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A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

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Re: A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

#21

It's that time of the year again, isn't it. This year, I've been telling people that it's rude not to rewind YouTube videos when you're done watching them, so that they'll load faster for the next person.

you could add another level to get more technical people by saying it's an artifact of their buffering system

I like that, but actually I've been telling them that playing a video that isn't rewound causes an exception to be thrown, and that's slow.

Re: A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

#23
post #9

It's worth pointing out that they actually built the device and have a rough guide on how to build your own: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-furi... It looks like they have the code to make it work with an arduino. edit: edited to indicate it's real (instead of saying "may have built"). They aren't selling it, but you could build your own.

it looks like little lasercut plates sitting on some joystick modules you can get on ebay, seems technologically very feasible

The README.md actually lists all the part names and numbers. This is something that can be built.

Everyone in here is joking about this being an "April Fool Joke", but this an actual device that can be created by anyone with the tools. This hardly classifies as a joke.

Adafruit has the joystick modules for cheaper for USA customers.

Re: A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

#27
post #9

It's worth pointing out that they actually built the device and have a rough guide on how to build your own: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-furi... It looks like they have the code to make it work with an arduino. edit: edited to indicate it's real (instead of saying "may have built"). They aren't selling it, but you could build your own.

The only April Fools jokes I enjoy are absurd things that someone has actually implemented in code/hardware/etc. Anyone can write a ridiculous fake blog post about being acquired by $ARCHENEMY_COMPETITOR in 5 minutes, but it's been done before dozens of times and is just a waste of everyone's time.

You could also see this as wasted effort, but they probably had a lot of fun working on it.

Re: A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you could add another level to get more technical people by saying it's an artifact of their buffering system

I like that, but actually I've been telling them that playing a video that isn't rewound causes an exception to be thrown, and that's slow.

Much better to have two screens, one for the content and another to display any errors to the watcher. Or maybe one screen that is either broken or it's not?

Re: A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google

#30

If there's a competition to how long it took to recognize the joke, I believed it up until the chocolate bar. Then again, I don't know any of these kind of syllabic languages.

Emojis are turning English into an ideographic language. Look at Kappa for example.
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