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The immediate danger is leadership saying, “oh you have cars now, you can get here in 8hrs now. Do it!”

But it means driving at 100mph and yeah maybe that’ll work a few times. But when it doesn’t that’s one hell of a mess to clean up.

Anyway, more of this @matt.godbolt.org, great Sunday listening.

It’s apt the recent bin fires taking down systems are labelled car crashes.

For programmers it’s like, in a world of walking the car has just been invented. Can you get places fast? Yes. Can you kill yourself easily? Also yes.

The love of walking hasn’t died. But the craft is changing so fast now.

Speed of Thought YouTube video by Matt Godbolt

After I briefly worked with Matt 25 years ago I spent a decade naming him the best programmer in the world. He still might be, I don’t know. But I know his coding podcast is fantastic. The latest on the dangers and excitement of what everyone is losing their shit over atm…

youtu.be/o-snvtTt9ic?...

All this x1000. Peter was very good, or just lucky, at hiring really good programmers.

Glenn Corpes made Peter's first decade in games what it was.

data locality beats clever abstractions

Looking forward to my second one. Are all of you coming down again?

Tell me I ache because I'm hurtling towards the inevitable cold embrace of death and I don't need a Herman Miller chair.

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"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't brew that."

Father Gascoigne has let himself go

Running through 80gb of memory deallocating stuff?!! 😭

Yeah but the files are 100000x bigger!

Bat signal to @flassari.bsky.social … high praise here!

What was that TV show he did that nobody saw? Grandma’s House? I bloody loved that.

Just wait until they start bringing prey in from outside and you find their structural perfection is matched only by their hostility.

I mean, 4 Oscars aside, I still think it's Unforgiven.

And my answer is from season 2 (the best one).

Frank Sobotka trusting The Greek. Every single scene where Frank thinks he has leverage or allies… you’re just watching a man walk calmly into a hole. The moment he gets in that car at the end is genuinely heartbreaking.

And then the last postcard 😭

Stringer was so incredibly well played, the first time I saw Idris Elba doing an interview after my first thought was, “why is String trying to do an English accent?”.

It still doesn’t feel right. Dude is from Baltimore FFS.

[writes, “Went out quiet, like a cowboy” down in the notepad titled ‘banger lines’]

He’s one of the many standup comics here who depend on a very large team of writers behind the scenes. Not that this is a bad thing. His denial of it is however.

Pure “Pythagoras’ Theorem” energy.

My lead worked on this & I don’t have the heart to tell him I’ve never played it & I never will. Not that I don’t want to. I’m unable to play a game where I have to ride a horse. I completed Zelda BOTW, twice, on foot (and fast travel).

And Philip is Greek for ‘lover of horses’. I hate my own name.

He won’t. Not because anything you say is a lie. Privately educated, lower upper class mediocrity never tanks here. They ride it out because, despite the PR, meritocracy is a myth here.

This is why we range, when asked how it’s going, from “bad” to “not too bad”. We are always bad haha.

Still the greatest IMDB credit.

Steve Jobs didn’t die for this shit. 1000 songs in my pocket? Great! Nagging me to stop enjoying life? Get in the fucking bin.

Nobody wants to make the bed and hoover but, you know, nobody wants to live in a shit hole either.

Not sure what I’d do with it but it would have Dennis Waterman’s Minder song on the front.