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  • I have a few home-made TUI apps, but nothing serious, so mostly it's just to muck around with a shell on my phone.

  • Is there a shortcut doing open_below → normal_mode → paste_before?
  • I don't see it in the default keymap and I don't know of anything that does similar so I guess it's needs a custom binding.

    However, I've just noticed that if you paste something ending with a newline, Helix automatically pastes it as the next/previous line.

  • xkcd #2990: Late Cenozoic

    Hover text: > Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.

    Transcript:

    > [Three squid-like aliens in a classroom; one alien stands in front of a board covered with minute text and a drawing of a T-Rex skeleton. Two aliens sit on stools watching the teacher alien. The teacher alien on the left is on a raised platform and points at the board with one tentacle.] > Left alien: Species such as triceratops and tyrannosaurus became more rare after the Cretaceous, but they survived to flourish in the late Cenozoic, 66 million years later. > Left alien: Many complete skeletons have been discovered from this era.

    > [Caption below the panel:] > It's going to be really funny when our museums get buried in sediment.

    https://www.xkcd.com/2990/ explainxkcd.com for \#2990

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    So how did Argentina beat the Boks?
  • I knew that would be Squidge just from the title!

  • Letter Boxed
  • Once per word, or once per puzzle? Either way, that's surely hard mode.

  • Letter Boxed
    www.nytimes.com Letter Boxed - New York Times Logic Puzzles

    Create words using letters around the square. Solve the puzzle in as few words as you can.

    Letter Boxed - New York Times Logic Puzzles
    I always try to get it under par, and did today's target 4 in 2 words:

    democratic - culvert

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    Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?
  • Ah yeah, missed that 🤦‍♂️

  • Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?
  • Because this is the internet, I can't tell if the whoosh goes to your downvoters or you. I think you were joking, but that second sentence makes me wonder...

  • If Scotty, Geordi, O'Brien, Torres, and Trip were each tasked with providing medical care who would perform the best?
  • Hmm, interesting logic; my first reaction is that even if I program a robot to hit a golf ball I still wouldn't be any good on the links, but perhaps there's enough medical theory that she'd have to encode that she would be the top doc. I would have expected the original program to already have the knowledge and skills useful in OP's scenario, however.

    I think all the engineers would have transferable skills, seeing as surgery is basically engineering/plumbing on living things.

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog
  • I pay for Nebula - $30 a year which is about £22.50. That won't even cover two months of YouTube Premium (£12 pm), and there's not even the discounted yearly option in the UK.

    And "if you're not paying you're the product" is wrong - YouTube/Google would still be datamining my viewing habits to sell to advertisers.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 2 - ...and then a detective comes
  • Rosie's prize task was a worthy winner, brilliant entry.

    I can't believe they actually went with the smoothie idea, especially after Baba's reaction.

    "Creatures of habit, just like nuns." With humour like that, I'm assuming Alex enjoys cryptic crosswords.

    Anyone find the mannequins' names familiar? I wonder if it was just a callback or if they'll appear again.

    I like the idea that someone forgot to wear the hotdog outfit and brings it out for the final's studio task.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 2 - ...and then a detective comes
  • The mannequins had the same names as the Aussie Rules team from the first season (The Yank Tank stuck in my head). I wonder if they'll make a reappearance since now the contestants (in theory) know their names.

  • Which code style to initialize structs?
  • 100% the second one. It's the idiomatic way to do this in Rust, and it leaves you with an immutable object.

    I personally like to move the short declarations together (i.e. body down with language_id (or both at the top)) but that's a minor quibble.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 2 - ...and then a detective comes

    Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

    Spoilers ahead.

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    Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'
  • Others have answered, but the UK has been rabies free for over a century!

    The British Isles (GB and Ireland) have been rabies free since the disease was eradicated in terrestrial animals in 1922.

    per DEFRA

  • Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'
  • forcing passengers to flee

    Err, why? We know they're not rabid since it's the UK, so why not just ignore them?

  • “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
  • Only if enough people do it. Then again, loads scrapers outside of AI already pretend to be normal browsers.

  • TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
  • The phrasing of "First actual case of bug being found" definitely sounds like it's a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say "a literal bug lol".

    Edit: to be fair, OP doesn't say that Hopper invented the term

  • Fond memories
  • I had a "T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

    It looked like this, just less German:
    "T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300)

  • Fond memories
  • That's the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

  • The HTTP QUERY Method
  • What about proxies and the like? It might be less relevant in a world where most communication happens under TLS.

  • The HTTP QUERY Method
  • Makes a lot of sense - it's a GET with the body from POST (I know, there's more to it than that). Definitely cleaner than encoding a huge URL or query string.

    However, we're still implementing IPv6, so how long until we could actually use this?

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators

    We have a new series! Let's discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

    Spoilers ahead.

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    [Scott Manley] Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24946971

    > TL;DW: > > > Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? > > At some point in the future, yes. > > > Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? > > In theory, yes. > > Scott expresses concerns that current startups have not adequately addressed some of the practical challenges, such as cooling.

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    Space & Astronomy @mander.xyz Deebster @programming.dev
    Data Centres... in Spaaace? [16m YT vid]

    Yewtube mirror: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=d-YcVLq98Ew

    Scott Manley discusses Lumen Orbit's plan to data centres in space and whether it or not makes sense.

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    The Truth Behind Commercial Haggis Farming

    This video takes a deep dive into the realities of commercial-scale haggis farming in Scotland. Exploring the industry's impact on animal welfare, it uncovers the ethical concerns surrounding the production of farmed haggis.

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    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle
    www.minutecryptic.com Minute Cryptic

    Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051

    > Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website). > > Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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    Crossword @lemmy.ca Deebster @programming.dev
    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle
    www.minutecryptic.com Minute Cryptic

    Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18316051

    > Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website). > > Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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    Cryptic Crosswords @lemmy.sdf.org Deebster @programming.dev
    Cryptic Crossword Daily puzzle
    www.minutecryptic.com Minute Cryptic

    Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

    Minute Cryptic is a daily single-question cryptic crossword, with a hint system and an explanation (Youtube video - it appears the channel came before the website).

    Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in cryptic crosswords, which are funnier and more interesting (imho) than standard crosswords.

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    Linguistic Perscriptivists

    cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16786687

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    SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? [18:34 Youtube vid]

    Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s

    This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023\*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.

    I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.

    \* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see

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    xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500

    > xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech > > https://xkcd.com/2942 > > explainxkcd.com for \#2942 > > Alt text: > > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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    xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

    xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech

    https://xkcd.com/2942

    explainxkcd.com for \#2942

    Alt text: > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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    xkcd #2937: Room Code

    https://xkcd.com/2937

    Alt text:

    > Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

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    Accents and pranks - an interview with Peter Jurasik & Wortham Krimmer

    While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).

    http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm

    > The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.

    The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.

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    Photography @lemmy.world Deebster @programming.dev
    The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring

    This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.

    Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring

    Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)

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    This year's (belated) April Fool's XKCD is written in rapier.rs

    This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.

    It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.

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    Abandoned industrial building 2/8

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833

    > Abandoned industrial building 2/8

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    Deebster Deebster @programming.dev

    New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

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