Funny, I don’t remember PC gamers flipping out when they had to make UPlay accounts and Rockstar Social Club accounts to play those games on Steam. Those were single player as well.

And the replacement people all just assume that we’re supposed to be up to our waists in water.

Technical debt is a real doozy. There’s no value for the higher ups in fixing it, so nobody does.

New features just take longer and longer to add, under a teetering pile of your own shit.

I think part of the problem is the ideal underlying structure for your project doesn’t really reveal itself until several years in, and by then it’s a nice to have for some other time that never arrives.

Yeah, I’d be a bit more excited if they weren’t making most of the money to pay for that by exporting vast amounts of oil and gas.

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.

I’ll never forgive him for what happened at Black Mesa.

I live in the East Midlands, so I’d agree. Just about everything around here is a former something town, be it mining, manufacturing, whatever. Anything that isn’t is some picturesque place is a scrabble of smackheads and vapeshops.

Really need to start giving tax breaks to big companies to build their shit in unpopular places and have good public transport so people can get to it.

I can’t begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they’ve lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn’t be easy to say goodbye to that.

It’s easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don’t use.

If you’re upset over this because you’re genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you’re entitled to. Chances are there’s something you can claim.

Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.

Is that a great idea? Most of the New Towns became shitholes.

I know somebody from Skelmersdale, and the only place they’d been that was worse was Blackpool.

If I remember correctly, the problem was the scheme explicitly forbade the council from building a replacement house.

I think that was later changed, but by then the damage was done and the housing stock was decimated.

I do think you should be able to buy a council house that you’ve been living in if you want, but at the full market rate of building another equivalent home, and it should be enforced that they do build another. If a council currently has no plans for building more, then tough titties, you’ll have to go on a waiting list.

My chemistry teacher tried to teach us a “song” to remember it.

“Hehee libeb canofnee something something piscalar”

Which is stupid, because it was just reading the first few rows of it, but annoying that was 30 years ago and I still fucking remember it. I can’t even remember what I did yesterday. Fucking head full of nonsense.

Not to worry, I’m sure all those people who wanted to “tek r removedry bak!” will be lining up to wipe old people’s arses.

What we were promised:

Content in one HTML document.

Styles in other CSS, able to apply any to completely alter the layout of the document.

What we got:

<div class=“mt mid flex lt-8 no-margin up-1”>

Where it gets dangerous, is giving up actual real working medication in place of a placebo.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/02/woman-died-slapping-therapy-healer-sent-by-god-court-told

There was a viral one a awhile ago, and it was just a load of photos of his smashed up car that he’d taken for insurance purposes.

Great day out, thanks for the memories.

Support for int64s out of the box and without jumping through hoops would be nice.

I like Sublime Text for this.

Watching supposedly technical people use Excel to mangle batch SQL statements together makes me cry.

Everyone knows you should only have a double space after a full stop, so your computer knows it’s the end of a sentence.

Call me Mr Cynical, but I’d guess that most of the super secret licensed proprietary stuff was moved to the firmware rather than being in the drivers.