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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The first cyberpunk body modification I want is something that will play the Windows XP Shutdown sound when I finally fall asleep.
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?
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.
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.

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.💀💀"

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.

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.

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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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.

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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