Hannah Dawson

It's just this signage thing that stuck out to me - there's no good reason to not have consistent good signage up at all stations when the resources are available, and agents should be aware what signage should be up at stations. It's a small part of the job, but increasingly feels important.

Yeah the actual voting influence angle is a non-story. Agents have the right to look in on stations (IIRC candidates do too but they should not be wasting time doing that) and part of that is to make sure there's no weirdness, and part of that is to re-assure their parties there was no weirdness!

Yes, hence why it's the sort of thing that needs cool heads and conversations with election professionals. I think observers here should be reminded of their responsibility being to help audit and improve election process, and how making overheated reports on the day of an election is unhelpful.

Agents have the right to observe as well, it annoys me that 10+ parties ran and not a single agent was trained to spot this

Frustrating that an observer org can say "hey, less than half the stations we went to had the signage about this" which is a specific actionable issue and that gets buried underneath inventing something to argue about

In a note about how stupid FPTP is - compare the amount of seats the Greens win with a UNS swings of 0->10% and then the amount they win just from 16-17%

Basically on a large enough UNS things get extremely silly extremely quickly.

Was able to get all three 1.0 characters and their weapons in Endfield without major expense in the end. Total outlay probably about £60 for the game and it's filled my life for a month. Reasonable AAA value for money IMO

Labour's overwhelming issue is that they are Canute on the sands pretending Brexit did not happen and that British politics realigned in 2016. Every other British party is cleanly Remain or Leave. Every other British party is "liberal" or "conservative". There is no space for a both-sides party.

The (unkind) stereotypical Labour person is someone who had an upward-moving working class upbringing, went to university, joined Labour Students, found a seat, and is convinced that the British working class is clones of their parents.

It's helpful to be a dog lover when on the oppo benches near the LDs: our spokesdog is fearsome

Anyone who things sectarian politics is an angle to talk about regarding Gorton is a moron. Manchester is above that nonsense.

I would also hope any sane political columnist does not post "by-elections are not indicative of a GE!" for this one. Yes they are in the current environment. The LD victory in North Shropshire was extremely indicative of the LD-Con fight at the GE.

At the moment on these results, and considering where he lives, hard to argue that Polanski wouldn't have a serious shot of beating Starmer in Holborn.

There is "freak loss to the Lib Dems" and "my voter coalition is very sick" and this is the latter.

Gorton by election is two things: very indicative of the gun barrel Labour is staring down of, and very indicative that Labour has entered "limp until the end of the season" mode electorally.

Expect a lot of "but where it counts we'll win on tactical voting!!" between now and 2029.

This doesn't just apply to games but it's a good demo. Rent kills economies.

If people want high-quality first party games, the rentier economy in games needs to be smashed via banning excessive sales commission fees. Until that happens, the economic headwinds are to make games in cheap countries and sell them in expensive ones.

I can see, and essentially agree, with the argument that Bluepoint shouldn't be shut, but 70 developers in Austin is setting $10m a year on fire if it doesn't ship anything. So you're looking at something like $35m a year in PSN transactions from users to fund it. 282 million gems in Genshin Impact.

Normal desktop PC, no fancy tricks, SteamVR ecosystem. I hacked FSE on via following some steps I found online.

It's not useful as a recommendation until MS make it a universal option. And given it's hilariously bad at its intended job (making Windows handhelds passable) I'm not sure when that is

Sleep deprivation is having a lot of different things to think about on the way home from work, but deciding to type up an urban magic system relying on the concept of NaN

"Come from" in this sense being "sourced from" - i.e. "disabled person would like X adjustment to be made" - the proposal comes from the disabled person. Sadly in society the adjustment itself often ends up an unfair compromise enforced on the disabled person.

I.e the requirer requests an adjustment and "reasonable?" is the test applied. Not the venue/organizer trying to come up with adjustments and asking if the requirer thinks it's reasonable.

It's one of those insane ideas that comes up when you don't realize that reasonable adjustments are from the requirer-outward - it's on the venue/organizer etc to make the "reasonable" call but the adjustments almost always come from the requirer. Requires extremely specific scenarios for otherwise.

"LOL", said the universe, "LMAO"

But I'm not the right sort of technical user to be sure on perf claims - but it does reduce "get into VRC" time by quite a few clicks and reduces cluttter.

Theoretically it should be the avenue to consistent VRC performance, as it reigns in random shit that the OS is doing and seems to also curtail how many windows the OS attempts to actively render and make available for capture, whilst keeping Explorer etc off. I.e. redundant non-VR stuff disabled.

Thought @dtupper.com might be interested to hear that the Xbox FSE thing that Microsoft decided to make to try and cope with SteamOS both works fine with SteamVR and appears to be helping me with both app stability and FPS in VRC. More testing needed but might be meta for VRC frames.

The difference between Windows gaming and Linux gaming is that on Windows, someone was paid 20 years ago to make the thing you need work, and they did it really badly, and on Linux, someone did it for free last week but it's not been merged to your distro yet.

I ended up caving and grabbing a preowned MSI Claw A8 - the Legion Go S is a great handheld with weak internals - and I'm actually baffled why these manufacturers are attempting to salvage Windows for these units - it is _very clearly_ bad.

Just more affirmation that games are better on Linux.

This is obviously far more of a serious constraint because we're stuck with shoddy SLAM tracking for the forseeable future.