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Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by imbriaco »

falcolas wrote: post #49
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> laser cutters will often use a JPEG as the profile image. Laser cutter operator here. Never heard of laser cutter, plasma cutter, or oxy cutter (our company has all three) accepting a JPG as the input file. I've spoken to two other local operators and they all require a DXF / DWG or some other type of NC (Numeric Code) file as input.

I'm guessing it's a reference to GlowForge, which can cut based on pictures or drawings on the material itself.

The Glowforge will only engrave from a bitmap. You need a vector to do cutting.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by saagarjha »

ktta wrote: post #78
madmod wrote: post #69

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100 years from now maybe github will be the new geosites. Or maybe my great great grandkids can review that PR I made today.

Reminds me of how increasingly online everything has become, which is being documented in perfect detail. Would be interesting how sociology would change a couple decades from now.

> which is being documented in perfect detail

I wouldn't go as far as to say that…websites are lost every day without an archive of them being taken.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by dawnerd »

glenneroo wrote: post #64
dmd wrote: post #60

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I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?

Do you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.

Youtube-dl?

I mean I get your argument but op isn’t wrong. YouTube is reallly easy to rip content from.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by ThePadawan »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #24

Seems like a roundabout way to avoid using an external monitor.

I use a similar (more portable) stand for another use case:

Hotdesking between offices. One external monitor on all desks. Using built-in monitor as well as external monitor sucks if you constantly have to look up and down.

Using a stand, I can have the typical multi-monitor experience (aligned top borders).

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by cattlefarmer »

pokstad wrote: post #80
mxuribe wrote: post #31

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I actually dislike that fact very much. Oh, I don't disagree that github is that for so many users...and i can not disagree with the convenience of what github provides...I simply dislike that it is all controlled/owned by github...a single point of technical/infrastructure failure, and a single corporate entity where so much content (content beyond raw code, that is) is hosted...not unlike the facebook effect. I wis…

Is there a github clone people can host on their personal site that handles git, wiki, issues, and pages? Not talking about gitlab either. Only for hosting at the project level to keep things simple.

https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket

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Post by falsedan »

knolan wrote: post #50
falsedan wrote: post #33

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People will post any old drek for karma & downvote anyone who questions the frontpage algorithm's objective rightness at displaying only the hackerest articles.

Wow, you’re right. Downvotes because someone uploaded a poor laser cut design to GitHub instead of thingyverse.

I meant the opposite, I agree with you.

If they had used an STL[0] instead of a JPG then I think people would have liked it.

0: https://help.github.com/articles/3d-file-viewer/

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by Vinnl »

abawany wrote: post #88

I use this: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20302596/ . Works great at the desk for me since I don't use an external monitor.

Isn't the screen still pretty low when you use that? (That's actually my gripe with most laptop stands, come to think of it.)

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by teekert »

It's nice but a Samsung FullHD 24" PLS (Samsungs IPS) cost about 130 euro's nowadays. The DPI is to cry about but it beats working on Maybe this solution is nice and useful because you can take it with you together with the keyboard and trackpad and get a reasonable working posture anywhere?
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