And try smiling a bit more often.
Pet Peeve rants.
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figmentPez
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I hate it when people blunt the tip of sharpies by pressing down when they write with one.
Dave
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Got paid today. My check was about $3000. After bills I have about $200 left. Meh. Gotta last me two weeks. But that's not the rant. The rant is that I get paid every two weeks and when I want to set up an auto pay they want a specific date entered in. Like if I started auto pay today it would want to take money out every 3rd of the month. But I can't DO that since there will be times when that's BEFORE my pay period. I could set up an auto pay every two weeks from my back, but that wouldn't count as auto pay for the businesses and that's where you would get discounts. Like for our phones auto pay would cut $20 a month. For my car insurance it would cut $25. For our utilities it would put it as a set amount and would be easier to budget. But I can't. When I worked at the university I got paid once at the beginning of the month and I fucking LOVED IT! Get paid, pay all your bills (or have them set up as auto pay on the 3rd since you'd be guaranteed to have it by then), and the rest is disposable income. As it stands, so many things are coming out at different times that I have to keep really, really, REALLY good track of what my numbers are or I'll screw myself over.
Pet peeve rant over.
Pet peeve rant over.
Is Carhartt supposed to be a "look"? I process a ton of these at work, all I know is they're annoying as fuck because they hide the barcodes in stupid places.
figmentPez
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I'm so fucking tired of people posting about rechargeable batteries who don't know anything about battery voltage works.
"Anything that actually uses power like cameras and other electronics require the full 1.5 volts that only alkaline and lithium batteries can provide."
Just an example of the type of shit I see any time someone asks about NiMh batteries online. People see 1.2v as the nominal voltage for rechargeable AAs, and then just turn off their brain. Never mind that NiMh batteries were generally out-performed alkalines for point-and-shoot digital cameras, back in the pre-smartphone days.
I'm just going to skip typing up how batteries work. A lot of you probably already know, and I don't know that anyone who doesn't know wants to learn right now. I'd be glad to explain, but I just want to lament how fast people are to dismiss any technology they don't understand.
Not just voltage, either. In the same Reddit topic someone complained that NiMh batteries weren't good for long-term use, and having to recharge them every month. Sounds like someone who either doesn't know about low self-discharge NiMh, or hasn't used rechargeable batteries in the last decade. Granted, you're still better off with alkalines if you need your battery to sit and stay charged for a decade, but there are very low self-discharge NiMh batteries available now that can keep 70% of their charge after 5 years of sitting idle.
Why would someone offer their opinion on a technology they haven't paid attention to for over a decade?
"Anything that actually uses power like cameras and other electronics require the full 1.5 volts that only alkaline and lithium batteries can provide."
Just an example of the type of shit I see any time someone asks about NiMh batteries online. People see 1.2v as the nominal voltage for rechargeable AAs, and then just turn off their brain. Never mind that NiMh batteries were generally out-performed alkalines for point-and-shoot digital cameras, back in the pre-smartphone days.
I'm just going to skip typing up how batteries work. A lot of you probably already know, and I don't know that anyone who doesn't know wants to learn right now. I'd be glad to explain, but I just want to lament how fast people are to dismiss any technology they don't understand.
Not just voltage, either. In the same Reddit topic someone complained that NiMh batteries weren't good for long-term use, and having to recharge them every month. Sounds like someone who either doesn't know about low self-discharge NiMh, or hasn't used rechargeable batteries in the last decade. Granted, you're still better off with alkalines if you need your battery to sit and stay charged for a decade, but there are very low self-discharge NiMh batteries available now that can keep 70% of their charge after 5 years of sitting idle.
Why would someone offer their opinion on a technology they haven't paid attention to for over a decade?
the nominal difference of .3 volts a battery for use in electronics is so small it might as well not matter. not to mention if they want to spend the money on rechargable LiPo A cells good for them. NiMh are the gold standard for anything that doesnt require high discharge/high capacity anyways!
**head explodes**
**head explodes**
GasBandit
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Because if there's one thing that the universal access of discourse that the internet provides means to the layman, it's that his ignorance is worth as much as all expert opinion combined.
My father used to have a set of Realistic (i.e., Radio Shack) walkie-talkies that ran on AA batteries. They required 12VDC to run, so they took 8 AA batteries (8 x 1.5V = 12V). But they also were made to work with 10x NiCd rechargeables (10 x 1.25V = ~12V), meaning that they shipped with two AA battery "blanks" that you inserted along with the alkaline cells to bridge the gap of the "missing" two batteries when you weren't using rechargeables.
--Patrick
--Patrick
jeeze 8-10 AA, 1980's? I mean modern devices use Li-ion, but damn!
figmentPez
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I'm growing increasingly annoyed when people say "HDMI to DisplayPort" when they mean "DisplayPort to HDMI". It's not the same thing!
I'm already annoyed by how often "substitute for" is misused (e.g. someone saying they "substitute oil for applesauce" in a recipe when they're actually replacing the oil with the substitute applesauce), but at least that's a less common phrasing. I can understand someone not being familiar with the proper usage of that sentence structure. Going from A to B is very basic grammar though. I went from my home to the store. I poured milk from the carton into my glass. Starting point to end point. This is grade school shit.
I'm already annoyed by how often "substitute for" is misused (e.g. someone saying they "substitute oil for applesauce" in a recipe when they're actually replacing the oil with the substitute applesauce), but at least that's a less common phrasing. I can understand someone not being familiar with the proper usage of that sentence structure. Going from A to B is very basic grammar though. I went from my home to the store. I poured milk from the carton into my glass. Starting point to end point. This is grade school shit.
GasBandit
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I feel this in my bones, professionally. It's something I have to deal with every damn day in the AV industry. All the PCs our clients have now are displayport, and all the AV gear still wants HDMI. Going DP->HDMI is easy and cheap. Going HDMI->DP costs 10 times as much because it needs active chips in the adapter. And if the guy ordering the parts screws something up in this regard, we look like dipshits in front of the client.
figmentPez
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I thought going either direction needed active chips.
The DP standard includes the ability to "downshift" to HDMI (and/or DVI-D) signaling for compatibility reasons. At the moment, DP supports the highest bandwidth per port, so it is the preferred connection method for ridiculously large and/or high refresh rate monitors which require that much bandwidth in order to push the quantity and/or quality (HDR) of pixels required.
HDMI v1.4b (newest 1.x version) = 10.2Gb/s = 4K@30Hz or 1080p@120Hz max.
DP v1.4a (newest 1.x version) = 32.4Gb/s = 4K@120Hz (and even 5K@60Hz) or presumably 1080p@360Hz max.
To give an idea of how much DP is "ahead" of HDMI, DP 1.3 and newer actually embed/support the HDMI 2.0 standard.
HDMI v2.1b (newest AVAILABLE 2.x version) = 48Gb/s = 8K@50Hz (or up to 8K@120Hz with DSC/Display Stream Compression) and presumably 1080p at whatever refresh rate you want (the math suggests 540Hz but dunno about IRL).
DP v2.1a (newest AVAILABLE 2.x version) = 80Gb/s = 10K@60Hz SDR (or up to 16K@60Hz HDR with DSC) and the math says 1080p would be @900Hz but now it's just getting silly.
Both standards are about to update to newer/faster versions, with HDMI finalizing v2.2 only last month and DP releasing v2.1b sometime this Spring.
(all info pulled from Wikipedia)
Keep in mind that moving up from SDR (8bpc) to HDR (10bpc) content increases the bandwidth requirement for video by 25%, so there are those times where something says "This device outputs at 4K HDR" but it doesn't work because it's trying to do HDR and the connection just doesn't have enough bits for it and drops back to SDR or else gives you a black screen.
tl;dr: If you have the choice, choose DisplayPort.
--Patrick