PhobosAnomaly @ PhobosAnomaly @feddit.uk

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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.

Two thirds of a million kilometres under good conditions and at a precise angle to get a picture of goatse moontooth'd to my phone

Welcome to 2025!

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.

I don't work in mathematics but my work strays into another STEM field, but every now and then I watch this short clip of Sir Andrew Wiles and think "fuck me, maybe it is achievable".

Absolute legend, that man.

https://youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc

Doesn't matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.

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.

I never got to try Head Over Heels.

That and Knight Lore were the two fucking tapes on the Atari 800 XE that wouldn't load and run correctly for whatever reason - I was too young to deduce whether it was a compatibility issue or a tape failure. What I did know that it was my weekly treat that was pissed up the wall because it wouldn't work 😭

I mean fuck day one patches, but I would have loved a day one POKE command back then.

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.

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.

That's a wingman and a half.

Nah that's cool, thanks for your view. I'm on board with what you're saying.

I fucking hate launchers with a passion, almost as much as I hated when Steam came out with one of the Half Life patches.

Admittedly though, if there was going to be one current launcher to rule them all, Steam is the best bet.