Well you’re clearly not sleeping

I’m not gonna pretend it’s actually gonna happen, but holy shit if binface actually knocks Farage out of the seat he finally got after decades of trying…

I think I’ll spend at least a week grinning like a Cheshire cat

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

Read all about it

Yeah, but as someone who grew up down south and has lived in the north for the majority of my life:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Very clear, no fucker doesn’t know what you’re talking about

Breakfast, dinner, tea

What the fuck are you playing at, skipping lunch and having a drink to compensate?

Get in the sea

Tea is important enough in this country to not use the word again, especially not for the second most important thing: dinner

He wasn’t impressed and I didn’t make it to the next round.

Poor Stockholm syndrome afflicted fool

Breaks my heart to know people are still suffering this particular hell

That was always the fake dream that was sold, about 15 years ago there were a lot of people writing cukes

I never saw a single business analyst or product owner ever open even one of those text files that ostensibly primarily only existed for their benefit.

The closest we got was copy and pasting the user story from the ticket and hammering it into the shape of the existing regexes

Then we all woke up from the fever dream about 10 years ago and I’ve basically not seen one since.

Tbh with this AI bubble it’s only a matter of time before someone tries it again

Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.

I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).

I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment

Mostly posting this because holy shit what a jump to blame schools distributing laptops being the cause and not psychologically addictive social media algorithms having a total domination of their attention

Definitely nothing to do with the fact that schools giving out laptops disproportionately benefits less wealthier families

Honestly, just type a lot and try to get it done quickly. I never did anything specifically to try and learn, it just happened naturally following that for me.

I’ve heard people have a lot of success with various typing games, there’s a few on steam now if that’s your jam. Glyphica and The Typing of the Dead are the ones that immediately jump to mind

Yeah I was going to say the same, this was created by someone with an overly basic understanding of how these things work

Natural monopolies over things like infrastructure and standards aren’t necessarily bad as long as they’re not privately owned nor profit seeking.

For instance, I can’t exactly imagine how a market of competitive standards orgs would even remotely be able to reach the consensus necessary to accomplish the goal of creating standards. It’d just be an endless XKCD 927

Letterboxd is pretty good, though it got bought by private equity a few years ago and they’re now trying to flog it off to Netflix or Paramount, so probably numbered days

Ahh cheers, yeah that one is more in line with the usual style

I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here

If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.

That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to

Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.

The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.

Not sure I’ve seen that one, but this is the comic artist for The Onion, satirising the style of those right wing comics (e.g Ben Garrison) that show contrived situations with labels all over them to try and make some point badly

Oh it’s almost definitely AI, I don’t expect Dublin fire station to have a Photoshop guy

Was just giving the context

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England are playing Norway today in the world cup

Ireland has some history with England

It looks like that says “norishio doresshingu” on the front which I think translates to “seaweed (nori) salt (shio) dressing”

Which could be the standard crisp flavour there

Edit: I should have read the article first, it’s right there

Calbee Potato Chips Seaweed & Salt Flavor Dressing

I assume the standard “I didn’t wait to see the reviews” cosmetic that all pre-orders seem to give people these days