Keith Henry
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Keith Henry
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Dad, CTO @evolution.tech, autistic, avid reader, gamer, politics nerd, MBA.
Mainly working in C#, TS, SQL, PWAs and occasionally AI.

Opinions are personal, expect sarcasm.

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OK, so that's _some_ lost minis. None of them are available for Admech.

Cawl was around the entire time! (though Horus-era Cawl probably only had two arms and one personality)
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It makes no sense, the whole point of Admech is that they don't make anything new and just pray that all their golden age tech keeps running (literally for ironstriders).

Why are there any Mechanicus minis that can't be used in 40k?
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A month's dose of medical-grade insulin costs less than $10 to manufacture. You don't need subsidised European healthcare to get that price down.
They're just incredibly, mind-blowingly greedy, and don't give a shit about anyone else.

And they wonder why Luigi is a folk-hero to so many in the US.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For instance, I input 🏳️‍🌈
Someone on an unsupported platform else sees 🏳️🌈, but the input actually holds "🏳️ZWJ🌈"
When they submit the form, do they send the ZWJ?
If they interact with it does it become "🏳️"?
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I think the pain is on the render side - I add the complex ZWJ emoji on a platform that does support it, then it gets viewed on a platform that doesn't. Does it show its best guess? Does it show ZWJ placeholders? What does it POST on resubmit?
All solvable, just... messy.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh maybe. UK media loves Farage. I think the alternative to hate is hope, not whatever dire impotent shit Labour sells.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Ferengi were straight up a satire on capitalism. They weren't subtle.

We already live in an abundance world: we make enough food to feed everyone. We choose to make it so some people are starving poor while others are insanely rich. If we get replicators we would fuck that up.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yes, that is the specific episode, but I doubt it inspired them. AI chuds don't watch or read sci-fi. They know Star Wars and space fantasy shit, but they keep trotting out their "new ideas" like there isn't 60+ years of much more sophisticated writing about it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My dead grandma would be telling me how great Thatcher was, and that p****s were ruining the country (except her neighbours who had helped her after a fall and were lovely, they could stay).
So yeah, this checks.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I agree, but in our timeline they'd all belong to Musk/Bezos/Zuck/Thiel/whoever and that same arsehole is going to lobby hard to ensure that the food producers whose jobs they took don't get any welfare or support.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What's the alternative timeline where Michelle Yeoh is emperor? That's the one we live on.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
They're the same thing - Star Trek is a future where cheap food replication lead to a communist utopia. In our society we'd use that same tech to put all the farmers out of work and then a billionaire will charge you to use the replicator he owns the patent on.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Which bit from Star Trek, an abundance-tech communist utopia that had learned to stop doing colonialism, came true (in decades)?
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Oh, I love it when an episode of Black Mirror comes true. Cool cool cool 😳

(Only it won't work and 'grandma' will occasionally hallucinate mad internet bullshit about your family)
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Yes!
But a lot of corner cases to work out, like ZWJ on one platform that aren't supported on another, so a single emoji can become several.
Like 👨🏻‍👩🏿‍👦🏽 might be 1, 3, 6 or 11 emojis depending on the platform support.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh noes! Not the police! Where will they find thuggish homophobic wife-beating dudes with a fat chip on their shoulder and a need to exert petty authority to replace them in New York?
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Car factories are already almost all robots, full of highly effective and reliable old tech. Why would they swap that for expensive humanoid bots with unpredictable AI?
This is a stunt.
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It doesn't help that the mid-point between Reform bigotry and traditional Labour solidarity is gibberish. An "island of strangers" but where everyone has the same rights only we need to take those rights away.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
They're desperate to hold that median, but don't have any principles. There's no point arguing those principles with them, they're not in politics because they believe in something, they're in it because they want power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think the Labour leadership (all of them) only care about appealing to the median voter, they have no principles of their own and want to be at the peak of that normal distribution.

Only, it isn't normal, it's bimodal or worse and there are no voters at all at the median.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I dunno. Blair is a war criminal, a very large number of people are dead because he lied to parliament about weapons he knew they didn't have.

That takes some beating.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM