ciw1973.bsky.social
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I always expected "Pits & Genitals" to be the next product they launched in the series.
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If everyone with an interest knows, there's nothing to gain from calling them out, and finger pointing like that always comes across as trying to deflect blame, but CF definitely owned this.
They'll be reliant on GCP in the short term, but KV is clearly too important for that to continue for long.
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The @cloudflare.social post mortem was very honest and detailed, and I actually found it really interesting, because it included some service implementation details I'd not been aware of.
They only referred to failure at a third party provider as being the trigger event, and didn't name Google/GCP.
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Oops! That clearly should have been Connolly.
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In my ignorance, I've always gone along with Billy Connelly's assessment, that the African nations had the most joyous national anthems, but have no idea if that's actually true.
Do love England's "Land of Hope & Glory", and Nepal and Rwanda's anthems sound like early Paul Norman C64 game tunes.
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Could have sworn it was "Limp".
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More like a burning bag of shit on the doorstep.
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Yeah, it's fantastic, and a great example of the many tools out there which are incredibly useful, reliable, and have quietly been getting better and more powerful over many years; but which don't get bathtubs full of marketing money thrown at them, and therefore don't get love they deserve.
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I'd say it's mostly creatives, and people in the games industry that are crying out for truly new games.
What I see personally, is that the majority of younger players just want more of the games they've enjoyed; they stick with the same few franchises, and just aren't looking for anything new.
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For younger ones, Dav Pilkey's Dragon books are fantastic.
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No good will come of this.
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I'm curious why you feel that?
My guess is that you're looking to use them for something for which they aren't intended.
These are intentionally isolated "islands" of interactivity.
You could make the whole page a single island if you really wanted to, but they're certainly not islands then.
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One of the core ideas is that islands are isolated, with the documentation recommending the use of the nanostores library, or something similar, for cases where you want to share state across them.
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Ooh, tricky.
I'll go for:
- 12 Angry Men
- Paper Moon
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Citizen Kane
- Ed Wood
In truth, I think I appreciate Citizen Kane and its significance more than I enjoy the film itself, but even on that basis, it belongs in my top five.
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In such cases, it's when faced with deep analysis that I struggle the most to retain some form of composure.
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We were regular visitors, and most recently spent almost a month late last year with a party of five in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and the surrounding areas, but it's highly unlikely we'll be making another trip during this presidential term.
All of our upcoming plans are within Europe.
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If someone was stealing stock at a colossal scale, from Tesco, and then opened a competing supermarket, entirely stocked with stolen goods, not a single thing purchased legitimately, then what this Muppet is essentially saying, is that's fine.
No. It's really fucking not.
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Astro.
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I really wish I had your willpower.
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That's a great album.
Pretty sure I had it on cassette too.
"a big bag o' pork rinds, gonna carry me to my grave"
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Probably the first Same Difference album, but there are some very fine tunes on there.
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Likewise.
Every year I know that the sensible thing to do is just go to bed after they've all performed; but every year I get drawn in by the interval entertainment, and then the drama of the points reveal.
The deep sense of injustice I pretty much always feel afterwards, does spoil the evening.
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It's a Frankenstein's monster of a song, put together by a big team of writers with the goal of trying to impress the juries, and about as awkward to listen to as I think it's possible to get, so it deserved the zero points.
The Swiss song though? That was beautiful, and didn't deserve the same.
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Would be concerning if they'd been moist with any other type of sweat.
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Seems to me that you, quite possibly deliberately, dodged the obvious one there Matt.
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The current raft of AI powered tools are like the mid-level developer, who watches a single 30 minute YouTube video one evening, then wades into Stand Up the following day telling everyone how it should be done, despite having little understanding of the specifics, and none of the bigger picture.
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Wasn't going to spoil it (but @c64reloaded.bsky.social already posted the link) however was going to say that it's a game I never really played in the arcade back in the day, but regularly do these days, along with Lady Bug, now I have a "proper" 60-in-1 machine at home, rather than just emulation.
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Lesley Gore's "Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows" will evict pretty much any song you have stuck in your head.
Of course, you'll then have that stuck in your head, so, well, I guess it's your call really.
youtu.be/ZSnxYtFarNw?...
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They do a Butter Chicken Curry burger which I actually really enjoyed. Something different, although like the rest of the food (and drinks) it's pretty poor value for money, which is par for the course in That There London.
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The one that sticks in my mind the most (having once made the mistake when I was in my teens) is "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes".
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The whole range looked great at the time, and I think it still does.
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And the artist is?
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I lusted after the MZ-80A at the time (although I never owned or used one) but have to admit the MZ-80B is a much nicer looking machine.
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It just so happens that today I'm rocking the t-shirt:
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Shipping's hefty outside the US, but appreciate that's not really your fault.
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If you were leaving for any reason other than to get attention, you'd just go.
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Excited!
Worker fallback for public R2 bucket requests, as a core product feature, please. x
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Happy birthday!
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A game that we picked up at the same time as several others a few years back, and it's clearly found itself at the back of one of the shelves, because I haven't seen or thought about it in ages, and so have never played it.
Now you've reminded me, we must remedy that ASAP.
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Nice work!
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Very high on the list.
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Yeah, I've settled on the phrase "complete piece of shit" as a compromise to make it clear what I think, but minimise risk of offending the reader.
I originally just referred to Trump as "a truly awful human being, no matter what criteria you choose to judge him by", but that was far too polite.