476: Plausibly Viable

Episode description

• Follow-up:
  • Resolution independence
    • 10.4 Tiger
    • 10.5 Leopard
    • 10.7 Lion
    • Steve Jobs’s Retina Diagram
    • Retina Display announcement
  • Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round
    • Video Explanation
  • Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI
  • Regarding Mac Studio fan noise
    • The fans cool the power supply too notes Phil Stollery
    • Twitter thread from “OnlyMe”
      • Graph
    • Feedback from acoustician Andrew Wade
    • Apple’s official noise ratings (via Renfred)
      • Mac Pro: 11dB
      • Mac Studio: 15dB
      • Macbook Air: 3dB
      • MacBook Pro: 3dB
      • iMac Pro: 13dB
      • Mid-2015: 6dB
  • Regarding Qualcomm patent shakedown racket licensing
    • Reuters article
    • See also
    • Court case
  • Discourse and Open Source (via Jeff Atwood)
    • John on patents
      • Hypercritical #67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
      • Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
      • Hypercritical #69: Sport of Kings
    • Discourse free hosting programs
  • How to Pay Professional Maintainers
  • Software warfare in node-ipc
    • Github issue
    • Description/Discussion
    • Summary from Michael Tsai
• 🎉 New Overcast Update 🎉
• #askatp
  • Do we have a preferred file naming scheme? Is it 20210329_Proj3_SitePlan? (via Unforgettable Luncheon)
  • Why are Time Machine network backups so slow? (via Carson Brown)
    • SMB
    • Does removing I/O throttling make backups faster?
    • Is backing up to networked storage improving?
  • Will Apple ever make their own display panel? (via “C”)
• John had something he wanted to discuss.
  • John’s Blog Post
  • Reconcilable Differences #179
    • Timestamp link to the discussion at 50:47
  • Santa

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