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

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