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nivrig

@nivrig@mastodon.social

Real Programmer with screwdriver. Born to nerd. Respawned 80s game developer. Tech, games, cycling, sci-fi and old computers. Contents may vary.

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BelfastRoadster, to Futurology
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@BelfastRoadster Ha, I passed him on my (normal) bike in east Belfast a couple of weeks ago!

I wondered how he stopped at lights and things. I guess that must be a stand on the bottom he can trigger from where he sits.

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The river is very muddy today. You can usually see the bottom.

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Trim your bob, sir?

Fixed the right-clipping.

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I guess no toilets are working.

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AI hackathon effort ended up largely prompt engineering the descriptions on the backend API so the chatbot would call it correctly more often than not. Slow, expensive, unreliable, and IMO worse than just making a list page for the data. But, you know, whoop yeah awesome AI!

GrantMeStrength, to random
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I worked at Microsoft Dublin for a while ten years ago, and while there suggested we create a video portal linking MS campuses across the world.

The news that the public art installation video portal linking Dublin with New York has had to be closed -again- due to lewd behaviour from the Irish side proves I was definitely onto something.

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@GrantMeStrength TBF it was the NYC side that did the flashing.

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Made good use of the AI hackathon time, as you can see.

nivrig, to amiga
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With a bit of fiddling, it's working now for the edge cases that broke before.

One edge of the pit is a bit glitchy, but there is a workaround and pits aren't really a feature anyway.

Found some problems with the bob clipping, and I think the background restore breaks if the framerate drops. Camera is jank AF still :)

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GrantMeStrength, to random
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When it’s the people who say “customer journey flywheels” who get promoted, you know you’re in the wrong org.

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@GrantMeStrength I've been in those presentations.

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Set up the drives and RAID enclosure for NASv4 just to check they all worked. It's a couple more weeks until the mini-pc arrives yet though.

Thinking I'll make it a general Ubuntu box this time rather than a headless server, and switch the Windows machine to a non-dual boot setup.

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Google: Unfortunately we can only close accounts that don't have apps. As your apps have policy issues and have already been removed, they cannot be deleted and we cannot close your account.

Think I'll just wait this one out now.

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Been over and over this. Implemented the HoH sort function from the Z80, but I think there's edge cases where it doesn't work? I'm going to have to use computer science.

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@keyboardg No, it uses a sorted linked list, but the insert ordering misses some cases. I think. I’ll maybe dig out the original game and see if I can reproduce it.

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The hackathon is going as expected. The llmbot is returning plausible but incorrect answers from the backend data API, and frequently crashes.

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Well, now it’s my ACTUAL birthday, and yes, more C64 randomiser chaos again! <3
https://mastodon.social/@robc/112432977055588088

nivrig,
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@robc Happy Orbit Day!

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I dislike hackathons in general, it's just not how I work. That the topic of this mandatory one at DAYJOB is chasing a bubble and promoting a product is just piss icing on the turdcake.

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@didier Yeah. This is just stress, plus pressure to be visibly whoop-yeah-soawesome about it all, which none of the team feel.

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@Flamekebab Certainly.

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I like the idea of Homeworld 3 but I know I'd never play it.

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hoemworld 3 nes rom download

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Going to train Copilot on loads of lads banter and rename it Wingman.

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Wonder if I can ask Copilot to do this fucking Mandatory Fun With Copilot hackathon the next two days for me.

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Don't they realise I have more important things to do?

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This week on 10MARC I am unboxing and reviewing the new "Rogue Declan" game for the Amiga CD32! Join me as we check out the neat goodies in the box, and play with the new game modes! @nivrig did a great job.
https://youtu.be/jo6luqRFVYY

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@retrowelle @10MARC I think they’re being sent out in small batches, not sure.

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