@sayrer@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@glyph@mastodon.social @grr@timeloop.cafe Canadian diplomat and Berkeley poetry professor Peter Dale Scott has it better: "mind the darkness, mend the light". On any such issue, it's better to consult him first, even if you end up disagreeing on some points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dale_Scott

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@djc@hachyderm.io @atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I thought he had broken the windshield with an iPad

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@slightlyoff @glyph since line 202 is right there, I am obligated to send you this link. https://gist.github.com/sayrer/7e331ef093ff2ee9c0b9e4ba1def5b1e

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social Oh, last one, about the AI stuff creating shortages and finding bugs. The other thing they are incredibly good at is performance optimization. You feed them the profile, and they suggest fixes. I do it on my own work in Rust, but I won't self-promote that. Here's how it went on someone else's project: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/06/Q-Plus-C-Ch1

ongoing by Tim Bray

Quamina + Claude, Case 1

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Marius (ex coworker) on Twitter made one of these for his daughter. There is a post about how it works, but I can't find it. Here's the tweet though: https://x.com/marius/status/641121102882729984

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marius eriksen (@marius) on X

Current status, or when you hook up your daughter's blood glucose monitor to @pagerduty #wearenotwaiting...togetpaged

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@anildash@me.dm @kimcrawley@zeroes.ca you don't even have a pinned introduction post, rookie

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social the clothes do indeed appear on podcasts. I know it from Search Engine, but there is also a store of theirs not too far from my house. That stuff is expensive, but not like high-fashion expensive. The Nike shoes make sense, because Tim Cook is the lead independent director at Nike! He kinda has to wear them. https://investors.nike.com/investors/corporate-governance/?toggle=directors

investors.nike.com

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@montyhayter@mstdn.social @atpfm@mastodon.social @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social I put one sticker on all MacBook Air laptops. I hate stickers, but I don't want someone to pick up my laptop at the airport or something. A terrible place to do crimes, but the mistake is easy. I even have a meta one at the moment.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@wil @synec this is a song! "There will be no freestyle. This style is not free. This style is expensive." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGg_vdSPaI

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@jwz@mastodon.social it's already done and detached if you look closely. speaking as someone that had their name under yours on that monstrous Makefile https://servo.org/

Servo

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@slightlyoff @glyph it's kind of weird. You can always have the LLMs follow instructions like "roast my code". I do this constantly, but I will send them to other people if I think they won't get mad.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social have you noticed the parallels to Don Quixote?

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@aslakr @jla in case it is lost in translation, "forget me nots" are a type of flower. This time, the Americans have Eurovisioned themselves through Will Smith. But it does match the Men In Black plot.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@igb oh, going to India, huh. I've done that one too. I like the weird no-windows thing and just pass out. Set two alarms etc.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@igb they have closing hours for this reason. I've pressed it. I've also slept in an airport hotel in Seoul.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@anildash@me.dm the weird thing to me is that the OpenClaw people think this is the cause of Mac mini order lead times. Mmm, this is what they do when there's going to be a new one. Probably M5, since it is already in some laptops.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@anildash@me.dm I thought about this exchange. I used "miss" to mean "skip" or "not pay attention to". People who haven't lived in NYC will not get that one. It is not a lament.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@anildash@me.dm Prince is always right. Not joking: I always check to see whether he's weighed in on an issue.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@bcantrill@mastodon.social @ahl@mastodon.social Simpsons scholarship exists. Here's E229 of American Prestige: How The Simpsons Reshaped American Comedy w/ Alan Siegel, covering his book "Stupid TV: Be More Funny", a cultural history of The Simpsons and how it changed American comedy. https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/1310485903

americanprestigepod.com

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dschaub@mstdn.social @hoagie@jawns.club @siracusa@mastodon.social there are also TB ports on the monitor, it wouldn't be bad. One of my computers has a CalDigit TB dock, but that's because it's the USB ports I need for music stuff. This is all fine for a Studio or Mac mini, since you never have to sweat the ejection stuff like you do when you pick up a laptop.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mattblaze@federate.social @timbray@cosocial.ca "Auto" moved the midpoint, but I didn't like that. But the black and white points needed a little help.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@bcantrill@mastodon.social @ahl@mastodon.social @oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io, and I say this as a manager who will often say "let them cook". No meetings, no stakeholders need to be included, etc. Usually, the right approach. Not because this makes me a prescient person, but because this is a retention strategy.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mattblaze@federate.social @timbray@cosocial.ca oh, sure. You said you wanted it high contrast, and I thought it was low contrast (objectively, it is, look at the histogram). I think the buildings and streets look way better in the hotter one, but maybe the fog is too hot. I thought it was kind of nice that way, and it looked like "Moonrise Over Hernandez".

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@bcantrill@mastodon.social @ahl@mastodon.social @oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io the "teamwork makes the dream work" phrase has a converse. It's Kobe Bryant. "Kobe, there's no 'I' in team." Kobe: "but there is a 'me' in that m*therf*cker, though" So, it's not always bad to go in the opposite direction. (just be cool about it)

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social you can also read this for the amps. I haven't tried it, since I don't have an excuse, but check this out: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/09/Next-Step-Audiophile

ongoing by Tim Bray

New Amplification

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@maxleibman @igb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr_qIbESyj4

Shaq tells Kobe Bryant "There's no I in team" (Kobe Bryant Memorial)

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@mathowie@xoxo.zone fwiw it was just playing in the corner store here in SF and no one cared. just a regular sports game

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@muan seeing the next pic, I think you might also like Hay https://www.hay.com/functions/hay-stores/hay-stores-germany

HAY stores in Germany with contact details and opening hours

https://www.hay.com

HAY stores in Germany with contact details and opening hours

Find addresses and phone numbers for the HAY stores in Berlin, Munich and Bremen, along with local opening hours. Click here for more information.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@timbray@cosocial.ca it's "model collapse", but same idea

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@jla @aslakr same idea: " Mo Money Mo Problems" indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUhRKVIjJtw

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@bcantrill@mastodon.social @ahl@mastodon.social @oxidecomputer the other one is that people will say "oh, this is such a great architecture". I say, "Did they tell you to say that? It's ok to say so." So, this very free management style is interpreted as narcissistic, as if there is an arbitrary decider, but this is because they don't understand the business side. If the business side is any good, they know you are working on retention.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @caseyliss@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social the Mac mini rack thing gets more hardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2J2MzKjcqY This is called "shucking" (like oysters). I think AWS, MacStadium, etc do this too, but it's on video here at GitHub.

SNEAK PEEK - new custom M1 macOS runners with Christina Warren

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@lindsey ImageMagick isn't good. We had to do this one because it was so slow: https://github.com/twitter/vireo

GitHub

GitHub - twitter/vireo: Vireo is a lightweight and versatile video processing library written in C++11

Vireo is a lightweight and versatile video processing library written in C++11 - twitter/vireo

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hsivonen@mastodon.social are you a Minecraft dad yet?

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@muan ha! Don't count out their metal stuff like coat racks. That is really good. I have one right here. Maybe Artemide would be good for the lights. I know a bit about this from knowing someone who covered the furniture industry. I'm not that into it.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hsivonen if you haven't run it on your own code, you're missing out. once you do that, it's hard to argue about it.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social the adaptors for USB-A to USB-C work really well. I got to know them because they shipped them with Google Pixel phones. They don't come unstuck. (no recommendation on a specific brand, and they aren't much bigger than USB-A itself) https://www.staples.com/scosche-strikeline-usb-type-a-to-usb-type-c-adapter-female-to-male-black-2-pack-caa2pk-sp/product_24529842

staples.com

scosche StrikeLine USB A to USB C Adapter, Female to Male, Black, 2/Pack (CAA2PK-SP) | Staples

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net I don't like them either, but Final Cut Pro is a "clapboard"

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@anildash@me.dm ok, I might miss the religious proselytization era, but otherwise

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@glyph @slightlyoff you know, I don’t know if they will publish it, but that’s a good review

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dschaub@mstdn.social @atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social it is the design of the thing called "Fabric", which shares memory between the CPU and GPU, and also the "Neural Engine" matrix math/ML chips. It's fresh in my mind because I just wrote a bunch of code that uses Metal or Core ML where appropriate. This is much different from writing CUDA, where you have to worry about whether it's worth sending things to the GPU.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@joe https://gist.github.com/sayrer/659bd4098045164ad9a003df449b6a81

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hsivonen@mastodon.social Well, if you've ever gotten a $60 bill for PlayStation FIFA upgrades where the kids don't quite understand what they did... lol. A modern problem.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@lzg I made this translation for good. https://github.com/cliss/callsheet-localizations/pull/150#issuecomment-4362734695

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dschaub@mstdn.social @atlauren@mastodon.social @atpfm@mastodon.social Executive Chairman just means he's still an employee of Apple, not an outside board member, and may have some managerial duties. As the show said, it's probably dealing with world leaders for a few years. It also makes sense because they have to do most things a year ahead at least, so it's still his decisions they're dealing with for a while yet.

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sayrer @sayrer@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social @caseyliss@mastodon.social just got to the end about the beaches. I know you don't travel much, but there is a marvelous hack available if you decide to spend the money. The beaches in S. America are exactly what you like, and it would get you out of the Boston winter at the right time. Anywhere from Rio to Punta del Este in Uruguay. The parts north of Punta del Este are that rough-style beach (no palm trees etc). I haven't been in years, but I don't think it changes. https://sayrer.com/blog/rio/

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Seven photographs.

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