robterrell

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   by robterrell 2y ago

   Here's a movie dramatization of the Louis Slotin screwdriver accident with the demon core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   I read this after seeing Oppenheimer. Just a tremendous book. I learned so much from his description of the early debates around the structure of atoms. It really illuminates the theorists' struggles with quantum mechanics and how, as
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   Ejecta was a project that implemented WebGL with JavaScript bindings -- basically everything you need for a web game without the DOM. It implemented enough of WebGL to run Impact-based games.
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   Is this a common desire? I have absolutely no interest in watching myself inserted into a film or TV show.
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   Lynx wasn't first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   This might be a good moment to drop a thing I made last year but never shared the link for. It's a bitmap editor that outputs Apple ][ shape tables. https://robterrell.github.io/shape_table_maker/shape_draw.ht...
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   > better than native performance using RN You had an app written natively in Objective-C or Swift, switched to single-threaded javascript React Native, and then your app ran faster?
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   by robterrell 2y ago

   What do you dislike about it?
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   by robterrell 3y ago

   Same effect for me inside the US, west coast versus east coast. Dr. Dobb's had an incredible run of relevancy, from the 70's through the 90's.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    I've seen Waymos on the 280 between San Jose and SF countless times over the past year. I guess those were not operational rides, just tests?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    I have been using contacts and just got the zeiss lenses today. So far it's roughly equivalent. I think there is a touch more distortion (chromatic aberration along the edges) with the inserts. But my contacts are progressives and kind
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    The book he wrote is interesting: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5136/pg5136-images.html I loved this bit of writing at the beginning: "Beyond all this the lower coast-range, where, toward San Fra
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    The first watch wasn't that -- I think Apple Watch 3 first really delivered on this.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Have you tried this yourself? Curious to know how well this works for an LLM home lab.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    I have an Outbound too! IIRC there's a weird little 7.5v battery that I had to replace to get it to boot up (roughly the diameter of a AA battery, but 1/3 the length) -- maybe check that out?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    You make a good point! But scrum as we know it today is not Agile: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Processes and tools (i.e. Jira, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.) dominate all implementations of Scr
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    > the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong The "no true scrumsman" fallacy at work.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    How exactly do you negotiate? After you get a bill, you call their billing number and just ask for a lower number?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    This notebook is great, kudos for sort of "thinking out loud" as you figured it out. I'd forgotten about Observable notebooks and makes me want to try them again.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Gift link for anyone who can't view the article: https://wapo.st/41sWoLj
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    I've been unable to get Mixtral (mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q6_K.gguf) to run well on my M2 MacBook Air (24 GB). It's super slow and eventually freezes after about 12-15 tokens of a response. You should look at M3 options with mor
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Aurora, that's a blast from the past. Donuts-on-a-rope contrails, right?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Don't skimp on RAM.
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Cocotron used to have pretty good AppKit API coverage: https://www.cocotron.org I was able to get a ported app running with it at one point. And I think Microsoft took a pass at it more recently: https://github.com&#x
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    I saw the film at a festival last month, not sure what to expect for a beloved creator coming out of retirement. I should not have been worried, it's astounding -- Del Toro isn't really exaggerating in that praise. I hadn't r
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Can you elaborate on this?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    Have you seen https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js ?
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    In the US, if the CPAP is being paid for by insurance, the cellular modem is used to track "compliance" -- i.e. are you using the thing enough for them to justify paying for it. But if not, the CPAPs I've seen have an "a
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    by robterrell 3y ago

    You might find the story of MacBasic interesting: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... Apple intended to ship the Mac with a programming language, a really nice threaded and graphical Basic,