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Madlad JS dev who also like C, Verilog and painting. Ask me about bikes. :3
I also have everything I want hotkeyed, so I still think that "far behind" is a huge stretch at best.
Unfortunately vendors are somehow constitutionally incapable of providing useful technical information for eInk displays. It's so frustrating that there's a huge graphic extolling it's FPGA based refresh technology but actual technical information is almost completely absent. Why can't I just get a datasheet?
I'll summarize here so other people don't have to grep through this mess.
HDMI input
1872×1404
5V/3A
~5Hz refresh in mode A2
There are 3 modes, GC16, A2 and A2+, no technical information is provided but there are some tiny (simulated?) screenshots. It appears that mode A2, the "high refresh rate" one is purely black and white with no gray.Excel is a much better product than Google Sheets, but having the better product doesn't mean having the winning product.
EDIT: Can't reply to TeMPOraL, but I think that's not true, they need polarized light. I'm not an expert on this but my intuition is there are unrealized advances to be made in the field of reflective LCD-based displays. I just don't think there's much demand to research these applications and connect the dots. I would be surprised if you couldn't make a pretty decent, high refresh rate reflective display using an LCD based approach.
This being said I opted for the 1080p screen (wish it was 1200p) and I personally see little reason to get a UHD screen in a laptop this size, it would be nice if it was a 10 bit HDR OLED screen with 400nits, but I can definitely live without the extra resolution, it's pretty meaningless on a screen this small, and most of the time when I'm at home I'm using a 144Hz gaming panel anyway.
From your point of view was the implied statement something akin to: "In the context of a high-throughput network transfer program choosing DEFLATE over an algorithm more well optimized for computational weight wouldn't be a good idea." ?
I guess I'm just surprised that this niche is worth 7 figures. That's awesome.
I'm all for LGBTQ+ rights and I get that in the real world this sometimes means being uncompromising. Fighting for equality is complex.
Here's what went down.
The mod made statements that vaguely pattern match as onerous hair splitting in order to undermine LGBTQ+ rights. They did this in a private setting and there was absolutely no history that would imply they were trying to push an ulterior motive.
The SO representative identifies strongly as a defender of LGBTQ+ rights and viewed this as "definitely this person doesn't think LGPTQ+ people should have rights" and de-modded them.
SO made the initial choice to circle the wagons and back up one of their own and then got stuck hard on that path for months even when it became clear they'd made a mistake. It's a problem with management and it's not going to be solved without changes in management. A sorry would have sufficed if it had come many months ago. The SO rep just needed to admit to being human and making a bad call.
(P.S. this whole row was over the style in which I've written this post, the new code of conduct would have me use gender specific pronouns if the preferred pronouns of the subjects are known and using a genderless style of writing would be against it)
Programming-wise it isn't as hard to find as you might think. Maybe not working FAAMG or similar, but it's quite doable. If you don't compromise on the desire to work only on interesting* stuff when a big paycheck comes along, you'll eventually end up in a position where you only work on interesting stuff. The gamut of work is wide.
To be honest such work isn't even that rare. Most people would rather make $200k and complain about how boring their job is than have an interesting one. I think for many people "interesting work" is often the same as "stressful work" and so the interesting positions are not as easily filled.
[*] Interesting as defined by me, and probably the parent poster as well. Obviously this is subjective.
Like I get it, I should be glad an executive was held to account for anything. But this is a tiny step and we got a looong way to go before we get to liberté, égalité, fraternité.
It seems that with great power comes great wealth and an almost complete lack of accountability.
I would like to live in a world where the link between power and responsibility was much more aggressively enforced. I've worked in places where corners were cut constantly, endangering workers in pursuit of the bottom line, I'm sure it's more or less the norm. The executives shouldn't be able to sleep at night for fear of the complete destruction of their lives for their transgressions. It should be life in prison with no possibility of parole, not a fine.
Even something like buying an SUV should map to greater punishments. It's well known that you're much more likely to kill a pedestrian with a car that has a high grille. The law should enforce a greater level of responsibility on the people who chose to inflict greater risk on the lives of others.
WebCrypto helps by providing a cryptographically secure RNG, that's not nothing.
FWIW I'm not trying to say the gist of the article isn't spot on, but I think the tools are more or less there these days to do the thing, even if it is absurdly easy to mess it up and there's no real good reason to try.
Currently everything I have is connected up with a hodgepodge of those green pluggable terminal blocks. It's not an elegant solution but it's hard to standardize on something, especially when I have devices that run off 5, 9, 12, 24 and 48 volts. I still run an inverter most of the time (I have two, pure and modified depending on the load).
I think it's possible to devise a decent solution here, I like the XLR based designs but I'm afraid of plugging things into the wrong voltage. I think maybe the good solution is to make a color-mapping for the common voltages up to 48v (past that you require an electrician to do wiring in the US iirc) and then make cables that are XLR on one end, and whatever-plug on the other end with an LED that lights up corresponding to the voltage. That way you know if your barrel jack is 12 or 5. It doesn't have to be foolproof, or even customer friendly really. People setting up DC buses to run all their electronics should be able to accept the responsibility of frying something if they give it too much juice.
n=>n-1?n%2?c(n/2):c(n*3+1):1This entire thread is about using a VPN to watch Disney+ outside of geo restrictions. Many many people use VPNs for this purpose and no other. You can't trivially do this on your own at all. You're making it seems simple, getting an VPS with an IP that won't automatically be banned by all sorts of services looking to protect themselves against botnets and the exact sort of geofence hopping that people want to do is extremely difficult.
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