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Andrew Willmott

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Kiwi in the UK by way of the US Graphics / VFX / Sims / SimCity / Spore / Football Manager / Wayve / Odyssey / Helioflow https://github.com/andrewwillmott https://www.andrewwillmott.com https://soundcloud.com/radiator-8/albums

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 9h

A bunch of bank and payment apps here too 😬

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 22h

Huh, never even knew it existed. It's tucked around on the far side of the Gatehouse, not on the main Highgate Village drag, which is probably why.

The closest 'neighbours' are The Grove, a row of £10-million-plus houses traditionally occupied by celebs. I suspect they don't eat locally much 😄

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 22h

I would be more convinced by Swift rewrites if everything over the last five years wasn't getting slower, more memory hungry, and buggier.

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 22h

Seriously? Ugh.

I was a bit worried this might happen when 16 spawned several issues on debug run ("application already open", needing to insert a sleep to avoid hangs), plus a dismissive attitude to fixing them. Seems Apple engineers no longer use Xcode for C++ debugging :(

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 23h

Ha 😂

Signal, Perplexity and Jira are all down for me, always interesting to see who's US-data-centre-only

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!!

So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS region?)

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 1d

One of these days I won't shoot myself in the foot by forgetting that Gaussian splats are trained in display space, but today is not that day.

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 1d

Ha. I was just thinking "I ran into this 15 years ago, I guess they never fixed it" after reading your initial post.

So long ago that the 10-line script I wrote was in perl rather than python 😄

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 1d

!!!

(An editorial podcast on whether the US economy is in a massive bubble at the moment, sponsored by _Anthropic_, is, well, amusing at least.)

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 1d

Recommended, the man is on top form

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

if you put enough olive oil in a dish it stops being unhealthy and actually becomes healthier because the olive oil now counts as one of your five a day

Public Health England doesn't want you to know this

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 3d

Art by British artist and master of ‘epic’ John Harris

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 2d

I go to a Tron movie to see fun VFX eye candy, and this one mostly delivered.

Though, massive plot holes of course. The villain should've run 'killall -9 ...' and he'd have been fine.

(Also apparently 80s computing was comprised mostly of BASIC, CP/M, and Depeche Mode.)

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 2d

just before 11, but KTF has a curfew so that's a given. I think it was something like 8:30 - 9:30 for SoM and Pharcyde 15 mins after that, but don't quote me! Some UK turntablism and even a short b boy set before all that.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 2d

Well it _is_ early spring. Think April UK and fielders freezing in Durham.

Pity, it was looking tasty!

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 3d

Just heard Jeru the Damaja is also guesting at tonight's Pharcyde/Souls of Mischief show at the Kentish Town Forum. 90s hiphop me can't wait...

a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen

ALT: a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 3d

The inexplicably 'Secretary of War' Pete Hegseth wanted a decent coffee

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 4d

'The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.”'

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I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia

What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 5d

I gather these days they're also heavily on the end-to-end DL approach that Wayve pioneered, so it's not impossible that they have, but I do wonder how much training they've done on London roads so far.

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 5d

As someone who worked at Wayve, I'm agog to see if Waymo's solved things like buses, streets where parked cars effectively make them a single lane with unstructured giveway points, "jay walking", mad delivery bikers, and ten different bike lane demarcation schemes. It's a very different environment!

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 5d

Noooooooo

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d

The aircraft carrying US Secretary of Defense/war/whatevs Pete Hegseth from Brussels declared an emergency before turning around over the Atlantic and heading back toward the UK.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 5d

Slop Will Eat Itself

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 6d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site