wife didn’t need her old iPad mini anymore
this is interesting
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I am doing the exact same thing with my partner’s now-old iPad mini lol
I don’t think I’d want to stick anything larger or heavier on here but it works OK
apple getting credit for windows inventions AGAIN smdh
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that laptop is like a tiny baby
(I’m still trying to imagine what this laptop is for)
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mobile day-trading, mobile network stupidity/white hat hacking
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Excel
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last time i used excel you had to open multiple, full instances of it to be able to use different windows. you simply could not open different workbooks from the same sheet in new windows. it has some sort of fucked up built-in windowing, but it doesn’t play nice with multiple monitors at all.
running 7 instances of excel on a laptop seems like the worst possible decision one could make
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i guess this is right in line with buying a 7 screen laptop though
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Excel runs better on this MacBook than on my Surface Book 2 (8650U/16GB) or my desktop (8700k/32GB). Fucked up imo
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yeah it’s because the Windows Excel microkernel or w/e you want to call it is legacy legacy legacy and they don’t want to change it under any circumstances
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I read this story in the WSJ about how Excel’s ubiquity is now a nightmare of tech debt, opaque systems, retraining, etc. for CTO/CFO types
It’s a blight. Imagine all of the wasted time trying to extend Excel to do what it ought not. Two generations of business workers who only learned how to do nuts and bolts computing within this house of cards.
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Bring back Wingz!
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It’s so bad. My company has excel sheets in daily operation that are literally 20 years old and cause my poor lenovo laptop to be spooled up to 100% at all times. I have to juggle between 4-5 sheets at any given time, and have no idea where we would even begin migrating to a different/better platform.
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I feel like writing one of those books that explains the entire world we live in through the lens of one mundane thing, like Salt or Debt: The First 5000 Years, but for Excel
Chapter 2: A personal computer on every desk
Subtitle: Microsoft’s promise of empowering every office worker
Chapter 6: The professional software engineers strike back
Subtitle: From the bazaar back to the cathedral
Chapter 7: Case study: From Walmart to Amazon
Subtitle: The rise and fall of Excel in American retail
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I kind of appreciate that about excel. Yeah it’s got a lot of weird warts and baggage but it’s clearly one of the most useful pieces of software ever made
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The company I work for is 95% spreadsheets and 5% actually doing what we say we’re doing.
Without excel, I think most of us would be destitute.
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bad news folks the PC resets under high load (No Man’s Sky in VR) with the new GPU, I suspect the PSU might not be up to the task; on paper we should only be at ~85% of the rated wattage and I’m not seeing the temperatures get anywhere too alarming, and I’d expect to see throttling first if it was temperature-related
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your problem is probably with the 12v rating since that’s all that ever matters; apologies if this is redundant information for you
I have one of these unused I can sell you:
(paid $150 US a little under a year ago)
yeah, I didn’t think of that - you’re probably right!
looking it up it’s got two 18A rails for 12V, which means unless the card is perfectly evenly splitting its load (and it won’t be) it’s over the rail’s wattage as soon as it gets over ~215W
for the moment I’ve “underclocked” the card to merely follow the reference 1080Ti spec and we’ll see if that keeps us under the envelope until we can resolve it