Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2009
Can’t get my Rust code much better than half as fast as the (virtually unreadable) C++ reference. Go back to the C++ code and realise it’s only actually processing 1 voxel in 8. Oops.
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Went back into the office after 18 months. Rediscovered just how terrible Dell membrane keyboards are. Went home at lunch time.
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RT if you feel Duolingo guilt.
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To celebrate The Madman's Library named @thesundaytimes Literary Book of the Year, #win a signed, fully loaded "Loot Copy" of the book worth £400! To enter, RT and follow @foxtosser. 1 winner will be picked at random. #Giveaway closes midnight 17/12/20. #Competition open to all!
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Has COVID-19 forced you to wear glasses and a mask at the same time? If so, you may be entitled to condensation.
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Note to self: always run mkinitcpio, even when you’re sure it’s not needed. Especially if you’re sure it’s not needed.
Good to know that no matter how bad the pandemic gets, Jobzooma are continuing to provide their essential service of violating the GDPR.
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Excel is the most popular functional programming language.
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prepare yourselves, here comes a tweet storm about the harmonic series (1/n)
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This is brilliant :))) Apparently Shawn is the HR boss.
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People of the Pun, may I present today's offering, recognizing that you might have to be of a certain age to get it.
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WOAH...! Top 15 BEST global brands ranking for the last 19 years... Watch big name tech companies take-over at the end! h/t @Interbrand
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5 hours in and I've hit the dreaded "bring out the real-life crate of spheres" point in debugging the renderer...
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Historic defeat for the PM and it has been obvious for months that it was coming. Enough time has been wasted. It is time to stop the Article 50 clock and put this issue back to electorate. Scotland voted to remain in the EU and we should not be dragged out against our will.
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I see Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ wife is leaving him. With a neighbour, presumably.
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Replying to @qikipedia
We were told in the '90s that Es were 'good', not 'excellent'.
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“Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.” - Jeremy Keith, Resilient Web Design
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Twenty years from now, kids listening to "Baby it's cold outside" are gonna find it really, really weird. We're gonna have to explain that it has to be understood in the context of its time. You see, it used to get cold outside.
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