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The display itself is round, although the module is a square with trapezoidal corners.

This is odd because you get the intended shape but not the benefit of the shape. There are plenty of displays that are actually round, such as for smart watches.

I'm curious if Google did this for cost and had decided on a larger bezel from the start.

They don't perform poorly, necessarily, just differently. It has to do with the workload and feature set.

I run an A6000 for a live video mixer. It barely touches the RAM and does nothing with the RTX cores but absolutely chews up the CUDA cores.

I also run a quadro sync card that allows the GPU to be genlocked (vsync for the video world) with the rest of the studio.

A feature that I don't use but that's also offered- you can connect multiple GPUs across multiple systems and have them all be frame synced to each other this creating a single output without tearing.

I think this is an important distinction. I've seen many coworkers who laugh at my JetBrains IDE while claiming that their 'text editor' is better as they load it up full of plugins thus turning it into an IDE.

My general takeaway about the dev community is this- stop giving a crap about what other people are doing. If you find a tool that fits your needs and that you like then I'm delighted for you. Ask others if you want to learn but stop telling others they're wrong for having their own preferences.

I've worked remotely since 2016.

A few of my takes on it:

How conducive an org's culture & policies are to remote work has a direct impact on remote workers. (Companies who were quickly forced into remote work at the start of the pandemic all fired a shotgun from 100 yards and hit the target everywhere. Those who hit the middle realized that remote work had its upsides. Those who missed reinforced their own bias against remote work and dug in their heels.)

Each team's implementation of these policies can vary which gives a member on one team a great experience and a another team a miserable one.

Remote workers all have different social needs. If you're lucky, your team fits your's. If you're not, your potential office BFF may be on a different remote team and you'll never meet them.

I spent 2016-2022 at the same org who was 50% remote and it was great. Early 2022 I moved to a new org and my team never spoke outside morning stand-ups and I hated it. I've now chosen a hybrid position where it's 95% up to me when I'm in office and it's been the perfect fit.

YMMV, not all orgs will do remote well. Not all workers will do remote well. Let's stop demonizing the other side and realize there is no single answer.

I, too, pay for plus access. It's completely worth it for the myriad of random tasks/questions I throw at it.

I can think of 1 occasion I needed some C code for parsing UDP packets. I copy & pasted the unformatted pdf contents of the spec and told GPT "I need code for parsing this". It made a struct, a method for parsing, and wrapping code to use it all of which was 100% accurate/usable. Such a huge time saver.

As someone who does a lot of work with non-profits who typically can't afford having a technical person on site/staff I'm really curious what type of self-service IT support services can come from self hosted LLMs.

I'd love to be able to feed all my documentation about a network layout into one and be able to get answers about it.

I have always wanted something like this but on an even more in-depth scale.

Let people playing game dev tycoon represent how successful a local business is. Let someone playing a GTA-like game be part of a police chase. Allow truck simulator players to be part of freeway traffic.

Obviously this would be extraordinarily difficult to pull off well, but I can dream.

DriveDroid- an Android application that allows mounting disc images and causes the phone to appear as an external optical drive or USB flash drive.

I essentially keep an Arch and Windows 10 boot disc on me at all times.

You can also create blank images and it'll act as a flash drive.

This is the opposite- it's for blocking access to productive sites thereby helping you procrastinate.

So why not say that? When I see a tool or service make a claim as simple as "JSON SUCKS" it makes me think I'm not the target audience.

I can read a 10 like file without a parser. What I don't like is 7 layers deep, nested, 890 lines long.

This is absurdly ridiculous, I love it.

Despite the low resolution, bit depth, lack of color, and dithering, I like how using a better lens can make the seagull picture somewhat aesthetically pleasing.

Hey, I just came from the company that hosts that dealer website!

The amount of money that dealerships pour into SEO and advertising is unreal. They also chase every single thing that Google says with complete abandon. (Remember AMP? ya, that was something we chased because dealers asked us to and then forgot about 12 months later.)

I realize this is about Google but I think there will always be a struggle until everyone can boycott playing the game and I just don't see that happening.

Infinite Mac 4 years ago

What browser/OS are you on? The LED doesn't blink for me on macOS with Chrome.

Edit: it seems like it's the HDD activity light? It blinks during boot.