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
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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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Show threadJames WilliamsNov 26

I even mostly paid attention during the 3rd act. Traditionally, I fully lose focus once it turns into an extremely bad attempt at comedy action. But this year, I managed to zone in.

Act 3 is still a very bad way to spend 30 minutes every year, but I managed.

James WilliamsNov 26

Every year around US Thanksgiving, I watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 before listening to the annual edition of Til Death Do Us Blart ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/til-death-do-us-blart/id1059007762 ).

This year, I've particularly enjoyed Loni Love's Donna as well as some of the more subtle facial expression performances from characters who are not currently speaking: especially when Eduardo shakes his head no to the cop asking if Blart is an important man and, of course, the Shadow Man.

It's been a good Blart-watch this year.

Til Death Do Us Blart

TV & Film Podcast · Updated Bimonthly · The creators of My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Worst Idea of All Time review the film Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 every American Thanksgiving from now until the end of linear time. They may never yie…

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