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My fantasy for the Laptop 16 keyboard: Optional taller hinges and thicker bezel.

Think about it... Replacement hinges that separate the upper and lower shell by an extra 1/8-1/4" plus a thicker bezel to fill that gap. Suddenly (at the cost of a thicker laptop, for those of us who don't mind) you have extra space under the screen for longer key throw, contoured key caps, trackpoint, arrow keys that overlap the lower deck to allow a proper inverted-T layout, etc. Maybe even possible to retrofit old ThinkPad keyboards in there.

Hey, I can dream, can't I?


> when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?

Three Body Problem


Wandering Earth

Flavors of Youth

House of Flying Daggers

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.


Good point. And if I remember right, tar allows longer paths than zip.


A tar of gzip or zip files doesn't make sense. But gzipping or zipping a tar does.

Gzip only compresses a single file, so .tar.gz lets you bundle multiple files. You can do the same thing with zip, of course, but...

Zip compresses individual files separately in the container, ignoring redundancies between files. But .tar.gz (and .tar.zip, though I've rarely seen that combination) bundles the files together and then compresses them, so can get better compression than .zip alone.



These are cool too, but sprites over himalayas - https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943


Random Twitter post, is it generated video or anything worth looking at?



Very impressive video! Such sprites must have been seen at that altitude often enough in history, and as they're quite distinct from lightening I wonder if there is an historical record of them?


What amazes me more then the jet, is the amount of light pollution from the cities.


Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards.


Yeah - sitting on a porch near Newark, NJ, the sky is a bright hazy dome overhead.

It reminds me of growing up in a big city, too - walking along, looking at the multi-colored clouds above me.


Looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie, where earth is being attacked ;-)


Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.


that is spectacular .. thx for link.


Imagine, say, Yuri Gagarin seeing this and coming down to explain this in 1961. The ISS is only 50 miles higher than Gagarin's flight.


Poking around the map, it looks like red=towns, blue=water, grey=mountains. Not sure what yellow is.


Yellow=beach/sand?

It’s a bit odd, the markers tend to be on places/towns. But some towns that are red I know for a fact also have a beach.

Not sure what the split of colours is for.


Having HS grades count 100% is a really bad idea. Not because of anything about the schools, but because HS age isn't representative of people's abilities. I had terrible HS grades due to a complete lack of interest. After growing up a little and getting my act together, I got A's in college. Thank goodness they didn't base my admission on HS grades.


Looking forward to Derek Lowe's take on this.


I've got their R/C Flakpanzer Gepard in a box somewhere. It was great fun to build and run, except maybe the part where you had to assemble the tracks piece by piece.

Of course the old NiCad battery is long since dead. And R/C frequencies have changed since then, so the controller and receiver are probably useless. But from time to time I wonder about what it would take to modernize and revive it.

https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/56003


> As an aside, line 511 is entered when it fails to find matching values with the current game state for all 19 boards and flipped boards. It seems like it was originally intended to be a comment using the REM command like 511 REM REMEMBER THE TERMINATION OF THIS LOOP IS IMPOSSIBLE, but perhaps that part was omitted during editing, so it just starts with REMEMBER.

Actually, that line does start with "511 REM". There was no requirement for REM to be followed by a space.


I didn't realize that! Thanks for the clarification.


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