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This works great in my setup: MBP 15-Inch, 2018, macOS Catalina 10.15.5, Installed via Homebrew Cask, LG 34" 5k2k 34WK95U-W via Thunderbolt 3, Sonnet Echo 11 Thunderbolt 3 Dock, Dell U3417W 34" via HDMI via Echo 11 Dock. Volume and brightness work on both displays. Contrast only works on the Dell (after enabling in the preferences) - no big deal. I can adjust brightness on both displays at the same time via the keyboard... that is spectacular. Volume controls work as expected - finally!! Fantastic!!

The “trust what worked and copy” mentality and potentially lack of access to the original designer sometimes can lead young engineers read too much into the intent of designs and be unwilling to consider changes. Sometimes this helps keep the “magic smoke” in, and sometimes the original designs truly are elegant, but other times it can be an impediment to progress. “But this is the founders’ work! How could we possibly improve on that!” I’ve been in some design reviews like that. Old designs sometimes become legendary and thus hard to convince others to change, even when needed.

It is to make the soldering process easier and faster by increasing the thermal resistance between the pin and the large metal of the gnd plane. If the gnd pins were sunk into the ground plane directly, the assembler would have to leave the solder iron in place longer, which would heat up more area, and possibly cause damage to the nearby parts.

Sokath! His eyes uncovered! Temba, his arms wide.

Non-paywalled version here: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08910q.html

The lack of spell-check was pretty great in helping to focus in on writing. I will try turning that off when I write in the future, returning to the old way of running spell-check after I have gotten the thoughts down on the page. Five minutes essay below... also, first post (hello!) to Hacker News.

This is a test of the most dangerous writing app in the world. I am typing in whatever comes to mind in a stream of consciousness, but with proper capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. I could never tolerate a stream of consciousness essay on a standardized test, such as the ACT. For example, when I was a junior in high school, I encountered one of these beasts which I found nearly impenetrable to digest, followed by thirty-odd questions asking for my detailed interpretation of the steaming pile, which I am sure was never written to be used to abuse young adults just trying to set up the next step in their academic career. I can imagine some panel of experts somewhere picking out this shining example of obtuseness as the essay for the test, cackling to themselves about how useless this is either predicting future success, or as a test of any specific (useful) skill. On the other hand, maybe we all have that one colleague at work who writes email in stream of consciousness mode. Who knows, if I didn't face-plant on that ACT back in the day, maybe I would never have brushed up on unlearning English. Such is life, we will never know. I do know however that I paid for that test, and I paid for the next test after that thanks to that essay. Ok, now this brings us to the present day. Here I am, writing in to a random screen buffer on the Internet, which promises to delete my text if I do not continue generating words for five minutes straight. It is especially evil in that A) there is no timer and I didn't think to check the clock; B) I do not know where or if this will be posted somewhere; and C) this is yet another useless life skill. Or is it... maybe the next time I am bumping up against a proposal submission deadline, I will think back in fondness to this experience on the most dangerous writing app.