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Tabelogged: 3diner

I visited this restaurant on December 15, 2019, and gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog.

Name: 3diner
Description: 大和八木、畝傍、八木西口/ステーキ、アメリカ料理、洋食

Which Google translates into English as:

Name: 3diner
Description: Yamato Yagi, Unebi, Yagi West Exit/Steak, American food, Western food

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Maintainable: Learn the Runtime

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Robby Russell had me on his podcast to discuss, among other things, the value in learning the fundamentals beneath whatever framework you're using.

Appearing on: Maintainable
Published on: 2019-10-14
Original URL: https://maintainable.fm/episodes/justin-searls-learn-to-understand-the-runtime-C6e05XWb

Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co

Tabelogged: 百日紅

I visited this restaurant on October 14, 2019, and gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog.

Name: 百日紅
Description: 新宿三丁目、新宿、新宿御苑前/つけ麺、ラーメン

Which Google translates into English as:

Name: Crape Myrtle
Description: Shinjuku 3-chome, Shinjuku, Shinjuku Gyoemmae/Tsukemen, Ramen

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Testing Tools & Tips: Stuff

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Applitools used to have a podcast called "Testing Tools & Tips", but they appear to have completely scrubbed it from the Internet. Oh well!

Appearing on: Testing Tools & Tips
Published on: 2019-07-05
Original URL: 🤷‍♂️

Comments? Questions? Suggestion of a podcast I should guest on? podcast@searls.co

Cramming a gaming GPU into your MacBook Pro

…without actually doing that

How we got here

After Apple released its (soon-to-be) previous generation Mac Pro, it probably didn't take long for them to realize they had a trash can fire on their hands, especially with regards to GPU performance. When Apple announced eGPU support for macOS in 2017's High Sierra release, it was hard not to see the announcement as anything more than an admission that Apple's top-of-the-line desktops and notebooks shipped with subpar GPUs due to their severe thermal constraints. Of course, because Apple has never considered AAA gaming to be an important function of its products, the Mac has always lagged behind Windows in GPU availability and support. But by 2017 (and until the new Mac Pro tower releases this fall), the situation has been especially grim: even for workstation tasks like video encoding and 3D modeling, the internal GPUs Apple has been selling are so bad that they're driving a nontrivial number of creative professionals—a market Apple actually does care about—off its platform.

The world may be excited to close the door on the ill-conceived trash can Mac Pro, but if it hadn't been for its glaring design flaws, Apple and Intel probably wouldn't have prioritized the engineering needed to make running an eGPU over Thunderbolt 3 a commercial reality.

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