PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Hello I think you'll love this house. 2 days ago:
It looks like a pepperoni pizza that was stored on its end.
- Comment on A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online war 5 days ago:
The internet has ruined me. The headline made me think there was a swastika-ticking brigade and a swastika-cleaning squad; or a “pool’s closed” style griefing concerted effort; or a giant series of tickdicks.
This seems quite… nice in comparison. Good on you, internet.
- Comment on A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online war 5 days ago:
The internet has ruined me. The headline made me think there was a swastika-ticking brigade and a swastika-cleaning squad; or a “pool’s closed” style griefing concerted effort; or a giant series of tickdicks.
This seems quite… nice in comparison. Good on you, internet.
- Comment on Asian BrewDog Worker Sacked After Raising Concerns About EDL Presence 5 days ago:
I couldn’t tell you a out that firm, always willing to eat new beers mind!
I know their headline grabbers are particularly bad, but having lived on their home patch for a wee while, they’re not particularly well regarded as local neighbours either.
I know the following is absolutely subjective, but their beers are… alright? I wouldn’t say no to one but I’ve neither the stomach not the wallet to go on the piss purely on Brewdog beers. Their food is lovely too but you almost have to speak with your mortgage adviser first to see if it’s a bright idea.
I can’t remember the last time I voluntarily went to Brewdog or bought a few of their tinnies either, outside of meeting there for a work’s do or going there because visitors wanted to.
- Comment on Asian BrewDog Worker Sacked After Raising Concerns About EDL Presence 5 days ago:
I have never known a company go from being “super cool” to “super prone to making themselves look like fannies” in such a short space of time. It’s almost impressive.
- Comment on (UPDATED) Nightdive Announces Remastered Version of 90s Cult Classic Shooter PO'ed 6 days ago:
Nightdive’s track record is stellar in fairness.
I’ve still got my PS1 copy of PO’ed and it hasn’t aged well at all. I think the world was still clamouring for new and inventive Doom-clones at the time that people were willing to forgive clunky gameplay and unbalanced weapons, but this remaster will do it a while load of favours.
Disruptor is another mediocre game that springs to mind, but was well received because it was the best-of-the-rest in what we now know to be first person shooters. That would be a cool remaster too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Shock horror: a fucking idiot who build his persona on a foundation of being loud, obnoxious, and a bit of a twat turns out to be loud, obnoxious, and a bit of a twat.
Oh, and a nonce too.
- Comment on I don't get how people can become depressed, when we live in the century of Fentanyl, easy access to alcohol and amusement arcades. 1 week ago:
Try electrical engineering! All you need is a socket and a fork!
- Comment on New glitch found in Castlevania (NES/FC) 1 week ago:
Today: variable manip to cause the engine to read a jump to the ending
Tomorrow: TASBot codes Call of Duty remaster using jumps and damage boosts and launches it by climbing stairs [MILLY BITCHELL APPROVED] [SPEEDRUN ASMR]
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 3 weeks ago:
All three manufacturers?
sad Sega noises
Dreamcast 4 for lyfe yo
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 month ago:
I can only provide anecdotal experience, but my old girl found her dream house. Old mining cottage type terraced house, immaculate renovation inside, great hillside views, nice enough place overall…
…she instructed her surveyor to have a look and he told her to run like fuck, the shared wall was pretty much the only thing keeping the house upright - his words were clearly a reduction of some larger issues, but that saved a repair and insurance nightmare.
They’re pricey, yes - but they can save you an exponentially larger amount of money.
- Comment on MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! 1 month ago:
His voice isn’t much different!
I watch his videos because it’s nice to have an insider view of what was the formative years of Microsoft’s
assimilationcreation of a common office workspace. The anecdotes are deliciously 90’s, the openness is refreshing, and the implementation detail is quite interesting.My other half likes the videos because he has that quite monotone voice, with quite an even canter and the odd lingering pause that can send her to sleep.
Win win.
- Comment on Found a snake at work 1 month ago:
sparky snek
- Comment on New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June 1 month ago:
Bobby Prince. Now that would be a treat.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 month ago:
Using this, you can tell the time.on your Swatch .beat.
No i’m not joking.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s really cool, thank you for the explanation and example!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Awesome, thank you for the insight!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Alright, I’m going to be a real pain in the arse here and throw some edge cases at that idea - not because I’m trying to be a cockwaffle (I can manage that all by myself), but trying to straighten out my understanding of these things…
In short, what criteria does the data have to meet to make it immutable, and can that be changed in future?
Birth certificates are brilliant for establishing time dates and places, but what if someone changes their name or gender partway through life? Is there a function to amend the original blockchain entry, or is a new one created that supersedes an old entry in the ledger?
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 2 months ago:
I’m fortunate in as much that my professional accreditations (and being a part time student) get me access to all sorts of discounts, but even still it’s worth asking for a student discount (or whatever they offer at the till) all the same.
Nine times out of ten, the retail staff aren’t paid enough to give two fucks, so they’ll just put it through as whatever discount appears on their till.
The worst they can say is no, after all - and that costs nothing.
- Comment on Playing Street Fighter II on...the Sega Genesis!? 2 months ago:
SCE was the first edition I played, I loved playing as Bison, and I got to be made to look really silly when I went round a friend’s place to play a SNES edition and Bison wasn’t a selectable character.
Great port though.
- Comment on ach, aye 2 months ago:
See aw these weans cuttin about wi their AI or GPT Mistral or fitever it is, kiddin oan they’ve done their homework kennin fine well that Sam Altman or fa’sever it is aats i meatball that’s done it really - they can al get tae fuck so they can but, nae cunt’s replicatin how loons are gabbin awa iday, eh?
Consider the young persons of today - going about their lives with their AI functions and ChatGPT or Mistral technologies - trying to hide the fact that they have cheated on their school homework, when it’s really the tech created by that rogue Sam Altman that’s done the research and drafting of it - but they should hang their heads in shame, because it can’t replicate how the boys in Scotland talk amongst themselves in this day and age.
Fuck me I wrote that, and still struggled to rewrite it in British English.
- Comment on ach, aye 2 months ago:
See aw these weans cuttin about wi their AI or GPT Mistral or fitever it is, kiddin pan they’ve done their homework kennin fine well that Sam Altman or fa’sever it is aats i meatball that’s done it really - they can al get tae fuck so they can but, nae cunt’s replicatin how loons are gabbin awa, eh?
- Comment on Paging Mr. Manager 2 months ago:
A shit post duel awaits.
The winner gets seven statues on all continents, each facing a finely-calibrated direction - the intersection of their gazes meet at a point where the secret to humanity is buried.
The loser gets a year using the upside-downternet, six months on ISDN, or a week on MySpace as the only communication method with the outside world.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 3 months ago:
You could have just said “Dull”, it would have been quicker
- Comment on the bad ending 3 months ago:
That storyline has gone to all sorts of wild places. My particular favourite was the Micheal Jackson toilet, complete with super echoey “heee-heeeeeee!”
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 4 months ago:
In the UK, the colloquially named Chair Force had some NCO’s go through who stuck out their term in a field that had lots of factors that transferred across to civilian employment. Top of the tree was air traffic controllers - certain branches of the RAF’s ATC capability was based at Swanwick anyway so if they ever went to the National Air Traffic Service, a lot of the time they could pick up their stuff from their desk on their last Friday, and move it across the room to another desk for when they came back in new clothes on Monday morning.
Vets are another field that is great to get into if you want your fees paid for, but most of those are officer grades, same deal as pilots. The clerks are generally well trained too - those who used to “fly a desk” as they put it, went on to be good accountants and heath and safety ninjas.
Certainly for the UK, the military gave the option to poorer backgrounds to get expensive qualifications while not generally going near theatres or on deployments.
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 4 months ago:
Brilliant! Even funnier if it was the QM that done goofed!
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 4 months ago:
I always knew procurement across the UK public sector was wasteful, but I never knew quite how wasteful until I started working alongside various bodies.
This was just one of the more egregious - and more entertaining - examples.
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 4 months ago:
Another story from the workplace probably worthy of a “who, me?” segment on el reg:
An old admin grade at one of my last workplaces was… unique, in her approach to her workload. In the times that we haven’t had an admin assistant in post, the workload gets shared out amongst the team so the job still gets done, but it’s primarily menial and trivial stuff. It’s not difficult, but the way the civil service works, sometimes a ten second job takes ten minutes.
Someone went in to to see her wanting another AA battery, to replace one in the clock to stop people from losing their minds having done a few hours in the office, but still only seeing half past nine on the clock. There’s none left in the store cupboard, so she logs on to the ordering system, and realises that they come in nondescript “units”, rather than the SKU style setup you see on most retailer sites. So, she goes for 10 - thinking ten packs would be enough for a while.
A week later, a lorry pulls up at the office, with a pallet for delivery. Nobody’s expecting this, and we can’t lift it off the lorry for it being too heavy, and we had to get a neighbouring unit’s forklift driver to pop it off the lorry for us and leave it at our side door, probably for a pack of fags and a coffee. We opens it up, and hurrah, our batteries are here!
All ten thousand of them.
Turns out, a “unit” in this branch of the civil service is “per thousand”, so we literally had nearly a tonne of batteries on a pallet outside. We tried phoning the distribution centre, and they’re clearly giving a fuck about something as low value as this, and certainly aren’t sending a truck to get them - this was now an “us” problem.
One of the boys pulls out a stick of batteries, goes back into the office, comes back ashen faced…
“Boys, the clock needs AAA batteries”
We had a slowly dwindling mountain of AA batteries for about three months, literally people taking strips of batteries home at Christmas to put in toys, people bringing in old Game Boys or Game Gears just to try them out with a supply of new batteries, and a Sky Digital remote controls with a new perpetually infinite lifespan.
God bless the civil service.