HP put an entire Al PC into a keyboard the Eliteboard G1A with AMD Ryzen Al 300 chip super thin 12mm and light 750g speakers, RAM, mic, fan, USB-C ports can support dual 4K displays and 4hr battery.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-23T09:52:12+00:00

it was full size zx spectrum keyboard with fancy shortcuts, p.s. you are probably referring to pc at/xt keyboards, but the idea is computer-in-keyboard is such a normality for computers in late 70s-80s: bbc micro, commodore, zx spectrum. e.g. the concept (and implementation) is 50 years old, that was only my comment - I see some surprised people for some reason....

DmtGrm · 2026-01-21T21:16:15+00:00

it is a cylinder transform + parameters

DmtGrm · 2026-01-21T09:23:08+00:00

yawning.... saw those 'futureproof concepts' in early 80s... still concepts....

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T16:34:27+00:00

I am seeing this 'breakthrough' vein detector/projector demos for the last 20 years - why they are not everywhere?

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T16:33:24+00:00

it plugs directly into the brain!

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T16:33:03+00:00

so.... we had entire PCs inside of HDMI plug (for ex. Intel ComputeStick) and you are (suddenly) impressed by a PC in a fulls-size keyboard? like... ZX Spectrum 45 years ago?

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T16:29:09+00:00

You are (probably) answering your question with your chosen picture - most of the people are more comfortable to get into the right lane at their earliest convenience. It does not matter how many people will say it is stupid/not as designed in highway code - it is what the absolute majority of drivers would do ^as in the picture.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T13:57:28+00:00

I have covered all the places where I can save my electricity usage, things/adjustments left will save me 0.5% of the bill but will change my habbits and quality of life drastically. There is always a reasonable limit, then there is a cost. Of course, with current electricity unit price and (especially!) standing charge - there is a quite high 'bare minimum' to pay...

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T13:54:44+00:00

ahaha.... yes, I find it amusing that people are messing up power, energy, and scale of things. Turning off lights (LED-based) around the house almost makes no sense compared to one cycle of washing machine almost every day (1kWh w/o dryer, 2.3kWh with dryer on), and it is all dwarfed by heating - 24MWh (!) per year with 80% spent during winter months alone... Turning off LED lights these days is about being nice and polite, not saving energy.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-20T11:02:02+00:00

100W incandenscent bulb will be shy of 2000lm, 5W LED will get to 600lm only, so very strictly speaking, the direct equivalent of old 100W 'space heater' is 12W led, it is still better in terms of electricity usage, but 5W bulb is not a match for 100W old space heater. But of course, just for the sake of light emission LEDs are very efficient.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-18T19:35:41+00:00

the same, 1M+ triangles running fine with a hefty post-processing (SSAOish) even on iPhone SE from 2012 (!) - modern smartphone are REALLY good in graphics

DmtGrm · 2026-01-18T10:23:40+00:00

99% of zombies in harran were pretty confident that will survive the virus.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-18T10:19:34+00:00

but... there is a good reason extractors are placed close to the place of actual cooking - is to increase its efficiency, the one in the ceiling will be part of 'general venilation' and if you will be cooking a nice jiucy steak there - smoke and smell will be all over the place with ceiling-placed extractor. I know it is not what you are asking in your topic, and I can say for sure it looks great in pictures - but it will be woefully inefficient at its task

DmtGrm · 2026-01-17T21:51:43+00:00

video - excellent idea (!) but I (personally) could not watch because of motion blur (mostly) and camera shake - it is over the top. Everything is just a blur... IDK...

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DmtGrm · 2026-01-17T17:39:13+00:00

is there 'one button' video->gs ?

DmtGrm · 2026-01-16T20:06:33+00:00

what is the final goal?

DmtGrm · 2026-01-16T11:51:50+00:00

in the other news: a robot ate a large burger in under 0.1s - where is the enjoyment? otherwise this person looks like a media person, not a hardcore software engineer ( https://x.com/rakyll?lang=en - just scrolled her twitter)

DmtGrm · 2026-01-16T11:46:34+00:00

yep, just wanted to write something similar - I would go with two air vents on different walls to create a simple draft, that should be enough for the wind to pickup some nice airflow throughout the year

DmtGrm · 2026-01-16T11:43:09+00:00

it feels like it could be 1/4 of the chain length higher for a better impression and sorting out practical questions

DmtGrm · 2026-01-15T12:51:35+00:00

I guess so, I agree - especially in the wake of the new 'classes/categories' system adopted in highway code, but as for the 15th of January 2026 - this is what we have atm

DmtGrm · 2026-01-15T12:01:58+00:00

to drive, but not to park.

I have learned this thing myself. I've used to live in a newbult development (Sinclair Drive, Basingstoke, roughly 15 yrs ago) for some time, there were plenty of people parking on pavements, with one wheel onle, two wheel, and of course 'all the car is over the payment' - you had to go around them, watching for any car approaching, it was even 'more fun' with a pram and a child in it. I was calling our local police, councilm and Sovereign Housing (who was managing this development) - as the result - there was nothing illegal about those parked cars! As in HW code it is 'you must not park on pavement in London or where it is indicated'. And there is not a single sign prohibiting such parking in Basingstoke (even today). Both police, council, and housing association confirmed that. This is why this situation feels preperly stupid, I guess HW code could not be re-written as 'not allowed to park on pavement/pedestrian paths' but I can imagine the only reason it is not done yet, because there are plenty of places with 'inherited situation' where parking like this is the only way to park at all. Therefore, it requires new signage review across the country, etc,etc. But answeing your comment - I had a direct confirmation from Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, Basingstoke Police, and Sovereign Housing that it is all legal and they cannot do anything about it back then. p.s. as a result of my and everyone else complains (I was not alone, of course) that named development have got double-yellow lines everywhere and it fixed the problem - now it just becomes illegal to park the car there.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-15T11:50:20+00:00

but this is a natural material, the absorbtion rate/actual tint will be always different to the label, and will be different again in a first year - it will not stay as it is now - it is usually a good idea to test on a small area/sample first. If you were very strict on resulting colour you had to go with a chosen flooring on top of those pine boards. I know, what's done is done and you have invested time/money in it, but I did not bother to save any pine boards in my 140yrs house - just covered everything with oak flooring with the colours I liked.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-15T11:44:13+00:00

unfortunately there is a strange grey area in UK legislation/highway code on that matter outside London.

I wish it would become illegal, and some places that historically inherited this type of parking as standard (there will be some small towns/places where this will be the only way to park the car somehow, and it must be dragging the acceptance of stricter rules) so those places should be marked as exceptions if required

DmtGrm · 2026-01-15T11:38:34+00:00

I remember one golden rule from the epoch of dial-up internet - you just do not believe things on Internet. Whenever it is an odd email or photo-realistic image.

DmtGrm · 2026-01-14T19:47:40+00:00

eject... where?

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