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Philip Edwards

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Developer, Game Dev. Working with Unreal. I dabble with Godot, LLMs, Arduino and Raspberry Pis. Australian. Current projects: - Automatic Sky Tracking Telescope - Rush Hour - Vehicle Animator for Unreal Engine https://www.gdcorner.com/

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween week! Time for Vigo to make another appearance!

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 19d

> But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first.

"Asking for permission first would bankrupt the streaming media industry" - Napster probably should have tried this one.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 19d

Why are long lists so terrible online? Take a music playlist, it loads 20-30 songs at a time, and then you need to scroll to the bottom, and wait for the next batch to load. Just implement virtual scroll ffs. Count the items in the playlist, let me scroll to the real end, and then batch load that.

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, I believe on that side it's reversed to signal "advancing forward" as if it's trailing behind them rather than retreating.

www.medalsofamerica.com/blog/backwar...

Why The Flag Is Backwards On Uniforms | Medals of America

Have you seen a reverse American flag on a military uniform and wondered what it meant? This guide will answer that question and more.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29d

This is just my little non-monetised personal blog. Imagine this across all the sites across the internet.

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29d

It's still pretty weird to see AI people claim that LLMs aren't destroying web traffic. Let's play a game: Guess when ChatGPT launched:

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29d

This was my most popular blog article that was on setting up Jenkins. It had stable traffic for 4 years prior to this.

Then you see people claiming referrals still come through:

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · 29d

It's still pretty weird to see AI people claim that LLMs aren't destroying web traffic. Let's play a game: Guess when ChatGPT launched:

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 27

That background looks amazing!

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 19

It was somewhat amusing and mindblowing at the same time that semantic search was just the bread and butter linear algebra of gamedev.

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 19

Yep. Lots of fancy words too which boil down to "just paste more supporting documents or examples into the chat history".

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 18

I've been following Derfies progress on this on discord for a while. He's cooking some cool stuff!

derfies.bsky.social @derfies.bsky.social · Sep 18

Cross-engine map viewer / editor. Is this a bad idea? Probably!

#alephone #eduke32 #gzdoom

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 14

I don't think the current drivers will, but next on the task list is to switch to some TMC2209's. Should make it quicker and silent!

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 14

Do it! Can't wait to see some pics!

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Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social · Sep 14

So, anyone got any cool jobs going haha? Interested in Tech Art, Lighting , Lookdev Unreal roles, remote from Adelaide, let me help you make pretty things!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 14

Good point, I have a USB tester that says 12v is supported with qc3.0, but it won't tell me what voltages PD supports, I'll just have to see what happens. Worst case I can adjust some of the electronics to use 9v or 15v. There's already a regulator to give 5v to Rpi and MCU, it's just the steppers.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 14

I want to get back on my telescope, and reviewing some of the pain points.

Setting up power for a test outside at night is pretty annoying.

I know absolute peak draw is under 40watts, and real world measured draw is 17 watts.

Enter this amazing thing.
I can run it for 3 hours off a power bank!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 9

Also turn off "Send playback data to plex" here. I'm SURE i turned this off previously, but it was magically on again.

www.plex.tv/about/privac...

Prior Versions What’s new in this version Clarified language in the Privacy Rights section. Updated “Who does Plex share...

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Sep 9

Got a notification today that Plex was breached and to reset passwords. Decided to double check privacy options there. Woah, they send your data to a LOT of vendors by default.

Make sure to check "All No" here.
www.plex.tv/vendors-us/

Opt-Out Choices

Your Choices We take your privacy seriously. If you’d like more details on how we collect, use, and transfer your...

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ohhh interesting! I wonder if it's an effect similar to those anti-recording devices. Linus Tech Tips did a video on them.

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 15

Toastmasters was one of the best things I’ve done for speaking, confidence and my career. I should get back into it.

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 11

How you thinking about tackling it? User reports? Statistical analysis of words to try and automatically flag?

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 11

Travelling sales problem?

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 5

Way easier to read the heatmap! Thanks!

Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 5

Yeah that'd be great! I've been very very interested in the No GIL transition so a package lookup like this is awesome! Already found a few blockers for one project. Thanks for making and sharing!

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Philip Edwards @philipedwards.bsky.social · May 5

Awesome idea! Unfortunately for the colourblind among us those colour choices:

a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

ALT: a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

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