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My next keyboard will be columnar/ortholinear. It just makes so much more sense compared to the staggered layout on a standard keyboard and it doesn't require you having to learn a…

When I learned to touch type a few years ago, I found it really useful having the letters on the keys so that when I messed up I could look down and make sure my fingers were in th…

He's served that time already. He's now being held awaiting extradition to the US.

I also saw a documentary about this, but it was called "A pharaoh to remember". Unfortunately in this one, the fake funeral just made the guy feel worse.

I totally agree that a combination of physical controls and touchscreen is the way to go. However there are ways to improve the design for touchscreen. Virtual knobs in my experien…

I already do my part for the environment by not having kids. That's a much bigger impact than trying to reduce the amount of meat I eat. So I'll eat whatever I like, thank you.

Note that you can only fit 1.38MB on a standard floppy.

The crew dragon is designed to be completely autonomous. 99% of the time, the astronaut is just a passenger, so there is less requirement for physical controls. In terms of mission…

Have you seen the F-35 cockpit? It's just one giant touchscreen.

The cost will come down. 20 years ago, the cost of sequencing one person's genome was over $100 million. Today it's $1000.

The pilots were trained on how to deal with a runaway trim stabiliser. The procedure hasn't changed from the old 737, the only thing that has changed is that it is that the failure…

I'm not a professional web developer, but in the experience I've had building a couple of JS heavy sites, I've actually found the Edge developer tools to be the best. If there's on…

> For many, owning a car to commute will make as much sense as owning a cell tower to scroll Instagram. This is total rubbish. I don't believe for a second that taking a self-drivi…

VW has already shown pre-production models, and the timeline is 2020. There's more info on the VW website: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/electric-hybrid/id The VW ID supposedly has …

Proteus ( https://www.labcenter.com/simulation/ ) can do this, but it's not free. It's really great though, you just draw out your circuit, load in your compiled firmware and it wi…

Well, I guess you have to start somewhere. I'm sure his goal is to make a machine where you can just dump clothes in and they come out folded. But the technology isn't there yet an…

It's the opposite way around. If you read it closely they say on windows 10, some customers may see a decrease in performance, but for windows 7, most customers will see a decrease…

Well, the Surface Pro 4 had the same thing 2 years ago.

I've printed finer threads on my cheap 3D printer, although it took a few tries to get them the right size. It's possible that he used acetone vapour to smooth out the surface of t…

With milk, the measurements used seem to depend on the type of milk sold. If it's regular milk, it will be sold by the pint. If it's UHT or filtered milk, it seems to be sold by th…

A quick bit of research shows that the speed of light in air only 0.3% less than the speed of light in a vaccuum. So that works out to 298,896km/s. This is significantly faster tha…