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GrantMeStrength

@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io

LARPing as a manager at a tech company in Redmond, WA. Originally from N. Ireland. Bout ye. I like 8-bit systems and computers built before 1982 and after 2024. MSc Elec. Eng. He/Him BLM.☮️✌️

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    GrantMeStrength,
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    @jimfl with a cowbell.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Bah. No idea what I’m doing wrong.

    I mean, what an excellent learning opportunity I have here.

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    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    My brain at 3am.

    machias, to random
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    So many of the reviews I've seen of the Vision Pro talk about it being the best TV screen you'll ever see. That's great, but what's wrong with building the best TV screen everyone can enjoy, or going to the movies and seeing something with friends on that big screen? In a service based economy and society, isolating everyone with VR headsets seems a questionable approach.

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @machias it’s possible to have a Vision Pro and go to the movies too. They aren’t exclusive.

    jrefior, to ai
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    Quits rate past 23 years.

    One explanation for big layoffs? Quits are down. But when you look: they're down compared to 2022, they're not down compared to 5+ years ago.

    Another explanation? Generative is expensive and companies are laying people off to free up cash to spend on that.

    Chart:
    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

    Marketplace story:
    https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/26/what-do-all-the-layoffs-mean-in-a-supposedly-good-economy/
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    GrantMeStrength,
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    @jrefior nice to know your company will replace you with a graphics card.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Vision Pro skeptics: if the hardware was indistinguishable from an ordinary pair of glasses, would that convince you?

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    At the store

    Migueldeicaza, to random
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    Never has a dongle packed so much joy

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @Migueldeicaza it’s not essential for development, right? But it speeds things up?

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @Migueldeicaza just read on Apple insider that it makes no difference to speed and works at USB 2 rates.. :-(

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Special keyboard for Mondays

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    I may be wrong, but I think the current political state of the US Border issue is:

    GOP: The Border is a catastrophe! We must act!

    Administration: How about if we..

    GOP: NO!

    Administration: Perhaps we could..

    GOP: NO!

    Administration: Could we just..

    GOP: NO!

    Administration:

    GOP: And now we’re going to impeach you for not doing anything.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Going to run a search and replace in the docs for “ChatGPT” to “Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP”.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Ah, my fav old system gets some love: the Jupiter Ace. https://youtu.be/cbAwTg94de8?si=2ZixvO6Oo8aanxQO

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Anyone used a USB battery pack to power a Raspberry Pi 5? The extra processing would help my robot, but DC power requirements seem heftier.

    nedbat, to random
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    Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."

    So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).

    I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?

    C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @nedbat pffff C? If you can’t enter the binary code for the necessary machine code instructions you can’t possibly understand computers.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    I couldn’t resist this little Sony Walkman, but so far I’m not impressed. Out-of-box-experience: 0/10, software support on Mac: 0/10, user interface on the device itself: -5/10 (yes minus 5). Sound quality is ok. The kicker is that the tape animation - which is what I really wanted 🥸 - doesn’t animate the tape spools, just spins. Sony UX is usually bad, but when combined with Android: wow, just wow. Back it goes to Amazon.

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Cool, an app but as an extra device that you have to keep charged and that you can only use outside when you tether it to your smartphone

    And that does the same thing as your smartphone can already do, just worse

    Cool stuff

    Super cool

    https://www.rabbit.tech/

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @thomasfuchs I can imagine it will be Sherlocked at WWDC. Maybe it’s a play to get bought.

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Thanks everyone for reading recommendations for older books on computing a while ago—first stuff is coming in.

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @thomasfuchs I’m here for this.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Sometimes I imagine new colours that I can’t explain to anyone else. They are pigments of my imagination.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    The recently Apple Music apps make me sad. What happened - iTunes was just great.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    A rash of LLM-driven devices appearing, such as https://www.rabbit.tech *

    I assume Apple will reveal similar functionality at WWDC. Will Alexa get an upgrade too?

    Can see these being of use particularly to the senior population.

    (* bonus points for working with Teenage Engineering).

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @santiago yeah a pizza is one thing but a 5 grand European vacation? :)

    GrantMeStrength,
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    @santiago I do find booking such things stressful though, so even if it took a while and displayed all the options in a thoughtful way, I would definitely love it.

    GrantMeStrength, to random
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    Everyone had this one or the older blue one, right?

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