Blackmist

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We Brits got rid of a lot of them (and laughably called them "smart" motorways), so now we just sit there and watch people burn.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

The hype actually feels like some of the vintage marketing for BASIC.

"So simple, your boss can do it!"

It's probably been like this every time we go "up" a level of abstraction. We're still needed because complicated shit will always be complicated, and people who make decisions will always need an underling to blame.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

You speak for yourself, I'm flying through this killer sudoku book...

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, fully agree with all that.

I've got some godawful spaghetti code I don't understand fully, and it's pretty good at deciphering that and the bizarre labyrinth of code paths leading around it. But it's absolutely no guarantee of working code, and in any project larger than a simple crud app, you are going to still need programmers who know about things like memory and databases.

It often needs pointing at a solution you want, because as you pointed out, it's fond of dumb band-aids. Like yesterday when it was trying to hook into mouse wheel events and create separate threads, when all it needed was an event on the dataset I was using to load a sub-dataset.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe we should fork an Enshittyfin and add these vital features.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago

He's just realised Trump hates him as much as the people he hates.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago

A £70 roguelike is a big fucking ask.

The only one I've played, completed and enjoyed was Hades. It doesn't waste your time even on a failed run. A run is like 40 minutes of real time. That's about where this shit needs to be to attract non-masochists. Even then, £70.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still remember when we used to own games. :(

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago

I watched The Smashing Machine because I heard they made the Rock actually act in it.

They didn't, they just stuck a wig on him.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just don't like the name.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

I stopped playing Wipeout 3 because it required a manual load of your save when you started it up.

Eventually I pressed the wrong option and overwrote my save with a blank file.

Never played it again.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Sir, this is 2026.

You're not even allowed to ride your own in the UK. At least not in public areas.

 
 

Because it turns out SW/Lloyds replaced their computer system last July, and since then none of my pension payments have been going into my account.

Our accountant has had to chase them up since somebody noticed at the start of the year. And only now have they admitted it, and making noises about fixing it.

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