Yeah don’t be surprised if you find an old family member under all of that after Christmas.

I think they’re confusing it with Fourecks.

Good.

Brexit was actually a very good thing. If you’re a multimillionaire owner of a multinational business, or looking to short the pound, or any number of things that are only available to the rich. Shite for the rest of us though.

Nice to meet you, Gregório Felipe. 👍

Then it’s the equivalent of 2 Texan cups (or 2 and 4/13ths Federal cups).

Will save a few clocks to the Daily Mail owned This Is Money site:

• Amazon
• Royal Mail
• DPD
• Yodel
• Evri (worst)

Goodbye independence marches too then.

🤫

Yeah Usenet was crap for binary downloads long before the BitTorrent protocol was invented.

It’s just so under the radar that it continues to plod along.

I want to play Arkanoid using it.

I’ve come from many years of Java experience to the world of Node/JS.

You can learn JS without TS, but not TS without JS.

TS is just a tightened up JS really.

True.

I agree but I think fundamentally the smart tv hardware is so cheap to bundle in (and gives them hope of revenue) that it probably doesn’t add to the price.

Just set the default HDMI input to something else and ignore.

I know what you mean although, because I get so little time to read, I tend to put that down to me losing track of plots. Particularly with larger books.

Maybe my habit of alternating high fantasy with Discworld books maybe balances out more than I realise.

Good to know the kickstarter books are a bit different too. Will keep that in mind!

I agree. The Wii U was great fun. The second screen was great for off-TV play and for local multiplayer.

Not only was it terribly marketed, but Nintendo had trouble getting the 3DS to sell and put all their energy into saving that. This left the Wii U with a lack of games at launch.

Combine that with EA dropping Nintendo because they refused to adopt Origin as their online platform, and it was doomed from the start, whether the hardware was good or not.

Edit: and the gamepad was more comfortable to hold than the Switch, ironically.

Microsoft were monopoly seeking/abusing pricks in the 80s/90s/00s but I had just about started to accept that maybe they had changed. Accepting open source and open standards, and competing on their merits in the gaming world.

I was wrong. They’re not as powerful as they were 20 years ago but, having seen this email, their tactics seem unchanged.

Nearing the end of Oathbringer (Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive #3).

There’s something about his world-building that’s just brilliant. Shame it takes me 6 months to read each one!

I’ve thought that for years. Tax the high sugar/fat/alcohol stuff and use 100% of that tax to subsidise fresh fruit and veg.

I had my doubts until Maltz verified it.

Did you mean PS2? There’s about a decade between N64 and PS3.