jamesfmilne

Second System Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Coined by Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man-Month" in 1975.

You need to enable the Screen Saver module in the Afterglow settings first. Works great.

Yes it works, but you need to enable it in the Afterglow settings first.

Yeah, I worked in Soho for about 14 years and most Thursdays were out at the Pillars of Hercules or Dog & Duck. Fridays are for the out-of-towners.

The company has moved to Bermondsey now, and to be fair the drinks-after-work culture seems to still going fairly strong around this part of town.

The biggest spanner in the works has been my cohort all having kids and not having the spare time to socialise after work.

Definitely miss all that. My liver & pancreas don't miss it though, so it's probably for the best.

That's the maximum delay when adding a delay for synchronising with other sources.

The end-to-end delay is about 10ms, according to this comment:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/i...

I've had great results using JPEG-XS to transport video for colour grading in feature film & TV post production. At 3:1 or 4:1 compression ratio is effectively lossless.

It is patent-encumbered though, you have to pay license fees to deploy it.

Yeah, we've been deploying JPEG-XS for high bitrate streaming for a while.

A lot of our customers are moving their grading systems into data centres and streaming the images over IP back to their grading suites.

I've got it down to less than 1 frame for encode-transport-decode, but you've still got to copy the image to an SDI card and wait for that to clock out.

Life imitates art

The Mountainhead https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35396529/

macOS ships with drivers for Mellanox ConnectX cards, but I have no idea if they will show up in `ibv_devices` or `ibv_devinfo`.

I found some useful clues here. Looks like it uses the regular InfiniBand RDMA APIs.

https://github.com/Anemll/mlx-rdma/commit/a901dbd3f9eeefc628...

Anyone found any APIs related to this?

I'd have some other uses for RDMA between Macs.

Bravo!

Same, haven't had any problems with IPv6 via Hyperoptic. He might just be unlucky having some defective equipment upstream.

I'm on Hyperoptic and use IPv6 regularly. Pretty sure it was enabled by default.

I haven't had the same problems this guy has, although I do believe his issues are real.

If you find yourself needing to install Windows 11 for some reason (I'm doing my best to avoid it), you can try this to create a stripped-down Windows 11 installer with most of the crap removed:

https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/tiny11-builder-sep...

JPEG-XS is great for low latency, but it uses more bandwidth. We're using it for low-latency image streaming for film/TV post production:

https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/store/press_releases/filmlight-...

We currently use the IntoPIX CUDA encoder/decoder implementation, and SRT for the low-level transport.

You can definitely achieve end-to-end latencies <16ms over decent networks.

We have customers deploying their machines in data centres and using them in their post-production facilities in the centre of town, usually over a 10GbE link. But I've had others using 1GbE links between countries, running at higher compression ratios.

I've been paying for YouTube premium for probably 2 years now. Never had any inserted ads. Only the "this video is sponsored by" stuff, which you can just skip over.

I can't possibly go back to non-Premium YouTube, and if they mess around with Premium I'll probably be moving on from YouTube.

Yeah DAT was big in electronic music.

Everyone in DnB documentaries talks about going to Music House with DATs to get dubplates cut to play in the clubs later on that evening.

This would have been before CD-Rs were commonplace, early 90s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnB/s/hl1MiCvzqD

Could be a candidate for Tiny Tapeout in the future.

https://tinytapeout.com

And unfortunately they have had to lay off half their studio:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/half-of-myst-developer-cyan-wo...

The news from a lot of games studios has been pretty brutal over the last couple of years.

Would be nice if git could make use of this on macOS.

Each worktree I usually work on is several gigs of (mostly) identical files.

Unfortunately the source files are often deep in a compressed git pack file, so you can't de-duplicate that.

(Of course, the bigger problem is the build artefacts on each branch, which are like 12G per debug/release per product, but they often diverge for boring reasons.)

As a North London resident, the parking app situation is just as farcical for me.

There are at least three different apps for parking around me: RingGo, PayByPhone and JustPark.

I went to East London recently to visit the Velodrome, and discovered yet another one: Evology.

It's always great fun, standing around in the car park trying to wrangle your cards whilst creating yet another account to pay for 30 minutes of parking.

Then, of course, there's the 50/50 chance that my iPhone has decided to offload the parking app you need because you haven't used it in the last month or so.

And occasionally RingGo will decide to log me out, and when I go to log back in for some reason the last password I have in my password manager doesn't work, so now I also have to reset my password.

Agreed, paying for parking has turned into a total farce.

I was under the impression you can't ship FFMPEG in an app on iOS/tvOS/iPadOS anyway given FFMPEG is licensed as LGPL.

If you are experiencing digital noise in the output, like buzzing or clicking that correlates either activity on your computer, try installing a ground loop isolator in between your computer and speakers.

This is essentially a mini transformer that physically isolates speaker/amp from the computer to isolate any power related noise.

They are dead cheap on Amazon these days.

Other than that, a USB DAC might help. You don't need an expensive one, which are mainly expensive due to inputs & microphone preamps. The main benefit will be a reduced noise floor/less background hiss, although that can also come from the amp driving your speakers.

Also on The Grauniad

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...

Yes, Apple Screen Sharing is built in. It's based on VNC. You can definitely run it from another Mac, although it's not a great experience with other VNC clients on Windows or Linux. They appear to have their own encoding via VNC, based on H264 or HEVC, and falling back to the encodings supported by other clients is pretty laggy.

NoMachine runs alright on macOS.

My colleague in Tokyo has 10Gb internet in his apartment.

The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed

HW RAID is dead, they need to get over it.

We've had good experience with Xinnor, but it's a shame it's proprietary.

I'd love to see a high-performance open-source erasure coding solution for NVMe. The built in offerings in Linux are not cutting it.

We offered an LED light source for both Northlight 1 and 2 as an upgrade over the previous metal halide bulb light source.

https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/pdf/datasheets/FL-NL-DS-0566-NL...