morganw

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by morganw 14d ago
Who I am is right there in the username (morganw), submissions & comments: Morgan Woodson. Not in SWE. Is it software if you write it in the hardware division? Edited to add that I think EPMs are under more pressure to be Apple cheerl
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by morganw 15d 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 perso
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by morganw 15d 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.
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Show HN: The Occult Gatsby(occultgatsby.work)
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by morganw 4mo ago
+1: I'm so glad I happened to watch Mr. French's video first.
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by morganw 5mo ago
> FWIW this book came out in the 1930s, long before "red pilling" was a thing. but long after The Prince was a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
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by morganw 7mo 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/
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by morganw 7mo 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-f
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by morganw 9mo 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 litt
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by morganw 11mo 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 have
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by morganw 1y 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
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by morganw 1y 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
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by morganw 2y 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.
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by morganw 2y 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.]
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by morganw 2y 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 e
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by morganw 3y ago
Reminder that McDonnell-Douglas, operating as Boeing, owns Boeing Defense Space & Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Defense,_Space_%26_Secu... which consolidates "Boeing Military Airplane Company;
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by morganw 3y ago
The problem is not the values delivered to the DAC. It's the aperture error of when the DAC was clocked. This affects what those sample values actually represent. If the clock is being extracted from the pattern of pits and there&#x
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by morganw 3y ago
Used to be something Vista was laughed at for. Oh, how the turn tables https://youtu.be/0eEG5LVXdKo?t=637
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by morganw 3y ago
Can you expand on what is not MPL licensed? I recall (foggily) reading about struggles with incomplete data sheets for Nuvoton controllers & I see the discussion about CVEs for NXP microcontrollers with secret patch ROMs.
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by morganw 3y ago
https://twitter.com/AdaRoseCannon https://twitter.com/fernandojsg https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208988 https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webxr Status
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by morganw 4y ago
For a bike with a more reasonable solar area (with tilt functionality) for a significant contribution to motive power, check out https://ebikes.ca/suntrip.html
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by morganw 4y ago
This one affected a lot of people traveling to the 2021 US Grand Prix in Austin & it supposedly didn't affect Southwest [my Alaska flight was cancelled after four hours of "any minute now"]: https://www.usatoda
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by morganw 4y ago
I have a Pro Display XDR for working at home w/ a 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max. I use it with my personal MacBook Air M1, too. I like my spreadsheets for personal finance BIG. It's not just the GPU that shares memory with the CPU
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by morganw 4y ago
No mention of chroma sub-sampling for either pikvm (M-JPEG) or tinypilotkvm (H.264). I have an Apple Pro Display XDR and it's just not worth the hassle trying to use it with Linux or Windows machines. Instead, I plan to use an HDMI ca
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by morganw 4y ago
Chording isn’t hard but my hands cramp faster when I do it. I’m working on a Karabiner config to force me to use right modifiers.
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by morganw 5y ago
If you pay for a NYT subscription with PayPal, you can cancel payments w/ PayPal. NYT will auto-email you often, but eventually give up.
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by morganw 5y ago
I'm traveling from the SF Bay Area to Austin, TX for the US Grand Prix and Sky West (Alaska) is coincidentally unable to calculate their fuel vs load https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/202
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by morganw 5y ago
https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/ligo-batteries.... 98Wh each, can be hooked up in series (already 10s = 36V nominal, max is 2 of them for 72V nominal) and parallel. "While most airlines do not h
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by morganw 5y ago
Oh, and to see what 700W from a human looks like, an Olympic track cyclist toasts a piece of bread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
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by morganw 5y ago
That's really helpful. It predicts 534 Watts to get me (110kg, 0.4 CdA) to the 45kph limit for Class 3 California bikes. The Grin Technologies motor simulator https://ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html predicts (the

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