Aliens Land Here

Richard and Mark discuss Brookhaven, Intel’s stackable CPUs, rev.ai and Ubiquiti networking.

Followup

• The Brookhaven Experiment

• SuperHot

• Nintendo Zapper (buy one)

• Penny Arcade Expo Racing Game

• Lone Echo

• The Matrix Headjack

• Early Access Games and when they fail

• Minecraft making 33 million before it was out of beta

• Space Pirate Trainer

• Metroid Prime VR

• Windlands

• Bionic Commando (and gameplay)

• Accounting+

• Stanley Parable

• Bob Ross and ASMR

• Radios in Video Games

Intel CPUs

• Stackable CPUs (Foveros)

• Larrabee (doing ray tracing)

• Pentium 4 vs Athlon

• x64-64 and cross licensing

• Itanium architecture and The Register calling it Itanic

• Cyrix CPUs

• The Xbox 360 CPU

• Playstation 5 backwards compatibility? Xbox 2 compatibility?

• How L1 and L2 CPU cache works

rev.ai

• rev.ai python api

• rev.ai documentation

• Audacity

• Why do people hate the sound of their own voices

• ASMR podcasts

Ubiquiti Networking Stuff

• UniFi AP AC Pro (buy)

• UniFi AP AC HD (buy)

• MoCA network adapters

• Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG (buy)

• Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key (buy)

• Ubiquiti EdgeRouters

• Apple Networking Replacements

• XKCD - Wifi vs cellular

Aftershow

• Just Shapes and Beats

• RoboCop is an Almost Perfectly Symmetrical Film

• Castlevania Symphony of the Night

• Final Fantasy 1 and Garland

• Celeste

• Roger Ebert: Video Games Can Never Be Art

Mark and Richard talk about more video games, including Doom (2016), Donut County, and various Oculus VR Games.

Mark plays Doom 2016 on PC

• Playing Doom on a 386

• Serious Sam and Gameplay

• Fortnite Dances

Richard plays Donut County

• AnnaPurna Pictures

• Hawking Radiation

• Osmos

• Final Fantasy IV

• The Omphalos hypothesis and its Bertrand Russel’s Five Minute Hypothesis

• Inside the Box and their Game of Thrones Review

Job Simulator on Oculus

• Will it Blend?

• Simcity for SNES Disasters

• Monty Python and the Meaning of Life Restaurant Scene

• Homer Simpson and the Typing Bird and a bonus clip.

• Using Mechanical Turk to break captchas.

• I would play it on a plane, I would play it on a train.

• Surgeon Simulator VR

Quill on Oculus

• Dejarik (Star Wars Space Chess)

• Stardew Valley Monsters

Lucky’s Tale on Oculus

• Super Mario 3d World

• Super Lucky’s Tale on Xbox One

Lone Echo on Oculus

• Other people having motion sickness

Robot Repair (Valve Lab) on Oculus

• GlaDOS in Portal

• GlaDOS in Portal 2

• GlaDOS in Robot Repair

• Valve Can’t Count to 3

Archery (Valve Lab) on Oculus

• Herzog Zwae on Sega Genesis

• Vox Machinae

• Steel Battallion and Gameplay

Misc:

• Shame Bell Deluxe

• About the Drake Equation

• How to Fix BeatSaber custom mods after update

Mark and Richard talk about Sigil, VR, Doom, Donut County and Just Shapes and Beats.

Sigil

• Sigil (Yes, we ended up ordering the physical version…)

• John Romero is So Sorry About Trying to Make you His Bitch

• Hexen Gameplay

• Heretic Gameplay

Stuff About Doom

• List of Songs Doom Music was “inspired by”

• Doom Berserk Pack

• Doom (2016) - (Gameplay)

VR Stuff

• Dumpy Going Elephants - (Gameplay)

• Oculus Dreamdeck Demos - (Demo)

• SuperHot - (Gameplay)

• Beat Saber - (Gameplay)

• Rez Infinite - (Gameplay)

Other Games

• Just Shapes and Beats - (Gameplay Spoiler)

• Donut County - (Gameplay)

• Geometry Wars 2 - (Gameplay)

• Tetris Effect - (Gameplay)

• Lumines Live - (Gameplay)

• The Unspoken

• Katamari Damacy Reroll - (Gameplay)

Misc

• Very Special Episode from the 80s

• Patient Gamers

• Ate my balls

• The World’s End

• What is qCrack

Mark and Richard talk about Richard’s new Mac Mini, and setting up new computers.

Followup

• Problem with race was that Model 3 was electric after all

• Apple hiring qualcomm engineers

• Joel Spolsky - One layer below (Might have actually been mentioned on the Stack Overflow podcast…)

Product Over Time

• Anki Vector

Vector mic diagnostic

Mac Mini

• Synology Richard Uses

• Buy yourself a 40mb hard drive because you hate yourself.

• The Sad Mac

• Western Digital 8TB hard drive Richard Uses

• Backblaze (please sponsor us!)

• FFmpeg and Marco Arment’s 2018 Mac Mini Review

• LG UltraFine 5k

New Installs

• Synology Cloud Station

• Dropbox

• Ubuntu

• Linode

• modern.ie Virtual Machine Images

• Homebrew, Conda, Spack

• Brew Cask

Computer Naming

• Wing Commander 4

• Name Mark’s Computer? Contact us!

Aftershow

• Github vs Gitlab

• Stardew Valley

Mark and Richard talk about changes to Tesla’s offerings, electric incentives and the iPad Pro.

Follow Up

• Reluctance Motors on Model 3.

• Update on Model 3 getting disqualified

• Apple seeking to hire Qualcomm Engineers

• Tesla v9 Software Update - Multiple Apps

Tesla Changes

• Removing Colors

• Red is now $2500, White is now $2000, Blue $1500.

• Price Increases, Rear Seats Gone, no sunroof and less interior options

• No options for Roof Rack - Whispbar?

• If "Real People" Commercials Were Real Life - CHEVY Malibu Parody Ad

• The actual dumb Chevy ad

• Autopilot on Navigate

Macbook Air GPU

• Performance Specs

iPad Pro

• Braun Inspired

• 120hz vs 60hz

• Apple Pencil Charging is Good Design (this article does not age well)

Doing work on an iPad Pro

• Linode nodes

• Prompt 2

• Coda for iOS

Misc:

• Xwin32

• Doom 2016

• Robot or Not

Your Time Is Important To Us - Coming soon!

Mark and Richard talk about the October 2018 Apple event, and a little bit about Coda with VPNs.

Preshow / Misc

• Shut up and take my money

• Apple Logos

• Venue: Brooklyn Academy of Music

• People in Australia hearing us complain about waking up early.

• Less space than a nomad, lame.

• Whole Apple Event in 9 minutes

• iOS 12.1 fakeout

Macbook Air

• Product Page for Macbook Air

• Macbook Air Technical Specifications

• Macbook Technical Specifications

• Steve Jobs announcing Original Macbook Air

• Problems with the 2017 Macbook Pro Butterfly Keys

• Macbook Air Promotional Video

• Wikipedia page on HEVC

• Petition to Free Jony Ive from his White Room

Mac Mini

• Product Page for Mac Mini

• Mac Mini Technical Specifications

• Mac Mini Late 2014 Technical Specifications

• Mac Mini Late 2012 Technical Specifications

• Intel UHD 630 Sad Benchmarks

• Intel NUC and Robocop 2

• Raspberry Pi 3 (ARM) and Nvidia Jetson

Apple Retail

• Today at Apple

• 60 New Sessions at Apple Stores

• Smart Cars are the only thing that will fit in Apple Retail space.

• 24-hour Apple Store

iPad Pro

• Product Page for iPad Pro

• iPad Pro Technical Specifications

• New Apple Pencil and the Logitech Crayon

• NBA 2k on iPad Pro

• Photoshop on iPad.

• 2017 Apple Pencil charging is good design (no it isn’t)

• Jesse Pinkman loves Magnets

Aftershow

• Coda and Transmit

• Coda for iOS

• Proxifier

• FoxyProxy

• iPhones and iPads need multi-user support now

96 Quadrillion subscribers outside of the Sol system, 0.5 inside (rounding error)

Mark and Richard talk about Audio Hijack, Anki Vector, Tesla (again) and Oculus Quest (again)

Followup:

• Oculus Quest indoor only

Tesla Software version 9 update:

• If you want to buy a Tesla, click here.

• Improved situational awareness

• New neural net

• Dash Cam

Audio Hijack:

• Our graphs

Richard’s graph

Mark’s graph

• Difficulty connecting boxes

• Loopback

• Farrago (Sound board)

• srt files

• Trouble building sample code for Google Compute Cloud speech to text

• Temi automated transcription

• Audacity and its UI quirks

• Python script for converting .srt to audacity labels

Product Over Time : Anki Vector

• Anki Drive

  • Apple keynote with Anki

• Cosmo

• Vector waking Richard up

• Companion Cube

• Vector commercial

Aftershow:

• Hopes for a new mac mini

• Emulation of old NES games.

• Balloon Fight!

95 Quadrillion subscribers outside of the Sol system, 0 inside.

Mark and Richard talk about the Teslas that they have owned and driven.

If you want to buy a Tesla, click here.

Richard and Mark’s P90Ds:

• Reasons for our purchases

• Old vs new nose design

• Interior vs Mercedes E or S class

• Dimensions vs BMW 5 & 7 series

• Utility as people haulers

• Purchase experience vs Dealerships

• Guilt-free acceleration

• Creep (or no creep!)

• tred.com

• Bouncy castle

• Driver profiles

• Screaming children

• Software updates

Tesla version 9 software:

• New in version 9

• New Dash Cam feature

• Speed improvements

• FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME CUSTOMIZE MY DISPLAY AGAIN!!!

• FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMEMBER THAT I HAD THE CAMERA UP!!!

• Other people are also angry

• New hardware features on an update (Rear heated seats unlocked)

Model 3:

• turo

• Needs a HUD

• Unique AC

• Handling is great

• Reluctance motor (said inductance in podcast, should have said Reluctance. Oops.)

• Phone entry

• Keycard

• Model 3 owner pulled over

• Woe for lack of good seatbelt extenders

• 3 seatbelt tips vs S seatbelt tips.

Model X:

• Model X-Mas

• Motor trend, Alpha races against Alpha… towed by model X.

90 Quadrillion subscribers outside of the Sol system, 0 inside.

Mark and Richard talk about Oculus Connect and the past, present and future of VR.

Oculus Go:

Oculus Quest:

• 6DOF

• Pricing

• Inside out tracking

• Lady spinning video

• Whoa

• Vader Immortal

• Starwars: Jedi Challenges

• Snapdragon 835

  • Mobile Benchmarks

• Chromatic aberration

• SIFT

• Oculus Rift

• HTC Vive

• Arena scale VR

VR Office/In the workplace:

• Virtual Humans

• Stack Overflow remote first

• 3D Modeling

  • Quill

  • Medium

  • Tilt Brush

• Home remodeling/design

  • Ikea VR

  • Matterport

• Use for education

  • Traditional Molecule construction

Digression into Games:

• Superhot VR

• Rez

• PSVR

• Five Nights at Freddys

• Resident Evil

• Brookhaven

Abrash Predictions

• Foviated Rendering

• Eye Tracking

  • Rage

  • Saccades

  • GANs

  • Autopilot Machine Learning

• Lenses

  • Pancake Lenses

  • Waveguides

• Variable Focus

  • Light Field

  • Magic Leap

    • Palmer Lucky Review

      • Glowing Wires!

    • Hololens

• 3D Sound

  • HRTF

  • ASMR With HRTF

• Hand Tracking/Haptics

  • Gloves

  • Leap Motion

  • Beatsaber

  • Holopoint

• Comfort

  • Starwars : Secrets of the Empire

Distance to Andromeda Galaxy : 2.537 million light years

Mark and Richard talk about our orders, Nintendo Switch Online and the NVIDIA 2080. Bitcoin thrown in for good measure.

Intro:

• Firefly

• Serenity

Our Orders:

• Mark’s phone

• Richard’s phone

• Wallet phone case

• Mark’s watch

• Richard’s watch

• Heart rate sensor changes

iOS 12:

• Screen time

• Sonicare bluetooth toothbrush

• Linus letter to community

• Coda

• subversion

• git

• Password integration

  • 1password

  • keepass

  • lastpass

  • Apple keychain

Nintendo Switch Online:

• NES Classic games

• Virtual Console

• XBox Live Arcade

• Family Plan

• Microsoft Game Pass

• Breakthru

NVIDIA 2080 RTX:

• Ray Tracing

• Starwars demo

• Atomic Heart demo

• Doom 3

  • Source code

• Machine Learning

• Scientific Computing

  • CUDA

  • Rackmount systems

  • NVIDIA’s license agreement

• Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency

  • ASIC

  • Ethereum

• Mac OpenGL Support

• Windows 8/10

• Docker

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