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Polygonal aperture openings are not the cause of soap-bubble bokeh, it's the cause of polygonal stopped-down bokeh.

Heavily ringed bokeh just comes from the optics.

PoW was originally anti-spam technology.

The bold text use make me think it was largely LLM-written. Maybe even LLM-researched.

Row/col works but width/height doesn't, alas.

My dad told a story of a classmate in high school going through the effort of manually justifying text in a paper he wrote and being rewarded with a plagiarism accusation.

That was done by typing the whole paper twice, with added spaces the second time.

Mitosis Anaphase, a handwired sandwich design based on the Mitosis keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8wip5j...

I type with the keyboard on my lap so a split design didn't work for me, hence creating this handwired contraption.

I use the Dvorak layout and have two alternate layers. In the number layer, the top row is punctuation, home row is numbers, and bottom row spilling into the thumb cluster is F keys). The other utility layer has mouse keys and media control.

Keyswitches: Box Navy

Caps: Polycarbonate DCS alphas R1-R3-R4, DSA R3 for the tall thumb caps, G20 for the low thumb caps.

Button layout: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/50a4b3510bdfe5e8c93...

They tried too hard after the success of Hardy Heron and its awesome wallpaper.

I think there's a distinction between creating generic info-gathering technology that helps them gather their own data from their own users, and you gathering data that the government can then ask (force) you to hand over.

As soon as I saw bold text, I knew. Humans never bold things.

I've mostly seen it on the right side of vehicle livery.

They mention Jeni's. Now that is premium ice cream. Their "darkest chocolate" and "milkiest chocolate" flavors are the only chocolate ice creams I like, because they actually taste liko eating chocolate.

Printed teeth are weaker than the belt's own teeth.

Conversely, with this design the center pin could break loose and the belt would still hold, because the pin just has to stop the loop from fitting through the slot.

Today I learned that diabetes is the greek word for siphon.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

At my past place Fios was excellent but I've had mixed results recently, with ping spikes and a lot of suspected traffic shaping of things like Youtube.

Service is pretty good though.

Mitosis is the layout that I like, it doesn't require a huge thumb stretch.

I consume copious amounts of cold mugicha. It's amazingly refreshing and very cheap.

We can collect income tax from children of tourists who happen to be born in the US on vacation? Great!

The fastest drag racing cars still are internal combustion. When raw speed is the goal, the torque doesn't have to be efficient, you can get it from an engine spinning away in its power band with a controlled amount of clutch or torque converter slipping.

This is still crazy from a road car though.

> Besides being cheaper, the induction motors have the advantage that if they are used only as auxiliary motors, you can cut the power supply to them at any time, in which case they will consume nothing.

EESMs have this advantage too, you can simply cut power to the field winding.

Efficiency varies according to the load and RPM.

Permanent magnet motors have higher peak efficiency but EESMs are better in non ideal conditions, particularly low torque high RPM i.e. highway cruising where efficiency is more critical than at low speeds.

Sometimes limitations can have benefits.

Regardless, for me the CD is actually painful to listen to even at low volumes, while the vinyl is excellent.

There's compression and distortion for sure on the vinyl, but when you look at the waveform on the digital it's right up to the max. It completely changes the sound.

It's true from time to time. Low's last digital releases are actually unlistenable due to heavy-handed compression, but the vinyl seems to have been spared.

I had to record the vinyl to get usable digital files.

My LG OLED TV does have a headphone jack, and I send that through a mixer (combined with my CRT gaming setup's output, my record player, and my PC's output) to my stereo.

It's the ergonomics that I have an issue with.

I always viewed the classic scroll method as a mirror to what happens on screen.

Speaking of "natural scrolling" it is horrible because most scrolling is downward and "natural" is an ergonomically inferior pushing action instead of pulling.

It's only natural on the actual display itself.

Anothe affront to nature by Apple, along with killing the headphone jack.

The thermistor looks like a Semitec ###NT series, if you want the exact one.

103NT H34G, I suppose?