Oh no! That keyboard was incredible. Very compact, built in TrackPoint (tm) pointing stick, and option to use USB dongle or Bluetooth. It was the perfect KVM / server rack keyboard, and uniquely great as a VR headset…
USB-C has a mode to run analog audio over its cable, called "Audio Adapter Accessory Mode." It uses the D+ and D- pins for Right and Left, and SBU1 and SBU2 for Mic and Ground. Texas Instruments explains the scheme in a…
This person scraped phosphor out of a broken fluorescent tube and made several experimental CRTs: https://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/crt/crt6.htm From the site: "The cathode ray tubes that I am describing here are crude and…
Between this, and icon-only toolbars and ribbons, I think we're reinventing Chinese, badly. Ideographic characters can often convey meaning succinctly. My vote is to either go back to picture icons, or use Chinese…
"Remembering the Kanji," by James Heisig, will set you up real good. I recommend this to anyone who starts in with the 3000+ character thing. It is fundamentally different from rote memorization that they would have you…
You're on to something. I tried this too, a few months ago, with offline Ollama/Magistral on Mac. "You're a dungeonmaster for a single player adventure game, with me as the player..." It lost track of things almost…
+1; thanks from another satisfied user. I have an annual SOLIDWORKS plan, but SolveSpace is my go-to for quick stuff. It makes CAD fun. There is a clarity of design behind the software that gives it a zen-like feel.
radmind had this philosophy. https://radmind.org It let you create diffs of a filesystem, and layer them with configurations, similar to containers. Useful for managing computer labs at the time.
Consider checking out this fellow's project. He's making an e-ink text editor: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jL92TrQ803IKtdFwmUC...
A keyboard with the keys pulled and replaced in the Dvorak "LH" (left hand) layout might be worth a try. Years ago, I had a hand injury for several weeks and this got me through. Took about a week or two to type…
I struggled for years with touch-typing on QWERTY. I remember the "hovering" action that you described. After switching to Dvorak, within months, I naturally began touch-typing. I suspect it is due to it being…
The work of these two (Duane Blehm and John Calhoun) formed my initial opinion of the Macintosh. A fast monochrome environment where you could blit entire images as quickly as sprites. World class audio - Glider 4 had a…
A pleasant surprise - the KDE version works "out of the box" on my 2015 MacBook 12" (A1534). This is an unusual machine, and Linux distros tend not to support its hardware out of the box. Chimera even sees the internal…
The vintage Apple A9M0330 (“the IIgs keyboard”) came to mind. The keycaps have a smaller, raised central part. This gives smaller tap targets with a generous space between each cap. Feel is linear. This keycap design…
This reminds me of the Calculator Construction Set story. I like its example of a builder (engineer) working with a curator (boss), and solving the problem with toolmaking. Engineer was building a calculator app, and…
Agreed - they deliver a very flexible, cost-effective, performant MCU. Downsides (to me) are toolchain and power consumption. Has the Arduino toolchain been enough for home automation? I’ve been playing with Zephyr, but…
About once a month, I dwell on this. Modern web pages can easily be 20MB. You can do a lot in 20 megs. Re-reading Apple’s “Thoughts on Flash” tonight, I was surprised at how many times Apple mentioned vendor lock-in.…
This is why I moved to the Duck 3-4 years ago. I became tired of clicking past Page 1 of my Google results, all content mills and SEO farms. DuckDuckGo is just a front-end to Bing, though, and as of mid 2021 I've begun…
Data point. Old fart who switched to Dvorak eons ago, at age 16. It felt natural after 1 week, and felt more efficient than the ‘qwert sometime between weeks 2 and 3. I suspect young age greatly affects take-up speed.…
Kino. They were the best Soviet band.
I agonized about this for years. I wanted a proper server, not something embedded or a Pi with a rat's nest of cables, that would still fit in a credenza in the living room. Ended up getting an HP MicroServer Gen8 and…
This. Possibly my best computer "upgrade" was switching to Dvorak at 16 years old. Took about 2 weeks. It makes all keyboards much more comfortable, especially laptops. I would recommend Dvorak first, before starting…
Thanks to HN, I checked it out on my PS5 tonight. Very impressive. The thing that immediately jumped out at me was the 24fps target. The demo has a cinematic feeling, and thus the 24fps framerate feels “correct.”…
Blender's 2.9 release was what did it for me. That team is on fire. I'll hype Krita's 5.0 release (still in beta) - it has the same "turnaround" feel. Thanks, everyone, for plugging the donut tutorial link! Checked it…
This is incredibly frightening. I’ve seen data rot up close, and as a former data janitor, I can sympathize. My advice is to control everything down to the wall socket. I considered the Synology boxes for my home NAS,…
Oh no! That keyboard was incredible. Very compact, built in TrackPoint (tm) pointing stick, and option to use USB dongle or Bluetooth. It was the perfect KVM / server rack keyboard, and uniquely great as a VR headset…
USB-C has a mode to run analog audio over its cable, called "Audio Adapter Accessory Mode." It uses the D+ and D- pins for Right and Left, and SBU1 and SBU2 for Mic and Ground. Texas Instruments explains the scheme in a…
This person scraped phosphor out of a broken fluorescent tube and made several experimental CRTs: https://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/crt/crt6.htm From the site: "The cathode ray tubes that I am describing here are crude and…
Between this, and icon-only toolbars and ribbons, I think we're reinventing Chinese, badly. Ideographic characters can often convey meaning succinctly. My vote is to either go back to picture icons, or use Chinese…
"Remembering the Kanji," by James Heisig, will set you up real good. I recommend this to anyone who starts in with the 3000+ character thing. It is fundamentally different from rote memorization that they would have you…
You're on to something. I tried this too, a few months ago, with offline Ollama/Magistral on Mac. "You're a dungeonmaster for a single player adventure game, with me as the player..." It lost track of things almost…
+1; thanks from another satisfied user. I have an annual SOLIDWORKS plan, but SolveSpace is my go-to for quick stuff. It makes CAD fun. There is a clarity of design behind the software that gives it a zen-like feel.
radmind had this philosophy. https://radmind.org It let you create diffs of a filesystem, and layer them with configurations, similar to containers. Useful for managing computer labs at the time.
Consider checking out this fellow's project. He's making an e-ink text editor: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jL92TrQ803IKtdFwmUC...
A keyboard with the keys pulled and replaced in the Dvorak "LH" (left hand) layout might be worth a try. Years ago, I had a hand injury for several weeks and this got me through. Took about a week or two to type…
I struggled for years with touch-typing on QWERTY. I remember the "hovering" action that you described. After switching to Dvorak, within months, I naturally began touch-typing. I suspect it is due to it being…
The work of these two (Duane Blehm and John Calhoun) formed my initial opinion of the Macintosh. A fast monochrome environment where you could blit entire images as quickly as sprites. World class audio - Glider 4 had a…
A pleasant surprise - the KDE version works "out of the box" on my 2015 MacBook 12" (A1534). This is an unusual machine, and Linux distros tend not to support its hardware out of the box. Chimera even sees the internal…
The vintage Apple A9M0330 (“the IIgs keyboard”) came to mind. The keycaps have a smaller, raised central part. This gives smaller tap targets with a generous space between each cap. Feel is linear. This keycap design…
This reminds me of the Calculator Construction Set story. I like its example of a builder (engineer) working with a curator (boss), and solving the problem with toolmaking. Engineer was building a calculator app, and…
Agreed - they deliver a very flexible, cost-effective, performant MCU. Downsides (to me) are toolchain and power consumption. Has the Arduino toolchain been enough for home automation? I’ve been playing with Zephyr, but…
About once a month, I dwell on this. Modern web pages can easily be 20MB. You can do a lot in 20 megs. Re-reading Apple’s “Thoughts on Flash” tonight, I was surprised at how many times Apple mentioned vendor lock-in.…
This is why I moved to the Duck 3-4 years ago. I became tired of clicking past Page 1 of my Google results, all content mills and SEO farms. DuckDuckGo is just a front-end to Bing, though, and as of mid 2021 I've begun…
Data point. Old fart who switched to Dvorak eons ago, at age 16. It felt natural after 1 week, and felt more efficient than the ‘qwert sometime between weeks 2 and 3. I suspect young age greatly affects take-up speed.…
Kino. They were the best Soviet band.
I agonized about this for years. I wanted a proper server, not something embedded or a Pi with a rat's nest of cables, that would still fit in a credenza in the living room. Ended up getting an HP MicroServer Gen8 and…
This. Possibly my best computer "upgrade" was switching to Dvorak at 16 years old. Took about 2 weeks. It makes all keyboards much more comfortable, especially laptops. I would recommend Dvorak first, before starting…
Thanks to HN, I checked it out on my PS5 tonight. Very impressive. The thing that immediately jumped out at me was the 24fps target. The demo has a cinematic feeling, and thus the 24fps framerate feels “correct.”…
Blender's 2.9 release was what did it for me. That team is on fire. I'll hype Krita's 5.0 release (still in beta) - it has the same "turnaround" feel. Thanks, everyone, for plugging the donut tutorial link! Checked it…
This is incredibly frightening. I’ve seen data rot up close, and as a former data janitor, I can sympathize. My advice is to control everything down to the wall socket. I considered the Synology boxes for my home NAS,…