Deebster @ Deebster @programming.dev

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I hope the Orville manages to get a fourth season, that often felt like the most Trek of all of what was airing.

For me, the level of fan service and nostalgia was almost uncomfortable - we've got Lower Decks for that kind of stuff!

He's also got a credit as appearing as himself in archive footage, which seems a little unlikely, in The UnXplained with William Shatner of all things.

Have you tried using nix on Gentoo? I've heard that this is the best of both worlds: you can use Gentoo to configure your system just so, and use nix for the big binaries, the unimportant userland stuff, and nix-shell.

I see your point, but you likely also need to be compiling multiple versions for different architectures and OSes. If you offer an exe someone will turn up asking for a msi, etc, etc.

In theory, you can get this automated, but then you're requiring a dev to learn and maintain these tools instead of working on their project.

I do edit and spell check my posts because I believe that when posting something (text, software, etc) it's proper to make it easy to consume, without forcing dozens/hundreds/thousands of people to fix your errors. I would expect these things, but I don't demand these things, and I think it's inexcusably entitled for anyone to do so.

What I'm hearing is you'd rather that the developer used their time to produce binaries so you don't need to spend your own time.

The problem with open source is that people expect a lot time and effort to go into things like bug fixes, documentation and support, when often the devs start out making something to scratch a personal itch. They then share it for the benefit of others, and it can be a slippery slope where you can end up with a second job, except you don't get paid or even thanked.

Open source burnout is a big problem.

I think of a lurker as someone who doesn't post - I guess your definition is someone who doesn't interact at all (besides making an account and subscribing, I assume). But yes, I mean users who only vote are now counted (it's not using views afaik).

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

the video you mentioned, which everyone reading this should watch when it makes it over to Youtube

Ah, I'd looked to see if it had the First icon before mentioning it but it looks like he never uses the tags. For others, we're talking about How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines on Nebula (you can watch without an account).

Anyway, thanks for the other video, I'll watch it soon. It makes sense that sediment is a trickier problem than fish since, unlike fish, sediment isn't actively trying to get anywhere. When I first posted, I was imagining something like a conveyor belt, or perhaps pipes (either without turbines or ones pushing downstream) low down on the dam.

I had to check that it wasn't April already, although that's partly cos I'd misread the source as Cloudflare

Huh, I've just come from watching Practical Engineering's How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines video - so I'm confident that if they cared they could resolve this.

I think the noun/verb difference is a little more clear-cut than just saying it depends on context.

There's plenty(?) of words that are spelt with a verb–noun distinction:

• since I'm licensed, I can show you my licence
• she advised me and it was good advice
• he devised a clever device
• I practised for years before I got my practice

and more where the difference is only in pronunciation (mostly stress):

• Tomorrow I record my record
• I suspect that that suspect is the one
• She'll present her present

Longer means you're more likely to be able to ride out a power cut, and gives you more options if you want/need to complete something more involved than saving and shutting down.

That sounds quite niche, so I'd be surprised. It's also harder than it sounds, e.g. how do you sync up the video with your sound? Bear in mind that there can be different versions, for example the radio version is often shorter and sometimes the videos have footage at the start before the music kicks in.

If you want the video, why not just play on Youtube in the first place?

I'd seen the Lemmyverse headline but didn't realise it wasn't about Lemming-created music. The actual rules make sense, and I like that the rules will bend to match an instance's area of interest.

I wonder if there's anyone here that fancies making a remix or performance of Tetris or something iconic. Imagine how great a cover by a swing band or similar would be!

I wasn't sure this qualifies as a good news story, although perhaps it should - there are a lot of health benefits to cold exposure (like increased "brown fat" - metabolically active brown adipose tissue) as well as the mental boost from resiliency training.

Also, they'll burn plenty of calories staying warm which is good news in a world where obesity is the world 1 form of malnutrition.

It's a somewhat similar story there, although the devs aren't as difficult. Mbin is a fork and seems to be the codebase with the brightest future.

A general tip on buying UPSes: look for second hand ones - people often don't realise you can just replace the battery in them (or can't be bothered) so you can get fancier/larger ones very cheap.

That reminds me of Netflix's Chaos Monkey (basically in office hours this tool will randomly kill stuff).