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An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

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Post by bserge »

cunthorpe wrote: post #383
mgerullis wrote: post #352

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> 883 tabs open There cannot be a good reason to do this, I start to get anxious at 20-30

High tabs count are from people who don’t care to close tabs after they’re done or use them as a TODO list they never get to. Browsers should default to closing unused tabs (after 30 days?) and I’m glad that’s possible now. If you haven’t seen a tab in a month chances are you never will.

> Browsers should default to closing unused tabs

Hey, what if I finally get to whatever interesting thing that tab had after 30 years of ignoring it?!

But yeah, I just "close other tabs" every few weeks because it's 99% guaranteed I won't need them.

Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

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Post by skavi »

ajconway wrote: post #222
skavi wrote: post #143

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> Along with submitting “widget” hierarchy updates, it also supports submitting “animations”. Is that how all these third party iOS apps all have completely consistent “pop” animations on long press?

No, that would be OS-provided GUI components (or sometimes manual reimplementation), similar to how most win32 apps had the same right-click menu behavior.

The unique thing about this is that it takes a widget from the app, and expands it out while blurring the rest of the screen. So it’s not just an OS gui component.

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Post by Filligree »

SilverRed wrote: post #272
croes wrote: post #247

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That is nevertheless only two screens.

>only two screens Honestly I feel like multi monitor setups are actually worse than single monitor. Having to bend your neck to use some of your windows left me with neck pain. Now I only use one large monitor and use the workspace switching shortcuts to move everything around so I only look forwards. My productivity is identical and my neck feels better. I'd only say its worth it for when you really do need to see a…

That's a problem with two monitors, specifically if you try to place them evenly. Neither monitor is centered.

Designate one of them as the 'main' monitor, and put anything you need to work with for long periods of time on that. Add an office chair, so you can swiwel to look straight at the other(s) instead of twisting your neck. And you'll find there's no such issue.

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Post by jppittma »

ericye16 wrote: post #303
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They do! See https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/233l9q8h... and the corresponding WWDC session on them minimizing the input-to-display time.

This is off-topic, but I love that the title of the slides is "233_Advanced Touch Input on_iOS_04_Final_Final_VERY_Final_D_DF.key".

I wonder why somebody working at apple wouldn't just use git for that?

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Post by jppittma »

jedberg wrote: post #43

This is funny. For the last ten years I've used Mac laptops as my primary machine. Of course the fan noise was a great auditory clue to tell me to check out Activity Monitor/top for rogue processes and help me optimize which tasks took too many resources. I didn't realize how much I relied on that cue until I temporarily switched to a Mac desktop machine during the pandemic when I didn't need to travel. The desktop f…

Can you not use rsync on an iPad?

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Post by kube-system »

CaptainMarvel wrote: post #377
kube-system wrote: post #160

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No, it's because vehicles before then were not required to meet minimum sound requirements by law. Check the spec sheets of HEV/PHEV/EV vehicles made before then -- they don't have acoustic alerting systems. Now they all do (in the jurisdictions that require it).

The law didn’t exist until there were enough electric cars to care about this. The cause and effect starts with the number of quiet cars.

Yes, but it wasn’t their mere existence that caused automakers to add noise. People who buy these vehicles like that they are quiet. The noise generators were added only because regulatory action was taken.

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Post by ulzeraj »

qudat wrote: post #242
jedberg wrote: post #43

This is funny. For the last ten years I've used Mac laptops as my primary machine. Of course the fan noise was a great auditory clue to tell me to check out Activity Monitor/top for rogue processes and help me optimize which tasks took too many resources. I didn't realize how much I relied on that cue until I temporarily switched to a Mac desktop machine during the pandemic when I didn't need to travel. The desktop f…

> Now I'm looking for a better remote access solution so I can consider sticking with a desktop at home and then maybe just an iPad for travel with good remote access and file sync. This is my solution. I don't really need to do any file syncing as rsync or scp works fine for my purposes. It has been a fantastic dev experience. I remote in, bring up my last tmux session and pick up exactly where I left off, regardles…

> I've got a overkill desktop dev machine (previous gaming rig) that can make all the noise it wants in my basement and my front-end shell remains quiet.

I want to have the better of both worlds and a nice uncluttered desk so I ended up buying an Intel NUC 9 module plus RTX 3060 that I keep hidden in a closet and game remotely using Moonlight and Gamestream. Everything works just fine on a Gigabit connection and plays well with the Xbox controller on the M1 as if its local. I can play everything on 1440p@60fps which is more than enough to me.

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Post by jillesvangurp »

jangrahul wrote: post #408
jmkni wrote: post #25

Pre M1, I've always preferred a PC. When I'm using a laptop, especially doing real work, they heat up, the fans go crazy, the laptop is hot to the touch and everything slows down. It almost makes you anxious. You're wondering if it's about to crash or go on fire. I've always kept a Desktop PC on the go for this reason, a well cooled desktop just doesn't have these issues. With a laptop, I always feel like I'm comprom…

My experience is just the opposite, when I run even to projects on intelliJ on a mac m1 8gb, the whole system just starts lagging to the point that I cant even scroll the code. This has not been a good experience for me.

That's probably because 8GB is not enough to run Intellij comfortably and the system starts swapping things in and out of memory constantly. Another thing that happens when intellij uses up its heap is garbage collects including frequent stop the world varieties of that. The solution is to configure it to have more heap. Either way, that's a memory problem and not a CPU problem.

8GB for a development laptop is not a great idea in 2021. I've been using 16GB since 2013. I'll get more with my next laptop, which may or may not end up being the 16" M2?

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Post by piyh »

idonotknowwhy wrote: post #251
zitterbewegung wrote: post #67

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I remember using hard disk drive sounds for disk usage and or capacitor noises to debug issues. But, I really like the MacBook Air M1 because its so quiet and it helps me concentrate much better and if you are talking to others or recording a talk it is silent. The other thing is that it has no moving parts so it should be very durable.

I used to use capacitor noises too when i was younger. I could tell other devs when builds were finished by hearing the high pitched noise stop. At the time i thought i could hear the cpu but recently learned it was the capacitors lol

Inductor coils? I haven't heard of capacitors creating noise before.
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