Deebster

Deebster, 2 months ago

Seems that this has been asked before, and Wikipedia has gone for inaptronym

I like nominative ironicism or unaptonym.

Deebster, 2 months ago

Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

Deebster, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I don’t find that, but when I do you can often find the page on archive.today or web.archive.org. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox’s quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it’s not already linked from the post text.

Deebster, 3 months ago

Her life is in your hands, Dude.

Deebster, 3 months ago

I don’t often eat these nowadays, but if you remind me that they used to be called Opal Fruits they taste better.

Deebster, 3 months ago

I thought it was tuna (or other sashimi) with a little fat on it. Either way, that emoji does not convey my reaction at all.

Deebster, 3 months ago

flame removedant

lemmy.ml is replacing some of your word with another one. Good ol’ Scunthorpe problem!

Deebster, 3 months ago

I thought at some point they were calling 720p “HD ready” and reserving “HD” for 1080p. It’s all a bit of a mess, but that’s pretty standard for tech names, as well as the TLAs, ETLAs and DETLAs.

Deebster, 3 months ago

4 out of 4, which seems a slightly unintuitive scale

Finally, there’s a level 4 sting, which is as bad as it can get. Schmidt knows of only three critters capable of inflicting level-4 suffering: the warrior wasp (Synoeca septentrionalis), a two-and-a-half-inch-long black bug found in the tropics; the bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), also tropical; and the tarantula hawk (genus Pepsis), two inches long, which Schmidt can find in his yard in Tucson.

– The Straight Dope

btw, this image is a legit snippet from the wikipedia page Schmidt sting pain index although it doesn’t make clear that Schmidt didn’t get stung on purpose for science.

Deebster, 3 months ago

@snooggums Perhaps we need to bring over the Old Reddit Switch-a-roo.

Deebster, 4 months ago

In addition, the “Search Bar” settings in Settings > Search, which let you choose between using the address bar for search and navigation or add the search bar in the toolbar, is also gone in Firefox 122.

This doesn’t affect me, but I’m sure there’s going to be a vocal tiny percent that absolutely hate this news.

Deebster, 4 months ago

Alex Horne has entered the chat

Deebster, 4 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f8b217df-a91d-40b8-82a1-c3cc2f59ef0b.gif

Deebster, 4 months ago

I know that other birds use small fish as bait to catch larger fish, so they’re smart enough to do that.

“The acts of putting down the dung and getting the beetles are probably too far apart in time for the owls to reason it out,” he argues.

Ok, but do we have any way of testing this? “Probably” not something the owls understand seems to be quite hand-wavey.

Deebster, 4 months ago

I assume this is funny answers only? Some kinda woooosh? I think a lot of Lemmy could name them all, given how popular Trek is on here.

Deebster, 4 months ago

Interesting point. So it’s more like

Cart?	Returns	Leaves
Thinks return is right	😇	👿
Thinks leave is right	👿	😇

Deebster, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

You’re allowed not to know! It’s just that since you’d got Picard I thought you’d know the rest since they’re from the same show (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Seeing as I’ve just discovered you can use tables on Lemmy, I’ll give you a proper answer:

Actor	Character
Patrick Stewart	Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	William Riker
Brent Spiner	Data
Gates McFadden	Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	Deanna Troi
LeVar Burton	Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	Worf
Denise Crosby	Tasha Yar
Wil Wheaton	Wesley Crusher
Colm Meaney	Miles O’Brien
Diana Muldaur	Katherine Pulaski
Dwight Schultz	Reginald Barclay
Michelle Forbes	Ro Laren
Majel Barrett	Lwaxana Troi
Brian Bonsall	Alexander Rozhenko

Deebster, 4 months ago

Yeah, the same kid:

Screenshot of Brian Bonsall’s IMDB page showing he’s known for Family Ties and Star Trek TNG

Deebster, 4 months ago

I had no idea this existed but now Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards is top of my to-watch list.

Deebster, 4 months ago

I don’t think you can count the sites that just mirror Reddit comments.

Searching on lemmy.ml shows the top being several !news megathreads with comments in the thousands, then that !asklemmy post you highlighted, more !news threads, then a !meta megathread about Hexbear’s federation. I guess we can see who comments the most.

I liked this !imageai post Your username is the prompt, what did you get? which has 1618 comments.

Deebster, 4 months ago

That’s sobering reading.

One of the difficult tasks was to schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages.

95% are below this level. Wow.

Deebster, 4 months ago

I have an uncle who will assume anything that takes over 20 minutes has crashed so managed to break his Windows box by continually hard resetting as it was trying to apply a large upgrade.

Deebster, 4 months ago

Something I missed first time was

The data was collected from 2011–2015

Hopefully, it’s better now (based on nothing).

I know most people don’t seem to have the ability to look through menus and identify the thing closest to what they want to do. I think software might be more difficult to use now, too - the trend for “clean” design means that usability and discoverability goes out the window.

Deebster, 4 months ago

I just accidentally stumbled across some proof for my looks-over-usability statement:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307