{"id":560,"date":"2016-04-08T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-04-12T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:38:05","slug":"gross-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2016\/04\/gross-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the least sleep I&#8217;ve managed on a work day, while still making it to work, in quite a long time. Things didn&#8217;t really go according to plan for the most part. I did make a purchase last night, the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1V1S4wX\">Asus VG248QE gaming monitor<\/a>. I&#8217;d been watching this growing arena of 144Hz monitors with some interest; I knew the science was there for a noticeable improvement over your standard 60Hz or 75Hz display.<\/p>\n<p>Even knowing the science was there, I was not prepared for how dramatic a difference it would be with the right games. The big ones that let the GTX 970 show out was NBA 2K16 and X3: Albion Prelude. There&#8217;s a smoothness that I&#8217;ve quite literally never seen before in a PC game. And for all the shit people give these 144Hz displays for being washed-out looking, for a TN display it looks incredible even when making full use of the high refresh rate. My plan is to also get a 27-inch (60Hz) IPS display and see how I like it. I&#8217;m starting to think I might just want to get another of these, because at some point in the future I&#8217;ll have the desk space to run 3 of them and get that sweet triple-monitor gaming experience. It&#8217;s an enticing proposition.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ERRhYLE96E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DangItBobby was well-received, I do like the \/r\/sysadmin community and how it leans towards being helpful when it&#8217;s sensible to do so. A lot of places have the chance to be helpful and the culture of the place means it&#8217;s just shitposting instead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left with not much to do today, I need to do a little technical writing, some additional instructions to the end-users for something we rolled out. I think I&#8217;m going to write a soft-skills piece for bluesoul.me and \/r\/sysadmin on using GTD.<\/p>\n<p>Very gray looking day outside, really not helping with the drowsiness. Gonna do the best I can, here. I&#8217;m finishing up the business of tapering off the e-cig. I&#8217;ve got what I&#8217;d estimate to be 5mL of 6mg juice left, and just about everything after that is 0mg. Right now I&#8217;m replacing the habit with chewing gum, that&#8217;s about all it is at this point is a habit. I&#8217;m going from vaping at work to only doing it before, after, and at lunch. Honestly, it&#8217;s going fine. The job just isn&#8217;t that stressful, and it&#8217;s one more piece to a puzzle of self-improvement. I do have a bottle of last-resort juice that is truly shitty. If it comes to that, it&#8217;s not exactly leaving on good terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the least sleep I&#8217;ve managed on a work day, while still making it to work, in quite a long time. Things didn&#8217;t really go according to plan for the most part. I did make a purchase last night, the Asus VG248QE gaming monitor. 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