matthew-wegner (u/matthew-wegner)

matthew-wegner commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees

dylan604 · 2 months ago

What if I left my device at home?

matthew-wegner · 2 months ago

It would work even better. From the linked support page:

"Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans."

matthew-wegner commented on Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly dockflow.appitstudio.com/... · Posted by u/pugdogdev

wordofx · 3 months ago

Does this help put the dock on multiple monitors permanently? I hate current macOS with its single dock on 1 monitor that changes randomly.

matthew-wegner · 3 months ago

> that changes randomly

Moving the mouse pointer to middle of bottom edge of a screen will permanently move the Dock there. As far as I know, there is no way to disable this behavior. It's terrible.

For simultaneous multi-monitor, you're probably forced into using a full Dock replacement. There are a few options out there, but none have ever stuck with me personally.

matthew-wegner commented on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) saurabhs.org/macos-tips... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

johncoltrane · 6 months ago

> launching a terminal at a location

Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder.

> viewing or copying a files path

Right-click on directory or file and press Option > Copy "<filename>" as path name.

> navigating a deep file system

Not sure what you mean.

> column width in the column view

Option + click & Drag. Or do you want them to adjust to files/folders name length?

> searching for files

What's wrong with Command + F?

> finding file info

Do you want more than what is shown by Command + I or in the "details" column?

matthew-wegner · 6 months ago

> Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder.

Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item in any application.

Search "keyboard shortcuts" in settings, then under Services -> Files and Folders.

matthew-wegner commented on M4 Mac mini's efficiency jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/marinesebastian

leptons · 10 months ago

>The Mac mini M4 performance is around 4-5x in DaVinci Resolve for me - compared to my HP laptop (i5-1135G7).

You could pick a variety of non Apple CPUs that easily deliver 4-5x the performance of an 11th gen i5. Maybe don't be disingenous and compare the M4 to a more recent CPU like i5-14600K, which is also 4x the performance. I'm not comparing on power efficiency, since that was not mentioned at all as part of your comment.

matthew-wegner · 10 months ago

Is it 4x the performance?

Passmark shows 38,951 / 4,282 versus 24,724 / 4,555:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-14600...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M4+10+Core&id...

So i5-14600K is 1.57x on multi-core, slightly worse on single-core. $235 for the CPU versus $599 for a whole system. Could maybe match the total price, but Intel won't be able to come anywhere close on the power efficiency.

matthew-wegner commented on Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) forums.tigsource.com/inde... · Posted by u/CharlesW

tmountain · 10 months ago

Tigsource is a treasure trove of information and design docs. Lots of famous games were hatched there (spelunky and dead cells to name a few).

matthew-wegner · 10 months ago

Minecraft's origin WIP thread, too!

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0

matthew-wegner commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

anon291 · 10 months ago

Can we talk about how the voter turnout for the GOP and Dems both follow linear patterns in the last few races, except for Dem turnout in 2020? How do we explain the statistical anomaly, other than the obvious?

matthew-wegner · 10 months ago

People were much more motivated to vote against Trump while he was actively president and his nonsense was dominating the news on a daily basis.

But 4 years later? It's like making decisions when you're hungry versus the memory of hunger...

matthew-wegner commented on M4 MacBook Pro apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/tosh

Aurornis · 10 months ago

> it's very, very hard to make the fans spin on a 16" M1 Max. You have to utilize all CPU/GPU/NPU cores together to even make them move,

I routinely get my M1 fans spinning from compiling big projects. You don’t have to get the GPU involved, but when you do it definitely goes up a notch.

I read so much about the M1 Pros being completely silent that I thought something was wrong with mine at first. Nope, it just turns out that most people don’t use the CPU long enough for the fans to kick in. There’s a decent thermal capacity buffer in the system before they ramp up.

matthew-wegner · 10 months ago

Huh! I regularly max CPU for long stretches (game development), but I found I could only get the fans to move if I engaged the neural cores on top of everything else. Something like a 20+ minute video export that's using all available compute for heavy stabilization or something could do it.

The M3 is much more typical behavior, but I guess it's just dumping more watts into the same thermal mass...

matthew-wegner commented on M4 MacBook Pro apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/tosh

tomcam · 10 months ago

I don't know much about modern Geekbench scores, but it that chart seems to show that M1s are still pretty good? It appears that M4 is only about 50% faster. Somehow I would expect more like 100% improvement.

Flameproof suit donned. Please correct me because I'm pretty ignorant about modern hardware. My main interest is playing lots of tracks live in Logic Pro.

matthew-wegner · 10 months ago

Some of it depends on which variant fits you best. But yeah, in general the M1 is still very good--if you hear of someone in your circle selling one for cheap because they're upgrading, nab it.

On the variants: An M1 Max is 10 CPU cores with 8 power and 2 efficiency cores.

M4 Max is 16 cores, 12 + 4. So each power core is 50% faster, but it also has 50% more of them. Add in twice as many efficiency cores, that are also faster for less power, plus more memory bandwidth, and it snowballs together.

One nice pseudo-feature of the M1 is that the thermal design of the current MacBook Pro really hasn't changed since then. It was designed with a few generations of headroom in mind, but that means it's very, very hard to make the fans spin on a 16" M1 Max. You have to utilize all CPU/GPU/NPU cores together to even make them move, while an M3 Max is easier to make (slightly) audible.

matthew-wegner commented on Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events cleannews.fyi... · Posted by u/sumeruchat

tantalor · a year ago

Who said "only"?

matthew-wegner · a year ago

It's a 1:1 scrape of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

matthew-wegner commented on Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events cleannews.fyi... · Posted by u/sumeruchat

sumeruchat · a year ago

Yes and it is a pretty good MVP using that :)

matthew-wegner · a year ago

You might want to give appropriate credit! And by "might" I mean specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative...

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Currently programmer/infra stuff at Capybara Games.

Previously Aztez (Aztez.com), a two-person project. I was the programming half.

Other things: Founding advisor of the Independent Games Summit (inside GDC) + 10 years. Independent Games Festival co-chair at one point. Still host TIGSource/TIGForums.

Wrote the submission/judging backends for both GDC and IGF.

Unicycled through Vietnam and parts of Africa! And sometimes photographer, sometimes downtempo DJ (https://www.mixcloud.com/gannett/)

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