So what’s high viz jacket florescent yellow?

An idea I had was to put them over the…not sure what the technical term is…the Panama canal’s locks have these storage ponds that they flow some of the water into so the locks lose less water to the ocean per cycle. Panama is tropical, the sun is intense there, how many gallons of water are lost from those ponds to evaporation in a year? That’d be a great place to install solar power.

And to prevent birds landing.

That one ran on a laserdisc, right? Like a CAV disc so it could very quickly move the laser to one of a couple of places for basically a win/lose decision, overlaying some graphics over top for the game UI?

Condescend further to me. Explain it to me like I’m a woman.

It does work like that a little bit, like with sprites they’ve often hard-coded the frames of animation, so when you push a button it loads the correct image, like Mario’s jumping frame with his hand in the air. But there are such things as tilesets, and sprite positions, and all that good stuff.

Long about 2015.

Autokey is software written by someone.

Drivers are software written by someone.

Have you vetted every line of code running on your computer?

There’s software on the computer that does that anyway, otherwise the keyboard won’t work. Feels like an arbitrary line to draw.

Honestly if pressing some buttons to get the computer to do something you programmed it to do is a “security nightmare” I think we should probably just give up, tear down the electric grid and go back to dying of smallpox at 17 like nature intended.

It’s roughly equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows. It’s an application that can intercept key combos or even typed strings and…do basically anything. Let’s say you type a certain phrase a lot, you could come up with an abbreviation so that when you type an abbreviation it deletes the abbreviation and inserts the big thing you type. Or maybe you want it to fire when you press ALT+ y. Or, maybe you want it to do something programmatic, like insert the date and time. Or do anything you can get Python to do.

This apparently does not work on Wayland systems, something about the way it accessed keystrokes in X11 isn’t open in Wayland for security concerns.

Sure, Autokey doesn’t work.

I do think ditching X11 is still slightly premature. For all its more modern features, there’s still a lot that Wayland either hasn’t implemented yet or “can’t do” because of its “security model.”

I’ve got an '03, one of the last S10s made. She’s got 213,000 miles on her and she ain’t tired yet.

My S10 is going to function as my hearse. I’m not letting them rent a Cadillac when I’ve got a perfectly good Chevrolet.

Yeah it’s something like, the roof is so tall so that the 90th percentile tall American man can stand up in it, and the hood is so low so that the 90th percentile short American woman can see over the nose from the driver’s seat. It absolutely looks like a goober but basically all American adults can comfortably operate it.

Yeah you haven’t really heard much out of the “vaccines aren’t vegan enough” crowd for the last couple election cycles, have you?

It’s a government grade Aluminum box with the powertrain of a Chevy S10.

I’m not convinced dating apps work for anyone in any way.

Engineers aren’t miracle workers, granted. Which is why it is their responsibility to thoroughly test the devices they design and document their limitations. It’s then on the medical industry to train doctors and nurses on those limitations.

I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago.

As I said, this continues to be a problem into the present day. COVID-19 patients with dark skin would suffer from hypoxia that pulse oximeters would fail to detect, leading the medical staff to fail to administer supplemental oxygen. That’s probably happening somewhere on earth as I type this.

Do the little lights in the device need to be brighter, or have a brighter mode? Does their need to be a switch on the side? Can our cultures handle a medical device with a “white people | black people” switch on the side?