Adrian Richardson

Follow my bird noises...

[Dawn of The Discs @dawnofthediscs]

R.I.P. Jamie Blanks, Gone at 54.

Via Jamie’s family: “It is with the deepest sadness that we confirm our beloved Jamie passed away suddenly at his home in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday.
His death was unexpected, despite some ill health in recent years. and comes at a time when Jamie was preparing to direct another film. He was still very active supporting other filmmakers and developing his own projects.
Anyone who was lucky to know Jamie was immediately struck by his talent, kindness, humanity, generosity of spirit and boundless enthusiasm for what he did in life but also - so importantly - for the people around him. This big, beautiful heart of his eventually gave way.
We’re imagining him now in a better place, chatting up a storm about horror movies and music with many others he loved and admired who have passed before him. Honour him by watching one of his films or John Carpenter’s The Fog (a favourite film that inspired him to become a filmmaker) or listening to one of his music scores.
Jamie is survived by his wife, Simone; his son, Oliver; his parents, brothers and a huge extended family of movie fans around the world.
We love you so much, Jamie. Fly high, darling. Forever here in our hearts”

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[ABC News @abcnews]

LIVE: Wall Street stocks have been sinking since the tariffs were announced.

https://t.co/jds7E51l8R

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

Trump AI - part 2 - the dumbening

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

Trump is losing his audience. Gibberish is boring. A THREAD.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This is wild 🤯

AI imagines stars with young self together

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

TrumpAI

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: No water in your faucets. You ever try buying a new home and you turn on. You want to wash your hair or you wanna wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip the soap. You can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about 10 times longer. You trying, the worst is your hair. I have this beautiful luxuriant hair and I put stuff on. I put it in lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip and you say I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What? There's so much water. You don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They don't want you to have any water. They want no water

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

i hate scrum so much

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

@JamieJBartlett @wejustnormalmen

[We're just normal men @wejustnormalmen]

Bonus edition for a very normal man

[Scott Piper @0xdabbad00]

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
https://t.co/v5WFxqUtaB

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

'How I make money mining Bitcoins' 2013

[Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas]

🚨 Microsoft Research just announced VASA-1.

All it needs is a picture and audio to create these talking videos!

Look at this real-time demo:

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

Yikes. Hope they don’t start colliding.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

The amount of Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth is 🤯

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Tom Studans @maximumwelfare]

What is the charge? Enjoying a slur? A succulent anti-white slur?

[Tezzr44 @tezzr44]

Twiggy explains to children why nuclear is not a good choice for Australia https://t.co/os0mJ8Ar8W

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

The State of Culture in 2024. Great read and scary reality. https://t.co/Tbywv4Vgdj

[Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas]

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI just announced their new Text-To-Video model called Sora.

Look at these 10 insane examples:

1. Space movie trailer featuring a man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet

[Adrian Richardson @donadriano]

This is next level.

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

OpenAI getting into text-to-video is going to make things VERY interesting

These videos were generated directly by Sora, no modifications

Quality seems high, but more impressive is that it understands how things exist in the physical world, so the motion is super realistic

Examples:

[politic@l spinner,,, 🔥🍺 No DMs sorry @Justabogan]

Wtf? 😝