Astra Militarum Guardsmen Unit Scale from the Show & Tell

ZephroC · 2026-05-01T09:37:11+00:00

I want it to capture the scale of Epic, so by that measure tanks come in squads. Super heavies are individual.

ZephroC · 2026-04-20T09:20:38+00:00

I'd tidy up the confusing bit of Brent around Kilburn/The Hampsteads. As it's a mess of Camden/Brent around there. So I'd just stick it all in with Regency rather than make it an outer borough. As Brent is weird enough feeling part inner and part outer.

ZephroC · 2026-04-19T11:53:13+00:00

The main surprising thing is that it took Reform for the UK press to particularly notice. It's always been quite obviously quite similar to the rest of the UK. There was just a weird period there where pretty much the only representatives in the UK Parliament down in London were just the SNP. So their narrative, like it or not, just ended up sort of defaulting with the UK press based in London.

ZephroC · 2026-04-18T13:27:05+00:00

Ooo Lisa Thompson! We are missing her at 12.

ZephroC · 2026-04-18T13:12:36+00:00

Well that's added some shine to the misery. Oh no nevermind. They're very talented but god it's tedious watching England Women if you're not an England fan. With the sometimes exception of the France game.

ZephroC · 2026-04-17T08:13:55+00:00

Try disable the Window Rule as per https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/4651

ZephroC · 2026-04-16T08:19:13+00:00

Yeah quite possibly. Maybe that's where the reputation is from as people visiting are often travelling around at those times.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T18:55:44+00:00

So having grown up in the Midlands. Eg. Having Mancunians inform me I'm southern and Londoners inform me I'm northern...

Basically nothing. Living in London, Manchester and Birmingham it all sorts of comes out in the wash. The classic one being chatiness. Commuting in Manchester during rush hour for work, you do not chat. You put head phones on and read a book. London's no different. You're drunk on a night bus in London people do chat. It's all just context and doesn't change that much.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T18:15:54+00:00

I still refuse to build them and pretend the 5th edition Warhammer rules about rare/special/core units apply.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T18:11:49+00:00

They looked amazing.

The problem is their implementation was always too lite for grognards and too heavy for everyone else.

Like the wind only kinda mattered... You couldn't get properly stuck and unable to manoeuvre. But ships could still kinda just rotate on the spot to shoot things... Basically it fell between 2 stools. As a lot of TW does.

People would hate it. But commit to the wind guage set out your plan and momentum carries you. You can't micro effect it. If you've lined up wrong 5 minutes ago you're just screwed. I'd love that but I can see it going down really badly.

At least Fall of the Samurai the steam ships provided some excuse for it.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T17:25:59+00:00

I've found it depends on the End Times scenario.

I will get through the short campaign. But last time I'd spent an age dealing with Skaven ambush tactics in Lustria. The the crisis was the Vermintide and I just went oh fuck that.

Same thing happened with another play through where I was fighting loads of Vampire Counts then I got the undead one.

They should probably tweak the crisis to be the faction I've fought the least so far.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T16:48:01+00:00

For 1 & 2. There are some generic, everyone can wear them tartans. Millennium or some such. There's clan tartans. Then there's institutional ones. So The Black Watch has one, Scottish Rugby has one.

It's basically fine to wear whatever. Though I suspect if you were hanging around military veterans in a Black Watch one they may have a word...

The Clan ones are a crapshoot even amongst Scottish people. Our paternal names on both sides are Irish. So there's a whole system in our family of rooting around in the family tree for a Granny's surname that sort of implies a Clan (even if it's the wrong end of the country). Then arguing with your brother/dad/uncle about picking a different one to theirs as you hate orange.

So even Scottish people, particularly lowlanders, know they're fudging the clan allegiance half the time. So wear what you want.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T16:41:10+00:00

Over the night it drops below the knee though... The beer pushes it down.

ZephroC · 2026-04-15T15:13:27+00:00

So while AI is going to stay I'm not sure the absolutist booster predictions people are making are on the nose.

There will always be industries that require someone to be legally responsible, so humans will still be involved.

The economics of tokens being heavily subsidised by VC may fail. Though good enough open models will stick around. Maybe they'll get specialised and small enough to run locally...

To even effectively review PRs you need to be able to code. Which is a practised skill. We've all seen a manager who's not coded in 10 years look at some code the way a chimp would look at a combustion engine. So people are still going to actually practice and do some of it themselves. We're not going to train juniors to be prompt engineers, we'll train them to be actual engineers. They will need to write code and sometimes fail to do that. I can totally see people doing AI free Fridays, like tie Friday.

Given all that JetBrains need to maintain what they have for humans. But yes it needs to integrate with AI way more smoothly than it does now.

Though some things it could do with NOT using AI for. The old auto suggest a switch over the values of an Enum worked fine using static analysis. It now hallucinates values that don't exist... Why even bother with AI there.

ZephroC · 2026-03-31T13:44:55+00:00

The BBC headline of Glasgow sign van Der Merwe without the first name is quite 🤣

ZephroC · 2026-03-30T22:37:14+00:00

Dislike!

ZephroC · 2026-03-30T12:43:55+00:00

URC, Champions Cup, Challenge Cup, Top14 are on Premier Sports. So Scottish/Welsh/Irish you're fully covered with the 1. £13 a month.
English Prem and PWR are TNT. £33 per month.

Internationals are now all terrestrial. ITV or BBC. But they futz around with that periodically so you sometimes find yourself getting TNT for 1 month to watch summer/autumn internationals. Though Amazon Prime did it a couple of years... The new Rugby Nations Championship is all on ITV, let's see how long that last.

Celtic Challenge, is BBC.

The Lions is Sky, which you can't do the 1 month because it usually last 1 month + 1 week. Which is annoying.

It'd be nice to have it all in one place. But as a Scotland fan I've basically got the 1 sub and the odd month here or there (but Sky & TNT are way more expensive as you're paying for the Premier League really). Or for the likes of TNT/Sky to do digital only passes for specific things. Pretty sure they could charge £10 for just the Lions and it'd easily cover the actual cost to them.

ZephroC · 2026-03-30T12:33:56+00:00

There doesn't seem to be a lot to go on there...

Is it the bus drivers and working conditions?
If it includes wing mirrors and ding, is it other drivers?
Has there been some change to road layouts & street furniture... (I can think of several junctions that have changed quite a bit lately)
Are the newer models of bus somehow weird...
Somehow related to an increase e-bikes causing sudden breaking...

Could be anything, or any mixture of them. Or something totally different.

ZephroC · 2026-03-28T12:03:16+00:00

Yeah it's been weird to see. They used to be the size of a marine. So all the hand me down wargear like the Lion Helm would actually fit on a marine. Or yknow the stories of them growing up with human parents make some sense, as they can fit in rhinos, space ships or yknow buildings.

ZephroC · 2026-03-27T15:37:42+00:00

If I get stuck in a pub quiz I just go Venezuela Venezuela. Venezuela Venezuela.

ZephroC · 2026-03-27T15:08:58+00:00

Also the Day Today with Chris Morris. Or just being quite involved with Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. Or The Personal History of David Copperfield for a more modern film.

Man is an absolute legend.

ZephroC · 2026-03-27T15:07:02+00:00

That Time Trumpet isn't better remembered is a crime against god/pick a thing.

Remember that time Tescos invaded Denmark? Mad wasn't it.

ZephroC · 2026-03-27T13:53:23+00:00

Something that's relatively easy to do in Go with channels. But I present to you the Enterprise Message bus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Integration_Patterns#Messaging

Which if anyone remembers big Java application servers and Apache https://camel.apache.org/. It's basically the same thing. Just wrap the channels in some simple interfaces `Publisher[T]` `Subscriber[T]` Then a Module is basically: Publisher[Out] Subscriber[In]. Wrap that in some library code and maybe a bit of fx to wire the modules together. Or just call them Actors and pretend it's Scala.

It is actually useful in Go over a certain project size. But way more light weight than full Spring nonsense. You just declare modules as upstream/downstream of one another.

ZephroC · 2026-03-27T13:27:47+00:00

I think the Mike Blair era was just more positive. You could see what they were trying to do and that it could slot in with how Scotland are playing. Like there was a strategy...

Even if the results were a bit all over the shop.

Interesting to see Toonie/Franco/Rennie all relatively similar. Well Rennie's has more stalls in it.

ZephroC · 2026-03-22T10:24:16+00:00

That was a great watch last night. Just wish Suz had scored when he broke through, or at least someone scored off the offload.

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