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Deebster

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

  • TIL That the Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later,

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  • 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.

  • To protect US coasts, scientists want to zap the sea with electricity

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  • 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.

  • The Electric State | The Russo Brothers' $320m sci-fi is reportedly streaming on Netflix in March 2025

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  • 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.

  • Ooo Duff!

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  • 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.

  • Australian News Corp exec apologises for doing Nazi salute

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  • Patrick Delaney's salute:

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

  • The Potential Pitfalls of Pagination

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  • 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.

  • Timestalker is the most unique British movie of the year

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

  • The Potential Pitfalls of Pagination

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  • 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.

  • Lambourn man shells out on rare spherical egg in auction

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

  • How Shaun of the Dead overcame the chaos and redefined horror comedy

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  • 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.

  • Is Google going to stop supporting android due to lack of profitability?

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  • Ah, I didn't know that - thanks

  • Is Google going to stop supporting android due to lack of profitability?

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

  • A small introduction to Tove Jansson's Dangerous Journey (in 4 easy pieces)

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  • [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!

  • Which is your favorite Firefox fork?

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  • 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.

  • Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck

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  • 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.

  • A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

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  • Firedancer: DSL for defining bullet-hell patterns (demo)

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  • This is very cool.

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

  • Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner

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  • [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.

  • What are your favourite extensions?

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