624: Do Less Math in Computers

• 🗣️ New ATP Movie Club (atp.fm/join) Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (atp.fm/atp-movie-club-star-trek-iv-the-voyage-…)

• Follow-up:

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

• Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay (macrumors.com/2025/01/23/apple-statement-on-ne…)

• Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment (theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338405/valve-steamos-b…)

• Lenovo Legion Go S (theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338028/lenovo-legion-g…)

• Ryan London (ryanlondon.com) is trolling John

• Black (ryanlondon.com/products/iphone-16-pro-leather-…)

• Brown (ryanlondon.com/products/iphone-16-pro-leather-…)

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

• Hyperspace scrolling updates

• AppKit (developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit) vs. WebKit (webkit.org)

• NSCell (developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscell) vs. NSTableViewCell (developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nstab…)

• Every UUID (everyuuid.com)

• Writing down every UUID (eieio.games/blog/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 (home-assistant.io/integrations/nice_go)

• ratgdo (ratcloud.llc)

• ESP32 (espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32)

• ESPHome (esphome.io)

• Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips (youtube.com/watch?v=kAlMB6mxavw)‽ (via Kiel Olesen)

• cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812B.pdf

• Candy buttons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Buttons)

• Historical commission application process

• Switch replacement options:

• HomeSeer HS-WX300 (homeseer.com/lighting) (via Drew Stephens (hachyderm.io/@dinomite/113880243427805933))

• Inovelli Smart Dimmer (inovelli.com/collections/z-wave-light-switches…) (via everyone, including Drew Stephens (hachyderm.io/@dinomite/113880237542134945))

• DeepSeek (chat.deepseek.com) causes a tech stock sell-off (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/deepseek-spooks-ame…)

• Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber (daringfireball.net/2025/01/siri_is_super_dumb_…)

• Ben Thompson’s FAQ (stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq)

• DeepSeek-V3 paper (arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1)

• DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o? (404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have…)

• R1 is more open than OpenAI

• OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought (openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/…)

• Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng (chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-…)

• R1 censorship

• Example 1 (mastodon.social/@Doctor_J_/113902795500230603)

• Example 2 (mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/113907512093838…) (via Greg Pierce)

• Example 3 (mastodon.social/@gruber/113908508635144282) (via Gruber)

• Prompt engineering (labyrinth.zone/notice/AqYZ21QlAp8TvtwjdQ)

• The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/the-questions-the-c…)

• Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor (mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/113909767719597…)

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

• x86 images on Apple Silicon (forums.docker.com/t/run-x86-intel-and-arm-base…)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup

• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits (theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342179/sonos-ceo-patr…) ✌️

• …and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin (theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343873/sonos-product-…) ✌️

• …and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay (theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344430/sonos-cco-deir…)

• Wall Street Journal coverage (wsj.com/tech/sonos-speakers-app-ceo-24250f2c?s…)

• The Last King of Scotland (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_King_of_Scotland)

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