Deebster

Deebster , 12 days ago

Re your off-topic aside, it looks more like that user has been tagged as verbose (whether that mean long comments or a high volume of posts isn't clear).

Deebster , 14 days ago

But occasionally you find $100000.

Deebster OP , 19 days ago

You pronounce the t in hot and then pronounce the p of potato?

Deebster OP , 19 days ago

I'm sitting here trying to replicate what that sounds like from your description and I've only succeeding in sounding like a madman.

Deebster , 23 days ago

There's some evidence that the bacteria in the air are different at day vs. at night

This is really interesting, do you have more info on this to share?

Deebster , 23 days ago

Plenty to read, thanks.

I see that first paper is for tropical environments, is this also found in other parts of the world?

Deebster , 1 month ago

I watched that one last night and had the same thought - she's been the face of nonacceptance towards Data and although Bruce Maddox is far more extreme in his views it seemed like a waste of her character building.

That said, they'd already shoehorned in a Guinan scene so I don't know where they'd find the time.

Deebster , 1 month ago

I was referring to this trivia:

Picard's scene with Guinan was not in the original script. Melinda M. Snodgrass was told that they needed a "Ten-Forward" scene to accommodate Whoopi Goldberg coming in that week.

I took it as true, although I had a quick go at finding where this claim came from and am drawing a blank

Deebster OP , 1 month ago

Ah, the major system. I have a slightly different version: 1 is L, 5 is f/v (FiVe) and 8 is ch/J. Sun, sci-fi, lichee maybe.

Deebster , 30 days ago

A fun article, and I really like the idea of pataphysics. I've klnown of SCP for a long time but I've never delved into it - it seems more bottomless than TVTropes, and I've spent/wasted enough time there already!

Deebster , 1 month ago

This is a great read, particularly the points about balance.

My phone's camera only has the thirds grid, unfortunately, although I had an older app that used to have a few options (but not dynamic symmetry grid).

Deebster , 3 months ago

Are you informed about what they're using AI for? One example is in-browser translations, which allows it to work offline and be privacy-respecting (no calls to Google, etc).

Deebster , 3 months ago

Are you saying you've disabled searching from the address bar and instead load up whatever.com and then type your search into there? I don't understand what you think you're gaining by enforcing this extra step.

Deebster , 3 months ago

Why should it be relegated to a plug-in? It is a feature everyone would find useful because no-one speaks every language. Also, since Chrome has this feature, new users would expect to have it work without having to research which plug-in to use.

You might not want to use it, but some people don't use Firefox bookmarks and you don't hear them demanding that bookmarks be moved to a plug-in. It's been a very long time since a browser was solely an HTML renderer, and while people were also against CSS and scripting at first, we've moved on.

"AI" has been used for many things for many years. The fact that the news is full of machine learning and generative AI doesn't mean that it's sensible to condemn anything using it.

Deebster , 3 months ago

You have other options. You can use the separate search box. You can use smart keywords to only trigger searches when you want.

Deebster , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

For me it’s more like
/wɒts ʌp? wɒz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌnʧ. nɜːʔɜː dʌgz stʌk kʌz ɒv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ɒv ʌnjənz. əχ./

(Gimsonian, anyway, I like the newer, more logical style that would have nurse be /nəːs/)

Deebster , 3 months ago

Which is why we shouldn’t have phonetic spelling!

Deebster , 3 months ago

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

Deebster , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

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

Deebster OP , 4 months ago

These are all short words full of the most common letters, so will make designing crosswords easier because they’ll be useful “crossers”.

Deebster OP , 4 months ago

I assume it’s just an example of how to create new topical words since it’s a lot easier to name an album than to get a word well-known enough to be eligible for the dictionary.

The artists all seem to be big names so I assume it’s their popularity rather than any history of quirky album names that’s decided the list.

Deebster OP , 4 months ago

I only do the cryptics myself - I like that you can be confident you have the right answer without waiting for the crossers to check your guess.

Deebster , 4 months ago

I think at the end he forgot he was meant to get a person round (dead or alive). I guess you could cremate the person before beginning and maglev the remains round, as long as you can argue that it’s still a person (minus all the water, anyway).

Deebster , 4 months ago

When I saw this I thought this was an old one, but not at all. Was there a similar one before? Or has someone else done this joke already?

Deebster , 5 months ago

Occasionally I’ve needed this site and generally it’s helpful, but I don’t think anyone looking for an explanation would leave less confused after plowing through all that.

Deebster , 7 months ago

Soap-opera-ish is completely right - killing off a character is meaningless if you establish your writers will stoop to a fakeout or a never before mentioned sibling/twin (or clone or mirror universe version, since it’s sci-fi).

Deebster , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

The Higgs boson isn’t an atom like plutonium, it’s “further down”. I think of it in levels:

• atoms, which are made up of
• electrons “orbiting” the nucleus, the nucleus being made up of protons and neutrons. In turn, protons and neutrons are made up of
• quarks

Quarks are a kind of elementary particle called fermions, which are at the same level as bosons (and electrons). Down here it’s all weird and quantum but in an oversimplified nutshell, it’s not so much that they physically exist as that in the maths* we can treat them as existing which makes it easier to think about.

• of the physics models we use

I’m a computer scientist, not a real scientist, so I stand ready to be corrected by those more knowledgable.

edit: @SzethFriendOfNimi is more knowledgable and helped me fix this up a bit.

Deebster , 7 months ago

That’s true… kinda makes a mess of my simple model 😅

I’ll edit in your correction, thanks.

Deebster , 7 months ago

Thaaaat’s what it is from. I knew I knew it from somewhere, but was thinking it was maybe Andromeda or even another BSG reference.

Deebster , 7 months ago

greebled

I had to look up what you meant - I know greebles as the invisible foes/prey that cats see.

Deebster , 7 months ago

The he’s a puppet misunderstanding reminded me of a similar scene in The Big Lebowski.

Deebster , 7 months ago

That’s really interesting, thank you for going to the effort to share those page.