I nearly rage quit Blue Prince earlier and then it threw a whole new room at me and I spent half an hour writing Python to try and solve a puzzle. (It didn’t work, there are too many potential options to brute force it)
It seems I replaced smoking with Blue Prince. So far this is going quite well, except for the intense withdrawal I feel when I’m not playing Blue Prince. Not entirely sure how I’m going to cope when I run out of game to play but I reckon I’m at least a week off that being a problem that needs solving.
We’re hiring at Demand Logic for various flavours of engineer, cloud infrastructure, web front end, and IoT. IoT is clearly my favourite because you get to plug boxes into huge buildings and pretend you’re in Hackers, but they’re all good. 4 day work week at full pay, remote friendly (probably within the UK because of employment law), and we make money by reducing big companies CO2 emissions.
Where would you buy shoelaces for a pair of walking boots from that isn’t Amazon? I keep looking in shops for some and coming up blank.
In an attempt to give up vaping I’ve switched to nicotine spray. So far it’s working through of virtue tasting like I’ve sprayed deodorant directly into my mouth, really makes me consider whether I want nicotine that badly.
Remember, when the internet gets disbanded, don't blame Hasbro Interactive. They had nothing to do with it.
From the back of my Master of Orion II disc.
Excuse me, I'd like to return this dire wolf, it's just a dog in a costume.
Finished The Last of Us Part 1 this evening, which I’d been putting off until I had a decent chunk of time because I knew I was near the end, only to find I had 15 minutes of it left. Anyway, what a game that is, genuinely moving in places, gorgeous to look at, and the sound design is some of the best I’ve heard in a game.
I was homeless when the Cat Distribution System recruited me. Camped under a bridge alongside the old canal, I shared my food and blanket with some homeless kittens.
“You’re a good person” a voice said.
I jumped and clutched my blanket, backing up against the concrete. “Leave me alone! I don’t have anything to steal.”
“Sorry to startle you. I’m here to offer you a job”
“You don’t know anything about me.”
The stranger indicated the kitten nose-down in a nearly empty tuna can. “I’ve seen what i need to see.”
“What’s the job? I won’t do evil.”
“Kitten smuggling. We get them to a safe country, find them homes. Subsidised accommodation but a lot of travel.”
That was six months ago. If you’re on a train, plane or suborbital and you see a kitten poking its nose out of a human or augmented human’s jacket, no you didn’t.
@jasongorman the but being unsaid here is “incentive to work in crappy jobs”. UBI means having to pay an actual wage for cleaners and shelf stackers, rather than redirecting that money to shareholders.
"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.
@gwagner the company’s statement on this is quite astonishing corporate weaseling as well, acting all surprised that people would think a product labelled “a paper bottle” might believe it was in fact a paper bottle. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56687585
I was just surprised to see a photodiode emoji had been added, and trying to decide what it meant as a reaction to a Discord post. Turns out it’s a salt cellar and my brain is broken. 🧂
If you’re into games and somehow haven’t watched any Noclip you should stop what you’re doing and do that instead. They’re the antithesis of the usual game videos on YouTube, where everyone else is looking for controversy and things to hate Noclip are out there bringing out the love that gets poured into making great games.
When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...
The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.
@soweliniko @jackeric well now the day I spent badly modelling IKEA furniture to see how the room would look feels even sillier than it was before.
@anna @wim_v12e don’t know if you’ve seen http://collapseos.org yet
With the power of AI, you too can take your startup from “fucking around” to “finding out” in as little as two days!
Discovered Kasso this evening, a Japanese skateboarding contest with utterly ridiculous courses. Half of them are so hard the competition is won by whoever can stay on their board the longest. Perfect Saturday evening nonsense.
The results are in for the #4DayWeek (i.e. paying employees the same dollar amount for 32 hours of work instead of 40).
For individuals (n=3500):
* 71% reported decreased burnout.
* More than 40% reported improvements across mental health, sleep quality, and fatigue.
* Workers are not using their day off to take paid work elsewhere, but instead for hobbies, leisure, housework, caring, and personal maintenance.
* 90% of people want to continue.
For businesses (n=91):
* YoY revenue up by 35% during trial period.
* Employee attrition down by 57%.
* 91% of companies immediately established the 4-day week permanently.
* Another 4% are leaning toward continuing.
Report available here: https://www.4dayweek.com/