Based on this pin configuration, there’s only two dedicated power pins, which isn’t very good for large wattages. The rest are twinax signal pairs separated by ground to reduce crosstalk.

Usually when connectors are designed for power delivery, they’ll use bigger contacts to reduce the contact resistance (signal contacts tend to be small so you can fit more of them in the same space). I’m guessing the original DP connector form factor wasn’t made with such high power in mind, so it would make a lot of sense to use the spare signal pins for power delivery in this case. Running too much power through too few small pins can damage the contacts, by either by instant-welding the contact surfaces or by overheating the connector (see NVIDIA GPUs) ((also high voltages can cause arcing, which even in the best case will seriously degrade any connector)).

Take all of this with a huge grain of salt cause I just learned this stuff like a month ago, and my department has nothing to do with any of it. Just though someone might find it interesting.

Hi! I actually work at a major electrical connector company, so maybe I can shed some light on this.

I have no idea.

That’s a lot of power! Are there even any devices that use this?

I feel like the box being made out of metal was probably more important than the chicken soul, but whatever works I guess

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

I used to not understand them, but learning how their internal mechanism functions has helped a lot. Now I can just visualize what’s happening inside the infernal contraption

I actually really like physics, and it’s 100% because I’m fucked up and evil

Huh. This was my first time seeing a 95 year old’s mutilated penis and scrotum floating in formaldehide. Thanks (?) for sharing

Adderall helps me with that quite a bit. Not to the point where I can keep it up all day, but I can at least not have a mental breakdown after talking to three people at work

There are a lot of steps in converting color spaces to suit people’s individual monitors and in compressing files to be stored on web servers.

Sometimes rounding errors happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Is that a real website? I’m scared to check

“Open Compute” being trademarked is pretty ironic

The article itself mentions E Ink’s Kaleido 3 technology. I’m not really sure on the semantics of “e-ink” vs “e-paper”, but your take sounds good enough to me. I do know that E Ink makes a product internally (maybe also externally? idk) refered to as “ACeP”, which stands for “Advanced Color e-Paper”, so e-ink definitely classifies as a type of e-paper.

One of their older color products is a traditional B/W screen with an RGB filter over the top. The problem with this is the filter tends to make everything way darker and muted than it should be.

They are also working on newer ACeP screens that use multiple colored dye and pigment particles in the same capsule. By swapping the colors around with specific electric waveforms, they can control what the color looks like from the front. The downside is that this color swapping often takes several seconds to produce the correct color ((also the color gamut has a lot of holes))

Hi! Former E Ink employee here. The technology behind color e ink displays is an intricate nightmare of juggling different ink particles through a gel medium (which is actually derived from pig fat btw). It’s a miracle it even works in the first place, and unfortunately higher color accuracy comes at the cost of refresh rate due to all the steps involved. Not sure how in-depth I can go without violating my NDA though lol.

While the color tech is advancing, it’s still got a long way to go.

That’s not a logo either; It’s a photograph

That’s not a logo; That’s a font

8 year old me turning the box legendary into an hm slave 👀

Do you have any idea how little this narrows it down?

I like to shake the bytes around a little

i = ( i << 1 + 2 ) >> 1