Iain Shepherd

@rainstormblue hey Ada Lovelace you were so, so right and also we’re sorry x.com/seldo/status/1…

@oldenoughtosay 💯 (update pinned post?)

@fuckyouiquit Here I was thinking “getting paid to update my CV / prep for my next interview? this is fine” until I got to the last sentence OP is doing this on personal time. Company should pay if it wants it

@vxunderground slopthat.microsoft

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella writes people need to stop focusing on AI sophistication vs. AI slop and instead focus on what AI can do for people, as he writes, "AI is a cognitive amplifier" Do NOT call AI slop. AI is a COGNITIVE AMPLIFIER theverge.com/news/852630/mi…

@RGameplayXtreme @pieselnasmyczy @_sn_n

@pieselnasmyczy @_sn_n It was the daily star, not BBC whoops

@ApexGyaani @dieworkwear @DavidSacks The hubris is thinking it will change just because the RWNJ outrage club has picked this topic today. They will be panicking over something else tomorrow

@dieworkwear @DavidSacks The sheer hubris in thinking financial eco systems cant ever change because of their pedigree is retard left thinking. Kolkata thought the same way and went the way of the Dodo in economic might vis a vis Mumbai.

As a response to socialism, Miami will replace NYC as the finance capital and Austin will replace SF as the tech capital.

@Critical_Scribe Far Harbor DLC had an involving story and lots of atmosphere, which went to prove that: Making the base game as it was was completely intentional. Puddle deep, but pretty and grindy, was felt better for sales. And the actual sales figures will have validated this. Bummer.

I would argue that aside from the combat system getting an overhaul, the game was a step back from even Fallout 3. The voiced protagonist severely limited dialogue options, which already hampers the feel of the game because a lot of people love Fallout for how in depth its dialogue can go based on stats and feats. There is some of that, but having to voice it all not only shoehorns your character in a limited personality field, but you will just have less options in general due to budget. Quest design took a hit as well as I honestly didn’t find much of the side quests or quests in general to be that good. There weren’t any memorable moments that really stuck with me that 3 and New Vegas had. Granted, I did not play the DLCs, but having all your “good stuff” in the DLCs is not good game design, because it makes the main body all the more dull. Town building and settlement management was… well honestly the system should have been kicked to the curb so more effort could be placed into making the world better designed. Some people may like it, I found it a waste of time and the radiant quests that popped up from the system weren’t fun at all. The writing, especially, just didn’t grab me at all. There is a great story in there, especially with how the opening is and how the Institute works as a concept, but it all falls so flat that I don’t really feel anything from it. Also, the next Fallout better not be us looking for a family member again. Give us a lot open ended beginning so we can stop feeling this weird “I HAVE TO FIND MY DAD/SON” and then the players skips off for 200 hours not worrying about that at all. All in all, you can have some fun with Fallout 4, but I’d say it feels like a middling RPG, something that should not be coming out of a company as big as Bethesda, but as we now know, bigger company doesn’t mean better game.

Coding, adult daycare. Explains a lot

@Mirrormn @LuftkoppTim Unless you have it on your lap. The flimsy plastic case warps slightly and it interferes with the click & release. worst daily driver I ever had x.com/lainshep/statu…

@LuftkoppTim It's unfortunate, because this is one of the very few Windows laptops with a non-mechanical touchpad that can be clicked with the same amount of force across its entire area, a thing that Mac laptops have and makes them superior

It looks funny but he fact alone that the trackpad is NOT the entire bottom and not visible where it begins and ends is a no-go to me

@kmcnam1 My favourite fact about Azure Devops is the managed runners can’t (reliably) use secured Azure Storage Obviously. I mean what kind of weirdo would want that feature? developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/azure-devops…

@ILA_NewsX @realMaalouf RWNJ dictionary 🤪 “Conquest” = gets votes “Not assimilating to population” = population likes them and votes for them

@realMaalouf It's not normal. It is conquest.

Both New York and London, the two most important cities in the Western world, now have Muslim mayors. How can anyone think this is normal?

@OxbeastEth @MattBinder Have you noticed how he doesn’t promote the couple of successful things he was involved in? He promotes only the fake stuff because his main product is hype Def 2026!

In tech there are delays. That’s just how it works. Those were merely projections But what about what he has accomplished? Starlink -gives cheap or free internet access globally SpaceX-Reusable rockets. One use rockets are the reason NO space program ever excelled Tesla-accelerated global EV adoption Neuralink-early human BCI’s for paralysis and neurological treatment OpenAI-Elon kick started mainstream safety focused AI development Just to name a few and developing all of the above. The man has done more for mankind than anyone on earth

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-m…

@railmaps I presume a Summer Start in Dec, then Big Switch in Feb 2027

Right, so it's 2026 now. Where are my Flying Taxis? australianaviation.com.au/2021/08/uber-s…

@KingsApril1 The legal thing you can do is called using your ears and brain. to hear these stories and avoid becoming the next story.

If a woman gets pregnant and you as a man don't want the kid, there's literally nothing legal you can do about it, that's being trapped

looks like I've been recast

@railmaps @Railnatter @GarethDennis Those episodes were great, I learned a lot. Thanks!

For me, 2025 was quite a year. I rode the new Sydney Metro, Parramatta Light Rail and Melbourne Metro Tunnel, but I haven't yet got to Perth to see the completed Metronet. I must remedy that. And I stepped out of my comfort zone doing @Railnatter episodes with @GarethDennis 2/6

It’s a new year, which is a good time for a short thread. First up, a Happy New Year to you all. For those who value rationality, truth and ethics, let’s hope we see the pendulum of global discourse swing back to somewhere sane. It defo will, it’s just a question of when 1/6

@cosmicjester I haven’t worked there but I’m positive it’s true for the Maccas near me. I ordered in store once and it must’ve taken them 15 mins or more

Question for those that work at maccas or have recently. When they are busy in the store and in the drive thru, do they prioritise drive thru orders over in store orders to try and keep drive thru moving?

@Primm_Slim6969 @TheManlet_King I feel like Emil’s life goal is Colourful Theme Parks Without Depth for the last DLC he couldn’t be bothered coming up with an new idea so he just did it literally but all his releases are like that more or less (except Far Harbor, snuck through somehow)

@TheManlet_King Nuka world is a perfect example of everything wrong with this game, great idea of a world, fun to explore, some cool things to find, and even interesting story idea, but ultimately shallow, and no real consequences or choices

Fallout 4 wasn't a bad game at all. People hate it because it was *almost* great. If Nuka-World was part of the base game, the main campaign was longer with more endings, and the 3 cities (Bunker Hill, Diamond City, & Good Neighbor) were each 2x bigger it would be phenomenal.

@techbharat @NinjaNoticing and comes with Intel “Killer” network drivers which fk up networking to some online services and if you remove them they get reinstalled and similarly the webcam drivers sometimes get replaced with non working ones and have to be downgraded Worst PC I ever used in 20+ yrs

@techbharat @NinjaNoticing I have a Dell XPS 13 from a few years ago, design looks the same (but it’s in cream) No tactile feel from keyboard, have to watch to hit the right keys Case flexes. If you use it anywhere but a desk then the touchpad doesn’t work well due to the flex 2hr 🪫 Total ass PC😭

Dell ate MacBook today!

@AcervoFallout the Bull. and the BearBear.

this flag is so strange, THIS IS the real flag: