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This guy sells new beam-spring keyboards with optional solenoids. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com I have never seen one in person.

Ulysses Grant was pretty much a machine that consumed cigars and emitted union victories.

It would have been tough since the book and movie for 2001 were created concurrently.

In the library of my high school, circa 1995, there were a couple computers for student use. There was a sign near them saying "No Surfing".

Impressive!

How much manual pruning/selection from the generated text do you have to do?

It's sort of surprising, but it's a group of weird, creative people with tons of money and free time. I'm sure they're doing tons of odd stuff, model trains among them. (Once they'…

Seeing that the author of this review was an undergrad at the time, I tried googling for him to see what he is up to now. It seems he has died after a short but outstanding career.…

My gripe is the 1/2 second pause between tracks, even when they're supposed to blend together, like between 3rd and 4th movements of Beethoven's 5th. Otherwise it's awesome.

Maybe they're all just Johnnie Walker fans.

I've got something similar driven by a data entry sheet where I put transactions. The monthly columns populate by sumifs()'ing off of that sheet. I just started my third calendar y…

I miss them too. On a 1920x1080 laptop display I can see the grayscale font smoothing as a blur which my eyes try to correct for. In order to make it tolerable I've turned off font…

This seems like an item for "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/show (Not trying to scold or anything, but seems like this would fit well with that convention.)

Seems like the kind of process you'd come up with while tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms.

I've been using this app for several months without knowing what the "Go" feature was for. I guess I could turn it on and maybe help out other riders. Although if my phone is set t…

cVim in chrome is a bit like this too.

Some employers will block netflix, which is one reason not to put their technical blogging on their own site.

Yes, but I don't think it's a black swan if you're waiting for it.

In 2025 the word "mean" no longer means "average", it apparently means "median". Amazing!

Me too. It would be a completely believable title for an article upvoted on Hacker News.

If IT has your computer locked down, it's way easier to just pry the thing off.

Well, they're sterile too. That's certainly an evolutionary disadvantage.

I hesitate to even post this, but I listened to the audio examples and it seems like this project was not yet a success. I'm not trying to be a jerk or snarky, but the reconstructe…

The 1984 BYTE magazine review said it was "clever, put together well, and performs some extraordinary feats" but "extremely frustrating to learn and operate efficiently." This stil…

But it's not really balancing out if you look at the global totals. https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-...