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Klinky
·4 個月前·discuss
Reduce White Point doesn't solve the problem, but helps reduce brightness while leaving the phone at a higher brightness to reduce the modulation depth. This also results in color and contrast changes. Apple is still one of the worst offenders for flicker sensitive people.
Klinky
·10 個月前·discuss
Pretty sure people used or even still use RSS for this.
Klinky
·4 年前·discuss
Is the actual point of the bet to prove billionaires have too much money?
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
Are you saying it's not worthy of deeper inspection? I mean you kind of make an excellent point, the fast food and processed foods industries create a lot of waste selling an unhealthy product while paying unlivable wages. Their product increases healthcare costs while enabling a sedentary and stressful commuter lifestyle.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
>Every voltage below 20 maxes out at 3 amps. As far as cables go, 60 is the minimum watts supported.

Perhaps for PD 2.0/3.0 but there is also legacy USB PD 1.0 and USB-C BC. During that era I believe 1.5A was minimum.

>Are they valid though?

Probably not, looks like USB 2.0 data is minimum required.

>I don't really care how many combos there are. I won't need most of them.

Just because you don't need specific combinations, doesn't mean you won't have to wade through all possible combinations to find the cable you're looking for.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
USB-PD supports 5, 9, 15 or 20v at between 0 - 5 amps. Higher power typically needs a thicker gauge wire.

There are definitely "charge-only" cables being marketed.

Two markings with each having multiple variations. You will have a dozen plus combinations, that will only get more complex.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
The problem is you have:

Power: 18W, 30W, 45W, 60W, 100W, 240W

Data: No Data, 480Mbps, 5Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps, 40Gbps

You also have a potential variety of modes that could influence your ability to achieve those speeds with certain devices.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
While I can understand the desire to make it easier for non-savvy computer users, I don't think it's worth destroying the technical gains USB-C brings with it. Again, we've had non-savvy users hook stuff up wrong or destroy things even when ports had differentiated shapes. A software solution to identify the incompatibility and notify the user seems more practical than redesigning the connector for every evolution of USB-C.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
USB3 did have blue color coding on the plastic interior of the connector. That doesn't exist on USB-C. You'd have to color-code the metallic connector or the connector housing. Forcing a color-coding scheme on the connector housing would clash with branding, so you'd likely end up with companies ignoring the color coding.

People will also ignore the color coding even if it existed. Counterfeiters would add the color to add legitimacy to their incompatible products. Color coding would not physically prevent you from plugging the cable in.

The people who feel gaslit over a USB-C cable not working would probably also feel gaslit over buying the "wrong USB C cable", because they bought a "USB C cable" and "USB C should just work, why do I have to remember which of 12 different connectors my computer uses, I thought the point of USB C was a unified connector".
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
What is your suggested solution? Every potential configuration USB-C can offer needs its own physically different cable? We're going to need a dozen different form factors now. How do you do that at scale economically?

How does it help when someone inevitably buys the USB-C cable with shape y when they need USB-C cable with shape x? It physically doesn't fit, great, but they still have the wrong cable and their device still doesn't work, not even in a degraded fashion. They still have to take it back to the store.

Typically these issues bite people who bought cheap junky cables that weren't USB-IF certified off Amazon by sorting for lowest price. If it's not working, check that your cable is certified for what your intended use case is. This applies to everything, not just USB-C.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
Except people have damaged ports forcing incorrect form factors. Also we've had tons of other standards where cables vary with performance. HDMI, DisplayPort, IDE, USB1/2/3.

You'll get people complaining about the cable not working with their new device, and then people complaining it didn't work with their old device.

Eventually USB-C will be so capable and ubiquitous, this will be a non-factor. I don't miss the days of trying to track down the right barrel connector, micro-HDMI cable or proprietary and fragile network dongle adapter. Those weren't easier days.
Klinky
·5 年前·discuss
People already incorrectly buy USB A when they should have bought USB C or visa versa. Changing the physical form-factor doesn't solve this problem.

"I thought I needed a USB cable"?

Also it's a huge waste if say an HDMI 2.1 cable cannot be used on an HDMI 2.0/1.4 device. People would complain about that too.
Klinky
·10 年前·discuss
It helps that the Xbox One and PS4 are basically lower-spec value gamer PCs.That's not the case for any of Nintendo's hardware. It's even lower spec, without any potential crossover compatibility in architecture.
Klinky
·10 年前·discuss
Codecs often aren't written by the OS vendor. Throughout the 2000s a lot of Windows users got their codecs via less than reputable codec multipacks from sites that may or may not be reputable. The VLC/MPC-HC/Web "just works out of the box" method is more user friendly and secure than a bunch of independent binaries, written by various people, which may end up conflicting with each other.
Klinky
·11 年前·discuss
The drivers alone probably cost more than $1/mile, then you have gas and maintenance. FedEx had $45B revenue with $2B net income, not exactly huge margins.

Obviously there is more to package deliver than just the raw cost of getting a package from a local sorting center to the end of a rural driveway.

At the moment, a lot of the cheap rural shipping is being subsidized by the USPS.
Klinky
·15 年前·discuss
Haha, I thought your reply was talking about how the V8 engine worked(translating to machine specific code), instead of the language translator used on the blog post.
Klinky
·15 年前·discuss
It sounds like more of the concern is that V8 is/was buggy & had some situations where performance would be compromised. I don't think it's a slam saying it could never be used.