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

  • Plant for very dark bathroom (no window)

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  • I replied before your edit, so now I look like I can't read!

    I had some artificial plants that were so convincing that it was a struggle to get people to stop watering them.

  • Plant for very dark bathroom (no window)

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  • You might have been joking, but this is the best answer. All plants need a decent amount of light, so they either need a grow light or rotating out. Or just get a plastic one instead and save the poor thing a life of misery.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 3 - The gangsters of the sea

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  • How did Andy the wizard go for (Costa del) Sol and not Seoul? Sol and soul aren't even homophones!

    My other half came up with the idea of putting a pair of aces in your pocket ("pocket rockets").

    As much of a cop out it is giving everyone max points, I'd have struggled to judge that art competition.

    No-one played their hotdog card, er costume.

    Jack wins this episode for me, partly for the line "not including the ones you take off lampposts"

  • Termux native vs proot-dist

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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?

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  • 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.

  • So how did Argentina beat the Boks?

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  • I knew that would be Squidge just from the title!

  • Letter Boxed

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

  • Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?

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  • Ah yeah, missed that 🤦‍♂️

  • Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it?

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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'

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  • 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

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  • Perhapsburg they are

  • “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs

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  • 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

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  • 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