476: Plausibly Viable

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

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