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It saved me hours today converting some gnarly database views from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Didn’t get everything right because it didn’t know the schemas but when I asked it to correct one example based on the schema it did it. Nothing I couldn’t have done myself with Google and time, but it was a...

Nah, £70-£80 a game? Screw that. Yeah, so I just played through the first big section of HL:Alyx after you get the flashlight. You know that thing HL:2 did with the dark areas, jump scares and sound effects? That. In VR.

Lovely jubbly. Booked.

I get that completely, but I thought it was a decent way of doing a tutorial-but-not-a-tutorial thing once I was through it. It’s definitely not always intuitive but worth persevering with IMO. Half Life 3 soon! Whoooooo!

it’s a very different game to half-life, because you don’t have any armour and it’s absolutely not a run and gun game. It’s more logical puzzling with some shooting action. Where it is exactly the same as half life, is in the atmosphere and the general quality and polish of the game. I’m...

Finally dusted off the VR headset and started Half Life: Alyx today. Bloody brilliant, so atmospheric.

Having the usual fun at my place. We were bought about a year ago by a private equity shop and merged with a complimentary company in the same sector. Unusually, they don’t do the exact same stuff as us and the products mesh together nicely which will improve cross-sell. Actually a smart move...

Ah yes, good old naming conventions. Had a couple of servers at a previous place of work, ASMAB and ASMAC. First one was short for “All Senior Managers Are b******s” You can guess the other one yourself 😂

I bet those wheels will be dirt cheap on eBay etc as people swap them for alloys later on. Bit of a bugger to get them shipped to the UK though 😂

Still hands down one of the best single player story driven games ever. Trevor is such a great character.

Yeah, that video was tedious. Would hardly have taken them any longer to take the bits off the car properly FFS and all the jumping around and yelling for something that was blindingly obvious…. Just why. What Taylor brought to it for me was a bit of chemistry with Alex, they had me in stitches...

This is why I never organise any events 😂

You need to get the fault codes read, the anti-pollution message could be caused by a multitude of things, evap system leak, lambda probe going bad, cat going bad, ignition system, the list just goes on and on.

No-one knows yet, the reviews should be out in a few days. Nothing wrong with an AMD card if it meets your needs.

I think the Mk4 is really underrated because the Fiesta ST came along and was just that bit more fun in the group tests. But then everyone with a Fiesta as a daily wants to change the s**t suspension. I’d like to run a mk4 for a while too.

I thought that, but it’s not logical because hybrids don’t have them and they can have pretty chunky battery packs plus a tank of diesel/petrol making a reeeely lovely combination. Nearest I can find from the government announcement at the time was some vague b****cks about raising awareness of...

Nothing to do with ULEZ etc, it’s just to make the car easily identifiable as an EV. I asked BMW to give me normal plates but they said no because it was “for safety”, whatever that means. Couldn’t be arsed to push the point, I suspect it was just a “computer says no” response. Not sure what...

I think they’ve made a sensible choice, it’s a funky car and making the “free” colour a bold one will make it stand out from the herd. Even if the reaction is just “I like that, but in a different colour” it’s still capturing attention.

I don’t want to go to this anymore. You lot are weird 💋💋💋

Woah now, what’s all this common sense I’m hearing? Are you SURE you work in security 😉 We’re definitely getting there now at my place, but getting the security/risk stuff in place…. well….. let’s just say a bit more of that attitude was needed.

This is a little bit of a thread resurrection, but if anyone is into retro gaming I can’t recommend this place enough: https://www.retrocollective.co.uk/ I went last year and volunteer there now. It’s not some pokey load of boring static displays, it’s hands on retro gaming and they have some...

Tried Airbnb? Depends how close you want to be, there was one that was really close but unfortunately that‘s gone. Some b*****d who’ll probably cancel at the last minute anyway must have grabbed it. What a prick.

So let me get this straight, meet you bunch of reprobates in real life? Like actually speaking to real-ish people? In the real world?

Looks like nVidia are claiming big performance gains by using the AI cores to drive a new version of DLSS. Interesting to see the shift from brute rendering performance to frame generation continuing to pick up pace. Benchmarks should be interesting!

Installed a load cell mod to my Moza brake pedal today. Bloody hell, what a difference! Braking is suddenly so much more natural. Easy to fit too, well, apart from undoing the fuckups I made when I originally built the rig 😂...

Ah, the meeting of doom. “Catch-up” or similar. The only thing worse is a sudden team meeting called “team update” 😂

If it’s already gone that far then the time for discretion from the police is gone, it’s in the system now. From what you’ve said I think you’ll just have to pay the fixed penalty.