I think that about sums it up

Shameful.

Wasn’t the pipeline closed after the contract expired at the end of 2024?

Golden advice my father gave me:

The second you start noticing any buzz it’s time to ease down. There is still more alcohol in your stomach waiting to be absorbed so you’ll continue getting more buzzed even if you do stop.

It’s a great way to pace yourself.

Edit: my 2c is that you’ll be drunk on two unless you really spread them out. Take small sips and use the buzz rule. They tend to be reasonably potent.

Couldn’t agree more.

Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.

Quite a bump. That was a really good card at the time.

Nvidia Riva 128 AGP with 4 megs of ram. I will never ever forget when they released hardware accelerated opengl drivers and I played Quake GL for the first time. It was hitting 120fps and looked absolutely beautiful compared to the software rendered games I’d played up to that point.

You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

• Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
• Reduce the quality
• Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

The resizing is usually enough.

The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.

I went to see it a few days ago and thoroughly enjoyed it and was glad I went to see it in the cinema.

The character development at the start is a bit rushed and that leads to the whole movie feeling a bit rushed IMO but overall it’s a solid horror flick.

he claims his mouth can’t be numbed

This is a thing. My wife has to get lots of extra shots of the gum numbing stuff. Her first dentist as a kid didn’t believe her that she could still feel and it caused her huge trauma.

My wife and one of my kids is a lefty. I’ve kinda grown used to half looking out for it in others but only idly. It was fun watching each of the kids to see if any of them would be.

A friend of mine dropped an absolute bomb one day that I’ll never forget: “There’s only right handed and wrong handed”. Definitely more than 20 years ago now but I never forgot it because I laughed so hard.

Serial killers everywhere taking note at the excitement levels in this thread.

At 7 years of age I was collecting the grass coming out of my neighbours lawnmower. I was tossing it in the air at my dog who was having great fun jumping into the air catching it.

Cue my neighbour running over my foot with his lawnmower. I didn’t feel much pain as it shredded straight through my runner and skin.

I was rushed to hospital and somehow they saved my toe. It took about five years for me to regain feeling in it.

Edit: oh I missed the word “work”.

A few for me:

• Death of my father.
• Getting married. Hitting 20 years in August. Hopefully many more to come.
• Realising I didn’t enjoy the business course I was on in college, burning the two years already spent and moving to computer science which I loved every minute of.
• Having kids. They bring me so much joy.
• Leaving a well paid job that I didn’t really enjoy and starting my own business.
• Travel. It’s so important to experience different cultures and viewpoints.
• edit: Finding a sport that I loved. I wasn’t a sporty kid but decided to start trying different things in my 20s.

Oh that looks really fun. Thanks!

What is turtles? Never heard of it as a game.

All the little bits by my side…

Honestly, me too! You’re welcome :)

I mean every other nation in Europe did too at the time. Only geography saved Britain. Germany rolled over everything in it’s path in the early part of the war.

The French made one massive strategic error, fought hard after realising it and were instrumental in holding off the Germans while the British bailed back to the mainland to fight another day.

I’m tired of the implied reduction of combat capability of the modern French military that comes with a single strategic balls up 80 odd years ago.