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appears on the page. What is meant is that this page is devoid
of meaningful content related to the rest of the document. This
page serves only as a separator between sections, chapters, or
other divisions of the document. This page is not completely
blank so that you know that nothing was unintentionally left out,
or that the page is not blank because of an error in duplication,
or that the page is not blank because of some other production
problem. If this page were really blank, you wouldn't be reading
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My favorite was with two sides of a blank page in a document. One side read "This page is intentionally left blank", and the other side read "This page isn't."
Plot twist: the "blank page" hides internal information and a parting employee's rant against the boss in an official company publication and you only find out weeks later because of strange search engine results.
This seems like the sort of thing that happens when one repeatedly tweaks while using the previous iteration as a reference. It might feel like most iterations improve on what came before, but before long one loses the connection to the original reference.
Could be literally any tenkeyless mechanical keyboard, hard to tell from whats in the picture.
I recommend a Keychron k8 as a good entry point if you like the format, been using it for a few years as my main one at home with a K6+little folding laptop stand for anytime I'm staying out of the house for any extended length of time.
The magnets are not weak and do not dislodge easily. I do not care about any keyboards unless it's better than this one. If anyone knows a better one let me know! I think they said they're working on a mouse or something like other input options a while ago, but I haven't heard of anything new but I haven't checked either.
That page says the software is Windows-only. Is the software just for the setup? Or would this be impossible to use on Linux/Mac even after configuring it?
It is just for configuration, I think there is a way to do it unofficially I didn't configure it on Linux but it was plug and play. Someone made this for Linux. https://github.com/mayanez/dumang-keyboard-ctrl
It's very nice, mechanical isn't always better. I really like the sculpt when I used it and if you're happy with it there isn't a big reason to switch.
I have them mounted to a chair I'm not by but I think so. Having a hot swappable keyboard I have them on the arms in a tilt specific to me. I was looking for an American clone but nobody makes anything this cool. https://dygma.com/pages/defy This one isn't magnetic but it's wireless and it has a mouse on it. I love the magnetic and the tactile feeling as well as the ability to mix and match keys and switches on the fly.
I'm not sure what the next iteration would be for a keyboard but I hope to see more ergonomic ones mounted on chairs.
About 7 months in the first run. I recently switched things to a more efficient TPS63020-based voltage converter though, which has an extremely low operating quiescent current of only 25uA in low power mode (1/4 of the MT3608 I previously used). I'm hoping for more in the next!
The comparison will also be apples-to-oranges though since I also switched it to a 3500 mAh 18650 during that revision ... self-drain and therefore the battery make itself now become a big factor ... ask me in a few years how it went? :-)
Looking forward to using this next time I'm told I have to print, sign, and scan a document. I already have software setup to slightly rotate the page and add some grain, but this will add extra verisimilitude.
I made this a while back for fun -- changing the seed will add different artefacts to the page, rotate it, hole punches, and of course coffee stains:
https://sublim.nl/scp/?seed=1234567
Verisimilitude is the right word, most people I know would know it if they were going to be reading anything about LaTeX. It might be a cultural or regional difference, I am in Australia.
I used this library very often when writing a new paper. When the paper was a draft I would put coffee stains on the pages. In this way, I always knew if I was looking at a draft or the final version.
Working in France, I remember having to provide a "Scan of an original of Bank Account information slip" (approximate translation). It's just a number! That I could have copy/pasted in an email to make sure the secretary won't fuck it up, or I could download the document from my bank and email it, but no, HR insisted it had to be an original.
I eventually downloaded one from my bank, converted it to JPEG, added a light coffee stain with Gimp and sent that, to pretend it was an actual scan of an actual document actually printed by the bank.
Had the same experience, but that I could not do, as my bank would only give out some crude Netscape era HTML laid out with a borderless <table>, that might just as well have been plain text. I literally had to fake something that looked like a pretty paper one, complete with the bank cooler palette and slapping a semi-transparent logo in the background.
Another marvel: once I received some paperwork, and was asked to sign and scan, which I did.
I had a nice scanner. It produced perfectly noise free, upright scans. I had a nice pen. It produced very clean scripture.
Apparently too nice as the recipient lectured me that I had to print, physically sign, and scan, that they could not accept a digital signature on a digital document. The fact that I received the paperwork on actual paper by snail mail and never could have had access to a digital version completely eluded them.
That almost made me nostalgic for the French love of paperwork. 'La paperasse' I seem to recall. Watching an official in action is like performance art.
It's probably the same in other countries, but some day I did rent a field to plant some vegetables and run a small business. Every single day for one entire month I had to fill forms, sign papers, ask the field owner to give me some random information queried by some french institutions related to : nature, forest, ecology, commerce, entreprenership, business, water, rental etc..
Most of the time the field owner had to go to the "mairie" of his town to get the proper informations which would contact other services (--recursively) so I could get the information that I need to fill the forms. I am pretty sure the field owner has administration-related PTSD if he sees me again.
What goes through someone's mind that they spend all the time and effort to create a visual gag and then don't put images of said visual gag on the documentation?
Why aren't there mugs with hydrophobic coating on the bottom? It seems like this should be an easy problem to solve compared to all the petaflop GPU's and spacecraft we're building.
Not all tableware is barefooted / dry-footed. You can use a stilt, which is a ceramic with sharp metal (eg Kanthal) pins on which the glazed ceramic is supported. Pieces fired this way have small marks on the bottom like the injection marks some moulded plastic has.
Fully glazed ware is good for wet areas when the ceramic may not be entirely vitrified, as this prevents water from soaking into the ceramic body.
Dry-footed ware that hasn't been high-fired will soak up moisture, eg when washing, and so cause problems - crazing, and getting very hot when used in a microwave oven (which can cause more crazing, but also burn your hand!
Source: am potter.
The foot ring on dry-footed mugs is a useful knife sharpener in a pinch.
One of the primary motivations behind LK99 and other efforts to create room-temp superconductors is to fashion coffee mugs that harness the Meissner effect to levitate above journal print-outs.
That's a very low tech solution. What we need is an internet connected mug that senses with a camera if it's about to be set on top of a piece of paper and starts beeping uncontrollably.
With a firmware update and an additional charge to the customer a model for detecting polished wooden furniture could also be used.
Oh great, one more ink cartridge for printer manufactures to sell. And, of course, the printer will refuse to work if your hydrophobic coating cartridges is empty even tough all other cartridges are fine.
They tend to get destroyed when cleaning the items. It happens a lot with clothing that has hydrophobic coatings so I'd imagine a dishwasher would ruin it almost immediately, leading to complaints and returns.
I can imagine two ways. First, on the very bottom, if you place the mug into a puddle of coffee, then no coffee will wet the bottom of the mug. Second, around the side, when coffee runs down the side of the mug, a hydrophobic coating might stop a drop in its path if it is not too heavy. Not sure if the second thing would actually work.
The coating around the side should form a V, with the handle being the lowest point, and make a little indentation on the bottom of the inside of handle to collect all the liquid...
Stains add a whole layer of history to a document - I remember a prof at uni once apologizing for the wine stains on our papers...
In the same vein as stains, I love how non-waterproof inks react with water; the organic smudges and splotches add a bit of watercolor to an ordinary journal page (1).
I remember using something similar like a decade ago, maybe one I linked below? I added one to a paper for a math class I turned in and the teacher loved it so much that the next semester he used it on almost every handout; it was quite annoying after a while, hahaha.
Brings back memories from time when printed documents were still the norm. A coworker used to call it my "seal of approval" if a document was on top of my desk long enough to accumulate a hefty dose of coffee stains.
I'm fairly sure this is either older than stated, or is based off an older package. I distinctly remember a similar package existing when I was in high school in the 00's, I turned in a paper for AP CS with a faked coffee stain once as a joke.
Sometimes I exchange printed papers and documents with colleagues that have actual coffee stains. Would be interesting to have digital and physical stains at the same time. I will test that. Some will complain about the perfect shapes /s
Maybe the hue is off, or its a different roast or beans, feels less coffee, more science murder mystery?