Are there any tools on mac that shows how much bandwidth is being used on a usb/thunderbolt port? I've always suspected that I'm saturating the connection from laptop to hub but don't have a definitive way of knowing for sure. When I move my second monitor off the hub and plug directly into a different usb port on my laptop I seem to have less problems.
"each array element had nearest neighbor connectivity so you
would calculate nine correlations, an autocorrelation and eight cross-correlations, with each of your eight
nearest neighbors, the diagonals and the perpendicular, and then you could interpolate in correlation
space where the best fit was. "
A USB mouse just sends x/y distance traveled over USB HID protocol. All the details are integrated into silicon. The sensor is a camera and the processor diffs the images to calculate the distance. To learn about the algorithms for that you could look into patents by Avago or PixArt.
Ben Eater makes amazing educational videos, unfortunately he's been MIA for half a year now. His patreon sneakily got updated from a "per video" to a "per month" payment model a couple months ago (this has since been reverted) and I cancelled my membership after I didn't get any explanation for over a week, and there have been no other signs of life as far as I know.
Yeah, I'd wondered what he's up to. At the same time, people have their own lives and sometimes shit happens. Changing the terms for existing patrons though does sound slightly shady. I'm surprised that is allowed without some kind of confirmation on the platform.
I'd give Ben the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a mistake since up to that point he has been a class act.
As for the radio silence, I'm afraid that this could be something bad. I've seen other examples of creators doing great work who are seemingly impossible to dislike, and STILL receive harassment to a point of not wanting to continue (e.g. Handmade Hero)
Well, nevermind anything nefarious, life can throw unexpected things in the mix too. This Old Tony was similarly away for a while recently (now back) after a family member died. I imagine it only gets more difficult to return too, once people notice and maybe you see them asking in comments, on Reddit or HN, etc. 'where' you've gone, and start to feel some need to not only return but explain your absence.
I check occasionally for new videos, I enjoy them and hope there's more to come, but I don't need to know 'why', it's none of my business, and he doesn't owe me anything. (I'm not a Patreon supporter, that apparent change is a bit different of course, perhaps just a mistake as you said.)
I'm reminded of the closure viewers of the YouTuber Bosnian Bill got about his disappearance, by Lock Picking Lawyer doing an explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASQQboFg98
But I do also understand not all creators have a relationship with another creator which as much overlap of audience that it is possible.
> I've seen other examples of creators doing great work who are seemingly impossible to dislike, and STILL receive harassment to a point of not wanting to continue (e.g. Handmade Hero)
Are you saying that Casey Muratori is "seemingly impossible to dislike"? Isn't he still doing HH?
I'm very surprised Patreon would let a creator switch that without asking for existing patron's consent, it seems ripe for abuse and borderline illegal.
They hope their creators will inform them it seems, although maybe there is a patreon-initiated email informing backers when they make this change (I just can't find any evidence of it).
> Letting your patrons know about billing changes in advance is most important when switching from per creation to another option. Patrons may want to upgrade their subscription if they know that their pledged amount will be x 1. Say Patron F is at your $5 tier with a monthly max of 2 creations per month. When you switch to monthly, their subscription amount defaults to $5 a month -- they may want to increase to $10 a month to account for the change.
IANAL, but this still looks very suspicious to me. Agreeing to pay someone $5/month is not the same as agreeing to pay them $5/video (or vice versa). Charging me for something I never authorized is a form of fraud, no?
