Met 140 door Leiden Centraal!

Lang was de benelux-intercity die tussen Amsterdam en Brussel rijdt mijn favoriete trein: omdat-ie Leiden overslaat was-ie in 25 minuten van schiphol op Den Haag HS of omgekeerd. Toen kwam de fyra en werd de benelux opgeven. En de fyra verdween weer en de benelux kwam terug. Zij het trager. Hij staat tegenwoordig zeven minuten stil in Rotterdam en rijdt nu ook via de Luchthaven Brussel, dus je bent aanzienlijk langer onderweg.

Maar 't is nog wel de snelste trein van Amsterdam Centraal naar Den Haag HS met 46 minuten volgens de dienstregeling. Vreemd genoeg staat er nu wel 31 minuten voor het stuk schiphol - Den Haag, terwijl-ie daar niet stopt. En tot Den Haag Mariahoeve rijdt-ie ook lekker door: gister passeerden we Leiden Centraal met 140 kilometer per uur!

Bij Laan van NOI zakten we af naar 45 km/u en vlak voor HS stonden we nog eventjes stil. Toch waren we een minuut voor tijd op HS en ik kon met een sprintje nog tram 12 halen en was dus in welgeteld 62 minuten van Amsterdam Centraal thuis. Zo kan het dus ook.

→ 9 More Mind-Blowing WebGL Demos

After installing the latest version of the Intel® Power Gadget, I noticed that the GPU speed on my late-2013 13" MacBook Pro never really deviated from 0.55 GHz. (Well, except when playing high definition video, then it goes to 0.4 GHz.)

So I found these WebGL demos. It's really unbelievable what can be done in a browser these days. And yes, most of these will stress both the CPU and GPU to the max.

→ Keynote '09: Connecting Objects with an Adjustable Line

I honestly thought I knew pretty much everything there is to know about Apple's Keynote presentation program. I was wrong. I didn't know this:

When you want to join two objects with a line, the easiest way to do it is to use a connection line (rather than creating a separate line as a shape). Two objects joined by a connection line remain joined even if you reposition the objects on the slide canvas.

C.G.P. Grey's RSS feed

CGP Grey videos are now available in convenient video podcast form.

This is great. I love his videos, but hunting them down on Youtube is just too much work these days. With a podcast, watching/listening episodes in order (well, once you turn off all of this "newest on top" nonsense) is easy and new episodes automatically pop up. Youtube, on the other hand, seems to go out of its way to make it difficult to watch stuff in order and quickly find new stuff. Apparently, they really need you to go with the flow and just watch whatever video they feel should be next.

This is the link to the RSS feed and this the link on iTunes. Too bad the feed currently only has a single episode.

The Dell P2415Q fits 2.5 pages of A4

After yesterday's post about the Dell P2415Q monitor, I wondered how many sheets of A4 paper fit on the screen. Answer: height-wise, it's a perfect match:

At 52 cm, you can fit almost 2.5 sheets side-by-side. Interestingly, Apple's Preview application (middle) knows the size of the screen, and PDFs zoomed to 100% are exactly the right size. Unfortunately, due to the menu bar, the title bar and toolbar, the A4 PDF won't completely fit on the screen and in full screen mode Preview zooms to 98%.

Pages (left) and Word, on the other hand, still operate under the delusion that screens have a resolution of 72 pixels/points per inch, and need to be set to about 130% zoom.