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chess_buster··on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
We've printed your switches at my university, they feel really great. Now we need to build a full keyboard in order to try out the typing experience, when used inside a keyboard.

Do you think the PCB and typing assembly could be made curved, like the assembly of a Model F or M keyboard?

chess_buster··on WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
it is indeed https://www.emsys-renewables.com/products/power_forecasts/wi...
chess_buster··on Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
Pluto for planet! https://www.planetarium-hamburg.de/en/pluto-for-planet
chess_buster··on Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
Nonsense.

Programming languages should have less primitives like this and instead we should have better foundation libraries for the languages, i.e., containing iterator/-interfaces like Rust and Python (or Smalltalk).

chess_buster··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
This is an incorrect take.

The phase out of nuclear had already started. Merkel reversed that, than in the wake of Fukushima reversed that once again, paying the nuclear companies hundreds of millions of damages in the process.

chess_buster··on Alarms in medical equipment
There's a dissertation from a Professor of Health Care about Alarms in ICUs: https://uol.de/f/2/dept/informatik/download/Promotionen/Cobu...
chess_buster··on The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction
It's so sad to see fossils being sold.
chess_buster··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
Get low on blood sugar and perceive how your brain stops working and consciousness falls apart
chess_buster··on Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made of Wood Can Outperform Composites
Technically we don't know the mean deaths per TWh, only the mean death per produced TWh so far, giving that the waste is such a long term problem.
chess_buster··on An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
Correct, it's a SG Crimson (there's also an Indigo somewhere). But the other computers are Macintosh Quadra 700 – and 8 Connection Machines (CM5, so no XMP Cray as in the book) in the background providing the blinkenlights.
chess_buster··on An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
true – and also Macs, specifically Macintosh Quadra 700.

This movie brought me to Linux ("The Free Unix") and Mac.

chess_buster··on Nuclear smartphone 3V battery lasting for 50 years
100mw
chess_buster··on Energy Firms Hacked in Largest Coordinated Attack on Denmark's Infrastructure
No, it doesn't.
chess_buster··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
And the business buy the ads which get seen by no one, yet still Google makes money, just like with their other ads.
chess_buster··on Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Chargers
We're replacing coal, nuclear and fossil gas with solar, wind, and storage (in form of compressed air, batteries, and power2gas).

Once this has been completed, we're free from buying coal, uranium (Russia? Niger?), or gas and stop emitting large amounts of C02 due to the burning of fossil fuels.

chess_buster··on Universal Paperclips
They have – and decided to do it anyway.
chess_buster··on Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
The energy is traded using Direktvermarktung and that's purely a market.
chess_buster··on List of Citogenesis Incidents
Imagine a world where children have grown up, relying on ChatGPT for each and every question.
chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
You can get the device pixel ratio from JavaScript using Window.devicePixelRatio. Maybe you can then add this as a css-variable to the body element and query it later on to compute a size for the fonts so they can match the "native" size of the pixels, for example using ggt.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devi...

chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
You could say that NextStep was a practical attempt. I think it failed, even though it's quite wonderful.
chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
macOS Ventura 13.2.1 Safari Version 16.3 (18614.4.6.1.6) Dell 3840x2160 scaled to 2560x1440
chess_buster··on The Prospect of an AI Winter
Write a counterpoint to the article posted. Your goal is to refute all claims by giving correct facts with references. Cite your sources. Make it 3 paragraphes. As a poem. In Klingon.
chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
People will use something like |> and make a ligature for it in the font, that looks like this ▷. and that's it. However, have you seen this: https://fluxkeyboard.com
chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
I dislike the anti-aliasing of the pixelated fonts.
chess_buster··on Smalltalk Type
Wonderful!
chess_buster··on Introducing react.dev
me too
chess_buster··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
This is the insight of the day. I have to save your comment for later reference.
chess_buster··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
I told myself this as well, but as an anecdote: I started to lose weight from counting each and every calorie and never exceeding the exact amount my weight-trainer set for me.

What did I eat? Fries, Pizza, Chocolate, Burger, … still lost weight.

chess_buster··on More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
Unless they are bitmap fonts they certainly wont look crystal clear to me.
chess_buster··on The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
To be honest, we had 220V in the Garage since I was born about 40 years ago.
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