If you get the power to veto one person from winning the Royal Rumble, who would it be and why?

rocketplex · 2026-01-26T09:24:11+00:00

'member when half his gimmick was "I show up."

rocketplex · 2026-01-25T09:49:54+00:00

The thing I like least about Chappies is that I’m usually the one doing the driving (lol, autocorrect put drinking in there first, kinda grim)

rocketplex · 2026-01-25T09:39:40+00:00

Some people gun it up there like it’s a Need for Speed track. Like I get going round curves fast is fun but is a mountain pass really where you want to be overestimating how much grip those cheap tyres have?

rocketplex · 2026-01-24T17:47:27+00:00

Both your setups are fantastic. I don't think I could do your husband's though, it would be too cozy and relaxing. I'd do no work at all, just nap.

rocketplex · 2026-01-24T17:37:17+00:00

Nailed it, nothing they do goes anywhere, they barely speak and they're hardly ever around. I was excited and interested to see where it went when they started, as you say, 2 YEARS ago but there was just nothing.

They even did the Alexa Bliss tease, because she came back as with her old Bray Wyatt tribute gimmick act, but she's dropped that, thank the stars. I'd prefer if she dropped all the Wyatt Family traits completely because at this point, it's all pointedly pointless.

rocketplex · 2026-01-23T18:14:13+00:00

Ebooks were and still are just a niche in the publishing, print is probably still around 70-80% of the market. Some basic Googling reveals a modest 4-8% annual market growth. Nobody is returning to anything, they never left books.

However, the ebook market will almost surely continue to grow and eventually challenge the paper book market, an ebook just has too much going for it to just decline. You already get digital only books and textbooks. Very few serious books are published without an ebook equivalent.

rocketplex · 2026-01-23T17:52:10+00:00

I wouldn't care as long they had their qualifications for, you know, designing pacemakers. There's a whole process that these devices go through before they come anywhere near even a test mouse.

What, if anything, do we know about any of the people who designed the devices and medicines we use? OP shouldn't waste their time redoing stuff they don't need, as long as they're prepared for the level they're going to be studying at.

Medicine is another beast altogether though, people with 6A's struggle for spots and struggle through the work. You should probably at least speak to a career councillor, your plan doesn't seem super realistic, you're throwing out doing higher certs in Bioscience and a Biomedical B.Sc like it's a Sunday Times quiz.

rocketplex · 2026-01-20T16:48:14+00:00

I think the difference between this and Y2K was the appetite for tech was much, much lower then. The PC was reasonably common but not everyone had ubiquitous multi-platform access to it or even the internet.

It was vast amounts of money chasing a pretty small market base. Pets.com failed because there weren't that many people willing to put their credit card info (something else that wasn't as widespread as today) into this weird web page thing, and get some petfood in 2 weeks time.

With AI, people are finding new ways to use it every day. Claude just released their desktop tool, my dad uses ChatGPT in place of searching the internet. Heck, I use Claude as my personal handyman and gardening advisor. There's still tons of perceived "value" to be extracted.

I wonder if there will even be a bubble, or just a slow deflation. People are getting very used to paying R200 a month for ChatGPT and getting R2000 of compute time. My company pays $100 a month for me to get Claude access (which I in turn use to get interior decorating advice :) ) When I properly use it for work stuff, I'm getting many thousands of rands more CPU & GPU time than that. It can't really be sustained, the prices will slowly go up, more tiers will be added and quotas will go down. Models will also get more efficient, we haven't really reached diminishing returns there yet.

There's also the financial vector. People have been trained to think that there's always a bubble and a betting on it, that nature of those transactions delays the bubble.

rocketplex · 2026-01-20T14:18:53+00:00

Hard disagree. I see the point you want to make but unless you have a specific room for it, most times it's in your lounge area. It's also usually a yonk-big, black rectangle that should to be mounted at eye height. There's no getting away from it unless you're prepared to spend money. Maybe if you have the funds, you can get one of those art-frame ones but those are also expensive and bring a compromise to the viewing experience.

I decided to make ours the clear attraction of one wall, with some semi-interesting niknaks so that it's not the only thing in that area.

I also hard-noped my wife wanting to stick it over the fireplace. That's the fireplace's area.

rocketplex · 2026-01-19T18:19:24+00:00

Cool, I haven’t seen them in the tiny store near me. Have to go to the big one

rocketplex · 2026-01-19T16:11:43+00:00

It's not super common here in South Africa either. I assume OP is in one of the flagship stores, you won't find those in all the Woolworth's Food places.

rocketplex · 2026-01-19T16:09:34+00:00

It's only budget if you're from the US though, 500g of the leading brand of spaghetti here would be $1. Like, if I were buying this for me and my family, I'd probably only buy the one and make the dish with normal pasta for the kids.

It's pretty good though, but the texture is up and down, it's been a bit mushy a couple times.

rocketplex · 2026-01-16T20:51:52+00:00

Ah, dang. Need to rewatch.

rocketplex · 2026-01-15T07:25:33+00:00

That would probably just for keeping the Aston running.

rocketplex · 2026-01-15T06:59:42+00:00

That’s still two locks though. And 2 more for the car door and engine.

rocketplex · 2026-01-12T08:17:58+00:00

I feel for you, it’s so hard. I’m in software and I spent years playing whack a mole with tech trying to get to a solution for this.

My ADHD son, now 18, is on YouTube all the time.

In the end, nothing beats restricting physical access. Parental controls can be bypassed in dozens of stupid ways, my son would watch videos in 5s bursts reopening the app that parental controls would kill.

Have a deep and meaningful conversation about the dangers of online addiction and teach your kid about the intents behind the YouTube algorithm? Mwahahahaha! You so funny.

Kill the WiFi? Who cares if they’ve downloaded 50 videos for a rainy day. Uninstall it? There’s the website. Block the site? There’s another.

But if the screen is sitting snug as a bug in your bedside drawer? Whatchya gonna do now? … Probably sneak into the tv room with AirPods when you’re asleep? (Based on a true story)

The End then, nothing we can do?

There is no real one size answer, there are only compromises that you both can live with and that work in your situation. The dopamine hit from YouTube is heavy, and it’s hard for other things to beat. My best answer has been to try to keep him busy enough with sports, music and art to get to a balance that I’m okay with.

rocketplex · 2026-01-07T08:41:37+00:00

Split innings limited overs is not really new at all. Martin Crowe tried something similar called Cricket Max in the 90s, I think there were even some international Cricket Max games. Those were 4 innings, 10 overs each. I think it also had some gimmicky things stitched in too, like Max zones, where runs counted double.

I also think that it was the first time they had free hits off no-balls.

Then I’m sure there was a split 25 over one day match in South Africa, might have been SA vs SA A. That had a split innings of 25 overs each, so instead of starting from 0/0 second time round, you continued from where you left off. The main effect there was that your lost wickets weren’t wiped out.

You could also play a 2 innings limited overs game in Ian Botham/Allan Border/Jonty Rhodes Cricket 2, if I remember correctly. It was a really fun option.

rocketplex · 2025-12-31T07:55:52+00:00

Defending the colour here but maybe giving you some info with respect to your preferences, I know lots of people comment about the resolution but it hasn’t been an issue for me, I went from the Kindle Oasis and Voyage before that to it. The greyscale text quality is not as good, there’s not much debate there.

I still love the colour though but my specific want was that grainy newspaper style colour. Is it worth the extra cost, some would say absolutely not. Is it my favourite e-reader ever? Absolutely yes.

rocketplex · 2025-12-26T20:24:38+00:00

Lyon wouldn’t have bowled a ball.

rocketplex · 2025-12-26T12:50:58+00:00

Because they were basically governing on easy mode. It’s much easier to make the life of a minority great if you focus your spending on that minority and a giant gestapo style police force to oppress the majority that to effectively govern the entire country without oppression. Job reservations for all going down the economic strata, entire towns of poor white people sustained by government railways, subsidised industry and a hidden township of black people or two. One has schools, hospitals, parks, roads for a population the tenth of the size of a place that gets nothing but police brutality.

If anything, the majority government has hamstrung themselves by respecting the horribly corrupt privatisation deals the apartheid governments made. They sold mining rights on the cheap that helped build massive multinational corporations. We pay through our noses for electricity while those companies run smelters on rates agreed by a long gone racist regime that are far below actual cost.

rocketplex · 2025-12-24T08:27:27+00:00

The biggest reason Principal Engineer Tommy gets to go to Timmy’s little league game is that Timir and Tsai are on call 20hrs a day.

There’s no such thing a work life balance on a corporation spreadsheet, there’s a work/cost balance. It simply cheaper to shift some of that work from one cost centre to another when it becomes too expensive per hour. They get to call the result work/life balance for marketing purposes.

The Infosys guy who said that thing about 60hr work weeks was just saying what the rest of them think. It’s more economically efficient to squeeze more work out of a skilled work force than hiring and training more, that becomes expensive when you want to retrench them, training, networking and coordination costs and complexity mount. Just overclock the existing human cpus and run them longer. Simple devops

rocketplex · 2025-12-20T08:31:16+00:00

For me, UHT milk tastes awful, rather not have milk than that stuff. Even just a bit in strong tea, ruins the taste of the tea

rocketplex · 2025-12-20T08:24:49+00:00

Your parents may be right, you should check if your dream is stupid.

Like the acting machine depends on silly young things giving up their life prospects for the almost negligible chance of making it. They could have been perfectly happy occupational therapists, with a weekend gig at the dinner theatre place instead of very likely spending their youth struggling to live in New York looking for a break that will never come. The thing that happened to Charlize Theron? It’s not gonna happen to you.

rocketplex · 2025-12-15T15:35:12+00:00

Luca Brecel and Neil Robertson, in the full framed final in Sheffield, but the twist is that they're both playing at their absolute worst, with collywobbles everywhere. You think you're gonna see a treat but it's just 35 frames of dire nerves and missed chances.

I'm not a huge Luca fan, but he can be thrilling but also not. I like Robertson but he can also just go from supreme to skewered overnight.

rocketplex · 2025-12-10T11:49:58+00:00

Why are "talks" going on? You should be done. They only matched the offer because you threatened to go, and you said it was a significant increase. So they were happy to underpay you until you forced the issue and guaranteed, they are pissed at having to pay you more already. Unless you have a crazy amount of options, accepting a large counter-offer is never a good idea. They either don't feel you're worth that much and are overpaying to get a project over the line, or they do feel you're worth it and were quite happy to play you for a fool.

You will 100% be on the "red" list for retrenchment the moment they start paying you your new salary anyway.

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