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by ianhowson 6y ago
I'll second that. I found that the height off the desk put pressure on my wrists and shoulders. The wrist pads get sweaty and gross and wear out very quickly. It's still a great design. Also every person that walks by your desk wi
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by ianhowson 6y ago
Not yet -- ask me in two weeks! I found enough reports on Reddit that I figured it was worth trying, and I used a Kinesis Advantage for a long time. If you haven't used a Kinesis, I would recommend buying or borrowing one first. The pr
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by ianhowson 6y ago
Google 'dactyl' and 'dactyl manuform'. It's relatively cheap to get the cases 3D printed. Most people are hand-wiring the switches rather than trying to make flex PCBs.
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by ianhowson 6y ago
Right. Say -- pessimistically -- that I'm on a 5k display (14Mpixels) at 8 bytes per pixel, and double buffered, we can do about 35 copies of that display in GPU RAM. This seems about in line with my experience. And this is where I don
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by ianhowson 6y ago
Can confirm. My data points: 1. MacBook 12" 2015 feels dramatically faster at 1x scaling vs. 2x, even with the same output resolution (2560x1440@1x vs. 1280x720@2x.) 2. Mac with 8GB RX 580 GPU. With >1x scaling, as I add load (i.e
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by ianhowson 6y ago
I use it. I wish I didn't need to.
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by ianhowson 6y ago
Agreed. MacBook Air has quad-core in similar clock ranges but tops out at 16GB of RAM. Pay an extra $1300-ish for Pro, you can get 32GB of RAM. There's literally nothing else in this refresh that's compelling. And the only reason
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by ianhowson 7y ago
I got new AirPods and loved it for about an hour. "Hey Siri, open Spotify." "Hey Siri, next track" and so on while I was walking around. I'm spending most of my day on conf calls, so the AirPods are in anyway. Then
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Hah. I'm trying to find a non-dorky way to clip it to my belt. It's my "hey I gotta go to a meeting and take notes but I don't want to mess up my desktop" laptop.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
I carry a 12" in this role and it's great. Surprisingly long battery life, weighs nothing and, assuming you spend most of your time in an editor, fast enough. Downsides are (a) butterfly keyboard and (b) tiny screen. If you do any
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by ianhowson 7y ago
I can't speak to their motives, but here's a WONTFIX bug for it: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80379228
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by ianhowson 7y ago
You reminded me. GPhotos is stripping the GPS data from the photos, which is why I started using iCloud. I just want to take my data from here... and put it there... and not have it trashed along the way. I will pay money for this service.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Can you share the script? Since Google disabled the photos-go-to-GDrive thing I don't have a way to automatically back up my photo stream.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
I really really want this to work, but it doesn't, at least on iPhones. The sync only seems to work while the app is open, it uploads JPEG instead of HEIC, and videos aren't uploaded at all. I would be happy to pay money to make t
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Thankyou. ARM and x86 are both capable of very high performance. ARM isn't magically capable of putting out 10x the FLOPS in the same power envelope. Modern x86 parts are very close to ARM in terms of work completed per unit energy con
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by ianhowson 7y ago
$10/mo doesn't pay for much compute in Google Cloud. Colab Pro is offering GPUs and high memory instances, presumably under the assumption that interactive users will be mostly idle.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
That's the Linux RT patch which (roughly) adds a higher priority class. It's not deterministic in any way.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
+1 for the Havit. It's cheap and feels great. It's noisy, though.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
I bought an MD650L and found the switches to be unusably bad. I, too, wished for a low-profile Quefrency. I'm comfortable designing and assembling PCBs but don't really have time to debug a brand-new design, so I've ordered a
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by ianhowson 7y ago
The tech in this blog post isn't at all representative of BMW at large. There's a ton of 'decade behind' stuff that runs in VMs on Win10 machines.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
CD sampling is 44.1kHz. 22.05kHz is used in plenty of HAs. I haven't seen anything lower (but wouldn't be surprised to learn otherwise) 22kHz sampling isn't a problem in practice as: - HAs focus on speech comprehension, not m
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Interesting argument but I don't buy it. - Digital hearing aids are smaller, lower power and easier to configure than analog hearing aids (think "fits in your ear canal" vs. "you wear the original iPod on your belt"
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by ianhowson 7y ago
If you aren't cost-optimizing that hard, you aren't shipping meaningful volumes yet. 470uF isn't cheap at 10k+ units. My last project couldn't use a giant cap because of size, not cost constraints.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Flash over SPI isn't very predictable. There's a boatload of internal state -- they silently do R/M/W, there's internal stepup converters with unknown voltage levels, temperature variation greatly impacts write ti
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Except that: (a) you don't choose how long you get because the uC manufacturer already chose. (An external brownout warning is different, and useful, but still not a good solution to the problem of FS integrity.) (b) those thresholds h
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by ianhowson 7y ago
This. I also enjoy being able to move the two halves around through the day, shifting the muscular load around. It makes it easy to accommodate different seating, standing and lying positions. (I never figured out, despite 'ergonomics
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Not every TCP server speaks CSRF. This isn't about 'garbage software'; it's about the expectation that a local LAN is not exposed to the Internet and therefore does not need the same security controls that an Internet-fa
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by ianhowson 7y ago
There are. Let them set a setting or confirm on a popup. The vast majority of web users do not want this. Similarly, there are legitimate reasons why I might want to access a service with an invalid SSL cert. They're rare and should be
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by ianhowson 7y ago
You assume that the target is a web server. I can learn lots of interesting things by firing GET requests at non-web servers.
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by ianhowson 7y ago
Is there a legitimate reason why 'other developers' might want to access services on my LAN?

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