James Williams

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Developer in Charleston, SC.

I am an enthusiast of many things and a master of none.

I am very, very, very tired.

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Websitehttps://jameswilliams.me
Previouslyhttps://social.lol/@willia4
PronounsHe/Him/His
James WilliamsApr 1
Currently noodling on the idea that a liberal arts foundation prepares one to both detect and reason around an unreliable narrator and that this is a key missing skill as more and more people uncritically adopt generative AI.
James WilliamsMar 29
I've done some horrible things to the Linux side of my Steam Deck, trying to get various non-Steam games and things to run on it with varying levels of success. Now I'm sorely tempted to to just factory reset it and treat it entirely as a Steam appliance.
James WilliamsMar 2
The first cyberpunk body modification I want is something that will play the Windows XP Shutdown sound when I finally fall asleep.
James WilliamsFeb 8
I deeply wish there were a way to tell my phone "Never play podcasts when the volume is at 0%" because what possible use could that serve?
James WilliamsDec 31
Say what you will about rising prices, value for money, consumer confidence, and late stage capitalism: McDonald's fries are still the best in the business.
James WilliamsDec 29
Got an OLED PC monitor for Christmas and now I'm extremely annoyed at every "dark mode" theme that doesn't use #000000 as its background.
James WilliamsDec 20

YouTube video: "...and the ride wouldn't last for long. It closed in 2000."

Me: "Oh, so it just closed really recently."

The calendar: "You'd better check your math on that.💀💀"

Show threadJames WilliamsDec 5

On the one hand, this all makes sense. A nice work station is "fast enough" and the numbers don't matter as much today.

On the other hand, I feel like a fake tech enthusiast.

Show threadJames WilliamsDec 5

But, at some point, core count crossed the threshold for me into "lots". 6 cores? 8 cores? Lots of cores. I don't really care about the exact number.

I _also_ can't remember what my base clockspeed is. 4.3GHz? 4.7GHz? I don't know. It's just lots of hertzes.

James WilliamsDec 5

Watching a Stephen Toub talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GvSPaRQ-U) and he's doing some microbenchmarking and he says "I think I'm on a 16 core machine so it's going to..."

And I realized that I also don't remember how many cores my computer has (I just checked: 8 cores, 16 threads).

In the past, it was a nonsense question. I just had one CPU, so one core.

Then core count became a major selling point: 2 cores and 4 cores were huge differentiators.

Cancellation Tokens with Stephen Toub

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