dave

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Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m not your buddy, pal.

(that’s another way wars start)

Why rule? in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] dave@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago

The comments so far have been far more helpful and informative than I was hoping for.

Any good cheap email providers? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve been with Purelymail for years on several domains I look after. Not had a single issue. I went to them for pricing and simplicity but their privacy looks fine to me too.

The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 72 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

Crazy Brits rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I’m from the north but live with southerners now. I grew up with dinner at noon (in school—dinner time, dinner-ladies).

We’ve now compromised on breakfast, lunch, tea, and on Sunday it’s a grey area between Sunday lunch and Sunday dinner depending on how much the schedule has slipped.

Tiger Woods, according to the teenager I confiscated this from in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I’d say between 13 and 19.

Red kite (malvus malvus)[oc] in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

They just edited out the wires. See !birdsarentreal@lemmy.world

Adult daughter. Should I disown her!? in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

You can easily diffuse that situation by hanging a tea towel around her shoulders like a cape and saying “look, now you’re Super Angry”

I have too much scrap wood. I needed a scrap wood bin. So I made a scrap wood bin out of scrap wood to hold my scrap wood. in c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Five gallon buckets? Luxury…

I can feel my horny levels rising to 30% in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago

down the vena cavity to her heart

I’m not sure this guy is a proper doctor…

What comedy movies aged like fine wine? in c/movies@piefed.social
[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And what did you make of The End Continues?

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] dave@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You say that, and GAs were used decades ago to design FPGAs to a spec. The evolved design worked perfectly on the test chip, so the design was copied onto a second chip and it failed. The logic gates were identical but the GA had utilised microscopic differences in the substrate and there were large areas of programmed chip totally unconnected to the main circuit. Without them, the first chip didn’t work any more.

There are likely quantum effects available at the size / scale of neurons, and it’s brave to say evolution wouldn’t exploit them if there was some benefit.

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Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. (feddit.uk)
 
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CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses (feddit.uk)
 
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Trivial pcb with curved trace (feddit.uk)
 

I’m replacing a trivial pcb in a battery pack for a small fan. It’s 6V (4xAA) with a SPST top left and a USB socket top right. But why on earth would the power line on the pcb follow that curved path? There are no other components, just the 2 ends of the battery pack and a plastic housing.

Maybe just ‘because you can’?

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No!!! Not relationship talks... (feddit.uk)
 
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Problems with Arch upgrade (feddit.uk)
 

I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

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One community from linked post (feddit.uk)
 

I saw this comment which included a link to a crosspost in a different community. When I open that link, I see the post and the top of the view has the community name with menu. But I seem to be able to do everything (subscribe, favourite, block, read the sidebar) except just ‘open’ the community to see other posts. Am I missing the right place to click / menu entry?

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Post image preview not showing in feed (feddit.uk)
 

Don’t know if this is from the most recent update but I just saw this post and it doesn’t show the image in the feed—just a grey placeholder box. Opening the post shows the image.

https://feddit.uk/post/11005731

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Bug: Clicking messages in inbox don’t navigate to the comment (feddit.uk)
 

I got a reply to a comment in what’s become quite a bit post (≈150 comments). Clicking the message in the inbox goes to the post comments but not to the reply. It seems to go to a slightly different place each time I open it.

I saved the original comment I’d replied to, and navigating from my ‘saved comments’ does go to the right place.

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Enhancement: Option to turn off background refresh (feddit.uk)
 

This is an assumption on my part, and may have other explanations. I’ve noticed sometimes the feed ‘jumps’ down a post while scrolling, and I’m assuming this is due to a background feed update combined with a sort order that puts a new item anove where I was currently scrolled to. If that’s the case, having an option for manual refresh only would be great.

If that’s not it, there might be a bug somewhere but it’ll be hard to find I guess, as it happens quite rarely.

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Enhancement: settings for more theme colours (feddit.uk)
 

I find the high contrast cards in the main feed a bit hard on my eyes. I’d like to reverse the back card background and the grey page background, and maybe also dial down the text colour a bit. It would be fab to have RGB colour pickers for those kinds of elements.

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Bug: Default post sort order not saved (feddit.uk)
 

Sorry, can’t quite remember if you’d mentioned this already, but it resets to Hot if you force quit and restart the app.

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Inbox bugs / enhancements (feddit.uk)
 

Direct messages in the inbox tab always show as ‘unread’ and there doesn’t seem to be a way to clear that. They also don’t show the name of the other person you’re messaging (seems to show my id instead). It would also be great to link to their profile so you can find their posts / comments easily.

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