Got this installed on all my work machines - if you’re wanting to stick a screenshot on Jira or Slack with a couple of arrows, wavy lines, or a bit blurred out then it’s dead quick and has just the functionality that you need. Yes, it’s simple and lacks a lot of ‘power tools’. Sometimes that’s just what you need, tho.

I used to work with a Greek guy called Argyros Argyros - cool guy, but suspect he was an outlier. Named after his dad, so certainly some people are named that way. Icelandic for instance would traditionally use “Given Name” “Patronym from father” - Magnus Magnusson was quite famous in the UK; Björk Guðmundsdóttir might be the most famous internationally, but she’s not a “double”. There’s quite a few cultures - Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, … - that write their names as “Family Name” “Given Name” as opposed to the other way around, if that’s what you mean?

Have given up on reading Baalbuddy now that Nitter is dead :-( Only thing I want to check on that whole damn platform, too…

I prefer the must of white grapes for wine making than the must of red grapes.

The sound will eventually dissipate in the air as heat. The light will be absorbed into surfaces, like any other radiation, as heat. Still 100%, but with a couple extra stops along the way.

Varies even within a language. El ordenador in Iberian Spanish, la computadora in Latin America.

All my brothers and sisters in the 3.6%, represent. Let’s make a new year’s resolution to rub out twice as many next year!

Lemmings itself was obviously a stone-cold classic. The expansion packs (for DLC requires that you be able to download, and that wasn’t really a thing for home computers, yet) Oh No! and Xmas, suffered from being a bit half-baked IMHO. They had some absurdly trivial ‘easy’ levels, which are hardly worth your time, and then followed it up with some absurdly hard levels all the way through to the end. The best base-game levels required a bit of insight on how to solve them, a bit of technical skill on executing that solution, and perhaps a little bit of luck sometimes. The expansion pack level pushed that too far to the right; some skill and a lot of luck. Takes the fun out of it.

I think that Python has a bit of a ‘Microsoft Word’ thing on the go. You know how your own docs are completely editable and print fine, but everyone else’s are a complete fucking disaster and pressing a single key will screw up the formatting of the whole document? Your own Python code is full of sensible idioms and pragmatic naming conventions, but everyone else’s was plainly written while on mushrooms.

Blasphemous 2 has a transgender breastfeeding scene, but only a single-player campaign, seems odd to call it a ‘story mode’… Good work getting to that bit in four hours, too.

Fine advice generally, but I don’t know that many Panams or Reginas…

Was making a joke with you, about how much the Russian army loses in corruption and how their prices are not to be believed. Wasn’t having a go at you. Try to be a bit more chill?

By the time £3.999m has been siphoned off on bribes and corruption necessary overheads, you should be happy with the coathanger and a car battery, comrade.

Ah - that’s happened to me before. Making banana wine, crushed and boiled my fruit selection, didn’t filter it very well before fermenting, blocked the airtrap in my demijon, first I knew about it was an almighty bang and then I had to repaint the kitchen.

Joy of homebrewing, am afraid. Sometimes you do stupid things and they turn out amazing, and sometimes you do sensible things and just forget one tiny but essential step. I heartily recommend making snakebite-and-black homebrew, btw - lager kit, cider kit, couple of bottles of blackcurrant juice all in your fermenter; loses all its sweetness and most of its purple colour and the result is a very tasty brew.

Yeah - pure functions and immutable data aren’t always the right answer, but appreciating that they’re damn good most of the time is a good first step. Writing obvious code that does exactly what it appears to do at first glance and not one thing more? Your colleagues will thank you when they have to work with your stuff.

Doesn’t matter what the question is, this is always the correct answer.

Might be biased, but that’s obviously the best instance.

I wouldn’t really use the pound as a comparison for anything - we decided that committing economic suicide and abandoning free trade with our closest trading block was a small price to pay for being able to be mean to poor brown people. The reviews are coming in; would you believe that that was a stupid decision, and we’ve a stupid currency that’s not worth as much any more?

Could also be that the Bluetooth kernel module is a loadable one, and if you’ve updated the kernel (which will usually take place pretty soon after a first install) then you won’t have the matching folder of modules to load up until you restart. Arch is a bugger for this - I’ve an external mouse that works fine if you keep it plugged in during a kernel update, but it won’t be recognised after an update until you restart again. Not a big deal - you can choose when to update.

Have to say, it’s a game that I love the concept of - the dynamically altering levels, the Bullfrog humour, the quirky art style - but the janky controls and frequently cruel level design just kind of spoil it. It’s a concept that I’d love to be revisited now that game design has moved on a little.

Not that the Amiga was short of great ideas with execution that fell short - I’d love it if DreamWeb, BloodNet, Interphase etc got some remake love.