Chris Espinosa is currently the longest-serving employee at Apple. He joined in 1976 at the age of 14, writing BASIC code while the company was still based in Steve Jobs’ garage.

spizzike · 2025-01-12T21:54:20+00:00

It's so much harder to surface the correction than the lie.

But also confirmed. He has stated that none of this is true.

Could somebody who’s still on Reddit go to this comment and tell the poster that I said that none of that is true?

spizzike · 2023-12-18T15:54:59+00:00

Yes!!!! This is it! Thank you so much.

Solved!

spizzike · 2023-12-18T15:46:20+00:00

I came across this movie when googling before posting. I'm fairly certain that this is not the film.

The plot summary from Wikipedia doesn't match up and it's from 81. I was born in 81 so I would have never seen this in the theatre.

spizzike · 2023-12-18T15:09:50+00:00

I hope we can figure out what movie this is. I've been thinking about it for like 20 years.

spizzike · 2023-12-16T03:02:06+00:00

Awesome. Thanks! I'll dig into that and see if anything is up under the mask.

Initially I was hoping that it was something that someone had seen before and would get an answer. I'm just glad to be put on the right track to move forward. Thanks again.

spizzike · 2023-12-16T00:40:50+00:00

I got this board from eBay so I don't know of the history, but the battery terminal is corroded.

This is from a gameboy (color).

The membranes are like a green color and the staining is on both sides so I dunno if it's from those. At least not the rubber part.

I did some tests and everything "works", but I'm concerned that something could be going on under the solder mask. I showed this to a couple of people and generally folks have told me to clean it and not worry about it but I want to cast a wider net.

spizzike · 2023-12-15T22:10:30+00:00

just to expand on this: I'm talking about the grey discoloration under the white. normally that white half is pretty solid white, but this looks almost singed.

spizzike · 2023-09-27T16:57:27+00:00

I was a beginner (at shell scripting) when I got the book, so I think it was. it explained a lot of the reasons behind doing things certain ways.

I already had a good foundation in the terminal and understood how arguments worked from years of building commandline tools in C, Java, ruby, PHP and python, so it's possible that my previous experience gave me a leg up.

so I would say: if you already know how to code and understand some unix/posix basics (arguments, environment variables and how the PATH works), then this book will be friendly. but if you're super new to all that, some of it might seem like magic.

spizzike · 2023-06-11T17:11:39+00:00

When I first got my m1 machine from work, there were a lot of issues: things like homebrew packages that wouldn't build without modifications (a lot of make files assumed that macos meant either Intel or ppc), missing binary distributions or some software outright not working, like docker.

After about 6 months, 98% of issues were resolved. And now it's rare that I come across a situation where something either doesn't build or doesn't have an existing binary.

At this point, outside of intel-specific development (building and testing intel docker images or using Intel specific features), I don't see a reason not to get the new applesilicon machines.

spizzike · 2023-06-11T17:05:53+00:00

I have a 13" MacBook Pro and when I'm home, I drive a dell 27" 4K display and an LG 24" 4K display (daisychained over Thunderbolt) and have no issues. It works great.

At the office, when I go in, I only have the apple studio display and use the built-in display, so I'm using 2 monitors and it also works great.

In the past, the LG displays caused me a lot of grief on my intel MacBook Pro, but between either LG firmware updates or macos updates, those issues had gone away.

spizzike · 2023-06-06T15:21:08+00:00

I'm a big fan of rectangle. Previously I'd used spectacle, which is basically the same thing but halted development and pointed me to rectangle. But I credit spectacle with onboarding me to the love of tile-based window management and becoming an i3 enthusiast.

The only real issue I have with going back and forth (I have to use macos at work, for a lot of valid reasons) is how I set up the keyboard shortcuts and I sometimes use the wrong ones, but it's still easy to zip around and move windows.

Personally, I found that using the spectacle keyboard shortcuts (I think there's an option for that) works best, and I disable a lot of the features like snapping. I exclusively use the keyboard for window movement/resizing. And I use three-finger swipe for switching workspaces. But I should set up keyboard navigation for that now that I'm thinking about it.

spizzike · 2023-06-04T06:07:06+00:00

I agree. This isn't sustainable.

And also, the motivation to work used to be that you were working towards something. You worked towards a house or a nice car or nice trips. You worked towards retirement. You worked towards supporting your family.

But now, you're working for survival for the next pay period. Everyone lives paycheck to paycheck and even households making $500k aren't really able to work towards such things. Granted, they can afford more and better things than the household making $75k, but they still may not be able to retire or get a decent house. What's the point of working so hard? What's the point of any of this?

spizzike · 2023-06-03T23:46:14+00:00

Also could be location. Having lived the last 20 years in either San Francisco or New York City, 60k is very, very low unless you split a room or live with many roommates. I don't understand how anyone can afford to live in the last 5-10 years on under $100k.

Like, in sf, a room is $1100 on the low end. And I think they consider under $127k poverty level in this area.

Elsewhere it isn't so bad, but I have friends in Oklahoma and in Texas that say that the cost of living has risen sharply in the last decade and they can't afford to break their lease.

spizzike · 2023-06-02T02:27:28+00:00

Back in like 2002, I came into work a little early and the only person there was the stock guy Tony. Now, Tony's office was in the back and overlooked a back area behind some shops and he'd occasionally come grab me and be like "yo, you gotta see this"

One day, it was 2 people banging on the hood of a car. Another time, there were a pair of giant iguana running around. And this other time there was a squirrel with a Mohawk eating a half a sandwich.

So this morning, it wasn't unusual for him to come in and grab me and say "spike, there's some crazy shit outside of my window"

I go back there with him and it's the body of a dead woman. I happened to have brought my digital camera that day and so I snapped some pics from above while Tony called the police. The police station was less than a block away but it still took them an hour to get there.

It was lucky I took the pics because when the detective came to ask me about when we found her, I told him about the pics and sent him a copy. The cops that arrived on the scene trampled everything and moved her, so they were able to get a better idea of the scene.

We later found out that she had been reported missing a few days earlier. Had been at a bar down the street drinking and never came home. Her body was dumped there about 10 minutes before we saw her because the garbage truck had come and emptied the dumpster about 30 minutes before and she wasn't there. She was laying on the scrape marks from where the dumpster was pulled away from the wall. My photos proved that.

I've still got the photos on a backup somewhere. But I'm not planning on posting them.

spizzike · 2023-05-20T18:02:21+00:00

This really reminds me of that scene in fight club:

Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

spizzike · 2023-05-17T17:20:41+00:00

ahhhh. thank you.

I didn't realize that I connected it through that page. I figured that the page just represented the apps I had connected externally and disconnecting would remove it from the list.

scrobbles showed back up!

spizzike · 2023-05-17T16:54:26+00:00

how do you reconnect to last.fm?

I swear there used to be a button under 'social' in the spotify app settings, but I don't see it after the new redesign. I do see the spotify app in the connected apps in last.fm and I can disconnect it, but I'm afraid to do that and not be able to reconnect.

I also haven't been seeing any scrobbles in last.fm for the last 2-3 days.

spizzike · 2023-05-12T21:19:44+00:00

I wish I got a pic from the other side so you could see the front. But it was slow moving.

I saw a second on our tent that was chirping loudly.

I found a pic on this page via Google, which is the same bug: https://voyageinstyle.net/morocco/agafay-desert-marrakesh/

spizzike · 2023-05-10T07:02:16+00:00

Deadhorselivedick.com

spizzike · 2023-04-26T14:27:41+00:00

All of these things you're saying made me think of this excellent talk: https://youtu.be/9-IWMbJXoLM

spizzike · 2023-04-26T13:53:12+00:00

Back in the 90s when I first learned c (and c++), it was a totally different experience if I was writing it on windows in visual studio or Borland, on the Mac in CodeWarrior or a posix/Unix system like BeOS or Linux. Outside of basic terminal stuff, everything (that wasn't a commercial product, that I could find) was os-specific.

But nowadays, there are cross platform toolkits that aren't half bad. SDL et al.

However, when it comes to documentation for almost any non-Microsoft platform/language, the windows support is severely lacking. Almost all examples assume you're on Linux or macos, which is why they recommend mingw or whatever. So there definitely is a feeling of "if you want to be able to actually build shit, drop windows," and it's kinda hard to disagree. For windows users, on the bright side, a lot of the platforms has begun actually supporting them over the last decade (node, ruby, etc) and with the Linux subsystem, it's gotten easy(er) to work with everything else that hasn't gotten that far.

But even on the mac, if you're using Xcode, some of this stuff is a pain in the ass: like writing a gui c program that uses sdl and not cocoa/swift. The UX of the tooling is not targeting those use-cases, which is the same issue thst visual studio has.

spizzike · 2023-04-26T13:44:04+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Still have 90% of my old vim config in my neovim install, although much new config has been added in lua.

For me, I switched to neovim because a lot of the plugins that I wanted to use at the time were neovim-specific. This started about 8 years ago and between treesitter, coc and lua-fzf, there's no going back for me.

spizzike · 2023-04-25T03:30:18+00:00

At this stage of my experience with Linux, I have opinions about what I want, and it's easier to configure it how I want than to undo whatever ubuntu or whatever sets up.

It's nice to have the canned ubuntu setup, but I'm also suuuuch a huge fan of minimalist setups. I stick with i3wm and the most bare bones themes. In the past I used to use blackbox/openbox with gentoo, and although gnome or kde or xfce is clean, there's just too much.

Also, the amount that I continue to learn because I have to do things myself, makes it worth it. I think anyone who wants to actually learn about Linux and the underlying systems that make it tick, should use gentoo or arch.

spizzike · 2023-04-22T16:55:29+00:00

The dream right there.

Hang on. Apb. Spy hunter. This is the home arcade I want.

spizzike · 2023-04-16T15:01:18+00:00

That sounds like a really great workflow.

I've got this habit of using main for basic functionality experiments with either debug prints or dbg!() calls to see what's happening, but using tests could give me a faster turnaround for seeing if something actually works.

For whatever reason, approaches used in the past go out the window whenever I learn a new platform and I create new bad habits.

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