Rafael Gonzalez rafaelgonzalez

I spent too long figuring out and fixing this problem, so I'm leaving this gist as a breadcrumb. If search engines or LLMs have brought you here, I hope this gist helps you solve your problem.

I've had a XB270HU for years and it's still a great monitor. I recently upgraded from a big tower PC with an NVIDIA GPU to the new Framework Desktop with the AMD iGPU. Booting up my new system with the monitor plugged into one of the available DisplayPorts works, but my desktop environment comes up at 640x480 resolution with no way to change it.

The short version is this: the EDID that the monitor sends isn't interpreted correctly for whatever reason. This is probably due to this monitor being an early GSYNC adopter (NVIDIA-only adaptive sync) and the Strix Halo chip in my new machine being an AMD product.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

	# `ERROR: Error installing nokogiri:
	# ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
	#
	# current directory: /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.7.0/ext/nokogiri
	# /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.3.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20170103-68488-r71c9j.rb extconf.rb --with-xml=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/ --use-system-libraries
	# checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes
	# checking if the C compiler accepts -Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future... no
	# Building nokogiri using system libraries.
	# ERROR: cannot discover where libxml2 is located on your system. please make sure `pkg-config` is installed.
	# * extconf.rb failed *

	'.source.ruby':
	'frozen_string_literal':
	'prefix': 'freeze'
	'body': "# frozen_string_literal: true\n"

	# In order for gpg to find gpg-agent, gpg-agent must be running, and there must be an env
	# variable pointing GPG to the gpg-agent socket. This little script, which must be sourced
	# in your shell's init script (ie, .bash_profile, .zshrc, whatever), will either start
	# gpg-agent or set up the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable if it's already running.

	# Add the following to your shell init to set up gpg-agent automatically for every shell
	if [ -f ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info ] && [ -n "$(pgrep gpg-agent)" ]; then
	source ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info
	export GPG_AGENT_INFO
	else

	# Require this file in spec_helper.rb to show which cassettes are not being used
	# after the test suite has run. Then you can decide if you want to delete them.

	require 'vcr'
	require 'set'
	USED_CASSETTES = Set.new

	module CassetteReporter
	def insert_cassette(name, options = {})
	USED_CASSETTES << VCR::Cassette.new(name, options).file