Ok Programmer, Shitty Pianist, Total Prat. @Krakentech_ Head of Software Engineering - Ex @Thoughtworks - @techlloyd.bsky.social

Joined September 2008
I think it’s time to move on from here. You can find me at the Bsky address in my bio for those inclined.
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NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3… With @SlickNickLives
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If you want to see some people raging search for corer on twitter. Yesterday’s wordle was the second hardest word they have ever used.
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It's been over 10 years since we released Rogue Legacy 1, and in the pursuit of sharing knowledge, we are officially releasing the source code to the public. github.com/flibitijibibo/Rog… Eternal thanks to @flibitijibibo for setting this up, and being with us since the beginning.
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Bayes’ theorem, clearly explained:
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This made us laugh more than it should have.
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Since everyone else is doing it here’s my shots from last night
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Convex-Hull Body 2.1
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Well one thing they do differently in manchester is take a sentence written by a scouser and plaster it on anything that stands still without ever saying thanks.
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Another delivery from privatisation. Today 1st class stamp price rises by 30p. Royal Mail hasn't met delivery targets. 1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p. At privatisation in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p Benefit of privatisation - Higher prices for worst service.
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A really nice 628 page textbook for Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. I like the Author's description "The goal of this book is to help the reader make the transition from being a consumer of mathematics to a producer of it. This is what is meant by ‘pure’ mathematics. While a consumer of mathematics might learn the chain rule and use it to compute a derivative, a producer of mathematics might derive the chain rule from the rigorous definition of a derivative, and then prove more abstract versions of the chain rule in more general contexts (such as multivariate analysis). Consumers of mathematics are expected to say how they used their tools to find their answers. Producers of mathematics, on the other hand, have to do much more: they must be able to keep track of definitions and hypotheses, piece together facts in new and interesting ways, and make their own definitions of mathematical concepts."
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Our GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan
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Is there any paper/explanation as to how UE5.5 Megalights work? The performance improvement is vast, I was thinking screen space but apparently it’s RT?
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all hail London's night czar!
Replying to @matildakdavies
We scraped Google Maps to find out the closing time of every pub, bar and club in 12 of Britain's biggest cities Then we averaged out the proportion of venues that opened after 2am, and ranked them London came dead last Under 6% of venues are open on a Fri/Sat night 2/
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There is no more perfect encapsulation of the failure of our planning regime than that we are going to import water from Norway to *England*. We are deeply into the ‘stop hitting yourself’ part of the failure phase diagram.
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We build knowledge over time, but most of our system decisions are made at the start. That’s why we need to build systems that can evolve over time. well said ⁦@boyney123⁩ 👏
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It’s wild how quickly people stopped talking about the riots. The UK had bigger conversations about racism after George Floyd’s murder in the US than when fascists set fire to a hotel with people of colour in it, carried out racist car stops, and targeted a mosque here in our towns and cities.
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