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New comment by heddhunter in "Emacs Turns 50"

heddhunter — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:28:27 +0000

I got a nice case of emacs pinky back in my early 30's. Had to take disability, get physical therapy to rehabilitate, etc. Been vi all the way since then.

New comment by heddhunter in "A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms"

heddhunter — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:36:58 +0000

yes and I'd like to sue whoever named that field for false advertising. when I went to school (Precambrian era - no internet) I thought computer science would be great because I wanted to learn how to program. I dropped it after the 2nd year when I realized it was more about calculus than programming. (and I sucked at calculus. well, the teachers who were supposed to teach me about calculus sucked, but the end result was the same.)

New comment by heddhunter in "Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS"

heddhunter — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:39:02 +0000

I've been telling everyone who will listen for the last few months that this is the inevitable end point of software development.

New comment by heddhunter in "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain"

heddhunter — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:58:32 +0000

Have you ever done any mindfulness meditation? I hit on a similar idea while meditating. My analogy is the brain is like the full spectrum of radio frequencies, but there's a "main station" that is "I". From time to time you lose that signal and tune into something else. And just because you're not listening to it, it doesn't mean the other stations aren't still broadcasting.

I have no idea if there's a biological origin for any of this, but it definitely fits with my experience of meditation and awareness training.

New comment by heddhunter in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

heddhunter — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:48:13 +0000

There are myriad 3rd party camera apps that will give you RAWs straight off the sensor. Apple also has its "ProRAW" format which is a nice middle ground.

New comment by heddhunter in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

heddhunter — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:34:01 +0000

It couldn't hurt. I don't have problems like that.

mdutil -E -a

That command will erase and rebuild Spotlight index on all volumes.

Since Tahoe, Spotlight has multiple modes. You might have better luck forcing it into folder & files mode. That's command-2. So command-space, spotlight UI appears, keep holding command key, press 2. There's also 1 for applications only, 3 for "actions" and 4 for clipboard history.

New comment by heddhunter in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

heddhunter — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:30:42 +0000

That's a bizarre analogy. If you're actually committed to learning (vs having the LLM spit out code you don't read), using an LLM as a teacher is more like working out using weight machines vs dumbbells. Just two different methods of arriving at the same destination, with different pros and cons.

New comment by heddhunter in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

heddhunter — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:59:51 +0000

I love it! I write my own services for it all the time. You can assign global hotkeys to them as well which makes it crazy convenient to be able to select text, a file, etc and invoke some script you wrote on them.

New comment by heddhunter in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

heddhunter — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:12 +0000

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00220973.2012.74...

New comment by heddhunter in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

heddhunter — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:20:36 +0000

an analogy is like a garden shed: you try to eat it, it'll get stuck in your throat.

(with apologies to Mike from The Young Ones)

New comment by heddhunter in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

heddhunter — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:24:20 +0000

There were full-length NBA Lakers games in the Vision Pro headset earlier this year. I watched a few - super cool. They even had a separate announcer just for the immersive broadcast.

New comment by heddhunter in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

heddhunter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:45:18 +0000

Most commercial DAWs come with such algorithms already. (eg Logic Pro has "ChromaGlow" which can emulate tape, tubes, etc. https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/chromaglow-controls...)

There's also a thriving 3rd party plugin market for similar effects.

New comment by heddhunter in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

heddhunter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:40:56 +0000

This is my go to for making things sound "worse" :)

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_fx/effect/rc-20_...

New comment by heddhunter in "Did they ghost you?"

heddhunter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:43:09 +0000

Sorry you went through that. I've been on the other side of it. I had interviewed a bunch of people, found a good candidate, had an offer ready to go. It was pulled at the last second by higher ups who decided they needed the headcount more than my department did. It sucks for everybody.

New comment by heddhunter in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:05:12 +0000

Just another Monday in 2026.

New comment by heddhunter in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:03:33 +0000

Assuming you're not joking, that's the point of the podcast... hence the title "If Books Could Kill". They're reviewing bad and possibly dangerous books.

New comment by heddhunter in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:02:37 +0000

No, you were correct to avoid it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-win-friends-and...

New comment by heddhunter in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

heddhunter — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:26:23 +0000

The weird thing is that setting used to be in the trackpad settings! I have no idea why they moved it. It's one of the first things I enable on every device I use.

New comment by heddhunter in "Code is run more than read"

heddhunter — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:30:54 +0000

the explanation is simple - the immutable law of resource allocation:

"good, fast, cheap: pick two"

New comment by heddhunter in "The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures"

heddhunter — Sun, 15 May 2022 01:19:22 +0000

lifestyle creep. living in the bay area, kid or two in private school, driving a tesla... $270k doesn't go that far.