andrewwillmott

andrewwillmott, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Ahahahahahahaha!

Edit: https://godbolt.org/z/aEcPTfKEe if you want to poke around

andrewwillmott, 29 days ago to random

Mind-blowing just how much money's been wasted on the Tories' latest attempt to import US-style gerrymandering. I wonder if it's more or less than Rwanda.

andrewwillmott, 8 months ago to random

Today is the day that I learnt that the barcodes on UK stamps, which obsoleted and made worthless everyone's stash of old stamps at the back of the cupboard, have no actual functional value. They're just for arbitrary links to something 'entertaining', like a video of Shaun the Sheep.

andrewwillmott, 3 months ago to random

So this (triple bridge as tech debt) is not too far from us in Wales, I often take visitors there. It's locally known as "Devil's Bridge" or Pontarfynach.

image/jpeg
image/jpeg

andrewwillmott, 3 months ago to random

"Now that DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH stopped working on macOS systems with SIP enabled" 🤯

No wonder it was silently failing. Is there anyone doing development work with Macs these days that doesn't have to just blanket disable SIP?

andrewwillmott, 2 months ago to random

So, I don't really understand the point of Google search any more.

I just checked back in with it for a search query, for the first time in forever, as I wasn't turning up much with the alternatives I use. (Due to the web slowly collapsing under its own weight, sigh.) The first two pages were solid "sponsored" links trying to sell me something, often from stores that demonstrably have nothing to do with the term, and large pictures of the same thing.

Why bother? The PSNR is terrible.

andrewwillmott, 7 months ago to random

That my #1 most desired browser feature is search-for-tab probably indicates I have a problem.

andrewwillmott, 3 months ago to random

I'm just so. Bloody. Tired. Of the failed UK train "system".

andrewwillmott, 6 months ago to random

The last thing the world needs is another Google product deprecation story, but, they will keep doing it 😛

• Website created back in the day using Sites (sigh)
• Google decides to replace it with some new hotness that (all together now) isn't backwards compatible
• A week or so ago they removed the old site, so my domain served a blank page
• I tried to publish the mangled "upgraded" version of the site, so at least there's something to see, and now... my domain redirects to itself 🤦‍♂️

Twats

andrewwillmott, 1 month ago to random

It's depressing to realise that Amazon Prime's new ads regime isn't about making money off of ads. (They're all for other Prime shows, which people are hardly going to feel positively towards when they randomly interrupt the show they're already watching.)

It's soley to be annoying enough for people to pay additional money to remove them.

andrewwillmott, 4 months ago to random

I appreciate it's got a lot going on, but it somewhat blows my mind that MaterialX is 10x as complicated as most shading languages.

andrewwillmott, 4 months ago to random

Today I learnt that modern trains also run with a CAN bus. (Automotive bus.) Makes sense I guess.

andrewwillmott, 6 months ago to random

This thing in London where they demolish an entire building behind the facade and then rebuild it still kind of freaks me out.

andrewwillmott, 2 months ago to random

Every so often I ruminate on the fact NZ had a big public referendum in 2016 to change the flag from its colonial identikit version to one of five new options ... and decided to stick with the old one.

🇦🇨🇦🇮🇦🇺🇨🇰🇩🇬🇫🇯🇫🇰🇬🇸🇭🇲🇮🇴🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇿🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇦🇹🇨🇹🇻🇻🇬

andrewwillmott, 29 days ago to random

Right, NLD time

andrewwillmott, 3 months ago to random

What the hell?!

andrewwillmott, 6 months ago to random

First thing YouTube is pushing at me when opened in a private browsing page.

It's sickening that this is our life now.

andrewwillmott, 4 months ago to random

The hardest problem in VFX is texture paths.

andrewwillmott, 3 months ago to random

Other places to visit in Mid Wales in addition to Devil's Bridge: The 4500-year-old petrified forest on Borth beach.

image/jpeg
image/jpeg
image/jpeg

andrewwillmott, 5 months ago to random

Playing a bunch of games for BAFTA games award judging makes me wonder why there's not an award for best introduction section. It's got to contain some world building, and ideally a controls tutorial of some sort. And it's surprising how often otherwise good games (especially AAA sequels) get it wrong.

andrewwillmott, 2 months ago to random

Why yes, every commit should include thirty lines of comments documenting just how batshit insane the major VFX library you're using is.

andrewwillmott, 2 months ago to random

This is how my day is going:

add_shared_lib_path(path.join(EXTERNAL_LIBS, "boost/lib")) -- Fuck you. Fuck you all.

andrewwillmott, 5 months ago to random

It's been raining a bit here 😐

https://www.facebook.com/russell.b.jones.7/videos/1383771219194077

A (somewhat soggy) Merry Christmas!

andrewwillmott, 2 months ago to random

Today I learnt via a co-worker's bug that numpy dtype=uint is actually an unsigned long under the hood. And hence a different size on Windows, which is LLP64, vs LP64 for most other OSes.

😶

andrewwillmott, 1 month ago to random

A Rainy Night in Soho