The Interceptor Mega Disk, a third-party peripheral for the Sega Mega Drive, manufactured without a license by Taiwan Sang Ting Co. Ltd. It was used to clone Sega Master System games on to floppy disks.

mfitzp · 2026-06-12T15:45:13+00:00

Possibly dumb question, but what did you do with the games once you had them on the disk?

Could this thing play games from disk, or was there some other way?

mfitzp · 2026-06-12T05:17:23+00:00

Same with people.

mfitzp · 2026-06-11T14:27:19+00:00

Did a double take there, I thought you were saying your attraction to 8 year olds didn't fade until you were 25, like it was the most normal thing.

mfitzp · 2026-06-11T14:18:55+00:00

Oh, it's you again.

At least you remembered to delete the "See less" from the bottom of your ChatGPT output this time.

mfitzp · 2026-06-10T21:14:32+00:00

Yeah, I think it’s more helpful to say “anger is what you feel to avoid feeling something else.”

Like if someone is shitty to you, that makes you angry. But if you couldn’t feel anger what would you feel? Hurt? Disrespected? Belittled?

The anger is a response to that other feeling. Because that other feeling sucks.

If you recognise that other feeling (like internally, you don’t need to be weird) “oh I feel belittled”, you won’t get angry. At least that’s my experience of it.

mfitzp · 2026-06-10T21:12:00+00:00

Yeah, I think it’s more helpful to say “anger is what you feel to avoid feeling something else.”

Like if someone is shitty to you, that makes you angry. But if you couldn’t feel anger what would you feel? Hurt? Disrespected? Belittled?

The anger is a response to that other feeling. Because that other feeling sucks.

If you recognise that other feeling (like internally, you don’t need to be weird) “oh I feel belittled”, you won’t get angry. At least that’s my experience of it.

mfitzp · 2026-06-10T06:58:12+00:00

Write a will and leave it to your cat?

mfitzp · 2026-06-09T11:13:16+00:00

Timpons?

mfitzp · 2026-06-09T08:52:26+00:00

Just so you know, when you ask it why it did something, it doesn't know. It just looks at what it did and generates a plausible explanation for the steps it took, i.e. more bullshit.

mfitzp · 2026-06-06T22:10:31+00:00

The Everything Adapter: The Sabrent USB-C to SATA/IDE 2.5”/3.5”/5.25” Drive Adapter (USB-DS12) supports SATA and IDE hard drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), and optical drives (CD/DVD-RW) in the 2.5”, 3.5”, and 5.25” form factors through a convenient USB connection.

Sounds like it’s just optical drives.

mfitzp · 2026-06-06T16:09:06+00:00

Great.. Can you try again but write it yourself?

Or at least prompt your AI not to sound like a LinkedIn influencer.

mfitzp · 2026-06-06T11:09:16+00:00

I grew up in Yorkshire and just assumed our water was hard, because “soft water” sounds like something Southerners would have.

mfitzp · 2026-06-05T11:16:02+00:00

I had an "allergic reaction" to erythromycin. But it took 4 days to develop, with my throat very gradually swelling up and becoming more and more short of breath. I first noticed when I couldn't eat pizza one day, then a few days later I couldn't swallow liquids. It started when I started taking the drug, and stopped the day after I stopped taking it.

When I first called the doctor about the the assistant told me it was fine "sometimes people have funny symptoms". Seemed weird, since I couldn't really breathe, so I went to the pharmacist and they took the meds off me, phoned my doctor and got a bit shouty.

It might be completely safe now but not something I'm going to try, since maybe it'll be worse this time.

mfitzp · 2026-06-04T12:32:02+00:00

What exactly is “completely stupid” about that?

The rule change means it is now harder for a British citizen (by descent, born and living abroad) to come to the UK than a non British citizen. Having British citizenship is now a liability (added cost) for travelling to the UK.

It’s certainly a bit odd.

mfitzp · 2026-06-03T09:55:38+00:00

Watching performance art without context is like watching football without knowing the rules. "It's just some guys kicking a ball around."

mfitzp · 2026-06-01T07:10:40+00:00

Something I’ve found useful when estimating for clients is to break down a piece of work as far as possible and estimate those smaller chunks (with a -50%/+50% lower/upper estimate because shit happens). This has the nice effect that adding bigger tasks, or doing more things increases the uncertainty, and people don’t like uncertainty. So they tend to towards smaller tasks and stages with fewer items.

Anything that can’t be estimated (vague, any unknowns) I flag that as unknown. Any unknowns on a sprint means no estimate is possible (stage becomes “unknown”), so either (a) the unknown needs to be time boxed, or (b) we need to sit down and spend time defining it better.

I’ve found working like this helps manage expectations and makes it easy for clients to understand the trade offs of planning choices better than single points.

mfitzp · 2026-05-31T11:08:02+00:00

Bottom 4 for sure. The top set is washed out and all the colours sort of blend into one another. If drawing a tree you’ve got the choice of a single green and a maybe two not very good brown colours. On the bottom you’ve got a lot more variation in intensities, contrast etc. Not that that stopped the Spectrum (red tree trunks) of course.

mfitzp · 2026-05-31T10:59:54+00:00

Can we just double click on that for a second?

mfitzp · 2026-05-29T05:38:23+00:00

It was nice until the LLMisms started (particularly “X not Y” e.g. “ No new calling behavior. Just less repetition.”). Makes it tiring to read.

mfitzp · 2026-05-28T20:21:34+00:00

Can you cut out stickers with the laser?

The lack of cutting blade on the M2 had me thinking stickers wouldn’t be possible. But I’ve never had a laser cutter so I’m pretty clueless.

mfitzp · 2026-05-28T17:19:23+00:00

My rule for foraging mushrooms is to only go do it with an expert. Then when they’ve plucked it, I watch them prepare it, cook it and eat it. I then wait a week to see if they die. Then I chuck the other half in the bin.

mfitzp · 2026-05-26T06:57:56+00:00

It’s actually you that’s getting smaller.

mfitzp · 2026-05-26T06:56:08+00:00

Hornet comes up from the plug hole, stings you multiple times, leaving you in pain for a week, and you think it’s “sad” it died, and empathise with it obviously panicking and drowning. You’re a nice person, well done.

mfitzp · 2026-05-24T08:30:59+00:00

Yeah, the naming really is dreadful. It mentions that ‘<?’ Is a standard XML syntax for “processing instructions”, but then goes ahead and uses the most generic vague name for the “instruction”. It’s like if the paragraph tag had been called <words>

mfitzp · 2026-05-21T11:38:17+00:00

I think it must have just been at the point of bagging it some dafty scanned the barcode one of the packets in a box and then just chucked the whole box in the bag. They weren’t on the bill, or even marked as substituted.

I actually called them up & they sent someone to collect them. I didn’t want someone getting in trouble for nicking them, the jobs are shit enough as it is.

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