624: Do Less Math in Computers

• 🗣️ New ATP Movie Club • Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home • Follow-up:

• Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)

• Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen • ship next-generation CarPlay • Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment •

Lenovo Legion Go S

Ryan London • is trolling John

Black Brown

• John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has

• Hyperspace scrolling updates

AppKit • vs. WebKit NSCell • vs. NSTableViewCell Every UUID Writing down every UUID

• Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)

• Casey’s notification/LED project

• Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted

Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration ratgdo

ESP32 •

ESPHome

• Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips • ‽ (via Kiel Olesen)

WS2812B Candy buttons

• Historical commission application process

• Switch replacement options:

HomeSeer HS-WX300 • (via Drew Stephens • )

Inovelli Smart Dimmer • (via everyone, including Drew Stephens • )

DeepSeek • causes a tech stock sell-off •

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber Ben Thompson’s FAQ DeepSeek-V3 paper DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o? • R1 is more open than Open • AI

OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought

Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng • R1 censorship

Example 1 Example 2 • (via Greg Pierce)

Example 3 • (via Gruber)

Prompt engineering The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor

• Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development

x86 images on Apple Silicon

Members-only • ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits • ✌️

…and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin • ✌️

…and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay Wall Street Journal coverage The Last King of Scotland

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