I assume it's the standard inertia-type reasons: doing nothing is easier than changing a bunch of stuff, not changing involves fewer unknowns, and they probably have ad blockers and custom rules that mean they don't personally have to deal with the worst of it.
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.
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.
It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.
This is probably too late to be useful, but what's on markdownguide.org works:
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Indented item
- Indented item
- Fourth item
Or
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Indented item
- Indented item
- Fourth item
It's not 1a, but it is how you do sublists.
Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.
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.
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.
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.
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
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.
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.
I'd add that Picard now also has spoilers for DS9.
It's so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I'm older and wiser(?).
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.
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+?
I've been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.
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.
Yes, uBlock Origin works brilliantly on Firefox for Android (can't comment on other mobile OSes).
https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1
This takes you to the search results so it's an extra click to get to the actual page.
My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that's the gist.
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?
Hi all, I got in touch with the admin and he's alive but snowed under. As you may know, there's been a few update attempts that have failed, which is why we're still on v0.17.4.
@admin@lemmyrs.org's reply follows:
> I am aware of the concerns rightfully raised by the community on lemmyrs, I'm at a loss to be honest since I cannot dedicate the time and resource to upgrade the instance to the latest version without a) significant down time b) potential loss/corruption of the existing database.
> I'm not sure if I've made you admin but I'd appreciate if you could relay this information to the community on lemmyrs. My personal (and professional) life have been...chaotic to say the least which is why I haven't been able to make any thoughtful update on lemmyrs.
> I'm going to try again this coming weekend to upgrade lemmyrs over to whatever is the latest version of lemmy is (I'm not hopeful though since many of my attempts have ended in failure to do so).
> The server is back up and running fwiw.
cross-posted from: https://lemmyrs.org/post/257873
> 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.
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.
For non mathematicians, ABS() returns the absolute (i.e. positive) value of a number, e.g. abs(5) = 5 = abs(-5)
Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the...
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.
> 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.
I see that Joplin Server is now at v2.12.1, but still seems to be described as beta. Is it stable and ready for use?
Currently this community is titled "Rust: Meta" which suggests it's about discussing Rust itself. "LemmyRS Meta" would match the intention in the sidebar for !meta@lemmyrs.org.
(Probably this should just have been a message to @admin@lemmyrs.org, but there's likely better ideas for a new name.)