NathanielK

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, creating a formula in excell (or another language) to deal convert data in a strange format is easy.

Learning SpeedCrunch is easy if you're already comfortable with single-line calculators. It has autocomplete that will help learn some of the SpeedCrunch specific units. For example, year_julian vs year_tropical, gallon_US vs gallon_UK are slightly different.

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.

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/speedcrunch-android

> 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 old now. They were a expensive at the time, but they're still taller than most modern 16:9 and "27:9" displays available now.

>What I don't understand is why I'd ever want 1920x1440 (4:3) monitor over 2560x1440 (16:9) one, unless I'm really space constrained

I want a 4k 4:3 screen. If you're going to dream, why not dream big? 3840x2880 please. I have a CRT that syncs to 2560x1920 and I already enjoy it for a few odd things.

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's all they care about.

> 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 with clicking on tiny things far away with the mouse.

The AltDrag[0] software on windows is godsend. Instead of trying to click menu bars, window edge, or other small targets, you just click anywhere on the window while holding alt. It's built into many linux DEs, but I'm glad to have it on windows too.

Windows also has a (slightly odd) focus-follows-mouse setting built in. This is nice to have less random clicking on windows to bring to the foreground, but has a second, handier function. When you alt-tab to a window with it enabled, it also brings your cursor too the window. Means you never lose your cursor at the wrong end of the monitor(s) switching between windows.

The last trick is probably the simplest, but makes the biggest improvement. I always set my cursor size to be very big so I can see it in my periphery.

Any specific changes you've found useful with your setup? [0] https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

> 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. Many of them will accept a higher frequency signal if you toodle around in your GPU settings a bit.

Can't fix the slow response times, but it still helps a fair bit with making general work feel smoother and snappier.

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 it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_field#/media/File:Traqu...

> 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.

I have found similar. This is why for a cheap portrait monitor I usually recommend older IPS monitors that are available in 1920x1200 or 1600x1200.

Windows font rendering is surprisingly flexible. When you do the "calubrate cleartype" wizard, it can change many options on a per-monitor basis.

You can also directly edit the registry to change the gamma, greyscale/colour, and subpixel order.

http://www.rombout.design/verticalwalking.html Has some video of pictures of it working so you don't have to wait blindly for it.

Extra fun with organizations that use single sign on. Change your pc login and now your phone has the wrong wifi credentials. Let it attempt to connect too many times and your account is disabled.

For a while, Discord had few password restrictions so 5 characters were fine. Then they changed their app to only allow 6+ character passwords.

> because they don't actually generate heat Heatpumps still do use electricity(or other power), and all that electricity also ends up as heat. It's why heatpumps have higher CoP than the same system as a refrigeration cycle.

> Thermodynamics would not take kindly to you having a >99.999...% efficient anything

Well the cogen gas powerplants here can produce 50kWh of electricity from burning 100kWh of natural gas. I can use 50kWh of electricity to put 200kWh of heat into my house with a heatpump.

Seems like a good deal to me, and I think carnot would be fine with that.

70Wh vs 100Wh battery, so the bigger charger can hit Apple's fast charging targets.

> Still got the 14 since the 16 seems too bulky and heavy for a daily carry. 16" is still lighter than my old T430 and T440p, never had a problem stuffing those in bags. Tiny bezels and weird aspect ratios mean it's not much bigger either.

The M1 Max also has twice the memory channels to feed that GPU. Instead of a 256b wide "quad channel" memory controller, it has a 512b wide "octa channel" memory controller. That's an immense amount of bandwidth with LPDDR5.

There's an in between 24-Core GPU for less money, but it's still quite the jump.

The T450 series got rid of that, and they are just turning 6 years old. He may have one of those.

If you're clever, you can usually hotswap that drive too, since it's just a dumb SATA port. More convenient to do with the CD-bay 2.5" drive caddies.

Not in Canada. Here CTV (owned by Bell) has the license rights, and you need a bell TV subscription to watch.

Me too. Human readable error messages sure would be nice. Instead the PC just does it's own thing instead of restarting and being there when I need it.

Do you have a single fact to back that up?

Most modern CUVs have a similar side profile to the Aztek. One of the reasons they look less awkward is that bigger wheels are more popular. There's a few other awkward design quibbles with the Aztek, but for the most part similar cars sell like hot cakes now.

That's the gross vehicle weight rating, which is the max weight of the vehicle including cargo. The R1T has a curb weight of ~7,000lbs[0] with the 135kWh battery. That is still as much as a Dually F-350. The 180kWh option would be heavier still and start eating into the payload capacity.

[0]https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1133704_review-rivian-r...

> I found that one can live without ESP.

True, but on average ESP is highly effective. Cars with ESP are correlated with 40-50% less running off the road or roll over crashes.[0] Carrie Underwood may sing about Jesus Taking the Wheel[1], but she really has GM Stabilitrak to thank.

[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU

> it's a standard first modification done by almost all enthusiast owners.

Since laws are unenforced, it's also possible for dealers to upsell louder exhausts without even needing to visit a 3rd party shop.

Expresscard also exists as a hotswappable version of PCIe for laptops. It's only one lane, so even the modern laptops with PCIe v3 have dismal bandwidth compared to USB3 or Displayport.

Surprise unplugs aren't great. On windows you can safely eject a GPU from your laptop with the taskbar icon.

Compared to thunderbolt it's an order of magnitude cheaper.

I've read the book, and I'm still not sure wear the "gain killing" ideas come from.

The not doing the program sub-chapter seems to focus on hitting calorie targets and bar weight targets. Presumably "cardio" means you burn even more energy, but as long as you eat enough, I think it's within scope.

Your advice is solid though. Rippetoe focuses on increasing strength, so any other goals or constraints are up to the trainee.

Mechanical grip is entirely a function of tire compounds. In fact, ebikes can have even more tractive grip because you can make them AWD! This makes them much safer in snow and ice compared to other two wheeled vehicles.

Being pedantic, the suspension of the xm700+ doesn't have a shock. Its a simple coil spring that gives the wheel some room to wiggle. Shock absorbers actually dissipate that energy with oil/air/rubber.

If you ride it like a bicycle and try to avoid potholes and curbs, simpler designs work great.

FWIW, Intel has been forcing manufacturers hand when it comes to thickness. Since their high performance laptop processors have stagnated on the last decade, they've created programs to encourage thin laptops.

Both the old "Intel Ultrabook" and the new "Intel Evo" tightly restrict thickness in the 12-14" laptop segment.

I won't give Lenovo a free pass, but it's part of why keytravel and cooling solutions are pretty awful in modern small laptops.