davidwhitney.co.uk
Director of Architecture @ fintech
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
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Deflated.
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Really curious how it physically feels next to the Pro 11-13-inch given on paper it's a slight change.
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something something the lingua franca of pandas data frames.
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Containers are about application delivery not full system delivery. So not really.
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But serious rec, Einar Solbergs solo album is the kind of direction they should've pushed towards. Same influences, but more dynamic interesting songs. You'll probably enjoy it.
open.spotify.com/album/25jWll...
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Nine Inch Nails Year Zero ARG stuff.
Good press team tbh. Always been good at that stuff (someone I know was their PR for awhile), love a good game.
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Hoped, but wasn't expecting, a big cohesive statement album but 🤷🏻♂️
Fan culture will always be over-invested because of community, and that's cool. God tier marketing for sure.
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(I don't like moaning about music because I love music, and not liking something is totally uninteresting, sorry!)
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Some better recs:
Last three albums from Leprous if you want sad songs with interesting dynamics.
Last two Port Noir records if you want a cool blend of R&B and alt metal.
Bad Omens if you just want good pop metal blends.
3/10, ain't Hoziering again.
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Oh there's half a metal song for the last track, good riff, thin faux black metal vocals.
But hey at least it sounds different.
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One more track to go. Worst record they've done yet.
No moments, is compressed to hell, no variance in the vocals, one tone.
I expected more for the hyperbole. Thought this might be the one they lock the sound in on, but nope.
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An album so good Billy Howerdell never managed to capture the atmosphere twice.
Adore the followups, and the solo material, but none of them have that warm ominous beautiful wash of sound.
Pure magic. One of a kind.
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Related, yes, but just the regular options style programming model.
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I try not wail on programming languages for many reasons, but man, you gotta have Stockholm syndrome to live inside all of these broken pieces.
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Legitimately always amazed this language and runtime is popular with anyone. Truly the PHP of the 20-teens.
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Ahh squeenix still got the rights?
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I guess we're far enough away from those games now and the kind of glory of AA 7th gen that they've faded from memory.
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I/O have been so endlessly busy with Hitman when they could've been giving Kane and Lynch another shot / a reboot / a spiritual successor.
A bit too... 7th gen really, but they tried so hard to make Heat But The Game.
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Strong same.
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The Nigel Farage shithead brigade never changes.
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Ideas people briefly labouring under the misunderstanding that ideas alone have value.
Same comedy whenever it happens.
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Strong "I've just made this great new graphics card, what mad shit can we put on the box" vibes.
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"Wishing for the blue screen of death to finally take me from this horrid digital existence"
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Sony did the same last month actually blog.playstation.com/2025/04/13/p...
Tarrifs and supply chain issues is a weird precedent.
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I just loathe the gross over-simplification. Like, please, show me ethical consumption under capitalism.
The tool is neither excellent nor terrible, it is but another tool.
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With irony well appreciated, any "All X is Y" take in technology is pretty dumb, always.
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It's hard because brigading crypto and blockchain was definitely the right thing to do, and the grifters are the same, but god people who have made hating LLMs their entire personality are weird as fuck.
Like, RAG has been a thing for 6-7 months now and they're still stuck on repeat.