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@sinbad in half? 😯

I've popped through the mesh bit on a few, but snapping them in half is a whole other level.

Extra strong garlic by any chance? 😆

@sinbad @kr4ft3r in a WYSIWYG editor, I'll agree. But in code-only editors, Y up is the only way 3D makes sense to me. You're looking at a screen of X,Y units and adding a depth to it. You even have Z buffering to log the depth of a thing the further into the screen it goes. I can't fathom why anybody would then think it best to flip that organic axis over and have Z pointing upwards. 😣

@sinbad like everyone else, I've just never had this issue. Always used Android and I've gone through a lot of manufacturers. Some cheap brands, some expensive brands. Never used phone cases or anything like that. Back in the Micro-usb days I'd periodically have to bend that little tongue piece back to get a good connection, but it's more rigid in usbc ports and fluff just doesn't happen for me. And I wear wool overcoats and such! 🤷♂️

I can recommend Anker USB cables though. Noticeable quality.

@eniko as soon as we've stopped paying for our old rental (our youngest still lives there), I'll be forking out for the Hag Capisco 8106 as recommended by @sinbad

They're not cheap, but I do love the philosophy and it does look like they're built for longevity.

@sinbad long story short, the engineers get paid a bonus for each leak that's over a particular threshold. So those are the leaks they go to. And they know exactly where they are, because their fixed aren't designed to last forever. Why would you fix something for good if you're going to be paid a bonus each time you go back to fix it again?

So the big clusters of small leaks that lose tonnes of water get ignored, and the bigger individual leaks get patched up on an almost fixed rotation.

@sinbad haha. I know somebody who works for a water company, building systems that generate/collate/analyse data. Creating tools for engineers to use to find water leaks. They generate whole maps and know, from pressure differences and such, exactly where every leak is and where the most water is escaping. The engineers don't use these systems though. They're not paid to fix those leaks and don't need systems to find them. It's pointless intelligence.

I imagine the pot-hole world is the same.

@JeremiahFieldhaven @upmultimedia https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9416217 are on offer at the moment. We have 3 of them - each kicks out a fairly serious amount of heat for such a tiny thing. The big wall radiator in our office gets the room up from ~13C to ~15C, and this tiny heater gets it from there to ~20C.

@sinbad see, without the context of a game development, manually positioning particles sounds like a way cooler responsibility.

@sinbad you're manually positioning what now? 🤨

@sinbad "turbo ninja" though 😆

#HappyNewYear to everyone who has a net worth below say... $1bn? 👍

@sinbad same. There's literally no legitimate need for cookies beyond tracking. Sessions have been around for decades and make way more sense from every security and privacy perspective. They just don't work well for cross-site data sharing... i.e. tracking. 🙄

There's even local storage, if data really needs storing client-side. Works the same as cookies but as RAM for JS, rather than ROM, and inaccessible by other sites.

"Essential cookies required for functionality" is a straight up lie.

@sinbad I'm maybe biased because they're a client, but also they're genuinely the best pastes we've ever had! none of the pastes/sauces sold in supermarkets cut it for us any more, we're spoiled by Shemin's!

Fry approx 1kg veggies, mix the paste in and fry for another good few minutes. Then depending on the curry, add possata and/or coconut milk and keep it going for maybe another 15 minutes. Absolutely delicious.

Their spice mixes are amazing too. And their breads. Methi chapati especially. 😁

It's thai green curry time!

@sinbad that is a lot of chicken!

I'd still struggle to not pop it all in one curry though 😂

@sinbad she wasn't even applying for anything you'd need experience for, let alone a degree. Grocery stores, pubs, that kind of a thing. I don't know when things changed but even for these super low level, bottom of the ladder positions, you now have to go through questionnaires just to get an automated mechanic to decide if you can have an application form, and honestly the kinds of questions these things ask, even I didn't know how to answer - and I've had those jobs! Recruitment is awful now.

@sinbad yeah apprenticeships aren't really much of a thing any more it seems. Neither is just walking into places like grocery stores and pubs to ask for an application form - they don't hire like that at all these days.

Our youngest is 20 and she tried the uni thing but it wasn't really for her, so she came back home about a year ago and had basically been trying to get a decent job ever since, until finally landing one a couple of months ago. Watching the struggle has been eye opening!

@sinbad urgh that sucks, but also isn't surprising. I have a general dislike for how university is a mandatory for jobs that really don't warrant conventional learning methods, but it seems especially ridiculous in industries like this.

Going to uni to better yourself, because that's an environment that works for you? Great!

Want to architect a building where safety and such is paramount? Yep, you're gonna need to cert up!

Been drawing stuff and want to do it for me? Cool - show and tell!

@sinbad I don't even know how you'd go about learning enough ASM to do a raycaster today, let alone in the pre-Internet days. How did that not get you in? 😯

@sinbad I've literally never heard of nibbles before!