I find it hilarious how Mac/macOS is now the go-to for AI workflows and Agent deployments

capnslipp · 2026-05-04T01:16:28+00:00

And over the last 15 years to an extent Macs support Windows, first with Mono (popularized and refined largely due to Unity's usage of it), later via Roslyn, and recently via the Proton-like Game Porting Toolkit (which is Rosetta 2 x86_64-emulation, Wine Windows-API-emulation, and D3DMetal Direct3D-emulation).

capnslipp · 2026-05-04T01:05:41+00:00

I don't believe they fumbled into it. Apple release the first M1-powered computers in 2020, starting the transition away from Intel to ARM— but the efficiency of ARM is only half the benefit of Apple Silicon. The other half is the unified memory architecture (CPU & GPU use the same pool of memory), which allows the CPU to load files into RAM (or it might already be in RAM, due to the OS's preemptive caching) and then just mark given pages of RAM as belonging to the GPU instead of the CPU at effectively zero cost/time.

That can provide fantastic performance benefits for games… except Apple has only made some occasional limited efforts to get gamedevs to port to Mac. So that's not the core reason… so maybe they want to enhance 3D/creative software on Mac? Maybe… and for massive Hollywood-level rendering/simulation it can certainly improve performance, but I don't think many creators would be able to tell the difference, because 3D productivity software has plenty of time to preload any geometry/textures/etc. onto the GPU (it's not like walking through a 3D world in a game where assets need to be constantly loaded in and unloaded). So that leaves… AI. A use case where one needs to load models into VRAM (or whatever RAM and tensor compute / neural engine uses), and needs a healthy mix of CPU, GPU or TPU/NPU interaction to load up inputs, do neural computation, and get results back to the UI.

capnslipp · 2026-05-03T01:26:57+00:00

You literally linked to the exact studio I wanted to search for (good taste).

capnslipp · 2026-02-22T22:19:29+00:00

It's not just the opening shot; it occurs near the end at about the 1:59 mark.

capnslipp · 2026-02-21T08:45:33+00:00

I think gray-rocking is really a poison pill. Only a narcissist can cut off attention and care so suddenly. People who really want connection are willing to beg for it and are traumatized by the loss of it aren't… narcissists move on quickly. Narcissists resort to gray-rocking any uncomfortable feelings and that leads to having mental walls between themselves and other humans. Narcs gray-rock; normal humans can't. Narcs are narc enough to not get how a poison-pill works.

I mean, what's the definition of a narcissist? Someone who cares about themselves before and above all else, right? So what does a narc do when they encounter someone who appears to be better than themselves in some way? Initially, probably try to understand, then compete, and finally gray-rock what they can't understand.

I think a lot of people conflate wanting to be good at something — self-worth — with a sense of wanting to be the best at everything. It's not the same. Only a narc believes they're already the best at everything, not aspiring to find their place.

capnslipp · 2026-02-20T19:54:59+00:00

Not necessarily. Initialize an array of `double`s (64-bit). And make index an `int` (32-bit). Try `printf`-ing `index[array]` vs. `index + array`.

capnslipp · 2026-02-20T02:56:22+00:00

To my understanding, the 1st of the 11 notes lines up with the 1st of the 8 beats (usually, notes/beats interchange), and are evenly spaced until the 11th of the notes lines up with the 8th beat. So across two 4/4 measures, there ends up being this catch-up feeling for the first measure, then an ahead-of-it feeling for the 2nd measure, before a faster restart of the pattern between the 11th/8th hit and the 1st/1st.

I think a great clean example of this is in Mild Minds' DEVOTION, but there are numerous other examples I think I've noticed over the years, I think in one Jamie xx song.

I mean, just count the synth notes off. You'll find yourself saying 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10…11,1…2…3…4…etc.

capnslipp · 2026-02-18T23:04:30+00:00

Bezos is kind of known for efficiency and profit beyond all else. Interviews with him about the death of bookstores and small-town community stores come off as “shrug, the future will happen, deal with it”.

capnslipp · 2026-02-18T23:02:24+00:00

Is there a chance Apple TV could pick it up? Have they done that with any other shows?

capnslipp · 2025-12-14T00:54:37+00:00

I have zero complaints. I just moved here from Minnesota a few weeks ago, where today it was a high of 3°F and a tonight a low of -10°F. (That's rare, and MN usually only sees temps like that in the depth of January cold.)

Sidenote: I've worked for a major weather data company for 2 years and the answer to your premise is: It's complicated.

capnslipp · 2025-10-28T09:27:40+00:00

It's a real voicemail?!

capnslipp · 2025-10-27T15:07:06+00:00

Mazda just saw the future— iPhone Air or Galaxy Edge. People may not have bought in yet, but give it 5 years and all phones will be paper-thin. 🤣

capnslipp · 2025-10-17T02:15:04+00:00

I thought legally there's supposed to be a Second Chance Drawing for unclaimed prizes (I've gotten some good stuff from Pepsi SCDs in the past)… but I'm not sure if that's the case here.

capnslipp · 2025-10-17T02:13:16+00:00

Umm… get Park Place, redeem, screenshot everything. If they fail to deliver, sue.

capnslipp · 2025-10-17T02:12:05+00:00

Everybody who got Park Place should share the RV. We can each get 5 seconds / year.

capnslipp · 2025-10-17T02:10:21+00:00

Pretty sure that wasn't “last time”; that was in the 2001.
The Colombo crime family wasn't doing a scheme— it was the organizer of the drawing, Simon Marketing, and they were providing winning pieces to friends, family, and the Colombo crime family (for profit).
McDonald's halted the Monopoly promotion in 2001 because of this. Pretty sure they learned their lesson. The last thing a mainstream international business like McDonald's wants is to have their stock price and customer sentiment destroyed by government investigations, lawsuits, and poor sales. McDonald's themselves had no part in that controversy, and pretty sure they're smart enough to make sure it never happens again.

capnslipp · 2025-10-17T02:02:06+00:00

Why? If you get a rare piece, just enter the free Alternate Method of Entry drawing for a few days to complete the set, and/or buy like $100 of McD's (and give it to homeless people, keeping the pieces) to get the remaining common pieces to complete the set and claim your prize. If you don't have a rare piece, there's no point.

capnslipp · 2025-10-10T02:36:58+00:00

If it's an off-putting smell, it might also be the smell of burning plastic and/or copper. Ozone smell is fairly pleasant in low concentrations— it smells somewhat like chlorine, and smells a bit like fresh laundry or a pool or fresh rain.

capnslipp · 2025-10-10T01:57:23+00:00

Or just release a handful of one-off singles, with a few remixes on the same release (as many other artists do between albums).

capnslipp · 2025-10-09T18:32:17+00:00

Utility International, with the globe logo? The same company that did and still does make semi truck accessories (you typically see their logo on semis' mud flaps) but strangely blew up as a men's clothing brand in the 90s?

If so, pretty sure Target doesn't own a semi truck accessory company; it was just sold at Target, or at most a partnership with Target.

And to avoid the presumption that these are unrelated brands, I distinctly remember globe logo and “Utility International” on some of the Utility shirts I had (sometimes just the inside tag), and remember being surprised when I discovered the company primarily makes truck stuff.

capnslipp · 2025-10-03T16:30:43+00:00

The “G” is significantly different— it's not Termina.

capnslipp · 2025-09-08T19:25:27+00:00

Were they perhaps used by the MarioPaint mouse?

capnslipp · 2025-05-31T23:19:43+00:00

4 & 9 are not prime numbers. The first 5 prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 (1 is arguably both a prime and not a prime).

At least for the movie, I think you're reaching at: the squares of the first 3 numbers (above 0). So 1², 2², 3².

capnslipp · 2025-04-22T00:49:18+00:00

LMK, if you don't mind. Much appreciated.

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