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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 7h

You’ve got to wonder about the mentality of people who come into an empty lecture theatre and sit right on the end of a row so that everyone else needs to get past them to use the rest of the seats.

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Kathryn @shermarama.bsky.social · 1d

She runs an event management company. The story even mentions that it was her job skills that prompted her to jump in and help manage a difficult crowd situation. Her job is not 'mum'. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Devon mum steps in to help control crowds at Corfu Airport

Faye Williams says she was given a tannoy at the departure desk in Corfu.

www.bbc.com

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 1d

Writers gonna write.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 1d

I am behind you :)

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 3d

Nice. XO by XLN Audio has something similar for browsing samples but I have no idea how that works.

Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 8d

Got a new PC at work because of Windows 11. Still think it's really idiotic that they removed the ability to reposition the task bar on the side - something you could do since it existed. I have all this monitor width, but no, the task bar has to take up some of the much more precious height.

Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 8d

I see. Makes sense. I glad that speed controls exist though. Imagine listening on CD or cassette even.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 9d

Why do audiobook narrators speak so goddam slowly. I'm not one for speeding through these things, but I have to speed most of them up to 1.3x or 1.4 just so the narrator is speaking at normal coversational speed. If I slow it down to 1x it really sounds like they are drunk or doing a funny voice.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 9d

Little chance of this outcome, but it would be the funniest thing.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Rising from the rubble: London pub rebuilt brick by brick after illegal bulldozing

Carlton Tavern reopens six years after planning ruling that campaigners hope will prevent developers demolishing other sites

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 10d

With the state graph they can also plot the optimal path from start to goal state. It can highlight if there is a critical state that all solutions must pass through. Neat stuff.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 10d

An absolute legend has re-implemented notoriously difficult puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll, charted the entire state-space of levels and made a 3d visualization of the state space where you can zoom in on nodes and see the game in that state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8O...

Why Stephen’s Sausage Roll is Brutal: A State-Space Walkthrough of the Opening Levels

YouTube video by Stephen's State Space

www.youtube.com

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 11d

This is an ex-Parrot!

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 12d

Keep on draining that swamp lol

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 13d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 13d

Everyone laughed at the crew in Prometheus for not taking precautions, but I'm rewatching The X-Files and Mulder and Scully are at least as bad. A scientist just got blasted in the face with a highly infectious disease because Scully decide she had to examine a corpse without biohazard gear.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 15d

Does it need to be a shooter? Can I hug my way out?

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 15d

I confidently predict that obtaining "V-levels" will be extremely popular with teenagers and not attract any giggles or stigma at all.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New V-level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs

Ministers say new vocational courses will simplify the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 15d

So many 74-series logic chips!

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 18d

Ed Zitron really muscling in on the old Cory Doctorow grift huh.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 18d

And I have pretty good eyesight by the way, I just hate reading tiny type. Esp. on cheaply printed paperbacks. Penguin is suprisingly one of the worst offenders.

Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 18d

I'm old enough now that I really need Amazon to show a scan of one page from any paperback they sell, along with a scale, so I can tell if it's too small to read. Multiple times I've bought a paperback, then had to buy a used hardback copy just because the paperback type to too small to read.

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 19d

Cat immediately sits on it…

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 19d

Calm down Marx and Engels. No one has time for this.

Photo of an ebay listing showing a hugh pile of 50 books written by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels

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Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 21d

Awesome stuff!

Richard Matthias @richardmatthias.bsky.social · 21d

Oh yes. First time I played a network game, I took my PC to my friend's house. We'd both bought NE2000 compatible ISA network cards. I had some coax, t-connectors and terminators I'd scavenged from work and we got Doom deathmatch running. Awesome fun :)

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