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by zaphoyd 6y ago
Apple has been making and achieving smaller goals with shorter timeframes for a decade now. They committed to and acheived carbon neutrality for their first party operations already and are now incrementally pushing that out to their supply
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by zaphoyd 6y ago
without interlinks an airplane, ship, oil platform, or island could talk to the starlink sat, but the sat couldn't talk to its ground base station to forward their messages to the rest of the internet. Coverage for deep ocean will requ
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by zaphoyd 6y ago
FYI: The Dell P2415Q does have 4K60hz over HDMI as long as you get one manufactured recently. They did a silent spec bump in 2017 or 2018 or so. I use a number of these and while they are still slightly buggy, I've found them much bett
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by zaphoyd 6y ago
The goal is awareness of the Y10K problem, and generally awareness of long term thinking and planning.
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Depends on what you mean by practical. The software and hardware works (for now, until T2s become required). It allows you to build configurations that Apple does not (and probably will not) ever sell. They are not cost effective if you hav
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Macs have the option to run a 4K screen at different "effective dpis" via scaling. The default ~200% scaling factor gives you a 1920x1080 work area that is twice as sharp. A lot of folks (myself included) choose to draw larger wor
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
I use a 2018 Mac mini with an OWC Helios FX enclosure with a stock AMD Vega 56 GPU. My workload is some light gaming (Mac only no windows/boot camp) and 3x4K displays in scaled modes for web/software dev. The mini itself is compac
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Uptime Robot is a simple SaaS that monitors TLS cert expiration dates (in addition to other things).
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
The parent likely means background killed in the sense that iOS fairly aggressively removes loaded web pages from memory and replaces them with a screenshot and a url. Most of your 500 tabs are likely screenshots and urls. When you select t
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Speaking of mini iphone... I have so many iPhone only apps that I wish I could run in the “mini iPhone split” next to whatever else I am doing rather than forcing them to take over the whole screen with an iPhone sized picture in the middle
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Yes yes yes. I’ve often wondered why they didn’t do this. Having to go through silly hoops like full exit back to the spring board to launch an app so that it is available in the dock to pick for split view... why not just use the springboa
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
I love and use split screen all the time on my iPad for a variety of use cases. Even though I love the feature and find it really useful all of the UI constraints related to it are totally true. I would never want the feature removed, but t
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Induction cooktops are fantastic. Wish it was possible to find them in rental housing instead of gas!
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
I've already experienced some of this.. World of Warcraft had an issue a month or so ago whereby their servers got hit by an IPv4 only DDoS attack that prevented people from playing. My ISP had native IPv6 and I was unaffected as a res
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Not a dumb question at all! The smallest IPv6 subnet is /64, so a /60 lets you split your network into multiple subnets without all the software that assumes a subnet is /64 (like address autoconfig) breaking. Why might you n
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
autoconfig, DHCP, DNS, cut & paste, and pen/paper all work fine, depending on the reason you need to move the address. I doubt there is much discussion because there isn't really a way around it. The world is full of situation
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
It was a focused product. Native apps, high performance, no funny business. Yes, it lacked some features that the newer stuff had, but it did the team chat part really well and got out of your way. Deploying web apps lets you iterate fast
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
RIP HipChat, last top tier native work chat program. We were paying customers for HipChat and were forced off when Atlassian killed it. Replaced by stride/slack/discord/teams all built on electron and all with awful non-nativ
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
An electric fan on a derby car works the same way a propeller does though right? You don’t need the sail at all. It works by pushing against the surrounding medium. This seems different than a laser in a vacuum.
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
Won’t disagree with the “wrong tool” characterization, but there are many situations where using the right tool (a dedicated windows pc or game console) comes with many other problematic side effects. I do all of my gaming on a Mac with an
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
It also makes websites that don't have high resolution icons, logos, etc really stand out and look bad.
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
You are correct that the size of the screen has nothing to do with data rate, except often larger displays have higher resolutions (which does affect data rate).
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
The main thing you gain is crisp and legible small point text for displaying large amounts of code, terminal outputs, etc without taking up large amounts of desk space. I have both standard DPI (~110) and higher dpi (180-220) displays all s
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by zaphoyd 7y ago
So far the earlier versions of DisplayPort have worked quite well as a USB-C alt mode so I am hopeful. I strongly disagree that higher resolutions are not interesting on smaller sized displays. I personally find 21.5 inch to be the sweet sp
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VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard(vesa.org)
234 points by zaphoyd 7y ago|227 comments
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by zaphoyd 8y ago
This seems to be the point of the article. That even down to the words we use to describe humankind, it is the male form that gets designated the “reference” form. This has bigger implications in the design of safety equipment and tooling,
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by zaphoyd 8y ago
Just sign up for the Verizon plan from the cellular data menu on the device. No talking to anyone, no visiting Verizon store, no negotiating. Supports tethering. 2GB/2months, way more than enough for messaging and web browsing. Probabl
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by zaphoyd 8y ago
I've been using a 9.7 inch cellular iPad as my primary mobile device for 6 years or so. It works very well for my use case but I do understand why more people don't do it. In my arrangement, the tablet replaces a phone, ebook, pap
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by zaphoyd 8y ago
I’ve been using dell P2415Qs. I run 3 at the HiDPI “looks like 2560x1440”. It’s not perfect 2x scaling, but it is close enough (185 dpi) and the price $300-400 each cant be beat. I’ve considered switching to the 21.5 inch LG ultrafines (220
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by zaphoyd 8y ago
Not sure about NYC, but there are absolutely people in Chicago and Milwaukee who will call a rideshare (or insist that they pick up/be picked up by family) even though there is a city bus that goes literally directly door to door and t

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