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 OpenAI
    • 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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