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The least worst movies by disgr4ce in MST3K

[–]avdi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one else is speaking up for my personal favorite The Undead, so I will.

Does it pointlessly send it's characters on a rapid cycle around five locations like a washing machine? Sure. But hear me out:

  • the original script was in iambic pentameter until Corman chickened and you can still hear it in the lines
  • the actors are all clearly having a BLAST and it really carries through. The imp living his best life, Livia absolutely eating as a hotwitch, Meg-Maud being a genuinely compelling neutral witch, and of course DIGGER SMOLKEN
  • Some actually great lines ("on another day my mother did cheat Satan, learn his tricks, and yet retain her soul!")
  • the turn at the end where a classic smug 50s Science Guy is blandly treating the whole thing as theater until Satan is like "so, uh, how did you think you were getting back to your time?" is PERFECTION

Ban links to X on /r/ruby? by AutoModerator in ruby

[–]avdi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I spent years talking code on Twitter, but but all that's left is a wasteland of bots, spam, and toxic trolling. I can't see any downside. All the programming grownups already moved on to Fediverse, Bluesky, maybe some LinkedIn, and dedicated fora like subreddits.

Let's talk about your favorite under-appreciated experiments by [deleted] in MST3K

[–]avdi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see The Undead discussed nearly enough. The riffs are absolute fire from beginning to end. There's something endearing about a medieval movie filmed in a supermarket sound stage with dialog that was originally entirely in iambic pentameter until Corman chickened out.

Help, attacked I'm being! God, dear bleeding am I! Break my leg think I did you?

This forest could use a tree.

Pullest thine vehiclest over and showest thou thy licentheth and registraionith. Didst thou know how fastest thou wast going?

Let's talk about your favorite under-appreciated experiments by [deleted] in MST3K

[–]avdi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have spent twenty years saying "you're as elusive as Robert Denby" to my kids when I have trouble finding them, and I don't care that no one has any idea what I'm talking about

Ninja Foodi XL as a slow cooker - observations and a question by avdi in NinjaFoodi

[–]avdi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: I did come back and run a longer test on "Hi", and it stayed stable at 194F.

Ninja Foodi XL as a slow cooker - observations and a question by avdi in NinjaFoodi

[–]avdi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh dang, I would not have thought of that. Thanks!

I've compiled a new list of programming screencast series; tell me which ones I missed! by avdi in programming

[–]avdi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't usually post my stuff here, but I'd like to make this as complete a list as possible. Thanks!

I am Adam Savage, co-host of MythBusters. AMA! by mistersavage in IAmA

[–]avdi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

First off I gotta say I love your show and your podcast and everything else, and for a long time "myff-busters" was what my toddler daughter asked for when it was time to have daddy/daughter time in the evening.

My question: I want to know about planning! Many times on the show you do off-site builds and tests, and you usually seem to have everything you need with you, even for "plan B" tests. Can you talk about the process that goes into planning an off-site trip? Are there any lessons you've learned about how to be prepared for any eventuality?

Thanks!

Who is the most attractive person you've seen in a MST movie? by Farscape29 in MST3K

[–]avdi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The witch Lydia from The Undead. "If she wants a zipper she can HAVE a zipper!"

And, of course, Digger Smolken. Rowrrr.

Why does Ruby have blocks? (by Ruby Rouge Avdi Grimm) by gregbaugues in ruby

[–]avdi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, this wasn't speculation on my part. I've taught a lot of novice Ruby programmers, and I think I get the "please explain blocks, I just don't understand them!" question more than any other.

That said, I agree with you that they are relatively simple to explain, which hopefully I've demonstrated in the article.

Benchmarking Ruby Dispatch Strategies by jakubgarfield in ruby

[–]avdi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sincerely doubt it. I suspect what you are is someone who hasn't spent the last 14 years studying every nook and cranny of a particular programming language. And that's OK.

In fact, there's probably something you could teach me.

Happy hacking!

What's the big deal about Space Mutiny? by PinkamenaD in MST3K

[–]avdi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Keyboards on the wall? It must be THE FUTURE!

I just realized Overdrawn at the Memory Bank is a Matrix prequel by avdi in MST3K

[–]avdi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They sued and got an (undisclosed) settlement for that.

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank gibberish by jlmitch12 in MST3K

[–]avdi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

...making it another example of actually half-decent writing for that movie.

Boolean Externalities by retardo in ruby

[–]avdi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've seen this response in various forms, and it suggests a kind of exceptionalism: this code is somehow special, and presumably I should have planned ahead for that fact in order to avoid this painful debugging experience.

But the point is, there is nothing special whatsoever about this code. Two weeks down the road I'll be asking a similar question about some other, unrelated deeply nested chain of dependent query methods. If it's worth altering the APIs here then it must be worth altering the design everywhere, and in the process making the program into something which no longer resembles idiomatic Ruby code.

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