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episode 476: Plausibly Viable

Follow-up:
- Resolution independence
  - 10.4 Tiger
  - 10.5 Leopard
  - 10.7 Lion
  - Steve Jobs’s Retina Diagram
  - Retina Display announcement
- Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round
  - Video Explanation
- Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI
- Regarding Mac Studio fan noise
  - The fans cool the power supply too notes Phil Stollery
  - Twitter thread from “OnlyMe”
    - Graph
  - Feedback from acoustician Andrew Wade
  - Apple’s official noise ratings (via Renfred)
    - Mac Pro: 11dB
    - Mac Studio: 15dB
    - Macbook Air: 3dB
    - MacBook Pro: 3dB
    - iMac Pro: 13dB
    - Mid-2015: 6dB
- Regarding Qualcomm patent shakedown racket licensing
  - Reuters article
  - See also
  - Court case
- Discourse and Open Source (via Jeff Atwood)
  - John on patents
    - Hypercritical #67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
    - Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
    - Hypercritical #69: Sport of Kings
  - Discourse free hosting programs
- How to Pay Professional Maintainers
- Software warfare in node-ipc
  - Github issue
  - Description/Discussion
  - Summary from Michael Tsai
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#askatp
- Do we have a preferred file naming scheme? Is it 20210329_Proj3_SitePlan? (via Unforgettable Luncheon)
- Why are Time Machine network backups so slow? (via Carson Brown)
  - SMB
  - Does removing I/O throttling make backups faster?
  - Is backing up to networked storage improving?
- Will Apple ever make their own display panel? (via “C”)
John had something he wanted to discuss.
- John’s Blog Post
- Reconcilable Differences #179
  - Timestamp link to the discussion at 50:47
- Santa