morganw
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
When Ashley Gjovik was fired, she complained the pressure to use work devices for personal stuff was considerable. I stopped carrying back then & haven’t felt any pressure.
A “carry” or “live on” device doesn’t have to be used for personal email and messages. It should just be used for more real-world non-test workloads. The lessons of only testing iPhone 4 in stealth cases hasn’t been forgottten.
I do agree that Apple likes to have it both ways, though.
Comment · 2 months ago
encourages, but doesn’t require. My work phone is an iPhone 14 that I only use for Slack notifications & to check the next day’s schedule when I don’t want to bother opening their laptop.
Comment · 5 months ago
+1: I'm so glad I happened to watch Mr. French's video first.
Comment · 6 months ago
> FWIW this book came out in the 1930s, long before "red pilling" was a thing.
but long after The Prince was a thing.
Comment · 8 months ago
> does it have a camera bulge that makes it wobble?
Yes https://www.apple.com/v/ipad-air/af/images/overview/closer-l... from https://www.apple.com/ipad-air/
Comment · 8 months ago
>> The USA being richer, can afford to do it right and safer
> We cannot.
Apple can afford to do test fabrication while abiding by the rules, but chooses not to. https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-fine-over-bay-area...
Comment · 10 months ago
These days, even phone-class CPUs can decode 4k video at playback rate, but they use a lot of power doing it. Not reasonable for battery-powered devices. For AC-powered devices, the problem might be heat dissipation, particularly for little streaming boxes with only passive cooling.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's also the issue of chroma subsampling, giving you YUV 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 instead of YUV or RGB 4:4:4
This page https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/capture-card-document... warned me about it, but I haven't seen any updated info on the newer AVermedia or Magewell interfaces, for instance https://www.magewell.com/products/usb-capture-hdmi-4k-pro This gives 4k60 4:4:4 only on the loop-thru output, higher resolutions require 20GBps USB 3.? but my Mac only goes to 10. I'd need Thunderbolt capture which start around $1000 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1500555-REG/blackmagi...
I'm using an Elgato CamLink 4k at 1080p60 for now & I'm wondering if the awful mouse feel in Linux (with a Mac for display) is maybe due to delay. Going to get a cheap-ash monitor to simplify. I thought it would be nice to have my 6k Pro XDR display have windows from all computers, but it's just too messy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Computer History Museum interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8nhK7WS80
Worked on DEC Alpha, AMD K7 & K8, Broadcom, P.A. Semi, was in turn purchased by Apple. Jim spent four years at Apple before first returning to AMD, then on to Tesla, Intel and finally Tenstorrent.
Keller keynoting TSMC's 2022 Open Innovation Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32CRYenTcdw
Comment · 1 year ago
From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385382
Here's Hector Martin (marcan) talking about their tooling:
https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/
Running macOS in a hypervisor controlled from a second machine (proxy mode + verbose==on) to watch drivers talk to the hardware:
https://asahilinux.org/docs/sw/m1n1-user-guide/#running-a-ma...
Comment · 2 years ago
Audi's with Torsens only lock front-to-back (but then so do a lot of 4WD vehicles). They use brakes to stop slipping wheels so the other side will get torque. A long time ago, they had lockers for the rear for low speed use.
Comment · 2 years ago
You took 10mg/kg ? Any stomach upset or other side effects?
[edited to remove comment about Recommended Daily Allowance (USA) which is about a different form of zinc.]
Comment · 2 years ago
> Korg noted that the use of jack plugs to transmit the required signals would cause noise in the system.
No more detail on this, but it was huge for MIDI not to end up "becoming a nightmare of endless fine-tuning better suited to electronics engineers than musicians" like CV/gate was.
https://midi.org/midi-history-chapter-6-midi-begins-1981-198... spells it out in more detail:
Mieda-san from Korg responds on behalf of the Japanese companies to the meetings at the 1981 Gakki Fair with Sequential and Oberheim and confirms the discussion that were they had at the Gakki Fair.
• 19.2kbps is too slow
• ¼” Jacks will have ground loop problems
• There is no concept of synchronization, clock or the ability to start and stop sequences
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Ground loops are the bane of musician's lives and sometimes the mitigation is the end of their lives
Edited to add that I think EPMs are under more pressure to be Apple cheerleader than engineers.