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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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A bunch of bank and payment apps here too 😬
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 😄
I would be more convinced by Swift rewrites if everything over the last five years wasn't getting slower, more memory hungry, and buggier.
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 :(
Ha 😂

Signal, Perplexity and Jira are all down for me, always interesting to see who's US-data-centre-only
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?)
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.
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 😄
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(An editorial podcast on whether the US economy is in a massive bubble at the moment, sponsored by _Anthropic_, is, well, amusing at least.)
Recommended, the man is on top form
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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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Art by British artist and master of ‘epic’ John Harris
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.)
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.
Well it _is_ early spring. Think April UK and fielders freezing in Durham.

Pity, it was looking tasty!
The inexplicably 'Secretary of War' Pete Hegseth wanted a decent coffee
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.
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!
Noooooooo
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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And that relies on the guard being physically able to get through the train past all the people standing.