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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
and with USB-C we finally have enough bandwidth to do proper graphics and everything else over a single cable
About two and half years ago, when colleagues started getting notebooks with USB-C ducks, they found it can't handle two monitors at 1920x1200@60 and plug the second one into the HDMI instead. While the slightly older ones with ducking station handle two monitors over DVI-D just fine.
That the duck's fault, not USB-C.
More anecdata: My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
and with USB-C we finally have enough bandwidth to do proper graphics and everything else over a single cable
About two and half years ago, when colleagues started getting notebooks with USB-C ducks, they found it can't handle two monitors at 1920x1200@60 and plug the second one into the HDMI instead. While the slightly older ones with ducking station handle two monitors over DVI-D just fine.
That the duck's fault, not USB-C.
More anecdata: My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
Sounds like Dell ducks are crap then.
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@Bulb Mine's a 3rd-party ... (looks) Wavlink. Windows even found the drivers for it automatically when I got a new work laptop. It didn't work at first, and I though, "Oh crap, I wonder what I did with the driver disk that came with it," but then a couple of minutes later, the monitors turned on, and I saw the "Windows has installed new drivers" toaster.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
More anecdata: My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
24k monitors is a lot of monitors. Also, your kerning is terrible.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
and with USB-C we finally have enough bandwidth to do proper graphics and everything else over a single cable
About two and half years ago, when colleagues started getting notebooks with USB-C ducks, they found it can't handle two monitors at 1920x1200@60 and plug the second one into the HDMI instead. While the slightly older ones with ducking station handle two monitors over DVI-D just fine.
That the duck's fault, not USB-C.
More anecdata: My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
Sounds like Dell ducks are crap then.
My Dell docks have no problem with multiple monitors. I do have a problem with USB, but I think that's actually my laptop's problem with my KVM.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
@kazitor do you take comissions?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare well, yes, it should work.
Touch functionality works fine. Plug and play, no worries, no drivers needed. Just like the model we usually order.
Unfortunately they're ~1.5" larger than listed size in both directions.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
@kazitor do you take comissions?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1899088
(Not quoted because category)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
My duck can support 2 4k monitors with no problems.
@kazitor do you take comissions?
I am always willing to accept sufficient quantities of currency.
What’s the exchange rate on exposure these days, anyway?
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What’s the exchange rate on exposure these days, anyway?
Depends what you're willing to expose, and to who.
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What’s the exchange rate on exposure these days, anyway?
Around here it's $2,500 and one year in jail.
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What’s the exchange rate on exposure these days, anyway?
Around here it's $2,500 and one year in jail.
Don't forget the permanent membership in the registered sex offender club and the concommittant requirement to live, well, not many places. Because just about everywhere's within <threshold> of a school.
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@Benjamin-Hall well, at least you're not bitter.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
they're ~1.5" larger
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately they're ~1.5" larger than listed size in both directions.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately they're ~1.5" larger than listed size in both directions.
The joys of imperial measurements
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately they're ~1.5" larger than listed size in both directions.
No sissy units.
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@Polygeekery well, I have no idea what the fuck the Chinesium unit is, but it seems to be 4/3rds of an inch. And bigger is better, right?!
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@topspin it's early here. No coffee yet. I didn't even notice that
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@Polygeekery well, I have no idea what the fuck the Chinesium unit is, but it seems to be 4/3rds of an inch. And bigger is better, right?!
Chinese inches. Now with 33% more length!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Chinese inches. Now with 33% more length!
Sounds like they are compensating for something ...
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Chinese inches. Now with 33% more length!
Sounds like they are compensating for something ...
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@Luhmann It's the other way round - you get
lessinches.Cun (Chinese: 寸; pinyin: cùn; Wade–Giles: ts'un; Japanese: sun; Korean: chon), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. In this sense it continues to be used to chart acupuncture points on the human body in various uses of traditional Chinese medicine.
1 cun in is equal to 1/30 m or ~33.33 mm, ~0.10936 ft or ~1.3123 in
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
you get less inches
converting between moon-units remains a silly thing to do
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Luhmann It's the other way round - you get less inches.
Cun (Chinese: 寸; pinyin: cùn; Wade–Giles: ts'un; Japanese: sun; Korean: chon), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. In this sense it continues to be used to chart acupuncture points on the human body in various uses of traditional Chinese medicine.
1 cun in is equal to 1/30 m or ~33.33 mm, ~0.10936 ft or ~1.3123 in
3.3 cm wide thumb at the knuckle is a rather big hand.
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3.3 cm wide thumb at the knuckle is a rather big hand.
You made me actually read the text... huh
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
you get less inches.
Paging @HardwareGeek.
Is that correct? Or should it be "you get fewer inches"?
Genuine question.
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@Zerosquare Dammit! Less stuff, fewer things.
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@Applied-Mediocrity you're breaking my image-shitposting streak by going back in time and editing in
:stannis.gif:
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@topspin Move fast and break things
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
3.3 cm wide thumb at the knuckle is a rather big hand.
You made me actually read the text... huh
… both units are translated to Czech as ‘palec’, which means thumb. And the English inch of 25.4 mm is fairly sensible width for a men's thumb indeed. But the Chinese 33.3 mm is a bit on the bigger side. Well, long ago I read somewhere that these units tended to get a bit exaggerated over time as it was presumably the king's thumb (and foot etc.) and everybody wanted to boast that ‘our king is bigger then yours’.
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Well, long ago I read somewhere that these units tended to get a bit exaggerated over time as it was presumably the king's thumb (and foot etc.) and everybody wanted to boast that ‘our king is bigger then yours’.
They felt absolutely no shame in their cringe-y boasting. You can only imagine the kind of small penis car they'd drive today.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
My Dell docks have no problem with multiple monitors.
Mine works (with 2 2560x1600 screens) but Weird Things happen.
Initially I tried plugging them both with Display Port, which seems to be the intended output of the dock (there is one HDMI port as well). Either screen worked fine when alone, both screens worked fine when using a lower resolution, but trying to set both at 2560x1600 would constantly flicker.
After many trials of weird combinations of outputs, I managed to find two DisplayPort-to-DVI converters, and I could get both screens working correctly -- only when both screens were using the converter.
This complicated things for USB since each converter has one USB for power, and the dock only has 3 USB, so I could not leave my mouse + keyboard plugged into the dock and had to have one USB running to one of the screens (thankfully, they have several USB each), and the mouse/keyboard plugged to the screen.
Then some months later I moved desk and thus everything got unplugged. Somehow the removal team "misplaced" my converters so while I was searching for them I tried again DisplayPort directly, without success.
I got my converters back but for some reason 2xDVI no longer worked and caused flickering! But now one DisplayPort + one DVI works, whereas I am absolutely positive that it originally did not.
Also sometimes, randomly, when I plug my laptop it refuses to do 2560x1600 on both screens (the resolution is just not listed, at all). Some random sequence of either unplugging/replugging the laptop, or the screens, or switching to only one screen or the other and back, usually works in the end.
It's such a good thing that computers are deterministic devices.
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It's such a good thing that computers are deterministic devices.
This is what I think whenever my boss does his "the universe is rational" shtik. Which I mostly agree with. Except computers. Those are like needy children who just want attention.
I've got a current issue where some clients aren't connecting well (hanging on loading data from the servers, except not actually becoming non-responsive, just...not loading things). But only from the mobile apps (both android and iOS which share ~0% code base, but hanging in exactly the same way), not the web, despite both of those using the same APIs. And only sometimes--if they close and open the apps a few times, it all loads. And spread over a relatively wide area using a variety of hardware, both on wifi and on cellular.
Can't reproduce the darn thing at all. No signs in the logs of any errors--I've seen the api calls come in, and my side says they return all in the expected amount of time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Luhmann It's the other way round - you get less inches.
Cun (Chinese: 寸; pinyin: cùn; Wade–Giles: ts'un; Japanese: sun; Korean: chon), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. In this sense it continues to be used to chart acupuncture points on the human body in various uses of traditional Chinese medicine.
1 cun in is equal to 1/30 m or ~33.33 mm, ~0.10936 ft or ~1.3123 in
3.3 cm wide thumb at the knuckle is a rather big hand.
Which knuckle, though? That might be large for the knuckle closest to the nail, but it seems about right for the knuckle where the thumb joins the rest of the hand.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
3.3 cm wide thumb at the knuckle is a rather big hand.
You made me actually read the text... huh
… both units are translated to Czech as ‘palec’, which means thumb. And the English inch of 25.4 mm is fairly sensible width for a men's thumb indeed. But the Chinese 33.3 mm is a bit on the bigger side. Well, long ago I read somewhere that these units tended to get a bit exaggerated over time as it was presumably the king's thumb (and foot etc.) and everybody wanted to boast that ‘our king is bigger then yours’.
Chinese are not alone in the regard; some german countries had similar size of 30mm (Baden, Bayern, Switzerland) and even 37mm in Prussia - although that one was apparently a special "Dezimalzoll" used in parallel with plain (duodecimal) "Zoll" (26.15mm) and the new "Neuzoll" of 10mm (because it was just a localized cm).
Which is consistent with the mile, which was usually between 7 and 12 km (take that, puny english mile).
People in these discussions often forget the real reason why the metric system units were adopted. It was not because they were nice and scientific and and represented communist tyranny. It was because the old system was an absolute clusterfuck that had to be killed with fire.
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@topspin Unplug the devices from the network / disconnect from Wifi until the timeout has passed?
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@Kamil-Podlesak Yeah. USA uses one set of units, so it does not matter too much what units they are. Europe had, for historical reasons (and histerical raisins) different units in every city, so the benefit of unifying was much bigger.
Filed under: why not natural units
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Depends what you're willing to expose, and to who.
Whom.
Given the strong association with general skeeve to skeevy grammar,
whom
was incorrect.
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@topspin Fairly staid, actually. This is perhaps a Ford Expedition, given the non-sharpened codpiece.
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USA uses one set of units, so it does not matter too much what units they are.
... something, but keep multiplying by 2 and/or 3, it's gotta end in zero sooner or later...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
the real reason why the metric system units were adopted
Because everybody loved the French.
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@djls45 Well, they did put a lot of effort into defining a consistent system (killing the is hard) and a new system had the advantage that everybody had to adjust, limiting conflicts regarding whose system should prevail.
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@topspin Unplug the devices from the network / disconnect from Wifi until the timeout has passed?
Yeah, that's basically what I do. But I need to reconnect at least one of them to figure out when the timeout is over, and hope that it doesn't break things again.
In the meantime I got everything working again except for the calendar on my phone. That keeps on being stuck at not connecting to the server, even though I no longer appear to be locked out (works everywhere else).
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@topspin Do you have control over local-machine network routes, even to the point of the stack rereading the hostsfile regularly? You could sinkhole the hosts to enforce a backoff strategy.
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@Gribnit whatever that means sounds .
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