bigzaphod

bigzaphod, 5 days ago to random

There are times (sometimes lasting weeks) where I can bang out a ton of fancy code. I wrote a huge complex thing over the course of a month or two that'll be Tapestry's sync/database. I think it's pretty darned cool and it was complex as hell.

But I'll be damned if, over the last couple days, I can do something as simple as rearrange a few SwiftUI views to make some progress on anything else.

Not because it's hard, but because I just... can't? Brain no worky.

bigzaphod, 5 days ago to random

Widespread artificial intelligence is getting so much time and attention and money and meanwhile natural intelligence is suffering.

verge, 5 days ago to random

Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163176/atari-acquires-intellivision-amico-console

bigzaphod, 5 days ago to random

Kid had a cheap little desk fan that charges with USB-C. He forgot it in back of the car for like... 6 months. After he found it he tried to make it work and it seemed to not work anymore. We figured the battery was probably toast or something.

So he took it apart and poked at with with a multimeter. And he couldn't figure anything out. So he brings it out to me. And I plugged in a random USB-C cable on my desk just to check assumptions and it worked.

So now we're like.. wtf?

bigzaphod, 6 days ago to random

The dumbest thing about "the market" is how companies will refuse to make some stuff and cite "the market" as the reason why. Like, "no one is buying widgets so we aren't going to make any widgets." And if no one is selling widgets, how, pray tell, is someone supposed to buy any widgets?!

samwho, 6 days ago to random

✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!

You can read it here: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing.

It starts off by showing what happens when you have no queue...

A screenshot from the post. It shows the first visualisation, an orange circular button on the left and a black rounded square on the right. The button is clicked, and a request travels to the black square, the server, and gets processed by slowly disappearing in a clock-like fashion.

bigzaphod, 7 days ago to random

The first edge of the storm is here!

video/mp4

bigzaphod, 7 days ago to random

Just found out, entirely by accident, that I'm under a tornado watch. I only discovered it because of a national news story I happened to notice most of the way down the page on CNN about an especially dangerous weather condition in the midwest.

And I'm like.. "Wait, I'm in the midwest!" I clicked the story.

Turns out, yeah, my county is in the watch area and there's a line of serious storms coming that have already spawned tornadoes and killed people today.

No trace of this in Apple Weather.

bigzaphod, 7 days ago to random

My feelings about this feature are somewhere between horrified and appalled.

I admit that sometimes it might be useful, but I think at this point I'm willing to live without it because... :yikes:.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

rafa, 7 days ago to random

Anyone has recommendations for a nice soldering kit?

bigzaphod, 8 days ago to random

No one listens to the ancient oracles anymore. They’re old muse.

bigzaphod, 8 days ago to Ds9

“Hail them!”
(0.003 seconds passes)
“No answer!!”

Sometimes they don’t even wait long enough for a person to push an answer button that their finger was already on let alone use a voice interface to accept the incoming call. #ds9

bigzaphod, 8 days ago to random

I'm beginning to think this OpenAI company I've heard so much about isn't entirely on the up-and-up.

bigzaphod, 9 days ago to random

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "The Core (2003)." None of us have seen this one before, but it fits right in with our "turn of the century disaster movie" kick that we've been on. Can't wait to see how deep the plot goes!

(Yes, I said "turn of the century." It's technically true! No, I don't like this fact either!)

bigzaphod, 9 days ago to random

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.