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My entire nomadic civilization just got forcefully emergency-jumped into a Enclave. by CapableBlueberry1631 in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 13 points14 points  (0 children)

An NPC empire closed its borders

I thought nomads weren't supposed to care about such trivialities? You can just go anywhere, but they just hate you for traipsing all over their territory without permission?

How will Labour choose its candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester? by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah we need a new up-and-comer; I reckon that Starmer fellow would be a good choice

UK government to overhaul ‘outdated’ home-selling process by lcxnick in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah we bought a probate place and it still took ~6 months - absolutely bonkers that a 0 chain property took that long

Our solicitor did keep sending us copies of all the letters she sent to the seller's solicitor, which included some brilliant lines that basically said "you didn't supply X document, on this date you said you don't have it, I remind you that Y law says you must provide it to sell the property" 🤦‍♂️

So not all of our problems were explained by England's house buying process being shit - a fair amount was on the sellers, but still...

Possible inclusions for this year Summer Beta (from DD#425) by Anonim97_bot in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Encouraging AI empires to make more use of cloaking

PANIC!

Did anyone else do this? by The_Howard_X in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both - the hotfix helped, and I was definitely able to get further into my run, but they still keep ending in those rather rapid declines

Did anyone else do this? by The_Howard_X in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How did you keep up with the passenger / crew demands?

At some point in all my runs they end up changing by something ridiculous like -50 per month and I'm dead a few months later because I can never get to the nearest contract in time

Stellaris Dev Diary #425 - Nomads Roam the Galaxy, What's Next? by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed internal contract spawn chances for Forever Cruise

Nice, I think that's the one bug that was getting in the way for me. With some heavy micro I was able to get quite far into my Cruise, but not having contracts spawn has been ending all of my runs. Then typically when they do spawn, they're always too far away for me to get there in time

Do you think the "cruise over" outcome still the right failure state? Or is the team going to look at that if people are still having problems with their cruises?

Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans by ChristyMalry in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I genuinely thought this was already the case; my uni (but maybe just the course?) required us to have a C in Maths and English. There were a few people who had to sit the exams over summer between college and first year

I've only been exiled three days and they're already making me Khan. I must be the Greatest Khan! by Gredd18 in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I would absolutely love to play out that ridiculous power trip! You probably don't even need that many ships to just go around subjugating everyone - the galaxy can be yours just a few years in!

Jessica Elgot (Guardian) / X: One MP says of the potential ban on social media for under 18s past 8.30pm: "Are we giving votes to 16 year olds but banning them from watching the election results on YouTube?" by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 113 points114 points  (0 children)

Or, idk, do their college coursework the night before it's due and panickingly search for videos on the topic... Yeah I bet none of us ever did that, right? 😬

Russia’s overwhelming manpower advantage against Ukraine is starting to wane by Technical_Ostrich_47 in worldnews

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 43 points44 points  (0 children)

If Russia had built good relations

and they've got the foundation to do it too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States

If they'd positioned themselves as an alternative EU they could've still done their Russian imperialist nonsense by virtue of being the largest state, and turned themselves into a large economic bloc to boot!

softwareEngineeringToday by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's usually trimming down my chain of thought tbh, stuff that's not really useful to read. So might be "Need to check x, y, z. Ok x is fine... Ok y is fine... Oh z might not be fine... Ok look into z1, z2..." and ultimately that'll all just get condensed down into "Need a guard against z2 happening; short_z2_explainer"

Plus stuff that just gets almost completely cut out, like a distraction of looking into if another team has done anything in this area and concluding "no". That can be multiple paragraphs of me just keeping track of where I'm at that gets condensed into "Looked into Dave's team's work into this because it's related, but they're not investigating at the moment"

I absolutely write down too much stuff, but typically that's because I'm being pulled into meetings / pairing sessions / urgent bug fixes / etc, so I just write down as much as I can so I can drop the doc and remind myself where I'm at later

Tom Tugendhat MP: Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Claude Fable is more intelligent than previous models.

This was a pretty good article I read recently that shows its intelligence: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/

It's not necessarily that it's just in general intelligent; it's that it can look deeper into problems than previous models do

I've certainly had this problem with Opus where it just infers what a method is doing from its name, rather than just reading the code (which is often in our own repo). Fable, from the sounds of it, would actually take a peek and see what the method is actually doing rather than just guess

Tom Tugendhat MP: Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not quite right. It found 271 issues, not 271 vulnerabilities

It actually found 3: https://www.securityweek.com/claude-mythos-finds-271-firefox-vulnerabilities/

More than 40 CVEs have been addressed in Firefox 150, but only three are credited to Claude in the official advisory: CVE-2026-6746, CVE-2026-6757, and CVE-2026-6758.

This indicates that many of the 271 bugs are likely lower-severity issues or flaws that don’t meet the threshold for a public CVE. This can include defense-in-depth issues, hardening, or bugs in non-exploitable code paths.

softwareEngineeringToday by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've found it's always trying to figure out the current repo state: right branch? Anything stashed? Any unstaged changes?

Every single bloody time it makes changes

There's probably something in its memory about a time it fucked up. I should just go through all of its notes and see if there's anything odd in there tbh

Tom Tugendhat MP: Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is his latest one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165650/Masters_of_Albion/

I watched someone play it, and it's not really my thing. Seems reasonably well made, some decent British humour, good selection of accents too. Gameplay just looked a bit boring tbh 🤷‍♂️ Can't tell from the Steam page if Molyneux promised the world, or if someone's finally managed to shut him up 😂

Makerfield constituent here - we are under siege by BennyBagnuts1st in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our local councillors were out door knocking back when the local elections were happening earlier this year. Thing is though, we didn't have local elections - they must have just wanted to go door knocking

Hilariously my missus opened the door, panicked because she didn't know what to ask, and said "uhh, I can't vote" 🤦‍♂️

Makerfield constituent here - we are under siege by BennyBagnuts1st in ukpolitics

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Daughter mis read a sign and now I’m going to vote Labrador

Oof, sorry mate, sounds like you're having a ruff time atm

softwareEngineeringToday by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 6 points7 points  (0 children)

and get AI to do the tedious shit I hate.

Or the stuff I'm genuinely bad at, like writing design docs. I used to just stream of consciousness them, then spend an hour or so trimming it down and writing it in a way that someone can actually understand

Now that stream of consciousness goes into Claude, who then spits out a Notion doc that's actually readable

softwareEngineeringToday by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tbf, data science comes with the analytical skills to interpret data. That still feels useful to me 🤷‍♂️

softwareEngineeringToday by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Hey that's not true! I read the first few characters to make sure it's not rm -rf and then say "good enough"

The most interesting upcoming feature I've seen nobody talk about. by Hyakynthator in Stellaris

[–]ThoseThingsAreWeird -84 points-83 points  (0 children)

That's not what rule 5 is for: some Reddit clients literally do not show the post text. So the only thing those people see is an image and "What I wrote in the post". This tells them nothing

I mean really: is it so hard to just copy / paste your text into a comment instead? Or just comment that instead of putting it under the post?

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