gordonmcdowell
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gordonmcdowell
@gordonmcdowell.bsky.social
Video editor. Programmer. Had a strong dislike of creamed corn long before even watching Twin Peaks. Supporter of nuclear power, both boring and not.
Had one hour in an Apple Store with an iPhone 17 Pro and it wasn’t enough time to fully explore one question: Dual Camera capture, is it 2x 4K or 1080P?

Answer: DoubleTake UI is buggy. Says 4K but shoots 1080P. Toggling camera choices gets around the bug.
September 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
GPC Green Party of Canada's Elizabeth May is delaying member's vote on nuclear power policies, including a proposal to lift GPC's blanket opposition against #nuclear power. According to United Nations ECE lifecycle report, nuclear is THE single LOWEST-CARBON source of electricity. #cdnpoli
September 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
AppleCare+ is constant regardless of RAM or SSD storage. iPhone 17 Pro: 256GB or 1TB storage both (AppleCare) $13.49/mo.

"That's $1600 CAD or $2200 phone, not a crazy delta!"

MBP 16" MAX: $5500 CAD to $10,300. Same $190/yr AC+!

One can "budget" to fixed $, but AC+ will be different.
September 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Carlo, I'm trying to replicate this and I'm getting "400 bad request" errors as a try shoubleshoot with Proxyman.

I'm going to be pursuing other approaches (now looking at your toolbox and also you mentioned OpenRouter AI) but I'm still keen on figuring this out if you can suggest anything.
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
MacBook Pro 2012, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and 2 supposedly Mini DisplayPort cables. Only 1 of them fits. What the F is going on? I only had the not-fitting one on-hand at first, and felt like I was losing my mind... it does NOT fit, so what is it? (The other end on both cables is HDMI.)
May 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Nissan Versa sunroof stuck? Here's how I used Allen Wrench to manually close it. (And lubricate it so as-to unstick it.)

Plastic was broken! Useless, pointless plastic. Get the hell out-of-my-way plastic. DIE PLASTIC DIE plastic.

Anyway, our 2010 Nissan Versa sunroof was stuck, this was a fix.
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Next Canadian (gov) website tool for inspecting import and exports...

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-60...

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-60...

...as it has CAD$ value of electricity imports and exports not just volume, in a cute little graph.
February 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@canadaland.com Justin Trudeau & Doug Ford have both commented on how nuclear is needed to power new data centres in Canada.

AI is forcing big-tech to "come clean" about fake clean-energy claims, paying for "clean energy" at times they actually burn dirty energy. AI loads too big to obfuscate.
January 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Microsoft's deal to restart of TMI (Three Mile Island) to power data centres. Insight from David Brown of Constellation Energy.
January 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Apple Photos: We are going to used Shared Album to share our yearly photos. I assumed we could create a Smart Album with the desired content, and copy/paste into the Shared Album. (Since Shared Albums don't re-sort chronologically by photo-date. And this is iterative.)
December 21, 2024 at 7:29 AM
This Radiant Energy report on restarting German nuclear is a thing of beauty.
December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
How does one power AI data centers? Burning hot carnal passion for #nuclear power. At APEC 2024 (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Leaders’s Summit in Peru, Justin Trudeau touting Canadian CANDU, MONARK and SMR.
November 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Inside the cardboard box is a consumer box with Meta Quest 3s.

Had no idea if there was consumer packaging at all.
November 17, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Costco was selling MetaQuest 3s so picked one up. When does one ever see a cardboard box of these dimensions? Never in my life…

Except for the movie Seven.

The box is reassuringly light.
November 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the closing of German nuclear power plants, and the keeping of Diablo Canyon in California running.
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Testing video again. Nothing to see here.
November 12, 2024 at 3:49 AM
@whatisnuclear.com I am just experimenting. Square videos. OK. Oh, captions are uploaded in .VTT ok, that is a thing?
November 9, 2024 at 6:45 AM