ceefan

Re:Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:59PM (#36203508)

Interestingly, the M2 Mac Mini has TB4 and supports two connected displays, because there isn't an internal one. Yes, it's still 2 total displays, but it's the only non-Pro Apple Silicon machine with TB4 instead of TB3. I'm not sure if the only real distinction is allowing a second monitor on the link, or if there is additional bandwidth as well.

Re:Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:57PM (#36201381)

The Thunderbolt specs define minimum quantities of connectable external displays. Thunderbolt 3 requires support for 1+ connected displays, Thunderbolt 4 for 2+. Apple creates an artificial restriction for profit reasons, and does not equip MBA with Thunderbolt 4 as a result.

Re:Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:53PM (#36200181)

You are correct, MBP 13 is Thunderbolt 3. I updated for clarity.

Re:Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:43PM (#36200028)

MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 3, which only requires 1 additional display. Thunderbolt 4, which the MacBook Pro 14/16 has, requires support for connecting at least two additional displays. [0]

[0]: https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/tech/faq

Re:F.lux, but for Your House on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:05PM (#33513213)

If you would like to achieve this based on simple dimming, or even better, by using smart switches instead of smart bulbs, take a look at NASA spinoff Bios Lighting.

Here's their A19 (normal bulb) specsheet: https://bioslighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BIOS_A19...

There is also a spotlight-style BR30: https://bioslighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BIOS_BR-...

Re:StarBook 14-inch on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:51AM (#31040224)

From the specs page:

HDMI version: 2.0

USB-C Interface: DisplayPort (DP Alt Mode)

USB-C version: Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40 Gbps) [Intel only]

USB-A version: 3.2 Gen 1 (up to 5 Gbps)

Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to two displays with 4096x2304 resolution at 60Hz

Re:Going gray for smartphone addiction on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:25PM (#16152344)

In (iOS && iPhone<9), you can toggle this filter with the triple click trick. In Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut, select Color Filters, then triple click the home button.

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:45PM (#15296976)

duck.com is owned by Google.

Re:Disconnect. Offline only on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:45AM (#15081462)

I would trade my smartphone in an instant for a dumb phone with a great camera, 3.5mm audio port, and LTE/WiFi for tethering. The closest thing out there right now is the LG Exalt LTE.

Re:National Raisin Reserve on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:52AM (#10016834)

There was a Daily Show piece on this from the farmers' perspective: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/pmrodj/raisin-growers-laws...

Ask HN: Learning JS+ES6 from scratch

Posted by ceefan on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @01:02PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've never had the professional need to learn JS beyond the very basics - math functions, AJAX, some simple graphics transforms. Some of the concepts and features were confusing to me based on my background in other languages (e.g. prototype objects, block scoping), but it looks like ES6/ES2015 addresses a lot of this. I'd love to diversify into web development and would like to learn it this...

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