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Venus needs a lot of work that Mars doesn’t. I think the main problem is the rotation period. The amount of energy required to speed up the day of planet is unthinkable.

They’re very well produced without the over the top drama of that old Discovery show Mayday.

I’m looking forward to Mentour Pilot’s breakdown of this on YouTube in a few weeks. It seems like the crew on the plane did a fantastic job.

To be honest, I didn't expect to be back here after only two days. Say again?

> There's nothing existential wrong with Twitter.

I will return to this comment before a head of lettuce rots.

All I’m asking for is a drop in replacement for Univers with good licensing.

Maybe in some ways. Back then devs seemed to care more about supporting IE a lot more than they do Safari now.

Type-A isn’t though.

120Gbps ought to be enough for anyone.

That’s precisely why the post you replied to said heat pumps, not resistive heating.

Are you European?

The source code of that page is beautiful.

Is a billion not enough?

Not sure what prompted that kind of snide response. I think most ThinkPad keyboards are lovely to use. All I pointed out is that millimetres and fractions of millimetres are very easy to detect and that the travel difference between the most fancy mechanical switch and even the maligned butterfly switch is only about 3mm. That is to say that travel distance is not the most important metric in what makes a keyboard nice or unpleasant to use.

> they've gone from 2.5 mm in the T420 (2011) to 1.5 mm in the T14 G3 (2022). 1 mm doesn't sound like on paper, but you immediately notice the difference if you switch between them

Absolutely correct. For context, typical Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches have a total travel around 4mm. We’re very sensitive to switch height.

I find that suggestion odd as well. I can't think of a single reason why Ubuntu should be favoured over Fedora as a quote "easy way to try and step into GNU/Linux" either. All three of their distro suggestions ship GNOME by default. Fedora is such a clear choice for those who want to use GNOME without all of the non-standard crap Canonical insists on tacking onto the DE and the overall environment.

We could have another dozen Hubble clones in orbit and they'd still be booked solid for years. It's just such a fantastic piece of kit, decades later. I see the value in servicing it, but I'd be even happier to see a few Falcon Heavy launches with modern versions of Hubble. In my opinion it's the least SpaceX could do for the brutal damage to the night sky Starlink has done.

For those curious like me, NeRFs are Neural Radiance Fields: https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf

Forwards and backwards compatibility and not having to rely on every vendor to ship support for the codec you want to use in your software.

Books-on-floppy would work too. Like a digital version of books on tape, with about as many disk changes.

I think much of it has to do with how old the city is. It’s about as old as New York City but didn’t have the same level of explosive growth, which I suspect gave it time to settle in and grow more like a European city. The somewhat limited island space would have also contributed to denser growth.

With the caveat that you have to like Gnome or KDE. They’re both better than Windows but Gnome in particular has gone too far with its ultra minimalist UI design. I just wish there was something built on Sway that’s nice to use out of the box that doesn’t require a witch’s cauldron of dot files. Why are all the cool DEs so allergic to GUI configuration tools?

Yeah there are plenty of cheap ones to choose from.

None of these seem particularly tragic. It looks like they’re all brands that decided they didn’t want to renew their rights to the TLD. No biggie.

Oh neat, I didn't realize that. I guess it didn't work out very well.

Have there been any attempts to make something like a CRT with phosphors and an electron gun in a thinner form factor?

What if we had a grid of smaller electron beams targeting a small display section instead of a single large one? Can it be done without vacuum tubes today?

That’s one hell of an institutional memory!

With the small exception of a tiny bit of lithium made before star formation, yes.

Well, it wasn’t _always_ like this. Apple used to have unibody MacBooks with user replaceable batteries without even needing a screw driver.

You’re joking right?