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Scott Perry

@numist@xoxo.zone

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Inveterate tinkerer trying to make the world a better place for everyone. Follow requests accepted from anyone with a profile pic and human(e) posts. Searchable.

948 Followers

372 Following

50 Posts

Joined November 11, 2022

Website:

https://numi.st

GitHub:

https://github.com/numist

Location:

Oakland, CA

Pronouns:

He/Him

Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Replying to

Last year, my team shipped a Swift rewrite of Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter. The new code is strictly memory safe, relentlessly tested, and faster than the C code it replaced. This year, it is my pleasure to ship it for a second time, now as an open source package, and to share our experience on the Swift blog: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 1mo ago

Canadians in the 4th grade being forced to conjugate être: "God I hate Quebec. Learning French sucks." Canadians when an American insults Quebec:

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 3mo ago

Replying to

If this sounds fun to you, the SPEAR team is hiring. Engineering and management, junior to staff. https://xoxo.zone/@numist/116421360766436710

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

RE: @cwebber@social.coop

"Ads targeting ai agents" is just prompt injection. It's subverting the usefulness of systems the same as they did with search results.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

If this sounds fun to you, we are extremely hiring: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200592135-0836/platform-and-frameworks-software-engineer-sear?team=SFTWR Happy to have coffee about it with mutuals, and yes, it's in Cupertino. When I changed roles in 2024 my initial goal was just to find an office closer to my home in Oakland. This team is delivering high impact results with career-defining projects that is worth the (3 days a week) commute.

Platform and Frameworks Software Engineer, SEAR - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Platform and Frameworks Software Engineer, SEAR - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Platform and Frameworks Software Engineer, SEAR job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com definitely. a huge class of bug during iOS 8 convergence was rounding on the new 3x devices resulting in fuzzy lines.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

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@jef@mastodon.social

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cabel omg @tab barely caught this as it scrolled by, huzzah.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 3mo ago

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@ospr@mastodon.social SPEAR is a team within SEAR. I'm new to this world but apparently security people like their acronyms nearly as much as they love puns.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@catfish_man Today in "sister or pseudonym?"

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@airspeedswift A while back SF added a captcha for the parking citation payment portal and I'm pretty sure they did it because rich people were scripting it as an acceptable cost of living. Now it costs them something more valuable.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com retina displays really changed the game wrt the necessity of hinting

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kyleve@mastodon.online But how's the Heated Rivalry rewatch coming along? We just got to ep 5 again 💗

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

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@enhancedscurry@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social The worst part is that Frisco *was* common a ~century ago.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@robrix how removing a move operation from the middle of your action stack in 3D modeling tools is guaranteed to mess up all of your subsequent lofting and whatnot

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@wklj tfw you break the world record and find yourself in second place

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@_disfavoredOverload@mastodon.social …hey hey hey, goodbye

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com @jef@mastodon.social adtech has us sorted into a million different demographic stereotypes, meanwhile:

PLEASE ENTER YOUR BIRTHDAY

[date entry field: defaults to today]

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kyleve@mastodon.online what about your old place up buena vista? seemed like management always kept a fresh coat of paint on that place. or was that rental-only?

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

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@kyleve@mastodon.online I imagine you're going to have to keep comms warm, staying patiently coiled ready to strike. In 2012 I nearly did a liveaboard at Pier 39. Every tech bro and their parents wanted a berth and the waiting list was years long, but my wait shortened to 3 months after they realized I'd lived there before in the 90s.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@pretz @catfish_man I wish we had named generic parameters.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@catfish_man Feels like every decade we come around to the same tradeoffs and pick the side we didn't do last time. Malloc zones doubly so. Keeps things feeling fresh.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@catfish_man type erasure to improve performance? hang on I gotta check my calendar

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @schwa@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social +1! Noncopyable types are how I've been shipping Swift rewrites that are faster than C

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rgm right up there with "I love ambiguity more than most people"

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@nolan@toot.cafe @matt@toot.cafe Even today your mileage depends on what you're using them for. I don't expect today's tools to beat me at navigating hairy technical/political problems at work, but there's lots of my day to day that's annoyingly mechanical—but just out of reach of a shell script—that I've already been able to completely automate away in the past six months. Consider where we were in 2014 (and what that implies for 2038): https://xkcd.com/1425/

Tasks

Tasks

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@_disfavoredOverload @catfish_man true, some is way better than any

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 41mo ago

Replying to

@jpsim Aw man tough break

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@madcoder@infosec.exchange @enhancedscurry@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social Canadians too, my family in Winnipeg only know San Fran

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@mwichary @bitnacht Wasted opportunity. One of my own side projects (https://github.com/numist/Switch) is also affected by this (and does capture window contents, though it doesn't record them) and I'm sympathetic to the system's problem where it knows an app has access to the screen's contents but no notion of what that information is being used for. You kinda *have* to assume the worst. Is this free colour picker app sending my bank balances to phishers as part of their mark selection? Who can say!

GitHub - numist/Switch: A window-based context switcher for the Mac

A window-based context switcher for the Mac. Contribute to numist/Switch development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@incanus@mastodon.social yeah the whole "brain herniating down into the spinal column" thing sounds particularly unpleasant

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@catfish_man "just get a span" via a protocol witness or common type jump table every single time? ಠ_ಠ

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 38mo ago

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@luna@tech.lgbt @madcoder@infosec.exchange my slow ass: “the average baby is 20 inches (1.578×10⁻⁵ miles) long and 3,664,292 babies were born in the US in 2021 so that’s 1157 miles, divided by 8760 hours per year so on average American babies are moving through birth canals at around 0.1313 miles per hour”

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@vathpela@infosec.exchange Yeah I was aware of the intervention, just hadn't considered the natural process in this context before. Suboptimal, for sure.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@matt@toot.cafe as @nolan@toot.cafe also says in the post, just wait six months; there is plenty of grieving yet to be experienced by people who haven't read the writing on the wall

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jesse Eternal Tuesday

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Blood in the body resorbs at some rate, but how does that work for an intracranial hemorrhage? I assume the blood/brain barrier complicates the story?

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@dxzdb as @GeekAndDad said in a separate reply it seems like combi-steam ovens are all in-wall anyways so I may have to give up on that dream for now. For inductive ranges using 120V (plus an integrated battery) in addition to the Copper there's also Electra.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 14mo ago

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@mwichary @bitnacht if anything, I do appreciate that Apple is subjecting its own app to its own privacy shenanigans instead of giving themselves a leg up on third parties via an custom exemption

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Are there any 120V battery induction stoves with oven humidity control?

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@incanus@mastodon.social what are you using for route planning?

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 3mo ago

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@kyleve@mastodon.online thanks!

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 2mo ago

@fugueish@wandering.shop They literally wrote a paper about how ads ruin everything before choosing to follow that path.

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 28mo ago

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@vruba@everything.happens.horse printing this out to hang in my office

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 44mo ago

Replying to

@buzz@andersen.social @th_in_gs@sfba.social I just finished Bloodlands and oh man that area had an extra rough go of things from 1933 to 1945

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Scott Perry @numist@xoxo.zone

· 44mo ago

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@buzz@andersen.social I started it on the recommendation of Dmitri Alperovitch back on Twitter when this conflict started. It's a tough read for anyone with a shred of humanity in them, I should write a review.

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