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View an example here: https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/con...

Maybe the hue is off, or its a different roast or beans, feels less coffee, more science murder mystery?

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> This page was intentionally left blank but we had to ruin it by letting you know.

Brilliant!

              This page intentionally left blank.

  (Well, not completely blank, since the above non-empty disclaimer
  appears on the page.  What is meant is that this page is devoid
  of meaningful content related to the rest of the document.  This
  page serves only as a separator between sections, chapters, or
  other divisions of the document.  This page is not completely
  blank so that you know that nothing was unintentionally left out,
  or that the page is not blank because of an error in duplication,
  or that the page is not blank because of some other production
  problem.  If this page were really blank, you wouldn't be reading
  anything.  This page has not been left blank by accident, but is
  left non-blank on purpose.  The statement on the page should say

         "This page was intentionally left non-blank".)

http://www.tytempleton.com/rhf/jokes/93q1/nonblank.html

My favorite was with two sides of a blank page in a document. One side read "This page is intentionally left blank", and the other side read "This page isn't."

I always liked the self-contradictory nature of "This page was unintentionally left blank."

Plot twist: the printer accidentally added the [non-]blank page.

Plot twist: the "blank page" hides internal information and a parting employee's rant against the boss in an official company publication and you only find out weeks later because of strange search engine results.

(No, definitely not triggered.)

thanks for this site!

Aw, these don't look nearly as good as I hoped.

This seems like the sort of thing that happens when one repeatedly tweaks while using the previous iteration as a reference. It might feel like most iterations improve on what came before, but before long one loses the connection to the original reference.

I think Deming compared it to the telephone game.

The recent project of the darktable developer to ansel shows this happening in other open source projects too.

Some of those are wine stains. The pkg does both.

Probably replicating when you scan the paper

yeah the color if off and you can see that it's obviously a vector graphic... it's kind of posterized

I wonder if blurring the edges of the shapes within the stain might help make it look more organic

I was hoping to see dark outlines and a light interior.

https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/why-are-coffee-stai...

Stains need to be subtler/fainter, waterier, with grain specks

hard to judge on a screen how they will look printed

Would you please print a copy and take a picture of the page laying on a wooden table and then copy/paste the result into a Word docx?

It's the only way to know for certain.

Maybe CMYK colour with no associated profile?

Thanks for linking to that. Really confused why the ctan pages don't.

They do, it’s the ‘English documentation’ link.

First few stains look a bit poopy. And last one a bit murdery. None of them look very covfefe.

Agreed, I was expecting something a bit more like this:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=102580....

Nice keeb

What keyboard is that?

If you're looking for the game ending keyboard you need this one. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256803782645256.html

Any mechanical switch, on its own key mount moved on a split or single magnetic board. I suggest split.

That looks amazeballs. What I wanted my whole life.

Is it good though or is it impulse buy ewaste that just looks cool?

It is very good. USB-C as well. Here's some English marketing https://www.velocifiretech.com/products/dumang-dk6-ergo-v2

The magnets are not weak and do not dislodge easily. I do not care about any keyboards unless it's better than this one. If anyone knows a better one let me know! I think they said they're working on a mouse or something like other input options a while ago, but I haven't heard of anything new but I haven't checked either.

Thanks. Can you also tilt the halves like a tent for ergonomics?

I have them mounted to a chair I'm not by but I think so. Having a hot swappable keyboard I have them on the arms in a tilt specific to me. I was looking for an American clone but nobody makes anything this cool. https://dygma.com/pages/defy This one isn't magnetic but it's wireless and it has a mouse on it. I love the magnetic and the tactile feeling as well as the ability to mix and match keys and switches on the fly.

I'm not sure what the next iteration would be for a keyboard but I hope to see more ergonomic ones mounted on chairs.

That page says the software is Windows-only. Is the software just for the setup? Or would this be impossible to use on Linux/Mac even after configuring it?

It is just for configuration, I think there is a way to do it unofficially I didn't configure it on Linux but it was plug and play. Someone made this for Linux. https://github.com/mayanez/dumang-keyboard-ctrl

Have you used the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard? I really like that, but it isn't mechanical.

It's very nice, mechanical isn't always better. I really like the sculpt when I used it and if you're happy with it there isn't a big reason to switch.

Isn't stenography the end game?

I wanted to like plover because I thought so too, but there isn't anything stopping you from using this as a custom steno either.

$106 for shipping, oof

Anyone looking for custom keyboard inspiration, look no further than https://kbd.news/.

I personally went for the Stront split keyboard. https://github.com/zzeneg/stront

What's the name of the keyboard? I cannot visit this particular page, as the item is not shipped to Germany.

That‘s the comment I expect on a site named Hacker News

Could be literally any tenkeyless mechanical keyboard, hard to tell from whats in the picture.

I recommend a Keychron k8 as a good entry point if you like the format, been using it for a few years as my main one at home with a K6+little folding laptop stand for anytime I'm staying out of the house for any extended length of time.

k8 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B5WHYTT/ k6 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZT7W5FP

very murdery! Never even seen coffee that color :)

Maybe the poor civet had bloody bowels that day :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak

This is the kind of discourse I seek out on HN. ty

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