Kernel Bob

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool.

I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that.

Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube.

Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

2025-06-14
2025-06-14

@3d_printer If you change Bridging Angle to 45°, you won't need supports...

2025-06-13

@reconbot N.B., you must be at least 36 inches tall.

2025-06-13

@Extelec Record stores' selection is so eclectic these days -- it's whatever turned up at yard/estate sales, so it reflects _everybody's_ tastes over the last 60-70 years.

2025-06-13

@qnapclub I like that the speedometer goes all the way to 1350.

2025-06-12

@venya Ah, gotcha. That's the problem with these burled bodies: they're too handsome to modify. (-:

2025-06-12

@venya Are you planning to paint it, wrap it, or something else? In any case, I can't wait to see what you do.

2025-06-11

@ewenmcneill Oops, you're right. Tahoe drops support for my 2017 iMac Pro, but not Spousey's 2020 iMac. And yes, I've got some time to get it figured out.

2025-06-11

@Ronguest Yeah, I was vaguely aware of MacOS' scaling shenanigans, but thanks for reminding me.

That's part of the reason I want to stay at or above 5K.

2025-06-11

@Ronguest Yeah, same here. What monitor did you end up with?

2025-06-11

@bmills That TechRadar article is gold, thanks!

I don't actually want a 6K monitor -- it's more like if I had to vastly overpay for a monitor, it should be an upgrade. Two of these sub $1K 5Ks, either ASUS or ViewSonic, would be ideal. (Did I mention that I use dual monitors? The other is currently an Apple Thunderbolt Display, 27"/WQHD.)

2025-06-11

@podfeet Thanks. That might be a good option.

2025-06-11

MacOS Tahoe drops support for Intel Macs, so my 2017 iMac Pro's days are numbered.

I refuse to downgrade from the 27 inch 5K screen, though. And paying $1600 for an Apple Studio Display that's the same screen they've been selling since 2014 is an insult.

But there's not much out there bigger than 4K. Dell and Apple have 6K 32" displays at even higher prices...

Spousey also sits at a 27" 5K iMac, so she's in the same boat.

#Mac #FirstWorldProblems

2025-06-11

@Ronguest Paint it silver and pretend it's a Mac Studio. 😜

2025-06-11

@amd @Siff @mrintergalactickeyboard Does an open file format even exist that would capture all of that information?

It seems like that's the first prerequisite.

2025-06-11

@lkundrak Were any of Apple's UI people around in 2007?

2025-06-11

@not2b @ildiavolorosso I thought the usual scenario is that the doctors are the owners who cash out by selling. Why would they want to ruin the deal by leaving?

Other staff, on the other hand...

2025-06-11

@WriterOfMinds That was a spacy conversation! Completely different from the glib incomprehension of an LLM.

I could ask so many questions...

Okay, I will. What is Acuitas running on? CPU or GPU? Programming language(s)? Did you write the speech <-> text I/O?

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WriterOfMinds (she)WriterOfMinds@sigmoid.social
2025-06-11

Small demo this month! I always wanted to be able to see Acuitas "thinking" and I've updated the semantic memory visualization to make that possible. writerofminds.blogspot.com/202

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #NLP

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