jamesfmilne

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by jamesfmilne 5d ago
Second System Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect Coined by Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man-Month" in 1975.
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by jamesfmilne 20d ago
You need to enable the Screen Saver module in the Afterglow settings first. Works great.
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by jamesfmilne 20d ago
Yes it works, but you need to enable it in the Afterglow settings first.
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by jamesfmilne 2mo ago
Yeah, I worked in Soho for about 14 years and most Thursdays were out at the Pillars of Hercules or Dog & Duck. Fridays are for the out-of-towners. The company has moved to Bermondsey now, and to be fair the drinks-after-work culture se
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by jamesfmilne 5mo ago
That's the maximum delay when adding a delay for synchronising with other sources. The end-to-end delay is about 10ms, according to this comment: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/i...
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by jamesfmilne 6mo ago
I've had great results using JPEG-XS to transport video for colour grading in feature film & TV post production. At 3:1 or 4:1 compression ratio is effectively lossless. It is patent-encumbered though, you have to pay license fees
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by jamesfmilne 6mo ago
Yeah, we've been deploying JPEG-XS for high bitrate streaming for a while. A lot of our customers are moving their grading systems into data centres and streaming the images over IP back to their grading suites. I've got it down t
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by jamesfmilne 9mo ago
Life imitates art The Mountainhead https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35396529/
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by jamesfmilne 9mo ago
macOS ships with drivers for Mellanox ConnectX cards, but I have no idea if they will show up in `ibv_devices` or `ibv_devinfo`.
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by jamesfmilne 9mo ago
I found some useful clues here. Looks like it uses the regular InfiniBand RDMA APIs. https://github.com/Anemll/mlx-rdma/commit/a901dbd3f9eeefc628...
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by jamesfmilne 9mo ago
Anyone found any APIs related to this? I'd have some other uses for RDMA between Macs.
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by jamesfmilne 10mo ago
Bravo!
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by jamesfmilne 10mo ago
Same, haven't had any problems with IPv6 via Hyperoptic. He might just be unlucky having some defective equipment upstream.
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by jamesfmilne 10mo ago
I'm on Hyperoptic and use IPv6 regularly. Pretty sure it was enabled by default. I haven't had the same problems this guy has, although I do believe his issues are real.
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
If you find yourself needing to install Windows 11 for some reason (I'm doing my best to avoid it), you can try this to create a stripped-down Windows 11 installer with most of the crap removed: https://ntdotdev.wordpress.co
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
JPEG-XS is great for low latency, but it uses more bandwidth. We're using it for low-latency image streaming for film/TV post production: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/store/press_releases/filmlight-... W
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
I've been paying for YouTube premium for probably 2 years now. Never had any inserted ads. Only the "this video is sponsored by" stuff, which you can just skip over. I can't possibly go back to non-Premium YouTube, and i
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
Yeah DAT was big in electronic music. Everyone in DnB documentaries talks about going to Music House with DATs to get dubplates cut to play in the clubs later on that evening. This would have been before CD-Rs were commonplace, early 90s.
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
Could be a candidate for Tiny Tapeout in the future. https://tinytapeout.com
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by jamesfmilne 1y ago
And unfortunately they have had to lay off half their studio: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/half-of-myst-developer-cyan-wo... The news from a lot of games studios has been pretty brutal over the last couple of years.
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
Would be nice if git could make use of this on macOS. Each worktree I usually work on is several gigs of (mostly) identical files. Unfortunately the source files are often deep in a compressed git pack file, so you can't de-duplicate t
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
As a North London resident, the parking app situation is just as farcical for me. There are at least three different apps for parking around me: RingGo, PayByPhone and JustPark. I went to East London recently to visit the Velodrome, and dis
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
I was under the impression you can't ship FFMPEG in an app on iOS/tvOS/iPadOS anyway given FFMPEG is licensed as LGPL.
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
If you are experiencing digital noise in the output, like buzzing or clicking that correlates either activity on your computer, try installing a ground loop isolator in between your computer and speakers. This is essentially a mini transfor
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
Also on The Grauniad https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
https://www.xojo.com/
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
Yes, Apple Screen Sharing is built in. It's based on VNC. You can definitely run it from another Mac, although it's not a great experience with other VNC clients on Windows or Linux. They appear to have their own encoding via VNC,
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
My colleague in Tokyo has 10Gb internet in his apartment. The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
HW RAID is dead, they need to get over it. We've had good experience with Xinnor, but it's a shame it's proprietary. I'd love to see a high-performance open-source erasure coding solution for NVMe. The built in offerings
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by jamesfmilne 2y ago
We offered an LED light source for both Northlight 1 and 2 as an upgrade over the previous metal halide bulb light source. https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/pdf/datasheets/FL-NL-DS-0566-NL...

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