> And that typed text is way, way cleaner than any typewriter I’ve seen.
Pedantic point: electric typewriters (which have existed since the 1960s) do type in a way that looks exactly like this.
(In fact, note that the text on the real employee ID card, shown later in the article, doesn't look any less clean! It's just set in a different, narrower font.)
The smudginess of mechanical typewriters comes from 1. them striking (and especially, releasing) at the same speed you're depressing the key, and 2. having many of the keys necessarily approach the ribbon from an angle.
The keys being swung weakly by your fingers, also has the additional implication that the ink ribbons used in mechanical typewriters have to be soft and squishy (so: made of cloth), and use thin inks. These properties ensure a transfer from even a low-velocity impact. But the trade-off is that cloth ink ribbons transfer only a rough outline of what's struck; and thin inks are high-bleed inks.
An electric typewriter, playing out a pre-buffered line with a crisp, predictable report, using linear actuators and a rotating-ball type-head to bang a tape ribbon loaded with high-viscosity ink onto the page, can create text indistinguishable from books/newspapers of the same period, or from modern laser-printer reproductions of the same font faces. They're essentially character-at-a-time letterpresses!
(Also, ignoring electric typewriters for a sec: inks bleed more on thin, cheap paper. But this is [a forgery of] an employee ID card — where, for durability, a nice heavyweight paper or cardstock would have been used. You're always going to get a better-looking result inking such paper.)
It wasn't just time to market. That impetus led to bad ideas chased the tails of other bad ideas in a spiral: You can't need pilot training, but you must have more efficient engines; a kludge for more efficient engines was applied, but it led to stall situations that would require pilot training; MCAS was added but could not be documented to pilots because they shouldn't need to know because that would undermine the claim no simulator time was needed for training, and because there are too few 737MAX simulators and too many pilots.
Boeing is still benefiting from a cozy relationship because no hardware changes were employed in the fix, MCAS is still controlling trim, simulator training for AOA/MCAS issues isn't required and there are probably other ways in which safety did not come first before getting 737MAX deliveries back on line.
If you are wondering how mighty Boeing had to have an expedient low-cost development project based on a 50 year old design when Boeing also sells a carbon fiber wonder-plane called Dreamliner, go down the Harry Stonecipher GE Jack Welch Six Sigma McDonnell Douglas outsource-everything rabbit hole. The 787 is a very nice plane to ride in, but it was tens of billions over budget, far more expensive to build than the aggressive outsourcing plan envisioned, doesn't fly as far as planned, and may not be profitable on a per unit basis yet.
Ouster Inc. is looking for someone in the US or Canada with C++, Python, and Linux experience for our SDK team. We develop a lib to help folks integrate Ouster LiDAR devices and data into their robot/application.
This was a class assignment in college, we had a lot of fun with it, and one of my classmates, the brilliant Alyosha Efros, decided to apply the exact same technique to images instead of text. It turned into a paper that revitalized texture synthesis in the Siggraph community. The most interesting part about it (in my opinion) is that he ran it on images of text, and it produces images of readable text nonsense! With the right window size, perhaps there’s a nonzero possibility of being able to produce the same text either way. This always struck me as very meta and makes me wonder if there are ways we could go in reverse with image processing (or other types of data); if there’s a latent underlying representation for the information contained in image content that is much smaller and more efficient to work with. Neural networks might or might not be providing evidence.
We had a viewing party for the premiere. To be honest, we were more looking forward to Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten).
The “X-Files” hooked us right from the start. The only show that even came close to that first episode was “Lost” many years later. Most first season episodes were strong, with some downright classics, and the show was captivating from the beginning. Helps that the two leads were well cast and the writing was way better than the typical genre series.
(Two of the X-Files writers went off to showrun the criminally underrated “Space: Above and Beyond”, too. Without the success of X-Files, we wouldn’t have gotten that.)
Not specifically "hexagonal chess, but a very tactically similar hexagonal abstract strategy game called "Hive"[1] is very well regarded in the board game community and relevant to this discussion for anybody even tangentially interested.
Personally, I think it's more worth spending your time looking into that than yet another variant of chess. Also if you get a hankering to play it, it is available on boardgamearena online.
I've been daily driving a 12th-gen Framework on Fedora 36/37. Sleep itself has worked flawless, although you'll get a graphics driver freeze/crash every odd resume if you don't disable "panel self refresh."[0]
I revert this setting every kernel update to see if it's fixed and have not encountered it on 6.2.12 so YMMV.
I kind of assumed this was a Linux quirk and that Windows would be fine, but I haven't tried it.
I would direct you to another Sagan quote as part of Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist : https://vimeo.com/108650530
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”
Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.
This looks cool, but I dislike the naming. Calling a queue "queue" would be so much more readable than "que", and so on. I think the everything-is-three-letters gimmick is overall a drawback. Also, would it really hurt that much to write "#define PRIMITIVE" instead of "#define P"?
