Notices by Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)

@sinbad or a bigger monitor? 😉

@sinbad Windows 3.1 on a 386 was my first taste of a graphical O/S, and potentially what I had QB on too. Can't remember now if I learned on that or on something before it... I remember we had something DOS only and monochrome before the 386, and that thing seeming like a beast in comparison, but I'm not sure what we did on the earlier thing. 🤔

Never knew what the Turbo button was meant to do though. Only today learning it was a down step and not a go faster thing! 😐

@sinbad you weren't taking any chances with that dust cover! 😯

@sinbad @ahchay I've always been put off of glass boards partly because I too would smash them, but also because surely they're hard on the blade? I'm already lazy on keeping up with whetstoning our knives (I do tone them before every use though) and just imagine a hard board is going to blunt them even quicker? Or be slippery to mince on etc?

@ahchay @sinbad if removing the garlic again after, or roasting it in with some veg, bashed with a knife is fine. But what kind of a mad man wants to remove the garlic again?!?!?!

@sinbad I keep buying these, because they're in 2 separate parts which makes them easy to keep clean + you use the long side of the crusher bit to scrape the garlic off and the short side to scrape the skin out (ref the pics), which keeps it all separate. They only last a couple of years of dishwasher abuse before the mesh gives in, but I've only hand washed the current one and so far it's been going for maybe 4 years now...

https://www.josephjoseph.com/products/clean-press-garlic-crusher-green

@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!