Clojurians Log v2

TIL: If your Mac CPU gets too hot, kernel task "steals" CPU cycles to prevent other processes from using the CPU in order to try to cool it down. It's 105F in my house right now and the kernel task is using 800% of my CPU to prevent me doing anything that would heat the CPU up 😒

wut. why doesn't it just throttle processor clocks

I think that's actually what it is doing -- but the Activity Monitor reports it as kernel_task using all your CPU. It actually managed to claim 1,495% CPU just a while ago. I now have two fans blowing on it, and two ice packs propped up against the front, where the air intake slots are 😐

that whole setup sounds like it could be an $800 dongle instead

are you sure you're not charging your macbook from the wrong side 😛 ? https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933

@smith.adriane This is a 2012 iMac desktop.

(I just ordered a Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 to essentially replace it)

lucky! my old macbook broke and I had to "upgrade" to a bunch of dongles, lame keyboard, and stupid touch bar.

to be fair, my laptop is now a few mm thinner

MS had a great deal on some of the SL3's -- $300 off for certain colors/CPU/RAM combos.

So this is really a replacement for my 2012 Dell XPS 12 "2-in-1" which cost about $1,500 back then with only 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD. So that isn't really work-capable but this new laptop should be, and I'm about at the end of my rope with Apple these days (after being a loyal customer since the very early '90s!). I just replaced my iPhone with an Android phone. The Dell was already a replacement for my previous MBP. I've moved all my contacts, photos, and music to the cloud (Google/YouTube) so I'm not dependent on Apple's iCloud stuff, and I've run mostly MS apps on my iPhone and Mac for years anyway... The whole WSL stuff on Windows is what I finally needed to break free of development on Mac systems.

I have to do iOS development for work which is just enough of a pain on other platforms that I've been reluctant to make the jump away from iComputers. maybe when this laptop dies...

I've had this one for a couple of years and like it. I WFH full time so it gets used pretty much every day. I got it on sale at Costco for I think <$250 in store, not sure if they still carry it. https://www.twinstarhome.com/products/desks/ashford-standing-desk/

My only real gripe was that the glass top plus the tall but narrow metal rail underneath made it difficult to find a monitor arm that worked. I ended up having to glue a block of MDF to the underside in one corner for the arm to clamp down on. As it turns out I probably could've saved some money because I use it standing almost exclusively and don't really need the motorized adjustments, but didn't know I'd prefer standing so much when I first purchased.

recently went to a Surface Pro X from an XPS 13 after using a previous-gen surface pro for a few months on a contract assignment. Really liked how the Surface type cover was essentially the same footprint as my XPS but managed to have a much bigger/usable keyboard.

the 3:2 displays on the new surfaces are nice too

Do you do development on the Pro @chuck.cassel?

I wasn't really intending to initially, but I've ended up using it for dev quite a bit.

most of the work I've done in clojure has been on it since I got it a few months ago

I thought the Pro X ran a non-Intel chip? I wouldn't have expected it to be a good dev machine...

with WSL it ends up being not too much of a problem

Interesting that pretty much all of Microsoft's i7 16GB/256GB devices are $1,499 -- the Pro 7, the Pro X, and the Laptop 3!

Yeah, that's what I'll be using on my Laptop 3 when it arrives (on Thursday 🙂 )

it can do x86 emulation, so between that and linux aarch64 I've been able to find some version of most software I wanted

I've been using an adhoc hand me down standing desk for many years and recently made a new pair of legs to make it less adhoc. My design for the "new" desk started with wanting to make it a built in, hang it from the wall, open up all the space under the desk. The existing base was similar to what you see for a lot of these standing desks. Capital I (in a serif font) shaped pillars connected by a rail low down and with the top across (very much like that picture). And that is a nice sturdy shape and design, and deals with moving up and down very well, it the bar on the bottom breaks up the space under the desk and makes it harder to use for storage and makes the back of the desk dead space (assuming it is against a wall at home).

So I very much recommend (if you are fine with a fixed height) just mounting a desktop(maybe an ikea counter top) to the wall, with supports underneath

Ah, interesting. Thanks!

But I am renting (and just moved, so the pain of that is fresh) so I made some big beefy C(squared though) shaped legs, where the lower support is back against the wall, so I have a huge amount of unbroken under desk space for storage

that's interesting on the price, that definitely wasn't the case when I bought. I think the i7/16/256 laptop was around $200 more than the 16/256 X at that time.

yeah, I've considered doing something similar wherever my next home office happens to be. I don't actually have enough contiguous wall space for a desktop here because both interior 'walls' are faux archways into other rooms and the exterior walls have lots of windows (not complaining). I thought about wall mounting the monitor arm with a pull-out keyboard/mouse tray but I do like having some actual desktop space to make a mess on also.

I recently switched my thinking from language to runtime. Therefore I’d pick either a JVM or an Erlang-based language. Definitely not Python or Ruby or Node. Haskell/Ocaml might suffer from ecosystem issues (eg can you find a production ready database driver?). I’m clueless about .NET but I think it’s also a solid foundation.

The SL3 in blue is $1,299 right now in that configuration (down from $1,599). The Pro 7 and Pro X are both $1,499 right now (without a Type Cover which is $90 in the basic form or $160 in the luxury versions!). If they'd been doing a similar deal on the Pro 7, I'd have probably gone with that because I really value the portability of that format. But $1,300 is basically my "ding" price for a "cheap, portable, work-ready machine".

I've been on the JVM since 1997. I've learned quite a few languages that don't run on the JVM, but the only things I'm ever going to be able to introduce where I've worked are languages that do run on the JVM (natively, not some second-class port like JRuby).

(I was so hopeful for both Frege and Eta...)

that's a great deal, mine was $1400 altogether with the upgraded cover/pen. I was specifically looking at either the pro 7 or X because I was anticipating using it on campus for OneNote, etc, (which turned out to be wishful thinking).

The manual ikea standing desks are not bad and cheap. The base is a tank, and the same base is used for both models size (it extends) , so you can replace the top easily if you want and make it larger.

Golang works well enough but I don't find it enjoayble to write. I write some Go at work and the best part is how easy it's to get things into production and move on.

Also Go code is very maintainable after the fact, and by other people. The lack of abstractions makes it mostly easy to read and understand (and change).

Best IRC clients for Mac?

@cjsauer ssh to a server and connect to an irssi running under tmux?

@cjsauer I used Colloquy for years and really liked that (but I no longer use IRC at all).

I was never an IRCer but was forced into it for one project. I used https://www.codeux.com/textual/ and found it worked well.

Thanks. I’ve been playing around with Haskell and it seems like the majority of peeps hang around in the IRC channel. I haven’t used IRC since uni and I was on Linux then…

Yeah, there's still a devoted core of Clojurians on #clojure on freenode

Cool, just joined. I see a handful of familiar names.