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Within built environment and industrial design that's termed universal design.

The canonical example is ramps on footpaths providing equivalent benefit to people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, and commuters on bikes, scooters or skateboards. The door width example you provide is another perfect case.

There are many aspects of things we design and build where a small focus of accessibility for one group brings benefits to many.

Particularly here where the context is ephemeral.

Any usage of short links can (and sometimes should) link to a canonical source with an immutable URI. This is just a foreign key for humans.

Aka POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Open the rack bay doors, please, HAL.

Syslog is still everywhere on a lot of hardware and appliance style devices.

For those bringing that into modern telemetry stack I can't recommend Grafana Alloy enough (https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/). There's a loki.source.syslog component that lets you ingest RFC5424 or RFC3164 format messages over UDP, TCP, and with mTLS. These can then be parsed, filtered, transformed, and routed to anywhere else you require.

If you're stuck with a device that's UDP only it can deploy to a nearby host (e.g. container runtime on a switch, or local ingest node), perform log collection, then queue and forward via OTel to central or cloud infra with encryption, delivery and integrity guarantees from there. It's a really neat and powerful tool.

The preceding sentence is equally prescient:

> Operating systems aren’t really equipped to work with the user to ensure that a microphone stays a microphone, and doesn’t spontaneously turn into a keyboard that hits Win+R and drops a payload to steal all your data when the room is quiet enough that it can assume you aren’t watching.

In a world of USB-C everything we no longer have power supplies that are physically bound to power delivery, HDMI or DP display connections that have constrained data channels, or analogue mics, headphones, and speakers. Any device can dynamically change what it senses, does, or emits.

The secret is to have your children eat for you, then just do blood transfusions when they’re at peak nutrient level. You can do that while you work for optimal efficiency.

Yes - sector lights. When you are on a channel / in safe water they’re white, red in the port sector, or green when you are too far starboard. Some will combine this with an angle dependant flash to alert you how far into a port or starboard sector you may be.

The other common mark you’ll see are leads which are two lights, one behind the other. The front is lower and the rear is higher. When they’re aligned you’re on the channel. These also have day shapes attached that provide an upwards and downwards facing triangle to align.

When the glut of GPU arrives I'm sure humanity will find a good use for all that excess compute, like finally getting back to signing monkey pictures and excreting endless hash based pyramid schemes.

Building anything is a good way to learn. It’s the industrial design / manufacturing equivalent of perusing or hacking on a good open source project.

With a USB-C cable tester tester, of course.

Is is a perfectly cromulent use of capital.

> Even if it's 50% worse, it's 90% cheaper, so the economics argue against producing any new physically made content.

That is an unfortunate pattern I fear is become applicable to a lot of domains (film, software, food, clothing, built environment, electronics, physical goods et al). AI is just accelerating that in a few.

The data is already there. This also gets more interesting when you expand the scope from just elevators to general building occupancy and movement.

In the simplest sense, I've seen this tied into security gates so as people badge on when entering the building there's already suitable elevator movement to meet demand by time the foot traffic reaches the lift lobby. That can then also feed into destination dispatch if you move from just people counts to identity (and known/most likely work floor).

From there you can move into wifi trilateration and have a live and quite accurate view of both how and who interacts with a physical space. This can feed into HVAC load shedding, JIT bookings for meeting rooms or workspaces, and a lot of very good things from a sustainability and general optimisation perspective. The flip side is it also has the potential to be an absolute dystopian privacy nightmare.

Yes, but just imagine all the paperclips we’ll have.

Those wax cylinders are a modern hack. The curved surface distorts the real artistic intent. The only way to appreciate the true beauty of sound is a the purity of soot etchings on a phonautogram.

The reference in the parent comment was already suitably frabjous.

IMO the power of NixOS is at the other extreme. Set it up with Impermanence (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence) and reboot often.

Also worth flagging if you are only ever switching in new configs Kernel patches, firmware, or updates to systemd won’t apply until next boot.

Great examples. The English lexicon is continuously embiggened by the adoption and expansion of terms.

.id.au already has some similar requirements for associating a domain with a real world (human) identity: https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/the-different-au-dom...

This is the most dystopic use for that bandwidth I could possibly imagine.

It was a bit of humour. It would be much for feasible to have an LLM generate programs that solve those problems rather than solving directly. I tried to make a start, but I couldn't even vibe a simple tool that would let me reliably validate if generated solvers would halt or loop forever.

The Riemann hypothesis, PvNP, and the Collatz conjecture.

It’s the linguistic equivalent of the loudness wars.

Black Mirror already did that episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror).

You mean like this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697, or this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8354557/.

Great to see VR gigs getting a Second Life.

Nope. 2007 is like 2 or 3 years ago, tops.