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by aenis 4y ago
I had a m1 mbp and have used three external monitors from day one. Used a startech 3x4k hub for that. It uses display link - which is sw-based rendering. Worked like a charm for dev work. You likely couldnt tell that from directly connected
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by aenis 5y ago
I had a weird one. Got covid and my taste for alcohol got ...corrupted. For the first 200ms of a sip of wine or beer it tasted normally, and then a wave of extremely bitter aftertaste would come and drown all the other tastes. It lasted a f
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by aenis 5y ago
I bought two identical 3x 4k docks from Startech, and used them for M1 and M1 Max macbooks. One of them developed a very loud coil whine. No other problems, but it was too loud to be used alongside a dead silent laptop. The other is fine. D
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by aenis 5y ago
I have two 3x4k display Startech hubs, and one developed a very audible coil whine, the other did not. It was so bad it landed in a drawer. Otherwise both worked fine allowing me to drive 3 screens on the OG M1 mbp. They each cost around 35
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by aenis 5y ago
Not sure if anyone made that claim in this thread. It is however true that "an average person in portugal" can get around 1.5 mac mini m1 and not 0.5 as you claimed. Given that a computer may easily last someone 10 years of usage,
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by aenis 5y ago
Lynx? Lynx still works for a lot of sites I frequent.
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by aenis 5y ago
I have those 6 screens plugged to two different macs, so just 3 on each. Big screen in the center, and two in portrait mode on the sides. One uses 43" 4k for the center screen, the other uses a 34" ultrawide. The m1 max drives its
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by aenis 5y ago
Same here. Great computer. The only thing I am missing is a bit more reliable support for waking up external monitors. Between my now two m1/m1 max macs and 6 screens I use, one (an Asus 2k display which is slow to wake up from sleep)
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by aenis 5y ago
Right, but that would hardly serve any practical purpose, as one still couldn't plug an off the shelf m.2 device and expect it to work. So - why constrain yourself with someone elses connector design if if adds no value?
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by aenis 5y ago
Reporting to a guy who reports to (a member of) the executive board of a company.
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by aenis 5y ago
Can totally relate. I, too, run from boring stuff instead of trying to fix it. 20 years in corporate structures told me its a war of attrition. The departments and people who like stupid, boring games introduced into the workplace have orde
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by aenis 5y ago
The takeaways are limited, IMHO. Yes, in software engineering ingenious, simple, sometimes a bit crude solutions exist and can solve otherwise complex problems. More often than not, overly complicated, endless stacks of abstractions are dev
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by aenis 5y ago
Within reason. I use type annotations solely as means of documenting code, with the added benefit of having autosuggest work all of the time. I am one of those guys who put a lot of comments in their code.
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by aenis 5y ago
On fasting days, just walking and low intensity cardio. Working as usual. No food, just water. On feasting days, anything I wanted. Incl. Pizza for breakfast :-)
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by aenis 5y ago
And for those who dont want a dog, listening to audiobooks while walking for fitness is a great way not to lose the time.
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by aenis 5y ago
Yeah, this! I was doing 13,000km by bike every year for years and kept gaining weight until I hit 122.5kg. I was able to go on a 40km hike, cycle for 200km and bench press my body weight easily, but kept getting heavier. I stopped all excer
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by aenis 5y ago
+made themselves wholly dependent on the brutally pragmatic China.
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by aenis 5y ago
As as is always the case, the docs are immediately out of date vs. the actual implementation :-)
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by aenis 5y ago
Topre all the way. I have now four of those, and the one I like the most is the PFU variant with 45g uniformly weighted keys. Being able to adjust the actuation point is great for the occasional gaming session. They are also very silent, es
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by aenis 5y ago
That would not be unusual for Russia, and they'd first threat to throw out your immediate family. In the soviet era, there was a period of political persecution focused on people suspect of having gold or hard currencies. People would
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by aenis 5y ago
I echo this sentiment, and I am from Poland, with much colder winters. We could stop using it for heating, spend the year preparing for winter, spend a lot on insulation and then electricity, and dress warmer -- but we'd reduce the dep
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by aenis 5y ago
Maybe the word that better describes it is 'systemically' or 'meticulously'. When I am in a mood to get drunk, I will prepare by buying the alcohol, invite friends, prepare the food, and then get myself piss drunk. Not s
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by aenis 5y ago
What if he is actually mad? Maybe terminally ill and not minding the scorched earth he'd leave behind? Luckily, this is Russia. There is always someone willing to stab the tzsar in the back when the time comes.
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by aenis 5y ago
Once you have as much as Putin, have toadies listening to your every whim and reinforcing every paranoia -- its easy to just start doing stupid things. Small people do it all the time, at smaller scales, big despots go big. Thats why the mo
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by aenis 5y ago
I dont think so. I'd think Echo chambers are created by lack of diversity in the user base. I think HN has a lot of actual diversity, and its possible to see controversial topics disputed without unceremonial downvoting.
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by aenis 5y ago
Ukraine is still a kleptocracy. The money would be largely stolen. Also, there is no such thing as "irrevocably". Ukraine had just such irrevocable security guarantees granted when they agreed to let go of their nuclear inheritanc
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by aenis 5y ago
Not sure about the parent poster, but I am here mostly for the comments, and rarely visit the linked content.
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by aenis 5y ago
Precisely. If one pays me $100 to not say "cucumber" today, thats not censorship. If one tells me not to say "heil hitler!" at their garden party, thats also not censorship. Surely there are other garden parties where su
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by aenis 5y ago
Except that they clearly never tried to incentivize customers into frequent upgrades. Quite unlike most other brands that have a habit of dying months out of warranty. Anecdata: In my wive's house, we have a Miele wasching machine from
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by aenis 5y ago
I've used Miele appliances for 3 decades now. Somehow, until recently, they managed to provide excellent quality and durability without spying on their users and releasing half baked firmwares in need of updates.

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