Mitch Mcconnel spoiled the conceot for everyone.

Bitch, you are so far back in the “ultimate expression of keyboard customization” that it’s hilarious. This isn’t Leif Erikson stepping ashore in Newfoundland and reporting that he’s discovered a new world. It’s a tourist landing at Toronto Pearson airport and trying to pass himself off as having discovered America.

I use a keyboard where I designed the PCB and case myself, soldered it myself, wrote the bloody firmware, and laser-etched a bunch of custom keycaps to go with my particular bindings. That’s custom. And there are people who go beyond that into premium handcrafting and metalworking rather than cheap Chinese resin printing.

The “artisan keycap” industry consists of small makers doing short run novelty FOMO stuff at 50 bucks or so a throw, or you can buy something fun on AliExpress for a fiver. Is there a space for 90 dollar corporate caps?

Tell us what we’re supposed to be excited about?

If you’re a white-collar worker, it’s either a bludgeon your boss is using to threaten to sack you, or an excuse as to why you should generate 5x more output without any more pay.

If you’re a media consumer, it’s a fountain of endless low-quality crap. Resources you used to be able to trust are being undermined.

These might be exciting if you’re a sociopathic billionaire or wannabe-billionaire, but for the rest of use, the closest to a positive payout we have is a bunch of gacha machines that can produce mediocre graphics/music/text shaped things which might dovetail with what you’re doing, until their economic unviability causes them to go out. (I think consumer video gen is already disappearing)

Not sure I’m quite willing to undermine civilization rather than fibd stock photos for my blog posts.

I use it as a desktop. I like that it’s free of the nasty surprises of modern Linux (flatpak/snaps, systemd, X11 is still pretty first-class) while not feeling quite as isolated as Slackware and its sort of pre-broadband approach to packaging.

My biggest issue was poor support for an old Epson scanner that rewuired a binary package that wouldn’t install cleanly as it was designed for Debian; solved by buying a $10 used Canon scsnner which worked out of the box.

I like it better than Devuan for a non-systemd distribuition because, as its own thing, you don’t end up with as many “do I need to follow the Standard Debian guides or do something special” questions.

Yeah, but it was the norm prior to 1909 and was a little more aspirational than “he just got perforated, let’s slap his face on the half dollar.”

What’s sad is that the obverse of the 250th dime is probably the best of the redesigns. For the first time since 1946, we’d have a circulating coin with an idealized figure of Goddess Liberty instead of a dead politician.

The typography is atrocious though. And the lack of a cohesive design language sucks. The Charles III coinage from the UK are so much better as a thematic set.

One huge issue is that LLMs do weird and stupid things differently than how humans do them.

If you’ve developed an eye for reading human-made changes, you’re not necessarily going to recognize new and surprising failure modes as easily. It’s literally harder than regular code review.

Humans with modern tooling, for example, rarely hallucinate field/class/method/object names because non-spicy autocomplete keeps them on the rails. LLMs seem much more willing to decide the menu bar is .menuBar and not .topMenu, probably because their training corpus is full of the former.

The “default” mode for a USB keyboard allows submitting 6 keys + modifiers. Some boards define nontraditional input descriptors that allow more, but that mode is not guaranteed to work in places like the BIOS menu or naive KVM switches.

To avoid phantom keypresses when you hit three keys in a “square” on the matrix, a diode can be placed in series with each switch so current can’t go through an “indirect” route.

Mostly Goodwill and Craigslist finds.

JVC JR-S301 receiver (rebuilt) Three tuners (Sansui TU-717, JVC T-X55, and MCS 3050) because they’re a cheap source of lights and knobs Sony TC-RX79ES tape deck (belts replaced) Sony DVP-CX860 300-disc changer (not great at feeding discs, I mostly use it as a depository after ripping the discs to FLAC) Onkyo CP-1030F turntable (automatic mode is wonky- it keeps resetting after 3 seconds of play)

The difference between Chase and Chipotle is that one is less eager to give you the runs.

Part of it is not finished DRAM that was sold yet, it’s wafer capacity at the factory.

Sam Altman has promised orders for a kazillion wafers that don’t exist yet. It’s been argued this is less legitimate demand and more an effort to crimp the scaling ambitions of other competitors.

If his cheque bounces early on, the manufacturers are likely to reassign his slots to other buyers.

The manufacturers are taking a fair bit of risk though. If they aren’t getting paid before work starts, and the bubble pops in the middle, thry could end up with a lot of (partially or fully) finished wafers that they can’t just slice up and sell to Corsair and G.Skill.

It was a literal 100-level course project in my CS programme in 2000 or so.

You didn’t even do it with a programmed CPU, you used 74xx logic gates and counters wired on a breadboard

When they first launched, their whole main message was “it’s a cheaper cut for the devs!” Perhaps I’m being selfish, but that’s not a message that resonates to me as a buyer.

Hint: most of us don’t get hot and bothered about exactly how much margin Walmart lets Tyson take on their chicken nuggets, so trying to apply that message to games is weird.

Floats for currency in a payments platform.

The system will happily take a transaction for $121.765, and every so often there’s a dispute because one report ran it through round() and another through floor().

I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!

Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

Lexmark was originally spun off of IBM’s printer and keyboard division in Lexington, Kentucky. You saw a lot of their printers sold with cheap home computers around the turn of the century; they leaned heavily into the “$39 inkjet printer with $75 cartridges that used all three colours to make black” business model, and were largely squeezed out of the home market by customers who didn’t buy their second printer from them. It feels a bit of a throwback to see the name now, but they retreated to the commercial market.

The keyboard division was further spun off into a firm called Unicomp, who still builds derivatives of the quality “Model M” keyboards they sold on the old PS/2 machines.

Most full-range manufacturers make servicable printers, as long as you go high up enough in the product line that they’re selling to businesses that care about duty cycles and maintenence costs, although I think at some point you reach units that are sold as an ongoing service arrangement with on-call staff instead.

It’s fun. I saw it in the weird $3.50 cutrate cinema the local real estate tycoon runs as hobby business and there were like 9 people in the hall.

Not even friend shaped. ;_;

A Greaseweazle mihht be another angle; you could image discs at lest.