robterrell

Great opportunity for someone to make a side by side comparison video & go viral.

Here's a movie dramatization of the Louis Slotin screwdriver accident with the demon core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY

I read this after seeing Oppenheimer. Just a tremendous book. I learned so much from his description of the early debates around the structure of atoms. It really illuminates the theorists' struggles with quantum mechanics and how, as we often see, progress required a new generation of thinkers.

Ejecta was a project that implemented WebGL with JavaScript bindings -- basically everything you need for a web game without the DOM. It implemented enough of WebGL to run Impact-based games.

Is this a common desire? I have absolutely no interest in watching myself inserted into a film or TV show.

Lynx wasn't first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

This might be a good moment to drop a thing I made last year but never shared the link for. It's a bitmap editor that outputs Apple ][ shape tables.

https://robterrell.github.io/shape_table_maker/shape_draw.ht...

Apple ][ shape tables were a rarely-used vector drawing technique -- rarely used because they were fairly slow to render and there wasn't great tooling for making them. High level of difficulty plus poor results... it was almost as easy to write blitting code, even with the odd Apple ][ video memory layout, so most games ended up doing that instead.

Anyway, if you are curious about shape tables, here's a thing for you.

> better than native performance using RN

You had an app written natively in Objective-C or Swift, switched to single-threaded javascript React Native, and then your app ran faster?

What do you dislike about it?

Same effect for me inside the US, west coast versus east coast.

Dr. Dobb's had an incredible run of relevancy, from the 70's through the 90's.

I've seen Waymos on the 280 between San Jose and SF countless times over the past year. I guess those were not operational rides, just tests?

I have been using contacts and just got the zeiss lenses today. So far it's roughly equivalent. I think there is a touch more distortion (chromatic aberration along the edges) with the inserts. But my contacts are progressives and kinda sucked for this, single vision would probably be great.

The book he wrote is interesting: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5136/pg5136-images.html

I loved this bit of writing at the beginning:

"Beyond all this the lower coast-range, where, toward San Francisco, Mount Diablo and Mount Tamalpais - grim sentinels of the Golden Gate - rear their shaggy heads skyward, and seem to look down with a patronizing air upon the less pretentious hills that border the coast and reflect their shadows in the blue water of San Francisco Bay."

The first watch wasn't that -- I think Apple Watch 3 first really delivered on this.

Have you tried this yourself? Curious to know how well this works for an LLM home lab.

I have an Outbound too! IIRC there's a weird little 7.5v battery that I had to replace to get it to boot up (roughly the diameter of a AA battery, but 1/3 the length) -- maybe check that out?

You make a good point! But scrum as we know it today is not Agile:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools."

Processes and tools (i.e. Jira, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.) dominate all implementations of Scrum I've seen.

> the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong

The "no true scrumsman" fallacy at work.

How exactly do you negotiate? After you get a bill, you call their billing number and just ask for a lower number?

This notebook is great, kudos for sort of "thinking out loud" as you figured it out. I'd forgotten about Observable notebooks and makes me want to try them again.

Gift link for anyone who can't view the article: https://wapo.st/41sWoLj

I've been unable to get Mixtral (mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q6_K.gguf) to run well on my M2 MacBook Air (24 GB). It's super slow and eventually freezes after about 12-15 tokens of a response. You should look at M3 options with more RAM -- 64 GB or even the weird-sounding 96 GB might be a good choice.

Aurora, that's a blast from the past. Donuts-on-a-rope contrails, right?

Don't skimp on RAM.

Cocotron used to have pretty good AppKit API coverage:

https://www.cocotron.org

I was able to get a ported app running with it at one point. And I think Microsoft took a pass at it more recently: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC

But it appears Darling uses Cocotron so maybe you've already seen how well it works for you.

I saw the film at a festival last month, not sure what to expect for a beloved creator coming out of retirement. I should not have been worried, it's astounding -- Del Toro isn't really exaggerating in that praise. I hadn't read about it being autobiographical until afterwards, but it did seem incredibly personal. I found it to be profoundly joyful and sad in multiple ways, especially in the aspect of a master searching for a protégé.

Can you elaborate on this?

Have you seen https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js ?

In the US, if the CPAP is being paid for by insurance, the cellular modem is used to track "compliance" -- i.e. are you using the thing enough for them to justify paying for it. But if not, the CPAPs I've seen have an "airplane" mode where the cellular modem can be turned off, and you can google for guides to physically disconnect the modem internally.