clark_dent (u/clark_dent)

clark_dent commented on Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions phys.org/news/2024-12-mic... · Posted by u/mikhael

Aromasin · a year ago

Arguably the plastics break down until they become basic short polymers that exist in everything though no? At some point they progress from micro-plastics to non-harmful substances. So having a break point where we stop producing plastics would mean that we stop adding then to the environment whilst allowing the eventual half-life of the material to take its course (granted that's probably 10s of thousands of years from now, but with clean up operations that could be accelerated).

clark_dent · a year ago

Well, no. Some common plastics like polycarbonate aren't biodegradable, and will basically never break down without application of significant heat/water/enzymatic activity/etc. For some of these, the half-life could be a great deal more even than 10s of millenia:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635#:~:te....

clark_dent commented on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y... · Posted by u/ingve

rho4 · a year ago

Reposting my experience from my comment on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcmonitors/comments/163yjj8/c...

I have been using a 55" 8K QE55QN700BT ($1400) at home since Jan. 2023 and a 55" 8K QE55QN700C ($1100 on sale) at the office since August 2023.

I can tell you that I will never go back, but there is definitely room for improvement.

Biggest negative: Sitting close (~12"), the far areas are probably at >45° angle (and TV colors are not great at angles)

Eye strain is ok (lowest brightness & low contrast), but neck strain is a thing (which I never had before, but now I think my neck muscles start to be trained and it's getting better).

Price is amazing, compared to 4x 4K

Refresh rate 60Hz: not for ego shooters (but great for work)

I didn't think it was possible, but at work I operate an 8k, 4k, and a full HD screen from the same graphics card (i need the other screens for UI testing)

Glossy is not great (no matte TVs on the market)

Even at 12", I operate Windows at 175% scaling, so I still have pixels to spare. Next TV will be 65" :)

At the beginning I thought it was a failure, until I found the correct settings combination: TV Gaming Mode, disable all AI image gimmicks, set the correct refresh rate in the NVidia driver options (at first everything was extremely sluggish, until by chance I saw that the refresh rate was set to 30Hz by default). I also remember playing with the V-Sync settings until finally I didn't see visual pixel artifacts anymore. Now the quality is the same as my 4k monitor.

Work colleagues just can't see it... (just like they laughed at the 2nd monitor, and then at the 3rd, and now most use 3 monitors).

No hassle with monitor arms. Such set it on the table and done.

Microsoft PowerToys FancyZones is amazing to divide the screen into areas

Next: TCL unveiled the first curved 8k 65" TV, that's where I'm going :)

clark_dent · a year ago

12" viewing distance?! It sounds like you should be spending more at the optometrist and less at Best Buy. I cannot even imagine sitting that close to a screen--don't you have to turn your head just to see both sides of a document?

clark_dent commented on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y... · Posted by u/ingve

matheusmoreira · a year ago

I've always wondered why everybody would buy "monitors" for computer use. Isn't it the same thing as a television screen? Back then TVs used to take different inputs but everything is digital now.

That checkerboard effect is certainly interesting. Someone somewhere is going to be nostalgic about this artifact someday, maybe they'll even make a shader to emulate it. I wonder what causes it and why it disappears in game mode.

> on Linux it took about two years for 8K 60 Hz support to work, spawning a salty thread on GitHub

All I see is paying customers asking for support.

> The AMD on Linux fiasco is because the HDMI Forum has prohibited AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open source Linux drivers.

That's weird since nvidia's open source driver has an implementation.

clark_dent · a year ago

TVs generally have more input lag, poorer color fidelity, and except at the high end like 8k the pixel size is often inappropriate for viewing close up.

There's less of a gulf now than in the past, but TVs are generally made for media watching at a distance.

clark_dent commented on Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making businessinsider.com/micro... · Posted by u/rntn

dartharva · a year ago

Huh, I thought engineers' pay scale would be a lot higher than program managers, business analysts, administrators, consultants and the like. It isn't. At all.

clark_dent · a year ago

Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that?

The people in charge of pay and hiring will never, ever, ever set things up such that they're considered less important or are paid less.

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clark_dent · 2 years ago

The link is completely incorrect, it points to the submission form for /r/technology.