[ freeze frame, record scratch ]

AMERICA [ chuckling ]: Yep, that’s me. I suppose you’re wondering how I got myself in this situation

#USPol

@trixter @gregly Jon Stewart's News Babies

@timmy Just needs a MARQUEE tag now

Bogie would have beat him within an inch of his life

Rudy Giuliani Shows Up To Vote In Lauren Bacall's Mercedes After Hiding The Car In Florida

The car is supposed to go to the Georgia election workers he defamed

Jalopnik (jalopnik.com)

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@glyph Possibly, though I suppose a lot would depend on whether the application uses Metal.

If you want a more cross-platform benchmark, they also publish an OpenCL one:

* M1 Max: 66,154
* M4 Max: 116,416

So again around a 100% improvement, though a mid-range last-gen discrete GPU still beats them both (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, 127,848).

OpenCL Benchmarks - Geekbench

(browser.geekbench.com)

@glyph It's only one benchmark, but Geekbench 6's Metal GPU benchmark brings in the M1 Max around 110,000 points, while the M4 Max comes in around 190,000.

Metal Benchmarks - Geekbench

(browser.geekbench.com)

@checkervest We're not sending our best

@jk Sega tried to save us, for all the good it did them

Sega Saturn - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

@healyn All these years we've been waiting for the joke that will knock out Donald Trump. But you know. No pressure

@timmy The Truth Social crowd is hungry for libs to scream at

@timmy A bold move. How did it work out for them

Update: Zoom (on Ubuntu) dropped audio when I started screen sharing, then crashed completely. I am nearing the stage where I just boot into Windows automatically whenever I have to join a Zoom call

"Those tools I wrote 20 years ago didn't really indicate who was slacking at working tickets or whatever. What they actually indicated was that the management at Rackspace, by and large, had no clue what was going on right under their noses."

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/11/03/metrics/

("Soul" is a great book, though. Still great forty years after it was written. Read it if you haven't, you can thank me later)

I was misled at a tender age by Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine," which emphasized how its central figure, Tom West, was "a good man in a storm."

I wanted to grow up to be a good man in a storm too. I did not realize that if the captain thinks the ship is full of good men in a storm, he will stop trying to steer around them

The Soul of a New Machine - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Getting ready for my first Zoom call on the new webcam

The main bit of advice I would give a bright young person is: do not get a reputation as someone who is good in a crisis. Because then you will spend your entire life up to your hips in crises

@adhdeanasl Same sad situation here in South Carolina. We need to build that bench.

@Nicolaz Few things nicer than a little brandy on an autumn evening...

Thankfully I am in absolutely tip-top mental shape today, so I am positioned to handle these requests with cool aplomb like a steely-eyed missile man