NathanielK

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by NathanielK 4y ago
> Working from home has convinced me that a lot of western people don't really need more than one meal a day A different way to look at it would be that a lot of Western people are too sedentary for more than one meal a day. Not onl
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by NathanielK 4y ago
One of the biggest reasons LCDs are so inefficient is that they block most of the light. Each R/G/B subpixel blocks everything that isn't that colour and turns it into heat. The polarizer also has to block all the light that
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by NathanielK 4y ago
Just duct tape a USB-C power bank to any modern ultra low power laptop. Especially ones with optional GPUs that don't have one installed. There's even software to treat them like the secondary batteries laptops used to have as an
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by NathanielK 4y ago
Business users might get different defaults from their admin.
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by NathanielK 4y ago
Zoom is really bad for this. On my old thinkpad there is a "mute" button on the keyboard. When you press it, it mutes the mic in windows sound settings and turns an indicator light. I've had Zoom un-mute the mic itself with n
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Some batteries like deWalts's flexvolt system do allow rearranging the cells. They go full series so you can run efficient 60V tools off them, but swith to partly parallel to charge on a standard 20V charger.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Batteries have "C" rating which is how many times you can charge or discharge them in an hour. This magic number is closely linked to battery chemistry. A "6C" battery can be charged in 10 minutes as long as you have the
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by NathanielK 5y ago
They use CoTS LPDDR memory chips running at the same JEDEC timings as everyone else. Yes, they glue these chips to an interposer board like a GPU with HBM, but unlike those GPUs they aren't doing it for any performance requirements. Ke
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Why? Exerting yourself and pumping out the watts forces your body to adapt to that and become stronger. Certainly better than being "efficient" and letting your body adapt to being sedentary.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
$15/yr for the premium version that removes ads. The original game that doesn't connect to the internet is removed from newer versions of Windows.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
I'm still not sure why the NES Virtual Console palette was so dark. My most guess was that it was trying to stay out of the automatic-brightness-limiter range that CRT TVs at the time had. This way the dynamic range between levels was
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by NathanielK 5y ago
It's really neat when the big boys end up doing it right in an accessible way. Nintendo's Virtual Console(VC) releases on the Wii support a lovely 240p over composite/s-video/component. This makes it easy for novices to
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by NathanielK 5y ago
This is very neat! It looks like a spatial version of a popular technique MPV uses for temporal interpolation. [0] As other commenters mentioned, "perfect" scaling is all personal preference. In my experience it does a good job wi
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Microsoft paywalled Solitaire, never underestimate corporate greed.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Many dealerships install them on all the new cars on the lot, along with protective films and the like. This lets them have a reason for the list price to be well above MSRP without it being a straight dealer surcharge.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
The clips that let you fasten it to the collar of your shirt are life changing. Completely elimates the weight of the rest of the cord from your ears and any weirdness when you move your head. I wish more headphones and IEMs came with one i
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Oh man, 24FPS shakey cam was rough. Glad it's mostly gone away, it was a good way to get motion sick.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
RTINGs is doing an excellent job in this space. They have a public queue where subcribers can vote on the next product they buy to review.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
Low rigidity in shop tools leads to sadness. Even cutting thin pieces of sheetmetal can be miserable if the blade doesn't stay straight. Sticking with wood or plastic on cheap saws/drills/mills can be ok, but really limits th
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by NathanielK 5y ago
The parallax in the video is just a tool since photographs don't have any real depth perception like our eyes do. The small leaves on the foreground and the big leaves in the background enhance the illusion, since they're about th
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by NathanielK 5y ago
That's true, it's just a nuisance to set UI scale on them. 1.5x works, but feels like 1440p and everything isn't that much sharper. 1x is like using FHD on a small laptop where you need to squint for everything, and 2x is jus
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by NathanielK 5y ago
I find SpeedCrunch can be very useful along side excel once you get a feel for it. Often I use SpeedCrunch's unit conversion and SI prefix features to distill all the magic numbers I need and double check my formula. After that, creati
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by NathanielK 5y ago
That's one of my favourite advantages of free software. No worries about licensing, any computer I pull out of a dumpster gets a full suite of powerful software I'm familiar with.
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by NathanielK 5y ago
A little bit jank, but there is also a port for android available[0]. It still has SI prefixes and unit conversion, but you need to have a good keyboard to really take advantage of it. [0] https://github.com/mikkosyrja/
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by NathanielK 5y ago
> What I notice is that despite aspect ratios becoming wider, the monitors have pretty consistently also become taller in absolute measure. Dell 3007WFP and the Apple Cinema HD display were both ~16" tall. They're over 15 years
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by NathanielK 5y ago
The GP comment is specifically refering to monitors used for working with video that's presumably already recorded at <=60FPS. That might be an edge case for general users, but for the people forking big bucks for monitors, it'
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by NathanielK 5y ago
> The other thing that's absolutely essential for using these larger format monitors is window management software and in general a more keyboard/macros focused workflow. I've also found a few tweaks to make it much easier
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by NathanielK 5y ago
> The only teeny tiny problem is that it's visibly slow, even for a 60 Hz TFT. If it really bugs you, basically all scalers (brainbox for the LCD display signal) can handle 75-85Hz, since that was part of the VESA crt spec back then
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by NathanielK 5y ago
The perimetry of human vision is a bit more complex than that. It varies by person, but each eye sees a bit of an odd shaped blob[0]. It'd be hard to generalize to several decimal places exactly what aspect ratio rectangle best fills i
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by NathanielK 5y ago
> Though you can technically do it, I found most things just don't work well with a 1080 monitor in this mode: 960 wide just isn't enough. Even a lot of websites don't really work properly, and a lot go into mobile layout.

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