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I only use a single monitor nowadays, at least at home. I lost my right eye in a fall last year, and a second monitor doesn't buy me anything now, as I have to move too much to see anything on it.
I keep a 2nd monitor at work, but that's only because it's the same touch screen monitor we use in our products. I occasionally need to check layouts on the same precise resolution as the product.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have two curved monitors and my brain adjusted to the point where they now look flat and the flat screen on the adjacent laptop looks bowed out. In the end, I think they are more hype than anything else.
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understood
diligent hands rule....
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You can display 2 applications side by side on an ultra-wide curved monitor.
I do not have that kind of money to splurge on myself.
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I will try this feature. Amazon has some good deals now.
diligent hands rule....
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Rather certain that curved monitors have a problem with sharing. The more people you need to look at the same screen at the same time the more that becomes a problem.
I also like using two monitors for a very specific reasons. First because it allows for a backup screen. Second 'full screen' means there is still another screen to have information on.
One can have two curved monitors but I suspect that the range of eye motion is for using both of those is going to require turning ones head to see all of it. And setting it up like that probably takes quite a bit away from the esthetic reasons for having it in the first place.
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Mom 1: Do you do elf on the shelf for your kids?
Mom 2: No, I am a Harry Potter fan. I teach my kids to be against the enslavement of house-elves.
Sooo... I guess Dobby is a free elf... on your shelf...
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A chilling experience indeed!
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Ooomph Ooomph Ooomph
I rarely click these YT links. Glad I did this time 🎄
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 23-Dec-21 5:42am.
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If you feel like clicking more links, to find similar stuff, I came across that song plumbing YouTube's auto-generated list for 'similar to Jamie xx'. There's some other good stuff in there. Also, the group 'You Man' has some more chill stuff.
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What is up with customers making a product launch for New Years Eve? I get that people have to work on holidays, but this seems unnecessary. Instead of having fun with a small group (Thanks COVID) of friends and family, I'll be hanging out at home waiting on call for a product launch. In my opinion, it should have been done on a non-holiday after hours.
Am I being selfish?
Hogan
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I went to a co-worker's wedding New Year's Eve of 2000. No matter how your 'launch' goes, it will be better than the dud that that party was.
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Not at all. Holidays aren't just for managers, though sometimes they forget that. Up side is that you might get (should get!) Time-and-half or even Double-Time for working on a holiday. At the very least you should get time off in lieu. Neither of which can adequately compensate for lost time with your nearest and dearest, but its better that a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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We had a client that insisted that a project goes live before year end, even though we'd all be on vacation without support staff etc. Just because the project had to be done this year.
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Ah yes, the year-end Holy Grail: "rev rec", or revenue recognition. Even though you haven't received the money (and may not for months), the customer commits to paying you and you can therefore 'recognize' that the revenue was received this year rather than when you actually deposit the money.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I posted a while back that I had purchase the "Apollo Guidance Computer" book and now I have a guilt complex.
They put a man on the moon with 36K of fixed memory and 2K of read/writable memory.
I just sent for another 32GB upgrade for my machine putting it total at 64GB.
BTW good book
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: They put a man on the moon with 36K of fixed memory and 2K of read/writable memory.
I'm sure the rockets helped.
*hides*
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 22-Dec-21 15:21pm.
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Looks like rockets are back on the menu boys...
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They didn't use Windows or Chrome
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In that case the BSOD would have taken on new meaning.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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and today I am viewing this site in firefox which is running five processes and using a total of about 300MB of memory.
All righty then.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Seems like applications use memory with no regard to limits or management.
Why should FireFox use 1GB of memory with 2 tabs open?
Why does AVG have 5 processes and use ~1GB of memory?
Why does Windows Explorer use 77.2MB while TurboCAD uses 60.9MB?
My memory usage with only FireFox and TurboCAD is at 48%, that is why I am upgrading my memory.
But I think I'll be wasting my time and money because as soon as I upgrade the system will use more!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Part of that is for performance reasons. A lot of applications these days preallocate GOBS of ram so that they don't have to put a lot of burden on the process heap block list and allocations are quicker. .NET is a very good example of this, since it's garbage collected, but browsers do it too.
The more RAM you have, the more they will potentially use, probably up to a point, simply because it's there, and preallocating it is faster for overall performance. Probably they've perfed tested this style on modern machines, and found that the swap burden isn't that large in practice, even with all of the allocations.
Bottom line is, it's not total RAM usage you need to care about as much as you need to care about allocations per second, vs deallocations per second - your "memory pressure"
Swap sort of muddies the water.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Yeah that makes sense.
But it"s my memory and they can't have it.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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