Got a new PC at work because of Windows 11. Still think it's really idiotic that they removed the ability to reposition the task bar on the side - something you could do since it existed. I have all this monitor width, but no, the task bar has to take up some of the much more precious height.

Why do audiobook narrators speak so goddam slowly. I'm not one for speeding through these things, but I have to speed most of them up to 1.3x or 1.4 just so the narrator is speaking at normal coversational speed. If I slow it down to 1x it really sounds like they are drunk or doing a funny voice.

An absolute legend has re-implemented notoriously difficult puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll, charted the entire state-space of levels and made a 3d visualization of the state space where you can zoom in on nodes and see the game in that state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8O...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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.

This craps on the difference engine. Babbage must be shitting himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sP...

Just finished watching all 11 original seasons of Frasier. I feel like I deserve a medal.

If you tell someone the whole web used to look like this, they won't believe you... thick-coins.net/gold.html

Just took off one hoodie because it was very loose fitting and the way it sat on me was annoying. So I put on another which fits well but the cuffs are a bit tight and touch my wrists in a way I find annoying. Am I autistic?

Didn't we already go through all this national ID crap under the last Labour government? Why are they so obsessed with it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry but if I’m not stacked like a 10x Deliveroo guy, what’s the point?

This is fucking insane. The United States is not a serious country.

As of a couple of days ago, there are adults (well, 18 year olds) who weren't born when "Don't Tase Me Bro!" happened. knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-t...

One aspect of programming competitions I don't like is when the creative framing of the problem makes it more difficult to understand the problem than it is to write the solution.

The Intel/Nvidia deal feels like Nvidia would have just bought Intel outright if they thought they could get it past anti-trust regulators (having previously failed to do so with ARM). It's a far cry from the time Intel bullied Nvidia out of the motherboard chipset market.

A late night TV schedule where the only chat show is Jimmy fucking Fallon, gently stroking Trumps weave.

I've heard several people say things like "we need to teach people how to learn" or "teach people how to think [critically?]". But no one ever says how to actually achieve that. These poeple think they've cracked the code of education, but there's nothing there. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

Veritasium asking the real questions.. [actually there is a much more serious (and interesting) story than the title implies] www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8e...

It must have been a great day when they introduced the attached lids on drinks, for those guys that carry a leatherman around at all times. Finally, a reason to carry a leatherman!

All my apes.... news.artnet.com/market/chris...

Got sucked into Calculator Youtube. Started wanting to know a little bit about a classic HP calc, then found out about a company that makes updated clones of a different model of HP. Now I'm watching a video about a community project that replaces all the software on this calculator. What.

Just read that Maru - one of the original 'internet cats' - has died. Legendary for his obsession with boxes. He was 18. Very sad.

Honestly thought this was Julian Clary until I read the caption.

Theory that the current state of politics and public discourse in general can be traced back to the modern skeptic movement of the late 2000s/early 2010s.

Worth knowing.. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

iPhone owners..

I've never seen ChatGPT (or any LLM) do this before. It got half way through generating a program, realised it had made a mistake and then started again. Program in question is a mortgage balance calculator for an HP-42 calculator. Interesting to see how it works.. chatgpt.com/share/68b2f1...

Northernlion nails the fundamental problem with metroidvanias... youtu.be/efcBe7yZkXQ?...

Bluesky needs a way to mute all posts that have limited replies.

Idea: train a transformer (doesn't need to be a 'large' model for this) to format code in an aesthetic way. Because programs like clang-format are extremely crude at how they lay out code over multiple lines.

Thanks, just what I wanted to know....

Who wrote this, the Vice President of Job Title Inflation?

Muting the word "reminder" (as in "this is your periodic reminder that..." or "friendly reminder that...") removes a lot of annoying self-righteous posts from your timeline.

Funny thing I learnt reading "The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America" is that Roger Ailes, who founded Fox News, also founded MSNBC (originally America's Talking) when he was at NBC.

I don't know how I thought Flash memory worked, but man.. We are trusting all of our data to the absolute tiniest of electrostatic charges, it's pretty wild... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxY...

“UK Bread Giant”

Oh man, I thought central planning was bad. If the electricity demand rises in the US, surely a competing electric grid will come along and the free market will make sure there is ample power? lol

This is pretty funny. In 2014 Google ran an April fools joke about a new innovation from the Google Brain team that would accelerate TDD by taking your tests and synthesizing code that passes the tests. Imagine.... testing.googleblog.com/2014/04/the-...

Does anyone ever think about how printers are the most advanced robots most people have used?

If Apple wanted to do something useful with AI, they could find a way to mute notifications that are just adverts (or badgering you to use the app) without turning off all notifications (which I have done with almost every app on my phone for this reason).

They should do what they did with World of Warcraft Classic but for the internet

Switched to Orion browser on my phone because I finally got sick of accidentally closing browser tabs in Safari. Who the hell thought a flick gesture was a good way to close a tab - it's so easy to accidentally flick when you're just trying to scroll.

Proper 1984 stuff going on in the US now.

What exactly am I supposed to do with this information, LinkedIn?