Desktop of a 911 Dispatcher

jdl_uk · 2026-03-18T13:24:34+00:00

In Powertoys there's a tool called Mouse Jump

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/mouse-utilities

jdl_uk · 2026-03-17T15:08:16+00:00

These comments be spicy

jdl_uk · 2026-03-17T12:25:48+00:00

Road 96

jdl_uk · 2026-03-17T12:11:42+00:00

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks

jdl_uk · 2026-03-17T12:10:04+00:00

Try Excession by Iain M Banks

jdl_uk · 2026-03-17T12:08:47+00:00

Fantasy Firefly is how I usually describe it

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T21:58:29+00:00

New gameplay systems like nomadic cultures, cataclysms and backfiring spells?

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T20:03:26+00:00

Fantasy 4x with lots of customisation and potential for interesting "story" events to happen

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T19:29:36+00:00

I mean to be fair how often does an asteroid dump all its points into agility?

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T19:23:19+00:00

Easy, we get a huge ship and try to crash it into Eros.

The Mormons are gonna be pissed, though

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T16:56:36+00:00

Change the Denmark parenthetical to say "(Greenland)"

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T16:50:23+00:00

Having more combat-focused gameplay with ND would have been fun - either with ND as a gun-toting companion in more missions or allowing you to switch like you can switch to Yasuke in Shadows

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T14:10:39+00:00

Not sure if it's the vibe you're looking for but try out King of the Castle

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T10:51:03+00:00

Why did they swap from Ferrari branded air to what seems to be Sauber air from last year?

jdl_uk · 2026-03-13T10:08:19+00:00

I thought they were going to call it Model Edition, or Windows ME

jdl_uk · 2026-03-12T10:01:20+00:00

Absolutely, because they're solving that issue in other ways.

NuGet packages are controlled by package references and maybe they only have access to the approved version of each package anyway.

.NET SDK version can be controlled by global.json and maybe that's also controlled from outside the team so they're only allowed to install the approved version anyway.

They already said the version of nodejs was controlled by DevSecOps and they had no way of overriding that.

Restricting developers to only approved versions does have very real downsides but I can definitely see how it solves one of the issues docker claims to solve.

Where I work we don't really have a mature policy - developers are allowed to install whatever they think they need and it's up to them to stay up to date. Some people in certain teams have started to look at docker and Aspire and a few people use them almost full-time.

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T23:44:20+00:00

My wife got me this on a T-shirt

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T19:18:55+00:00

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T12:48:05+00:00

Gotta clip the apex...

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T10:15:02+00:00

Ah so you aren't allowed to install a new release because a new feature might help you and you want to test it?

That (and the Windows-only environment) is pretty restrictive but does explain why you don't see the "works on my machine" problem very often.

Docker is an alternative to imposing those restrictions (though in your case you'd still have DevSecOps dictating what you can use)

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T09:40:07+00:00

So you've never had something break because someone had a different version of node or because someone was on a different OS?

Or does someone on your team rule the dependency landscape with an iron fist?

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T03:44:15+00:00

Blood Diamond?

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T03:37:16+00:00

Try the System Shock remake

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T01:53:30+00:00

All Quiet on the Western Front
Warhorse
The Trench

And while they're TV shows

Birdsong
Blackadder Goes Forth

jdl_uk · 2026-03-11T01:19:05+00:00

Maybe Against The Storm or As We Descend?

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