cawhitworth

cawhitworth, 6 months ago to random

Jesus that Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI thing is absolutely wild. What on earth is going on there.

cawhitworth, 9 months ago to random

Just found out there’s a games jam as part of our company hackathon next week, looks like ya boy’s getting back into game dev

cawhitworth, 7 months ago to random

Slade? Already? Fucksakes

cawhitworth, 9 months ago to wildlife

Anyway yes I went out with the camera yesterday and there weren’t many birds but there were plenty of dragonflies, which are annoyingly hard to capture. Until they sit down, like this darter (common? ruddy?) I managed to snap.

#InsectPhotography #Wildlife #nature #WildlifePhotography #bugs #bugstodon

cawhitworth, 8 months ago to random

I bought the stupidest t-shirt

(credit to @heydon)

cawhitworth, 6 months ago to random

If I'm reading this right, Mike Lynch's defense is "Not all of the billions HP lost on the Autonomy deal were down to my doing a big fraud, some of it was just that Autonomy was rubbish" which is certainly a position to take about your own company https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/15/hp-lynch-autonomy-writedown

cawhitworth, 1 year ago to random

Thing I don't understand - how does Google get to create a new TLD? Is it because they run a popular root nameserver and just decided "This resolves now"? I thought IANA managed this stuff?

cawhitworth, 22 days ago to random

So yeah I work for Microsoft. The product I work on is a Linux-derived platform and all my personal devices are Apple. Just sayin’.

cawhitworth, 8 months ago to random

Pots from yesterday’s turning and finishing session. Off to be fired and then glazed next week. Particularly pleased with the little one front-right, a sort of sake/espresso cup type thing.

cawhitworth, 10 months ago to random

Very very very pleased to hear the news about Voyager 2.

cawhitworth, 9 months ago to random

I am fully extremely not ready for it to be September, where the fuck was summer, my days in the sun relaxing and recharging and stuff, this is absolute bullshit

cawhitworth, 4 months ago to random

You know what maybe I’ll just not get on another plane for a bit

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off

cawhitworth, 11 months ago to random

Not ideal sleeping conditions if I’m honest

cawhitworth, 1 year ago to random

Is there anything like MS Access - for creating ad-hoc simple UI-centric databases (with the option to dive into simple SQL queries if needed) - that works across macOS and iOS/iPadOS?

I keep finding myself wanting to organise and query a bunch of data and whilst yes I can install Postgres on a Pi or something, using that from the CLI on my phone or iPad is not the most fun.

cawhitworth, 5 months ago to random

12 years ago I hacked up a little BBC Micro/6502 emulator in Python as a hobby project. I got it booting and, after intercepting OSWRCH, writing text to the terminal. A little while later I threw it up on GitHub and more-or-less forgot about it.

Yesterday I got a PR from broadly refactoring the entire thing to make it reusable and pluggable, and expanding it way beyond what I’d originally done.

And I’m not entirely sure what to do with it.

cawhitworth, 10 months ago to random

Wonder what Twitter’s CEO thinks of the head of engineering deciding to rebrand the entire company

cawhitworth, 10 months ago to random

I am at Moorfields eye hospital for a thing and they have a Richard Desmond Children’s Unit and I have questions

cawhitworth, 1 year ago to random

Editor wars? When I grew up we didn’t have editors. We entered our code one line at a time, right into the BASIC prompt. Make a mistake? Too bad, gotta retype the whole line. Wanna rename a variable? Lol good luck with that. You remembered to write your program out by hand on a bit of paper first right?

cawhitworth, 5 months ago to random

Can't help feeling like a bit of a lede is being buried here: lots of handwringing about electric car sales stalling but you have to get to nearly the end of the article before it says that the most popular category of car in the UK is the supermini (Fiesta, Corsa, etc) - a category that functionally doesn't exist in the electric car market (beyond the nonsense 'mild hybrid' segment).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/05/electric-car-sales-in-uk-flatline-prompting-calls-for-vat-cut

cawhitworth, 11 months ago to random

#CARLY AT #GLASTO KLAXON

(streaming on iPlayer, Other Stage right now)

cawhitworth, 3 months ago to random

Happy March 0th

cawhitworth, 7 months ago to random

v glad about the sheep

cawhitworth, 8 months ago to random

Found this weird off-brand Imodium but if anything it’s only made things worse

cawhitworth, 11 months ago to random

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF you absolute idiot you have no fucking idea what teachers do do you? Aaaargh just fuck off https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/ai-likely-to-spell-end-of-traditional-school-classroom-leading-expert-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other