Richard Matthias

Keep on draining that swamp lol

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Everyone laughed at the crew in Prometheus for not taking precautions, but I'm rewatching The X-Files and Mulder and Scully are at least as bad. A scientist just got blasted in the face with a highly infectious disease because Scully decide she had to examine a corpse without biohazard gear.

Does it need to be a shooter? Can I hug my way out?

New V-level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs Ministers say new vocational courses will simplify the

I confidently predict that obtaining "V-levels" will be extremely popular with teenagers and not attract any giggles or stigma at all.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So many 74-series logic chips!

Ed Zitron really muscling in on the old Cory Doctorow grift huh.

And I have pretty good eyesight by the way, I just hate reading tiny type. Esp. on cheaply printed paperbacks. Penguin is suprisingly one of the worst offenders.

I'm old enough now that I really need Amazon to show a scan of one page from any paperback they sell, along with a scale, so I can tell if it's too small to read. Multiple times I've bought a paperback, then had to buy a used hardback copy just because the paperback type to too small to read.

Cat immediately sits on it…

Photo of an ebay listing showing a hugh pile of 50 books written by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels

Calm down Marx and Engels. No one has time for this.

Awesome stuff!

Oh yes. First time I played a network game, I took my PC to my friend's house. We'd both bought NE2000 compatible ISA network cards. I had some coax, t-connectors and terminators I'd scavenged from work and we got Doom deathmatch running. Awesome fun :)

When your graphics programmer tells you to stop simulating off-screen cloth, show them this video.

a cartoon character wearing a black tie with polka dots Alt: Claymation character Morph, from Tony Hart tv show.

You gotta get yourself a Morph.

Let me guess, it's three linux distributions in a trench coat?

They say curiosity killed the cat, but I think 90% of it is not being able to understand the difference between push and pull.

nocturnal longboi

Glide renderer, when?

He perfec

You're out of control!

@andrewfray.dev mince pies are back

Shelves of Christmas cakes & other Xmas stuff.

October 4th in Tesco. Absolute disgrace.

AI Coding tools be like: We support all the IDEs you know and love*!

* as long as they are forks of VS Code

Art

One for @andrewfray.dev regarding the impact of no testing (or even CI?). Though it seems like they had many other problems. A lot of staff who just weren't very good; a general lack of caring about quality; poor decision making by leadership and an unwillingness to hear about it or revise.

do it Innes, it is your destiny

I'd be less worried about 'values' and more that private equity are vampires and likely only care about FC and ultimate team's revenue stream.

YouTube video by whomtech mechanical computer - Kickstarter preview (roons)

This craps on the difference engine. Babbage must be shitting himself.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sP...

The mark of quality.