I suppose? But it’s also just dicking around at the edges to make a few more big companies move to the US (when every other policy is making that seem like a terrible idea) and to save financial departments a few bucks. Semi-annual reports will not significantly alter corporate incentives.

Yup. I also liked this, but I’m trying hard not to just quote the whole thing back, because it’s all good.

Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own. I can’t think of a better argument for a humanities requirement than a billionaire being asked “how do we know what is real?” and responding with “cryptographic signatures.”

Thanks, Richard.

I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.

I grew up just across the river and my sister and her family are still in the general area. Not surprised at all he thinks this is a winning platform. I hope he’s wrong.

The actual website is, umm, quite the trip, and makes me think every single thing the school district is saying is true.

This is how you sell absolutely massive and unaccountable government spending to “small gummint” types. You couch it in terms of a righteous struggle against an external threat that ended with American dominance, and if you can hint at a bunch of non-white people getting disintegrated as a side effect, then so much the better.

I don’t math so good, so I roughly counted layers and used the formula for area of a circle, reduced slightly for gaps. First guess was a good 10%-15% off but got within 12 on the second. Then I seriously overcorrected on my third.

A = pi(r^2) is a hell of a drug.

The bliss theme, complete with activation notice, is very nifty, LOL.

You can extend the matrix across so it becomes one board, but it means custom wiring the connector.

Yeah, physically that will work. I should have mentioned that, as it’s what I did (permanently wired) on my failure of an ergo split to get it split at all with one MCU, but electrically it worked perfectly fine. Proper USB-C/Thunderbolt like the caravan 2 seems like it would be a good solution for a PCB, and I’m curious what issues the mini HDMI produced (crosstalk maybe, or just complaining about sourcing mini to mini cables?). Ethernet or DB9 should do for hand-wired, though obviously bulkier.

I will admit I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of a split keyboard that was viewed as one unit by the host device AND that had more than two parts. I don’t think the usual suspects for firmware will support that, though I could be wrong. That said, if you can live with more cords there’s no particular reason you couldn’t make it a split keyboard and two macro pads, or two split keyboards. To the computer, “keypresses is keypresses” for the most part. In any event, this could work out fine in several different approaches.

I’ll echo @junderwood@lemmy.world and say that I don’t believe there are any commercially available half-height keyboard switches with proper keycaps, though I’m sure there are various pushbutton switches that could give you the basic functionality. Still, I might write that one off for now.

For the layout, your stagger looks modest but fine; that’s very much a personal thing though, and I completely borked it on my first (and only) split board. One other thing I didn’t love about my split was having two vertical tiers of thumb keys. Thumbs are strong but short and move differently. Clearly it can work, but more often you’ll see the arc extended rather than stacking. In any event, I’d recommend at least printing up a full-size copy of the layout and seeing how your fingers will need to move to hit everything you’d like. It’s far short of a full mockup, but it would have a great value-to-effort ratio. :-)

For the numpad, I don’t know your use case but backslashes aren’t commonly used for math (right?) or data entry so I might move the dot/comma separator onto that group of four and park backslash somewhere else. The keymap beyond that should be fully programmable, so maybe just don’t spend big on custom keycaps until you’re sure you’ve settled in on something you like. A lot of people at !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world (and elsewhere) will use all blanks or blanks on the mods.

It amuses me to no end that the chucklefuck in no way realizes the inherent irony of keeping a gaudy bauble from a competition that is a race-to-the-bottom money grab and no one participating in it really wants to be there and is only doing it for money and threats of punishment.

Yup! We called the good ones “happy secrets,” and they’re perfectly okay.

Looks like it’s back up, but the TL;DR is pediatric orthopedic surgeon who lived in Vermont. He was a team doctor for the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL club before that. He was a pilot who rebuilt a plane from the ground up and also built kayaks. It’s unclear from the obit if he built the one in the pic or merely modified it, but it mentions the “internet famous” picture with his dogs. You never know of course, but he seemed like a decent and interesting dude who at least knew the value of hobbies.

Awwww, but in the kind of sad way. Our guy passed away just last week in Vermont, but the picture is real. Sounds like he was a neat person.

Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don’t make any sense.

In 48 out of fifty states, they don’t matter for presidential elections. I think only Maine and Nebraska split their electoral college votes at all.

Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?

The original purpose has indeed been corrupted in many places, and those where it hasn’t are tempted into a “race to the bottom” as states with modest but persistent majorities are gerrymandering their states to the hilt. Still, the original idea of electoral districts makes a lot of sense, and even moreso when communications and travel were much slower.

Carbon Fiber just wasn’t cutting it

Yup. Guy came up in aerospace, and while carbon fiber air frames have to deal with all sorts of freaky, weird stresses, simple compression is not one of them. The difference between sea level and basically outer space is exactly one atmosphere. The difference between sea level and the Titanic is… well… somewhat more.

Yeah, to be clear, while I wish we lived in a country where resigning out of principal would have a good end result, I think it’s better this guy stays and does what he can, which looks like it will be slow-playing and finding every loophole he can until he gets sued.

I’m not even supposed to be here today!