pauljara

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Neither really, though my ISP's router would allow me to assign IPs by MAC address so they're effectively reserved to a device. The router's web UI displayed a list of devices. I wanted to see if devices would start dropping off this list as soon as the DHCP lease time expired. When they did drop off this list, I had thought they reappeared with the same IP without me explicitly using the reservation functionality. So how was this happening? I figured the web UI might not be showing the full picture of all the data about devices; that the router held records of formerly connected devices beyond the DHCP lease time for some unknown reason.

Comment · 1 year ago

I was trying to determine if a lease expired, if my router would immediately try to lease that same IP out to another machine on the network. It felt like it cached an expired lease mapping and would try to keep that old IP un-leased in case the original machine to which it was mapped came back online. I was just trying to better understand the behaviour.

Comment · 1 year ago

This used to happen to my MacBook Pro, although it was a non Apple Silicon one. The issue was that I had changed the DHCP lease time on my router from the default to a really low value. I believe I had set it to 15 minutes. What I believe was happening was the MBP was waking up to renew its IP address every 15 minutes and by the time it went to sleep again, it was probably waking back up to repeat the process. Changing the value on the router back to its default completely fixed the battery drain issue on my MacBook Pro. I'd never have guessed the cause-effect except I made the change around the same time I purchased that new MacBook Pro and was paying more attention to any issues that might arise.

Comment · 1 year ago

I've spent my career working with great marketers and I don't think any single one of them would advocate for the approach that Sig Sauer took with that stupid "It Ends Today" campaign. In fact, I'm sure all of them would have recommended the exact opposite.

They should very quickly pivot to a "It [100% Safety] Starts Today" remedial campaign admitting there's a problem, following-up with full transparency about how they plan to reorient their organization to make the situation better, then providing frequent proof of progress towards the safety goal. There's a critical window for them to turn this from a crisis that might sink the US division of the company to one that serves as the basis for why they were compelled to adopt safety-first design processes for their guns.

This is their version of the [1982 Tylenol Crisis](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982) but they've really fumbled the ball so far.

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm a recently licensed firearms owner from Canada and as part of the safety training part of the licensing process, I became aware of how unsafe the P320 seemed to be. It really feels like that model needs to be taken off-market, undergo significant redesign, and for Sig's marketing sake, probably re-emerge as some new model like the SP321 where the S stands for "safety" :-)

What I'm not as familiar with is why hasn't Sig done this? It really feels like they've been doing ad-hoc patch design adjustments to a fundamentally unsafe design at this point. But I'm also not very knowledgeable about firearms yet.

Comment · 2 years ago

Will you be posting the actual source code to GitHub? The repository just has screenshots and some markdown files.

Comment · 2 years ago

WebGPU is available as a preview on Safari behind a feature flag, so it's on its way to many users in the foreseeable future. Curiously, with the feature flag on, the demo works on desktop Safari 18.0 but not on mobile Safari 17.6 where the demo asks users to use Chrome.

Comment · 2 years ago

You're right, it wasn't just a coincidence: "Doc and Beans are inspired by Ken and Roberta Williams, a real-life couple who founded Sierra Entertainment, a video game company known for the King's Quest series that eventually sold to Activision."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10084334/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_tr...

Comment · 2 years ago

NT 4.0 was solid and felt fast! The UI was so snappy. You could just leave it running and never reboot -- it almost became a geek humble brag to do so. For those too young to remember, one of Windows 98's marketed features was the ability to use ACPI to turn off your computer without you having to press a physical power button! It was just expected the device would need to be turned off.

Windows 2000 was great too, which PC enthusiasts at the time realized was essentially "NT 5.0 but can play games because it has (official) DirectX". It's amazing how there's so little nostalgia for these two OSes. I watch some retro PC YouTubers and most haven't ever covered them. There's so much nostalgia for Windows XP. But among enthusiasts, the first impressions were that it ran slower than Windows 2000 and looked like a Fisher Price toy. I think a lot of PC enthusiasts hung onto these two OSes, as you point out, until they eventually relented and used Windows XP around the time of Service Pack 2's release.

I ran LiteStep (http://litestep.net) on NT 4.0 at one point in my teens, completely unaware that Apple would eventually make a NeXT-style operating system something I'd use as a daily driver.

Comment · 2 years ago

I'm piggybacking off this comment in case people want to purchase one of these enclosures after reading your comment. I've tested a couple of these ASM2464PD enclosures since last November. If you buy one of these you're going to want to flash the firmware to at least the latest ASMedia one from January of 2024. This remedies some "random" unmount issues you could run into, particularly on Apple Silicon Macs. In my case, despite purchasing two identical enclosures, one had the disconnect issue and the other did not. But the firmware update has resolved it fully. Unfortunately, you'll need a Windows PC to flash the firmware. Running the flasher under Windows on Parallels didn't work for me. You do NOT need USB4 to flash the device, just a USB 3.2 USB-C port. A USB-C to USB-A cable may work too but I did not test that scenario.

Also, if you have the device plugged straight into your USB4 equipped computer, it will run in USB4 mode and you will easily see 3GB+/s benchmarks. If you have it plugged into a USB4/Thunderbolt 4 dock, it will run in Thunderbolt 3 mode. The speeds in TB3 mode will be limited to about 2.7GB/s or the same as Intel JHL7440 enclosures. So it performs no better than Intel Thunderbolt 3 enclosures in that scenario. However, the ASM2464PD enclosures run HOT. I bought a couple of Maiwo enclosures off AliExpress when you couldn't purchase these at retail in North America. If I had to do it again, I'd buy the OWC version. I've heard the OWC enclosure has extra heatsink accommodations to handle the heat. I bet they'll ship the latest firmware too.