paulrpotts

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by paulrpotts 7mo ago
I have a 2008 Mac Pro that was my daily driver for video and audio production for 16 years before I had to give up on it. The only real reason I had to give up on it was that I couldn't upgrade the software and all the certs were expir
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by paulrpotts 1y ago
Location: Southeast Michigan Remote: Yes (available for remote work only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ARM Cortex-M, Agile, Bootloaders, C, C++, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems, FreeRTOS, GNU/Linux, Microcontrollers, Microsof
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by paulrpotts 1y ago
I will not forget Argo AI trying to convince me that if I stayed with the company for four years, by then my equity would be worth an estimated $700,000. I made it just over a year in stressful, high-pressure environment, with a toxic manag
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by paulrpotts 1y ago
Location: Michigan Remote: Yes (available for remote work only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ARM Cortex-M, Agile, Bootloaders, C, C++, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems, FreeRTOS, GNU/Linux, Microcontrollers, Microsoft Windows,
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by paulrpotts 2y ago
Let's say by "didn't need money" you mean I have an income that is enough to fully support my family and keep my home in good repair and even make home improvements (we need some big repairs to gutters and fascia, deck,
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
It’s always disappointing to me when articles describing a sound don’t include an audio clip. Someone must have a hydrophone recording!
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
It's a funny dunk on the language but I was hoping for some actual root cause analysis. It sounds like the change actually uncovered a pre-existing bug which was not (yet) causing a crash (but may have been silently overwriting memory)
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats is fantastic. In recent years I've been making it as a savory, not sweet, breakfast - topped with grass-fed butter, a fried egg, and some thyme from our garden, sea salt, and black pepper. Energy for
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
When Apple Logic becomes enshittified, my #1 reason for still owning Macs will go with it.
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
iTunes was a complex mess with too much functionality in one app, but for many years it worked really well for me. Replacing it with the new apps has been a process of removing functionality I relied on, obfuscating and making less user-fri
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I'm not informed enough to come up with a good question, but I love your work! And I love the concept of chips built on sapphire, even if it didn't win in the marketplace. Could we get Ruby running on ruby? :P
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Just FYI, Intel NUCs are being discontinued so if you want a new one, look for Asus models: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800006/intel-nuc-comput...
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Father of eight kids here. I wouldn't really speak of SUVs and minivans in the same breath. SUVs really aren't very suitable for transporting a bunch of kids. They generally don't have extra side doors so kids will have to cl
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
My family got it from a brief, outdoor, masked exposure to a kid who was in public schools. My kids are all homeschooled but the public school still facilitated our infection and my long COVID. I don’t have much confidence in that study.
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Interesting... thanks. I was not aware these existed. Also, the mainboards are expensive, but not as expensive as I thought.
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I guess? I mean, I would happily consider a Framework mini-PC, but buying literal laptop boards when I don't actually want a laptop, and then having to, what, cobble together a power supply and case, etc? I found it a lot more convenie
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
This is disappointing - I own four of these. I deliberately bought the older new-old stock units that were on clearance prices. One sits on a shelf in my basement next to my Synology NAS, and is a headless Ubuntu box I use as a very low-end
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Is this authored by ChatGPT? I see "This context sets the stage for the introduction of the Akai S2000, which we can discuss in the next section, "Development and Release." Would you like me to continue with this section?&quo
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
A big factor may be the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037798/
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I do think there are a few legitimate uses in straight C code, usually in a multiple error exit condition with cleanup situation, or to break out of multiple levels of nested loop without adding flags. I myself was indoctrinated hard into s
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I used to hear what my Model 1 was up to by putting a little transistor radio next to it and tuning it until I could hear the screeching RF noise it put out. It would give me a sense of whether my code was still running, stuck in a loop, ho
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I have a personal web site with almost 1500 pages containing blog posts, newsletters, reviews, and articles going back to the late eighties. I've been slowly consolidating all my writing on this site. For years I had kind of assume tha
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
This is so context-sensitive. I have a large family and I've had some rough employment years. Our basic expenses are high. We took a huge loss on a house. My retirement savings are in terrible shape. I've had to cash out three dif
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Yes, sort of. Having programmed since I was ten years old as a hobby, having taught myself a couple versions of BASIC, some Z-80 assembly, some 6510 assembly, and some Pascal, I went to college planning to be a Computer Science major. I qui
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Nicholson's eyes don't just graze the camera or sweep past it - he's clearly been directed to pause (even for a tiny moment) looking directly at the lens. It's the opposite of what film actors are trained to do, which is
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I think the writer's point is that Kubrick has been analyzed _to death_ on social media. It's true - there's a huge ecosystem of YouTube explainer videos, listicles, in-depth articles about his shooting style, camera tricks,
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I was hoping for some decent advice for teams that are trying to do get-togethers with remote employees. What I found instead was an article bragging about an in-person, not remote, team junket. So, the title misled me completely I found it
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I have used a number of tools for this: RCS, CVS, commercial tools like ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, and Voodoo, as well as Subversion and Git. Some of them had huge weaknesses evident from the start - for example CVS had little support fo
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Hmmm... well, I got into it a bit earlier and so when I got to the Mac, I already had some programming experience in BASIC, Pascal, and assembly. So I used HyperCard, but I also learned how to write XFCN and XCMD code resources to add funct
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
In typical Windows fashion, even the terrible behavior is named incorrectly. It looks like it undid the paste, not the copy.

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