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Gateway 2000 (and subsequently Gateway) was one of my favorite of brands. It was like the Bikes Direct of PC brands - the components you care about on a frame that you don’t.

I just did exactly that. I had an old i7 with 64GB of DDR4 that I bought when it was cheap. DDR5 was so expensive I just bought an AM4 and moved the RAM over. My MacBook is showing…

I bought my first modern Mac in 2003 to switch from Linux in a (stolen) Compaq to a commercial Unix on supported hardware. Instantly I got it and there was nearly a decade where ev…

Eugenics rejects the idea that all are created equal. Equality is supported by both Judeo-Christian theology and secular enlightenment philosophy. I can think of little modern phil…

> An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. …

It would be interesting if instead of a new language the Objective-C compiler enforced a a memory safe version of C. That’s the biggest advantage of Swift, imho. I hated the proper…

I think the key is these things were possible 20 years ago with small teams and now large teams and even teams at Apple can’t make competent apps with the flagship product. I worke…

> But this person who ended up becoming my wife, she's like, "I love fish sauce. I need more of it in my life." Possibly the least expected ending to that article, and very heartwa…

Spoiler: the best free restaurant bread in America is cranberry walnut bread served at Le Diplomate in Washington, D.C., and Parc in Philadelphia. Second place, surprisingly, is Ch…

I’m not a typographic nut (though I care about it more than the average American), but one of the worst trends I’ve seen is to use the square root character (√) as a checkmark (). …

There’s a quick note about the interrobang (‽) at the end. I’ve long had it in my macOS/iOS text replacement config, but nearly every font renders it so poorly that I usually manua…

I think “taste” is probably the right word. Steve Jobs’ quote about Microsoft is very relevant: “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no…

I worked at a mall chain video store in the 90s. We’d play Star Wars on the mall facing screens which would inevitably bring people in. Sorry, it’s out of print. The employee recom…

> I knew I'd be getting Halo soon That’s a deep cut. (And salt on the wound.)

I have an M1 Pro with 32GB of RAM and am hoping to make it through the rampocalypse. This may be my longest upgrade cycle, but fortunately the machine is fast enough for most thing…

They used to be beveled or capsule shaped, after they were 2D.

If you program daily, but were nervous during an interview, I would have been able to tell and always tried to get candidates comfortable before getting into any programming - talk…

Maybe it’s not this way anymore, but VC backed companies played as good or better than FAANGs 10 years ago but it was a mixed bag of talent. I ended up at a place where the enginee…

If you’re on a Mac or iOS, it’s extremely easy to use the global text substitution to replace three periods (..., v...) with ellipsis (…, ⋮), and other symbols ((c), (r ), ^o, etc.…

I’ve always felt that way as well. It doesn’t matter how perfect a playlist is, what a masterpiece an album is, the humanity of a real person selecting the music, and interjecting …

Apple offers this in Health and it stays on device or encrypted in backups. I’m not sure why anyone would want this in the cloud.

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I worked on a short this past year, primarily on an M1 Pro 32GB. This was mostly compositing a single visible model into a scene and modeling shadowcatchers, lighting, holdouts, et…

Plug it in, get the cuda drivers, run ollama or equivalent, and go from there. I use an 4GB Quadro card from the same generation and depending on the model can get faster than I ca…

I wonder if we’ll see deflationary performance pressure over the next year or two as hardware prices remain out of reach for most. If cards and VRAM aren’t available, will studios …