Requires MacOS 15 or later, so it won't run on my machine.

Does it really require MacOS 15, or have you just joined Apple in destroying the planet with relentless unnecessary upgrades and ignorantly set your requirements in XCode?

That’s fair. The app is built and validated against the current MLX / Metal stack and a few other dependencies. Supporting older macOS versions would mean untested or degraded behavior, which I’m avoiding for now.

Well, just use your USB spectrometer, of course.

...you do have a USB spectrometer, don't you?

I have mine in my bedside drawer. I use it almost as often as my multimeter.

Does yours measure wavelengths that short? A lot of low cost spectrometers don't, because inexpensive glass and plastic optics transmit visible and near-IR radiation but significantly impair shorter UV wavelengths.

Do you have a recommendation for an inexpensive one? I’ve worked with OceanOptics Flame series, but they’re not exactly cheap, and their software was crap.

I need to get one :)

I thought I was having a stroke while reading that, and then I realized it was just AI slop.

Not really from scratch if it uses the SDL2 library. I'd try it if I had the first clue how to resolve this dependency without obtaining a university degree in the subject. Or if the README gave the slightest hint about how to proceed.

It may not be the flex you think it is to leave the SDL2 part as an "exercise for the reader". I don't think it would really affect the size of the data hoard on github if everyone who used an obscure and difficult-to-install library as the basis of their project explained how to get it. Isn't gatekeeping fun and cool?

Nothing any of us have ever done is “from scratch”. Even a carpenter who planted an acorn and waited 80 years to harvest the wood to make a chair probably didn’t mine the iron ore used to make her axe.

Here is how you install SDL2 on a Mac (copy and pasted from Google):

  brew install sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_mixer sdl2_ttf

Can it do anything useful? From the prompts it looks like a learning exercise only that can generate nonsense for toddlers.

I get that it is a learning exercise, but I find learning exercises to be a complete waste of time if the end point isn't something useful.

Segfault at start on 14.7.7.

Or, and follow me for a minute here, what if everything people tell each other without supporting evidence is just nonsense, particularly when it is self-aggrandizing and intended to control others by emotional manipulation?

What, and I'm just blue-skying this here, if we're a random occurrence consisting of locally decreased entropy evolved on a chaotic substrate?

Or maybe, and this is just a what-if, we're just stochastic phenomena telling ridiculous stories to each other in a doomed and nonsensical search for meaning?

I'm not saying that humanity is the stupidest thing that ever existed and called itself sentient, but maybe think about that possibility for just one second before tripping off into mushroom-level miracle stories.

I merged https://github.com/angristan/MacThrottle/pull/2 to make it work on macOS 15. macOS 14 probably works, feel free to try it out and open a PR to lower the required version if it's the case

How unfortunate that the first line of that article contains a racial slur. Does the race of the pickpocket make any difference?

You may not realize that the Romani were victimized by the NAZIs or that they have been vilified because their traditionally nomadic lifestyle conflicted with the bourgeois mores of the shopkeeper class, but in the age of the Internet it's not too hard to figure that out.

Let's keep the overt racism to a minimum, please.

Once again, this is fantastic news for mice!