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32" 4k display at fraction scaling of 1.5 (150%) is fine for my day-to-day work (Excel, VS Code, Word, Web browsing, Teams etc.). It delivers sharp enough text at an effective reso…

If Nanoclaw generates some revenue, you should trademark the name and also buy nanoclaw.com. Move the site to the .com domain and then do the steps above. All things being equal, "…

Non-square pixels come from the legacy of anthropomorphic film projection. This was developed from the need to capture wide aspect ratio images on standard 33mm film. This allows t…

You cannot directly hire a housecleaner in the US without that person becoming your "household employee". You will need to withhold Federal Social Security tax and Medicare tax. In…

What zoom (if any) do you typically run at? For instance, a 200% zoom would give you an effective resolution of 4K, but with much sharper and smoother text and rendered graphics.

How much effort to create a weather app for ios or andriod that works like this? Maybe so something for the nest home max or echo show? I love the idea, but what is the easiest way…

I agree: if you a part of a two-parent household, who lives in a home with off-street parking where you can add a charger, the best of both worlds is one EV (Tesla) and one plug-in…

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If you click on the words "always be free", you will be taken to the GitHub project, from there click on the release in the right column, and then download it for your platform. Th…

I remember Disney Dollars as a kid that were pegged to US 1:1 and could be used at any Disney-owned property. They were basically gift cards with no expiration date. They ended up …

You can do some of these tricks with Excel 2016 or later and SharePoint Enterprise or Office 365 -- which many corporations already have. You can embed an auto-updating Excel file …

I wonder why Boeing didn’t they design new, longer landing gear instead of moving the engines forward? Then the engines could have remained in the same position. I am sure most air…

I think we should switch to a six-day week (just drop Wednesday). Two day weekend, four day week: http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/60-Week_Calendar

I remember when reading "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts, Napoleon wasn't a big fan of the base-10 metric system, but he figured it would be the best way to break with the hund…

I am in an urban environment with a lot of interference. There are several products on the market, which should I choose? http://www.open-mesh.com/ https://www.eero.com/ https://ww…

Worth watching, contains and interesting an segment about Andy Grove's and Robert Noyce's relationship with each other at Intel. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/si…

Financial Times does not have an iOS app - just a mobile website. They have been very clever in building the site so that it is very app-like, for instance they use local storage t…

No, there is insurance for that. Motor vehicles are inherently dangerous machines, and we all take the risk of injuring someone every time we drive. Insurance distributes the risk …

It would be interesting to cross-reference the records from Freddie and Fannie with the HMDA data, which has additional fields about each mortgage application: https://www.ffiec.go…

For context, the US national 2010 median pay for "Software Developers" was $90,530 per year according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which I believe is data provided by empl…