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

  • Yeah, the article says

    What transpired in the nearly 30 years since the story unfolded is bittersweet

    and I was waiting for the sweet part. Turns out, apart from his mum's good intentions, everything in the story's pretty much on the bitter side.

  • I was reading through hoping they'd show they'd considered the impact on life, but nope. Two to three volts doesn't sound a lot, but if you're a small creature living half in brine it might be a big deal.

    Plus the change in the sand that is the whole point, as you say.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Patrick Delaney's salute:

    I know News Corp are evil, but this pic looks more mocking than heartfelt.

  • Probably not; I'd expect the places where you need something like UUIDv7 (large, eventually-consistent systems) to not be entirely suitable because you can have records added out of sequence. You'd have to add a received-at field - but in that case you may as well just use a standard incrementing ID as your primary key.

  • I haven't seen Prevenge, but I loved her (and everyone) in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

  • In time-based pagination, the suggested fix to lots of data in a selected timespan is:

    simply adding a limit to the amount of records returned (potentially via a query parameter) transparently solves it.

    This means clients can't see all the results, unless you add a way to view other pages of data, which is just pagination again. Or is the intended design that clients view either the first x results (the default) or view all results?

    The problem with articles like OPs and others is that they don't allow custom sorting, which is often a requirement, e.g. interfaces that present the data in a table, where column headers can be clicked to sort.

  • I thought the "after a few pints" bit explained that already!

  • It mentions The Sex Lives of the Potato Men so I looked it up - it has an impressive (in the bad way) 0 on Rotten Tomatoes.

  • Ah, I didn't know that - thanks

  • What connection do Chromebooks have to Android? I thought ChromiumOS was based on Gentoo Linux.

  • [Jansson] is part of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, and her books were originally written in Swedish.

    Ah, that explains why I can never remember which one.

    Great post, thanks. Some niece or nephew will be getting this next birthday, I think!

  • I don't know much about them, I just use vanilla and pay attention to any new features I might want to disable. I think my threat model trusts Mozilla more than these unknown third party folk.

  • I don't think it's even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it's just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.

  • This is very cool.

    It's always a good day when you realise a DSL is justified.

  • [Truss complained that the British press wasn't] “particularly deferential to politicians”

    Why should they be? Their job should be to inform the public, not suck up to those in power.

  • I'd second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.