jonhohle

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by jonhohle 2mo ago
- Belt/Watch: leave in unless it has enough metal to trip the metal detector, then take off but we’ll yell at you for holding up the line/losing your pants. Also: here’s a list of things we are constitutionally not allowed to requ
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
What’s crazy is that this is the list of things that are wrong when everything is going right. I was at O’hare for the first time in a few decades a few weeks ago and my flight was delayed due to some mechanical issue with the assigned plan
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Sell this to school districts. This is what Google should have done from the beginning.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Intrinsics usually come after new instructions have existed long enough for the higher level pattern across several architectures to establish a common pattern. If specific hardware is being targeted you may need to use those instructions b
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
What does an external function have to do with the C supporting or not supporting ASM? The symbol is just a symbol from another object. That could be written in any language that follows the ABI (not that ASM has any enforcement of ABi to b
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Gateway 2000 (and subsequently Gateway) was one of my favorite of brands. It was like the Bikes Direct of PC brands - the components you care about on a frame that you don’t.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I just did exactly that. I had an old i7 with 64GB of DDR4 that I bought when it was cheap. DDR5 was so expensive I just bought an AM4 and moved the RAM over. My MacBook is showing its age, though. Hearing that 2027 wont be any better makes
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I bought my first modern Mac in 2003 to switch from Linux in a (stolen) Compaq to a commercial Unix on supported hardware. Instantly I got it and there was nearly a decade where every update was better. Last year, for the first time since 2
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Eugenics rejects the idea that all are created equal. Equality is supported by both Judeo-Christian theology and secular enlightenment philosophy. I can think of little modern philosophy more regressive than the idea that a self-appointed s
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
> An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. First line in the article. An Xbox owner who did the righ
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
It would be interesting if instead of a new language the Objective-C compiler enforced a a memory safe version of C. That’s the biggest advantage of Swift, imho. I hated the properties addition in Objective-C. Why add that and not a dot syn
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I think the key is these things were possible 20 years ago with small teams and now large teams and even teams at Apple can’t make competent apps with the flagship product. I worked at a FAANG and a team was tasked with implementing a new R
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
> But this person who ended up becoming my wife, she's like, "I love fish sauce. I need more of it in my life." Possibly the least expected ending to that article, and very heartwarming.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Spoiler: the best free restaurant bread in America is cranberry walnut bread served at Le Diplomate in Washington, D.C., and Parc in Philadelphia. Second place, surprisingly, is Cheddar Bay biscuits at Red Lobster, and third is the dark whe
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I’m not a typographic nut (though I care about it more than the average American), but one of the worst trends I’ve seen is to use the square root character (√) as a checkmark (). I’ve even seen Apple do it. It doesn’t help that the checkma
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
There’s a quick note about the interrobang (‽) at the end. I’ve long had it in my macOS/iOS text replacement config, but nearly every font renders it so poorly that I usually manually retype the characters. It looks like a typographica
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I think “taste” is probably the right word. Steve Jobs’ quote about Microsoft is very relevant: “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean th
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I worked at a mall chain video store in the 90s. We’d play Star Wars on the mall facing screens which would inevitably bring people in. Sorry, it’s out of print. The employee recommendation endcap always contained quirky and unique titles a
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
> I knew I'd be getting Halo soon That’s a deep cut. (And salt on the wound.)
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I have an M1 Pro with 32GB of RAM and am hoping to make it through the rampocalypse. This may be my longest upgrade cycle, but fortunately the machine is fast enough for most things including LLMs.
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
They used to be beveled or capsule shaped, after they were 2D.
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
If you program daily, but were nervous during an interview, I would have been able to tell and always tried to get candidates comfortable before getting into any programming - talking about something they liked or were passionate about, ref
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
Maybe it’s not this way anymore, but VC backed companies played as good or better than FAANGs 10 years ago but it was a mixed bag of talent. I ended up at a place where the engineers hard largely come from a non-FAANG, but storied engineeri
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
If you’re on a Mac or iOS, it’s extremely easy to use the global text substitution to replace three periods (..., v...) with ellipsis (…, ⋮), and other symbols ((c), (r ), ^o, etc.) with their Unicode equivalent (©, ®, °, etc.).
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
I’ve always felt that way as well. It doesn’t matter how perfect a playlist is, what a masterpiece an album is, the humanity of a real person selecting the music, and interjecting comments or style along the way just feels different.
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
Apple offers this in Health and it stays on device or encrypted in backups. I’m not sure why anyone would want this in the cloud.
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
I worked on a short this past year, primarily on an M1 Pro 32GB. This was mostly compositing a single visible model into a scene and modeling shadowcatchers, lighting, holdouts, etc. Modeling was typically fast, but I was surprised at what
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
Plug it in, get the cuda drivers, run ollama or equivalent, and go from there. I use an 4GB Quadro card from the same generation and depending on the model can get faster than I can read output. It’s not as good as commercial models, but sm
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
I wonder if we’ll see deflationary performance pressure over the next year or two as hardware prices remain out of reach for most. If cards and VRAM aren’t available, will studios adjust and optimize for more meager hardware requirements in
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by jonhohle 3mo ago
Shameless self promotion - if you plug your notebook computer into external disks often and don’t enjoy finding them to eject every time you undock, DriveLight[0] gives you a global shortcut to eject (or just unmount) all your disks at once

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