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andrewwillmott

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Graphics Research/Sims/SimCity/Spore/Football Manager/Wayve/Stealth Startup

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Tell me how long it's been since you updated your membership payment flow

andrewwillmott, to random
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I'm still waiting for Rishi Sunak to circle back to "opening new pork markets!" He's been through everything else.

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That sinking feeling when you're looking at a repo and spot a .h.in file.

pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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This is my 30 years belated realization that PHIGS was a 'graphics' pun pretending to be an acronym. I'm not sure if that makes me hate it more or less. I'm leaning towards more. The focus on PHIGS was less welcome when I read Foley and Van Dam than the chapter on dot-matrix printing which at least had some timeless "how stuff worked" appeal. Teaching specific APIs in a textbook almost never ages well.

andrewwillmott,
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@christer @pervognsen Much like PHIGS, then :)

(Which inherited heavily from GKS if I recall correctly)

andrewwillmott,
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@christer @pervognsen I still retain a residual fondness for F&VD, based soley on the fact that when I was an undergrad, and it was prescribed as a textbook, the Uni bookshop accidentally put the US price on it (vs the much weaker NZ dollar), which made it a massive bargain.

Though maybe not when you realised that even then only 20-30% of it was relevant.

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Not sure I'd want to live on either side of this operation ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

andrewwillmott, to random
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The only downside to the Machynlleth Comedy Festival is watching our internet go in the toilet for the weekend ๐Ÿ˜„. Brilliant event otherwise.

aras, to random
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So, Unityโ€™s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.๐Ÿ˜ข https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

andrewwillmott,
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@pervognsen @aras People forget very quickly (well, I doubt Aras did :) ), that the board picked JR with a particular course in mind. Of course they were going to go for someone similar to replace him. With no doubt similar results.

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@pervognsen @aras (I always found the gap between the C-suite at EA and the people actually making the games mind boggling. Almost different species ๐Ÿ˜„. At least, after Larry Probst and Bing Gordon went.)

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Love this. Given how carefully they've modelled faces vs vertices, there must be Roman icosahedra out there?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68908558

TheVoidTLMB, to cricket
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Here we go. .

andrewwillmott,
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@TheVoidTLMB tuned in. Du Plooy promptly smacked it to point. Tuned out again ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

andrewwillmott, to random
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Right, NLD time

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At least the weather's picked up!

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andrewwillmott, to random
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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,
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(If you're wondering what counts as ID: if you're over 60, almost anything, including tail cards. If you're a student, a passport or the drivers license most of them don't have, and a student rail card is inadmissible. It's absolutely shameless.)

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@pervognsen mostly it works as before, you turn up to your local polling station where they have a register. But now you have to bring photo ID, in a country that has no ID card system.

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@sol_hsa The thing is, the existing system works fine here, in fact better than most I would say. (NZ has a similar system and I was a polling worker for a few years back in the day.) A handful of disputed votes in a country of 66 million is a specious reason to change things, especially when it affects how easy it is to vote.

BTW, is it compulsory to vote in Finland like Australia? I think they have the right idea there.

andrewwillmott,
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@obsurveyor I'm talking about importing a culture of voter suppression, there are a lot of different methods to choose from. We already have some of the boundary-changing shennanigans here, but they're not as distorting as some states in the US. We don't have the practice of shutting down polling stations in the "wrong" areas and causing multi-hour queues to discourage pople yet, and hopefully we never do, but \o/.

andrewwillmott,
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@sol_hsa ๐Ÿ˜‚

andrewwillmott, to random
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I love the HDR on macbooks these days, particularly for photos off the phone, but I do wish screen capture supported it. Instead it seems to tone map the HDR screen down to something 8 bit.

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Just your standard day on the West Coast Mainline. (So called because, like most coastlines, the journey time is fractal.)

andrewwillmott, to random
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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.

msinilo, to random
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There is a world dumbest bird in my backyard. It repeatedly hits my window when flying, not hard enough to hurt itself, but enough to make some noise.

andrewwillmott,
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@msinilo @TomF It's quite common, we had a chaffinch doing it for an afternoon just the other day, while it was sunny.

If it keeps it up you could try putting cling film over the pane or otherwise defeating the reflection.

Had this several times over the years with robins in particular. They're aggressive little bastards!

andrewwillmott, to random
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Good lord. The flooding at Dubai Airport is quite something. https://x.com/AAA_Balushi/status/1780223295939301686

BartWronski, to random
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A reminder that "uncensored and unbiased" recently became a dog whistle for the far-right. :(
https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072

andrewwillmott,
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@BartWronski I hate that path tracing has become so political.

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