PhobosAnomaly

Shame. I liked him as a character, thought he spoke a fair bit of shit on times, but the real beauty was getting an unfiltered answer every single time - a rarity these days.

No, but I suspect the last line qualifies it’s inclusion, where her"status" and presence in the media field gave her an opportunity to amplify her story and provide the visibility it needed to get her freed.

It’s like the SQL creators designed the syntax to achieve maximum fuckery for those where “test” and “live” are different words for the same thing.

I bet they were pissing themselves laughing when implementing the finicky ROLLBACK command, knowing it that it would be only ever be used in anger as a “hail Mary” from a dev halfway through writing his own resignation letter.

It’s not real deployment if it isn’t pushed straight to prod.

Test boxes are for communists and the French.

Haven’t read the article because of that bullshit cookie-hostage stuff, but…

I think it’s a multitude of things. Williams (or whatever it actually is these days) hooking up a pretty decent car, some good leadership in the squad, fantastic strat calls today, and the standard Albon throwing that car about like a stripper’s bra and putting the car in rankings that it really has no business being.

Albon has been the standout guy for the past two years in the bottom half of the field, he’s punching well above his weight. It’s just a shame he sunk in a team with a notorious allergy to giving drivers time, alongside arguably the team favourite in Max.

I loved the Williams team as a boy and I have to keep telling myself they’re a Williams in name only now, but I hope they “do a McLaren” and haul themselves up the grid again.

I was talking to my primary-school age kids about their teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.

“He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.

I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.

They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”

Would it make a difference though? I’ve only got a passing interest, but I thought top end speedruns were measured per frame rather than RTA?

something something bus something something 0.35 seconds

e: perhaps the answer is already there, RTA would likely be the only ones with significant differences.

I love modern printers.

We have a super fancy one in work that requires one to log in (or fob in with an NFC-style tag), to enable access to their own virtual print queue or printer services.

Weirdly, if it doesn’t shut down correctly (software failure, power cut, flicked at the wall switch etc), it reboots but with some quirks like not enabling the 10 second auto logout.

It’s satisfying as fuck walking up to a printer that’s still signed in, scrawling a comedy dick in red pen on a bit of A4 paper, and using the cloud scan function to scan it and have it directly emailed to the user as a PDF.

I’m pretty sure there’s some serious security issues there but it’s funnier to hear someone’s “new email” tone, and their eyes widen when they’ve got an email attachment from themselves making a suggestion that they crudely be elsewhere, or who see a masterpiece drawing of a hairy rocket with a helium leak manifesting itself from the very top.

That poor social media spud is proper fearing for his job it seems 😂

I’m all for it though!

I miss those toolbars. Static, everything in it’s place, easy to remember.

These dynamic “ribbons” do my head in. Thankfully, I only really have to use Office in… well, the office.

Not Canadian, no dog in this race, but also in a FPTP government so yeah, fingers crossed you guys girls and everything around it get a proportional system.

Particularly the rifle-like properties of the standard Halo CE handgun. That weapon was broken at distance.

No I appreciate being checked. It’s always good to be given multiple views on things and I appreciate your view. Thank you.

I suspect you’re missing the wood for the trees there - are there any local vendors or farmers markets?

Yes, they are undeniably more expensive, but it is satisfying as fuck paying slightly over the going rate to poke some big company in the eye, even if it is barely felt at the individual level.

Very few people think everyone on your side of the pond is okay with your political shitshow.

It’s disheartening to see around a third of your voters being cunts, but then every country has their regressive arseholes, but it’s downright frustrating to see another chunk of your voting populace being okay enough with it to not bother voting against it.

So, by majority, the Americans are a clownshow. A small #NotAllVoters contingent doesn’t really change that - coupled with a modern history of American exceptionalism (and i say that with a straight face even with the British track record) then you can see why you’re getting dunked on.

Yeah I’ve still got my headsets from boxes with Skype For Business branding that have “Compatible with Microsoft Lync” stickers on them.

It’s probably closer in UI to Skype from the 2000s that the “real” Skype never really recaptured. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.

My org used Skype For Business and it worked remarkably well. Much more lightweight, though somehow still a little less responsive than it should have been.

It has that “it just works” factor for video calling, whereas Teams almost needs a fucking checklist to rattle through if someone’s audio or video feed isn’t working.

I’m not sure if you’re taking the piss or not but I’m going to choose to believe you’re asking in good faith!

The code just feels… messy, unfamiliar, almost chaotic - but the semicolons and curly brackets in a neat little row, formatted in a satisfying way, is like an island of calm and order in the middle of a formatting clusterfuck.

A moment of serenity in the middle of a riot, one may think.

Now this I did not know. Every day’s a school day.

I hate it with every fibre of my being but also secretly calmed by that column of statement terminators and brackets.

It’s like the code representation of the Vancouver riots kiss photo.