cawhitworth

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, 1 month ago to Birds

The Skomer Island Puffin Cam is even better than I could possibly have hoped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIeSFm62wA

#birds #puffins #skomer #livestream #nature #wildlife

A perfect idiot flying in to land directly in front of the camera, legs and wings everywhere, extremely dignified, definitely a real birb that can do proper birb things

cawhitworth, 3 months ago to random

Happy March 0th

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, 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, 5 months ago to wildlife

Barn owl at Rutland Water, England

Canon R7, Sigma 150-600, 1.4TC

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #owl #barnowl #birds #birdphotography #rutland

cawhitworth, 5 months ago to random

Sorry I can’t come to work this morning, I’m not allowed

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, 6 months ago to random

To be fair my mental health was extremely poor before and during the lockdowns too, but

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/people-who-stuck-by-uk-covid-rules-have-worst-mental-health-says-survey

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, 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, 7 months ago to random

Slade? Already? Fucksakes

cawhitworth, 7 months ago to random

Dave the Diver is a lovely game and perfectly suited to the Switch, but the load times are brutal. What's it doing that means the load times are in Animal Crossing territory, and far more frequent?

cawhitworth, 7 months ago to random

v glad about the sheep

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, 8 months ago to random

I bought the stupidest t-shirt

(credit to @heydon)

cawhitworth, 8 months ago to random

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

cawhitworth, 9 months ago to random

Periodically think I should become a Quaker because of things like that last retoot but the whole sitting round in silence thing would drive me absolutely mad. I find church services hard enough anyway (give me a nice, well-structured 30-45 minutes with a couple of good hymns and absolute max 10 minute sermon, plz), sitting about in silence with a bunch of other folks for an extended period just sounds like torture.

(Maybe that’s the point? I dunno)

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, 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, 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, 10 months ago to random

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

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, 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