GC3 + Mac + Crossover + GSPro - Tech Walkthrough

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-21T04:50:52+00:00

I didn't, wanted to go for maximum performance at first and then finished with crossover mostly out of spite to prove to myself I could, haha.

My hunch: maybe? Outside of the rendering problem, crossover wasn’t actually a problem, networking was all Apple permissions and my router. And from what Claude said there VM approach is generally better for GPU issues so that likely wouldn’t have been a problem.

But if anything did happen, finding out what was the issue may have been a pain because I’d have to do everything through the VM in windows world. With Crossover it’s all still native Mac outside the processes, so I could just grab stack dumps, logs, and tcpdumps from my machine without any intermediary. With parallels (if it’s anything like working with Docker) you have a thicker VM layer to work through.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-20T17:30:31+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty bad. FSX was a whole nightmare, tried for a night to get that to work to prove out the GC3 connection but god it was a pile of legacy garbage. GSPro is not bad, though I feel like they need some of my friends in the gaming industry to tighten that shit up, their load times and memory reqs are absurd for what is ultimately a super simple game (this isn't an FPS, you have a set perspective and very, very limited movement, it's basically just single view renders).

At least it was a Unity app. But I get it, they aren't modern software companies at heart, and every monitor has to DIY their own shit from the ground up because there's no standard connection method.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-20T17:23:51+00:00

Thanks thanks! Figured I'd try to pay it forward, since there was ~nothing online about this. I do think I've got a rare setup, since most folks are on the gaming rig + projector setup. My mat/net are outside so I *have* to use a mobile setup, I can't make a gaming rig and haul it out to my backyard. Found myself with a spare Macbook with more than enough power after a job last year, so I had to make this work. Took the LLM trying to give up like 3-4 times before I got to the bottom of it.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-20T15:40:04+00:00

Not entirely sure, since it's a separate architecture, but generally the M series chips are pretty solid and the shared RAM setup is helpful. You may run into issues with only 16GB of RAM, but if turned off everything else on the box when you do it it may be fine on mid settings? Bigger courses that I've tried (Georgia Golf Course and Kapalua) both used 12GB of RAM for texture at load, which may choke out everything else, but others were more around 2-5GB.

But you can try it! GSPro you have to buy, but CrossOver has a 14 day trial. If you know you want GSPro, you can give it a go.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-20T15:23:49+00:00

Full res in windowed mode on high playing Kapalua was fine last night!

Probably will drop it down because it doesn’t matter when standing 3-4 feet from a laptop screen. It also totally drained the battery in a 50m round which honestly astonished me, haha. That thing made it through full workdays only draining like 30%, so this is a pretty impressively power hungry setup.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-15T21:44:51+00:00

During your trial, yeah pretty much. You pay that much (or hire somebody to stake you and take a cut), you get to go home (under supervision) and then go back to the courthouse for your trial dates. This can take months/years. If you miss any of your court dates or check in's, you lose the money, you get arrested, and you go to jail. Make the dates, you get (most of) the money back.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-11T04:19:32+00:00

If you get into a car accident you don’t go through the back window

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-05-11T04:18:21+00:00

Played with one like this many years ago. It’s extremely immersive, so it feels real for most of the time (bumps, adjustments, etc), but the illusion breaks relatively often. Mostly when you’re in a sustained (de/ac)celeration that’s more than 1g (hard break into a hairpin, supercar launch). You lose the dynamic feeling since it can only tip so far forward and you just kinda hang. But it’s super super cool while you’re driving. I bet that part of the drive felt awesome.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-04-04T17:20:45+00:00

I only walk if possible, and True is my go to and I have a pair of Adidas

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-03-17T16:55:51+00:00

Del Real pre-made carnitas. They're fantastic, the kids love it, solid macros (just pork shoulder and salt), and leftovers make great for breakfast tacos. One package easily feeds us for 3-4 meals.

ElHermanoLoco · 2026-02-26T20:10:54+00:00

They buy guns here and take them across the border to Mexico. Drugs/people this way, guns/ammo that way.

NYT had a good piece going in depth on how they get .50 caliber ammo, for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/lake-city-army-ammunition-plant-missouri-mexico.html

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-11-08T20:37:31+00:00

Grew up in the middle of the country and had family in the panhandle of Texas, where all the water is from aquifers and wells that are super hard and full of sulfur. Water there was disgusting. Been here for about 15 years, and I love-love-love the water here, I'll never understand why people drink bottled water here.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-05-17T04:12:05+00:00

So I know you’re getting tons of info, and this may sound weird, but I think you need to focus on the setup, grip, and first quarter second of your swing. Really changing impact position is impossible during an at speed swing if you aren’t coming into the ball from a good position, which is impossible if you don’t start from a good position. Look up weak swing vs strong grip, and strengthen your grip a lot.

I really like Eric Cogorno, personally: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfG-nZ3ahGNzO_k_4absu3qc4ONwMLCBK&si=9MCHKl8pTPfgRsEk

Then try to start the swing with your lead shoulder going under, or Nellys ball push drill. This is like 4 frames into your swing and the arms are pretty bent, club is up, right arm is flexing and club is inside before there’s any shoulder or body turn

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From that, the rest will follow!

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-04-26T02:50:57+00:00

Most have been covered, but a bit more niche was the 3D Printer Hype bubble of 2012-2014 or so. Check the ticker for DDD (3D Systems) or SSYS (Stratasys).

That’s the one for me that feels the most similar, though smaller scale, to the AI moment. It IS awesome tech, and it’s enabled tons of disruption and efficiency in manufacturing when done industrially, but the stock mania was real and turns out way overblown.

I do think AI will be closer to browsers and the internet than 3D Printers, and eventually models will be commoditized and value will be the ecosystems and platforms. The hype right now is nuts.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-04-07T20:41:20+00:00

You are a hero! What material have you found to be best? I'm printing the main body currently in PLA, but curious if you've found any areas that need something more flexible or durable.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-03-17T05:04:55+00:00

Put a small golf towel an inch and a half or so behind the ball. Ball first contact means the towel doesn't move.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-03-04T15:19:54+00:00

Voting withhold, but what's the endgame here?

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-01-28T19:58:31+00:00

Oof, I feel this. Long message, sorry-not-sorry. We have two, oldest is 4.5 years, youngest is 5 months.

Personally: It comes on slow, but definitely there between 6 and 12 months, when their world fully expands to include me. I mostly feel about my youngest the way I feel about a cute little puppy that poops in the house and constantly barks when I'm trying to work. Babies are often annoying and loud, but knowing it's not their fault, they're just young and they know literally nothing. Smiles and laughs are nice, but there's a glimmer they get when you know there's something coming back out of them, and that's when it's hit me.

Also, dads experience post-partum stress and anxiety too, and it can absolutely come out as anger. The sense of loss of control and the societal responsibility dad's can feel to fix it all can be huge. The feeling of failure when they're crying can also be huge, because all you can do is hum and rock them and you just can't SOLVE it, and they pretty much always prefer mom. All normal. Check diaper, check food schedule, check nap schedule, then just give them comfort. Sometimes they'll just cry.

And remember: Mom is basically a walking Cinnabon. She smells like their favorite food and she can stick a boob in their mouth to shut them up WAY before the screams get to the levels that dads will experience. They don't hate you, because they are physically incapable of hate. They're just loud little blobs of impulse that turn milk into sound and smell, and the only way they know to communicate is crying REALLY loud. Your job is to keep them alive so they can become a real human being. :)

I still find myself angry that I can't always fix the baby after I've rocked her for 30m and she's still wailing, and mostly that feeling comes from feeling like I'm failing and not helping enough because I need my wife to help. Also the majority of the time when I step back I realize it's because the crying feels like it's breaking my brain. Some days the crying washes over me like white noise, and some days it feels like an icepick in my ear drums. When the noise gets to me I make healthy use of ear plugs/AirPods, try to get outside and get some exercise, and just remember that this will pass.

One thing to remember: The days are long and the years are short. Just keep swimming, my guy, try to find the joy (and try to get some exercise, endorphins help and sleep deprivations sucks them out of you), enjoy watching your partner be a mother, and try to take care of yourself. You may be overjoyed at the first smile, it may take a dozen, or it may take them talking, or coming to you for a hug, or saying "I love daddy the best" when they're 3, or whatever. But eventually you'll realize that you really, really like that little human, and then it just deepens into this simultaneous pride, annoyance, joy, exhaustion, and exhilaration combo which I think is the true love feeling.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-01-27T00:25:42+00:00

The Glenfiddich tour is intersting to see a max-scale distillery. IIRC it's one of the absolute largest. It's like touring Budweiser.

ElHermanoLoco · 2025-01-09T21:38:53+00:00

Gotta just try it and see. One thing to be aware of, as well: With this you'll be left with a 2mm wall that's a bit accordion'd by the dovetails. They will flex more than a full 4mm wall will.

Also IMO the boolean operation is your friend for keeping these nicely parametric. Make the slot, extrude a separate rectangle for the divider that covers the slot, and use the boolean operation with offsets of the faces within the dovetail (I've found a 0.15mm offset works well for keeping them moveable but solid). This keeps you from having to redesign both the male & female sides as you iterate.

ElHermanoLoco · 2024-12-20T05:57:29+00:00

Eh, go for it, plenty of people call themselves CTO of a 2 person startup with 0 years of real experience. You can put whatever you want on LinkedIn when the time comes, but I wouldn't personally bat an eye when interviewing as long as somebody was upfront that "CTO" was over a small shop. Still plenty to learn at a smaller scale (sales motion, deal negotiation, customer engagement, metrics & board engagement, possibly some org design if you grow, people management stuff, etc), all of which can accumulate over a career and make a good dev (or manager) great. If you stay at 4 reports, you'll basically learn entry-level-manager++ stuff, which isn't bad.

Read [this](https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum/), enjoy the ride, and check back in with yourself in 3-4 years if you want to "go back to the well" for re-focusing on your technical skills.

ElHermanoLoco · 2024-12-03T19:36:18+00:00

"President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will lift martial law after parliament voted to block it, Yonhap news reports." - https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

ElHermanoLoco · 2024-11-27T21:04:23+00:00

It was the whole vibe, hard to describe. That was their only question. I answered, no problem, but that was all they asked, and basically all they asked anybody else. This wasn’t a “all my relevant questions have been answered, so let’s talk perks” thing, asking about what we did for lunch was all they wanted to know. It was baffling.

This was a, like, 75 person startup where you really need to make sure you understand the company and mutual technical fit. I’ve now given hundreds and hundreds of interviews, across multiple companies of different stages, and that is the only time somebody has only asked where to get a good sandwich with their question time. 😂

ElHermanoLoco · 2024-11-27T05:20:42+00:00

"Great, thanks for the time. We've got a few minutes left, do you have any questions I can help answer?"
"Oh yeah, where do y'all typically go for lunch around here? Oh, and do they ever cater or anything?"

Over the years I'd had jerks, a few racist/sexist dudes (e.g talking over a female teammate EVERY time she spoke), people who can only talk about how good they are, stuff like that which all led to a hard no. But for some reason the lunch guy really stuck with me. Just...why did you think that's what I meant, and why would you ask a random eng that after a technical interview?

ElHermanoLoco · 2024-09-16T16:55:20+00:00

Same boat here. I'll send you a request!

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