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Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by divbzero »

roughly wrote: post #99
groby_b wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's an amazing book. But skip the last 20 pages, they're deeply unsatisfying writing.

The Neal Stephenson experience. That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book. The man’s truly one of the best out there, and I’m convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him, but it wouldn’t be a Stephenson without some real head scratching authorial decisions.

I still can’t quite place his digression on monads in The Baroque Cycle.

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by perilunar »

1123581321 wrote: post #102
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do this to my watch and phone, most often when cuddling the wife because one of my arms will doubtlessly be unavailable.

Nipples work too. They also register as valid Touch ID prints.

The original touch interface.

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by userbinator »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #91
anfractuosity wrote: post #44

Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."

Also: Smackbook - https://stevenbock.me/Smackbook-Yosemite/ (more modern recreation or the original) A way to switch virtual desktops on macbooks with a hard drive by slapping them on the side.

IBM had this sensor on their laptops too, around 2 years before Apple added it to theirs: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS#Other

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Post by lynx23 »

anfractuosity wrote: post #44

Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."

Postmodern decadence. Funny, yes. But more akin to slaves fighting in an arena. Yes, I know, machines have no feelings (yet), but it still seems excessive.

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by mnsc »

in-tension wrote: post #78
khedoros1 wrote: post #29

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Better, I have one right in front of me!

Do they still make them or do you have an old one?

You have to zoom in a bit, but the knob is there for the ride.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p1-gen-...

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by altairprime »

wsintra2022 wrote: post #61
efitz wrote: post #35

Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being recorded.

Came across that book just recently in one of those free book libraries, tell me, was it a good read?

A lot of my guy friends have a crush on a lead character in it (not Elias or Elon, but a similar name?) and praise it extensively. I apparently read it one time and remember nothing about it, so YMMV but if you’re into hacker guys, you’ll apparently love it!

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by TeMPOraL »

lynx23 wrote: post #116
anfractuosity wrote: post #44

Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."

Postmodern decadence. Funny, yes. But more akin to slaves fighting in an arena. Yes, I know, machines have no feelings (yet), but it still seems excessive.

On the contrary, this is how humanity advances - one "hold my beer and watch this" moment at a time.

Re: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Post by langsoul-com »

kmoser wrote: post #103
mikeInAlaska wrote: post #70

Surely you can very discretely and ergonomically use this... if you move your lid jussttt above the point where it decides it is closed and then tap.

Yeah, "slam" seems a bit hyperbolic, if not click-baity.

Click the link and watch the video in the github read me.

It IS slamming the lid...

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