There is a shitty 2007 TV movie by ČT Studio Brno (at this point, “shitty” is redundant) Kája a Zabi, where the protagonist, little boy Kája, mashes his keyboard in frustration, causing an off-brand Lara Croft to appear IRL. I haven’t seen the movie but she allegedly speaks broken Czech in a weirdly modulated voice, and keeps asking who Kája wants her to kill (“zabít”, hence the nickname she gets). I assume she is just about as psychopathic as Lara.

Original: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1872860577057448306

Nitter: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1872860577057448306

Is there supposed to be a link to some news site?

• IGN: Pokémon Formally Responds to the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Ash Ketchum and Pokémon Series Theme Tune
• BBC: Pokémon did not give permission for ICE deportation video

They don’t condone it but will likely not challenge it either.

Well, I don’t think they will write such a banger nowadays, probably just some mediocre country.

Rube Goldberg’s car

Panels are effectively part of the earth. It’s one closed system.

You do have a point: a black body radiates more heat than a high-albedo one so at night, the panels can cool down below ambient temperature. Overall, low albedo (reflectivity) and small thermal mass causes higher temperature differences between day and night – and it’s daytime when people want cooler temperatures.

But yes, any shade will help people living below solar panels feel cooler on sunny days, which is why I advocate for building a solar roof over just about every parking lot.

They’re black, duh. Yes, some 20% of incoming energy becomes electricity but the rest gets turned into heat. A reflective (white) material heats up way less.

The “n” is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints “²” and AltGr+3 prints “³” in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print “n” in xkb though.

I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:

The picture seems to be from 1998 so you’ll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.

I did’t know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn’t know.

So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).

• Default layer prints lowercase letters a-z and äöüß, numbers and the symbols in the lower-left of each key.
• Shift layer prints uppercase letters A-Z and ÄÖÜ and symbols at the top left of each key.
  • Caps Lock only affects letters.
• AltGr layer prints lower-right symbols, most of which are only populated in a later version of the layout.
• AltGr+Shift (Linux only) prints upper-right symbols.

As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size “2” and “n” are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.

By the way, Czech is more chaotic:

• we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
• to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (´, ˇ, ˚, ¨) like on typewriters
  • an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
  • pressing the ˚ key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
• there is a bloody dedicated § key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown
• physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for €); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons
• some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are irrelevant unless you switch layouts
• Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard’s quirks, but its “Czech QWERTZ” is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!

Do you know why the 3 key has an n? I have a hunch:

This is clearly a tactical keyboard for use in military, aviation or maritime navigation systems! /s

Oh, so it does the reverse of what I thought

Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s

the second it says “Seeding”

Don’t worry, it will stall at 99.9% forever

Not really, they replaced most electronics inside and it’s just a video.

Also, there is almost always a better source than a brainrot video on most topics.

And what language calls pregnancy tests “predictors”?!

I think they would for Orbán out of courtesy. But an American influencer who’s also against its principles? Only the Patriot faction.

There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation

And it was WRONG

That is just another extension for the image/jpeg MIME type, and can be reclaimed.

Oh, I didn’t know that they were a LUT of jump addresses. Stil, a LUT of values would be more space-efficient and likely faster. Also, what if the values are big and sparse, e.g.

switch (banknoteValue) {
    case 5000:
        check_uv();
        check_holograph();
    case 2000:
        check_stripe();
    case 1000:
        check_watermark();
}

…does the compiler make it into an if-else-like machine code instead?

If you couldn’t write

if(pChar >= 'a' && pChar <= 'z') return pChar - ('a' - 10);

I suppose you typed this “all the size of a lookup table with none of the speed” abomination manually too.

unsigned int turn_char_to_int(char pChar)
{
    switch(pChar)
    {
    case 'a':
        return 10;
    case 'b':
        return 11;
    case 'c':
        return 12;
    case 'd':
        return 13;
    case 'e':
        return 14;
    case 'f':
        return 15;
    case 'g':
        return 16;
    case 'h':
        return 17;
    case 'i':
        return 18;
    case 'j':
        return 19;
    case 'k':
        return 20;
    case 'l':
        return 21;
    case 'm':
        return 22;
    case 'n':
        return 23;
    case 'o':
        return 24;
    case 'p':
        return 25;
    case 'q':
        return 26;
    case 'r':
        return 27;
    case 's':
        return 28;
    case 't':
        return 29;
    case 'u':
        return 30;
    case 'v':
        return 31;
    case 'w':
        return 32;
    case 'x':
        return 33;
    case 'y':
        return 34;
    case 'z':
        return 35;
    case ' ':
        return 36;
    case '.':
        return 37;

    }
}

Are you a monster or just stupid?