-=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- (c) WidthPadding Industries 1987 0|376|0 -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=-

HoboBen

Platypus Reclayed
11th June 2025
Oooooh!!!!

HoboBen

Future of Blitz
10th June 2025
That darn DarkBasic IDE, you're right, what a blunder!

HoboBen

Programmer's Corner (Post em if you got em)
9th June 2025
(Image.jpg)
Politics up top, then philosophy, popsci, feudal history. Then the maths and programming:
(Image.jpg)
My copy of CLRS algorithm book not pictured because it never leaves my desk!
Some of the maths, particularly the mechanics and simulat*snip*

HoboBen

Programmer's Corner (Post em if you got em)
9th June 2025
Pixel_Outlaw: I recognise and have some of those on my bookshelf too!!
Top shelf:
CLRS Algorithms book
Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Aho Hopcroft Ullman - some of my favourite authors)
Middle shelf:
Game scripting mastery (I think I gave*snip*

HoboBen

Disability Thread
11th April 2025
(rare politics thread; hope its okay; don't intend to debate the issue or talk politics; meant more as an update) we made BBC News Live!!! Look at that castle as a backdrop too! YouTube

HoboBen

Happy Birthday, Jayenkai
23rd February 2025
Happy birthday!!!

HoboBen

Civilization VR
10th February 2025
Cool tech demo but I can't imagine actually playing this way.
Especially with the long turn times they're expecting!

HoboBen

Half Life 2 @20
18th November 2024
Ooooooooh 2 hour HL2 documentary, this is my cuppa tea
half life: Alyx (VR game) is on sale, apparently there's a mod that makes it work in non-VR mode too, dunno how reliable it is, but I'm tempted because I don't think VR is my thing!

HoboBen

Spiderbots Descend
14th October 2024
Dunno what your opinion is on ChatGPT is ethically.
Figure, if we post here, it's public, and ChatGPT has as much right as any body to lurk the forum.
But it's gonna package up what we say and regurgitate it without attribution and destroy the en*snip*

HoboBen

New Laptop - May 2024
20th May 2024
No opinion on Intel vs AMD (usually it's the faster per-core Intel vs lots more cores AMD tradeoff)
But a Thinkpad is always a great choice!!

HoboBen

Happy Birthday, Jayenkai
24th February 2024
happy brithday!!!!

HoboBen

Happy Birthday, HoboBen
15th February 2024
wait... it's not my birthday ???
OH WAIT
IT IS!!!
Ive been so busy (we're moving back to Swansea after 5 years in Cardiff) that I completely forgot
But thanks :D

HoboBen

Stargate Timekeepers
25th January 2024
It looked SO GOOD I was excited
But the reviews were damning
There's been a lot of old media reboots as games recently - Starship Troopers, Robocop, etc. - which have had really good reviews. I just wish they were affordable!

HoboBen

Gladiators (BBC One : 2024)
15th January 2024
Bring back Blind Date too and that's my childhood XD

HoboBen

To The Moon
10th January 2024
Jay I'm creased. Mega Henry!!!

HoboBen

To The Moon
9th January 2024
Great that we (humans) are attempting moon landings again...
But 50 years since the last one? What an indictment of leaving the space program in the hands of wealthy space tourists.
The publicly funded space race did so much for software engineering (i.e*snip*

HoboBen

Uploader ''Untidy''
20th December 2023
There's no need for that Kuron. We all know Jay well enough to not assume bad faith.

HoboBen

Data Input Error
31st October 2023
Stuck trying to verify a business with Meta/WhatsApp for work... they want a utility bill with a phone number on it but nobody puts the phone number itself on the bill, not even the phone companies ?

HoboBen

YT blocking ad blockers.
12th October 2023
I think I've figured out the pattern why Google was applying this inconsistently to me:
Google is allowing me to use an adblocker on free / unmonetised YouTube videos (like videos of birds for my cat, who can't purchase things anyway, and I don&#3*snip*

HoboBen

YT blocking ad blockers.
9th October 2023
Idk if YouTube have given up, or if my adblocker is blocking YouTube's adblockerblocker, but they've stopped nagging me now and the videos are just playing without fuss again...

HoboBen

JSE - Optimisationalism 4
12th September 2023
(Image.png)
Seems like it improved?

HoboBen

JSE - Optimisationalism 4
10th September 2023
Chrome on windows 10
i5 10600K, GTX 1080
Score 10.5
(Image.png)

HoboBen

Google Loves Tracking
8th September 2023
feels like every day the popup prompt returns and I have to disable the settings that get reenabled over and over again... :(

HoboBen

AI cats
28th August 2023
It's not the greatest story ever written, but this does remind me of a rare bit of creative writing I did
Toaster

HoboBen

Installed Tool Lists
17th August 2023
One of the few paid tools I use is a JetBrains IDE for whatever language I'm using at the time.
For C that was CLion, for Go that's GoLand.
They have loyalty discounts so the price drops to only *!APOUND!*4.74/month after a few years.
I *wish* I*snip*
More - Older Posts