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2 months agodiscuss

Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right after arriving has any effect on the long-term reliability? Like, are there any components which suffer from being activated when they're really cold?

2 months agodiscuss

Sure, visibility would be worse than on a normal truck, but no worse than a low sportscar (which is also road legal and no problem to drive). I don't think it would have been much of an issue.

2 months agodiscuss

This is very cool! And very impressive that it was made to work on PICO-8.

A small nitpick: I'm pretty sure the sand worms wouldn't eat foot soldiers in the original, only vehicles.

2 months agodiscuss

> With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours.

Even when the tunnel will finally be done, Deutsche Bahn will find creative ways to make it take five hours again.

2 months agodiscuss

Great, I live in coastal northern Europe, so the question will be whether I'll freeze to death from AMOC shutting down, or drown from the rising sea levels. Maybe I should move to Switzerland or something.

3 months agodiscuss

If you're into folding bikes and recumbents, check out the prototype for the folding Baron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsTKdqVTY8

It's a shame that it never went into production, but I guess at that time Optima already saw the writing on the wall that two-wheel recumbents wouldn't be profitable for much longer.

3 months agodiscuss

Not for a BMW though.

3 months agodiscuss

It's mildly interesting, but ultimately it's just a little greenwashing project. They even painted it green to make that clear :)

4 months agodiscuss

Funny; for me, a backlit keyboard is one of the most unnecessary features I can think of. Even for those who can't touch type, the keyboard is just inches away from the bright screen which sort of illuminates them.

5 months agodiscuss

Yeah, not to mention that you even needed to connect to their servers to play the fucking single player campaign. I hated that so much, and then it more or less became the standard for many AAA single player games to come...

5 months agodiscuss

Interesting... so, what is the most straight-forward and least shady way of investing in it?

6 months agodiscuss

> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end?

I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find any obvious giveaways myself.

6 months agodiscuss

> the land belongs to the one with the bigger guns, and a willingness to use it

Not necessarily. USA certainly had bigger guns in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and yet they eventually had to retreat from both.

6 years agodiscuss

But regardless of how much you practice, not all key combinations can physically be performed at the same speed, because some keys are easier to reach than others. So again, either you adjust all your typing to a constant rhythm and waste speed potential on the faster combinations, or you just accept variable speeds.

The comparison with musical instruments doesn't make that much sense because in music, the constant rhythm is required to stay in time. This requirement doesn't exist in typing.

6 years agodiscuss

I agree with the part about aiming for accuracy instead of speed. But I disagree with the constant rhythm thing. Maintaining a constant rhythm will slow you down, as there are always words or letter combinations which are slower to type. Thus, if you strive to maintain a constant rhythm, you have to adjust your rhythm to the slower parts, which means it will slow you down for the faster parts.

7 years agodiscuss

The best escape key ever!