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New comment by chess_buster in "Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies"

chess_buster — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:41:26 +0000

We've printed your switches at my university, they feel really great. Now we need to build a full keyboard in order to try out the typing experience, when used inside a keyboard.

Do you think the PCB and typing assembly could be made curved, like the assembly of a Model F or M keyboard?

New comment by chess_buster in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

chess_buster — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:23:26 +0000

it is indeed https://www.emsys-renewables.com/products/power_forecasts/wi...

New comment by chess_buster in "Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart"

chess_buster — Sun, 04 May 2025 12:39:22 +0000

Pluto for planet! https://www.planetarium-hamburg.de/en/pluto-for-planet

New comment by chess_buster in "Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive"

chess_buster — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:18:06 +0000

Nonsense.

Programming languages should have less primitives like this and instead we should have better foundation libraries for the languages, i.e., containing iterator/-interfaces like Rust and Python (or Smalltalk).

New comment by chess_buster in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

chess_buster — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:45:18 +0000

This is an incorrect take.

The phase out of nuclear had already started. Merkel reversed that, than in the wake of Fukushima reversed that once again, paying the nuclear companies hundreds of millions of damages in the process.

New comment by chess_buster in "Alarms in medical equipment"

chess_buster — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:47:40 +0000

There's a dissertation from a Professor of Health Care about Alarms in ICUs: https://uol.de/f/2/dept/informatik/download/Promotionen/Cobu...

New comment by chess_buster in "The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction"

chess_buster — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:37:47 +0000

It's so sad to see fossils being sold.

New comment by chess_buster in "Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain"

chess_buster — Sun, 19 May 2024 22:20:34 +0000

Get low on blood sugar and perceive how your brain stops working and consciousness falls apart

New comment by chess_buster in "Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made of Wood Can Outperform Composites"

chess_buster — Sun, 05 May 2024 08:34:03 +0000

Technically we don't know the mean deaths per TWh, only the mean death per produced TWh so far, giving that the waste is such a long term problem.

New comment by chess_buster in "An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91"

chess_buster — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:01:04 +0000

Correct, it's a SG Crimson (there's also an Indigo somewhere). But the other computers are Macintosh Quadra 700 – and 8 Connection Machines (CM5, so no XMP Cray as in the book) in the background providing the blinkenlights.

New comment by chess_buster in "An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91"

chess_buster — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 15:33:52 +0000

true – and also Macs, specifically Macintosh Quadra 700.

This movie brought me to Linux ("The Free Unix") and Mac.

New comment by chess_buster in "Nuclear smartphone 3V battery lasting for 50 years"

chess_buster — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:30:45 +0000

100mw

New comment by chess_buster in "Energy Firms Hacked in Largest Coordinated Attack on Denmark's Infrastructure"

chess_buster — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:14:26 +0000

No, it doesn't.

New comment by chess_buster in "YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet"

chess_buster — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:47:33 +0000

And the business buy the ads which get seen by no one, yet still Google makes money, just like with their other ads.

New comment by chess_buster in "Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Chargers"

chess_buster — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:42:27 +0000

We're replacing coal, nuclear and fossil gas with solar, wind, and storage (in form of compressed air, batteries, and power2gas).

Once this has been completed, we're free from buying coal, uranium (Russia? Niger?), or gas and stop emitting large amounts of C02 due to the burning of fossil fuels.

New comment by chess_buster in "Universal Paperclips"

chess_buster — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:58:41 +0000

They have – and decided to do it anyway.

New comment by chess_buster in "Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023"

chess_buster — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:26:29 +0000

The energy is traded using Direktvermarktung and that's purely a market.

New comment by chess_buster in "List of Citogenesis Incidents"

chess_buster — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:37:47 +0000

Imagine a world where children have grown up, relying on ChatGPT for each and every question.

New comment by chess_buster in "Smalltalk Type"

chess_buster — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:43:09 +0000

You can get the device pixel ratio from JavaScript using Window.devicePixelRatio. Maybe you can then add this as a css-variable to the body element and query it later on to compute a size for the fonts so they can match the "native" size of the pixels, for example using ggt.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devi...

New comment by chess_buster in "Smalltalk Type"

chess_buster — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:10:32 +0000

You could say that NextStep was a practical attempt. I think it failed, even though it's quite wonderful.