From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....
Paul, or rather the amalgamation of Paul and the various authors of the texts canonized as the Pauline epistles, was a fuckin’ dick man of his place and time, and including the letters in the Bible really fucked up Christianity over the long-term.
Yeah, bonfire is just not safe, and at a minimum having it off campus somewhere makes it easier to let it diminish in significance to the fish, and lord knows Aggies do love a tradition.
Functionally, this is not meant to be a particularly weird board, well apart from the numpad being compressed and on the left. No single key is more than 1.75 times the width of a normal key, which means I did not need to use any stabilizing hardware under them.
As somebody else noted, the second “caps lock” is really enter, and then I just have the four upside down ones on the bottom row mapped as space bars. A more generous set of keycaps could have the exact ones you might need in size and shape and label for even a weird layout, but this cheap set from Amazon worked out mostly OK. Flipping the space bars also helps with the typing angle, when you don’t have proper space bars for the size you need.
Right. For some of my other weird layout, homemade boards, I’ve done all the keycap legends myself, but for this one, I wanted it to be able to use sculpted key cap sets where each row has a different shape, and using “normal” caps necessitated a few compromises.
I’m not actually left-handed, but a lot of people like the southpaw style to keep the num pad around and integrated, but allow the mouse to stay close to the right side of the keyboard. I’m not sure what I think of the concept so far, but it came out pretty well, given the constraints I gave myself.
Headline is probably not wrong, but it’s definitely overdramatic compared to the actual story. Everything awful MS is actually doing is there barely a millimeter under the surface, but the story is more directly about how they’re jerking AMD and Intel around.
Still, it’s an impressively clear showcase of how much power Microsoft really has. It’s taken two companies that usually have their product cycles planned years in advance and kicked them into panic mode. Hopefully we don’t see a repeat once Microsoft finds it fit to bring Copilot+ to desktops.
Mine has insisted on being a car rider. Okay then, well I figured out that leaving late minimizes my time in line. I am not looking to get there 30 minutes early only to pick her up five minutes faster.
She’s an only child anyway, being in the last ten percent of kids picked up (never last… that feels… excessive) just means a little longer actually interacting with peers.
For me, a lot of the hand wringing over the so-called death of movie theaters comes down to the fact that much more of the “magic” of it had to do with exclusivity and the inadequacy of home set ups. Take those away, and the value proposition of waiting to watch at home changes drastically.
We’re not all Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese, literally enthralled by the silver screen at the movie palace. We just want to watch our movie in the situation that is the most comfortable and fun for that particular movie. For most people, the ones that seem to benefit the most from a giant screen with giant speakers and a darkened room and a communal experience are big action show pieces with stunning vistas.
Like live theater before it, movie theaters are settling in to their optimum use cases, instead of being the one size fits all that we do just because that’s the only way to do it adequately. So buckle in. Eventually there will be many fewer theaters, with 90% of their capacity catering to giant marvel movies that are made for the broadest possible audience, and 10% to cinema geeks. The rest of us will have big OLEDs and a sound bar, and we’ll generally find that to be fine. The zoomers and alphas won’t even care about that, I think.
Shoot, based on The Marvels and Indiana Jones 5 and Furiosa, maybe we’re already there. Even just a few years ago, anything big and noisy and adventure-ish would do OK (looking at you, DC). Now you have to really nail the zeitgeist just so if you want make a good amount in the theatrical run. “Barbenheimer” events are going to remain really rare, and maybe happen only every year or two.
I saw Dune 2 in the theater. I’m maybe going to see one more, but that’s it. Anything else, I will stream when it shows up if I’m looking forward to it, or I’ll see it when I see it. There’s value in turning the cinema into a real experience, but not every-week value.
Seems to be from a 1970s edition of a book of Russian folk poems for children, possibly collected by Korney Chukovsky, but I’m not sure. A translated version is online, and I don’t see any agenda on the webpage, but I’m flying blind here:
Robert De Niro has been denied a prestigious award after making a speech calling Donald Trump a “clown” and a "dictator "outside the former president’s trial....
So maybe we should be kinder to good behaviour from companies, even it it’s for the wrong reasons? We can still ask for more and call them out on shitty stuff they do.
I’ve always thought of more as a a neutral thing on the part of the companies. They’re sort of inherently reactionary to the market. If they’re doing things that are more socially responsible, especially the publicly traded ones, it’s because the market has told them it will be worth it on a timescale that will financially benefit the current management.
So, I tend not to pile on at their cynicism, since I am legitimately glad for the steps they’re taking, but also to be restrained in my praise. If they sense that the winds are blowing the other way, they’re not exactly bold.
I don’t really want to stick up for Texas Republicans, because fuck ‘em, but the state platform has always been beyond crazy, and even the elected officials don’t try to implement it anywhere near completely, precisely because it’s the one thing that would make the low-information voters they count on take pause.
The real platform, which is plenty scary enough, is (1) obey the donors, and (2) mollify the base with whatever the governor, lt. governor, and AG are spouting off about this month.
That said, I fully support these articles every year, because the horrified reaction reminds the GOP overlords that they’re still subject to a few limits.
I’m not entirely sure either. I guess maybe just trying to add some context. I’m less sanguine than I used to be that this extra level of crazy won’t escape the state convention, but historically it hasn’t.
Americans absolutely have to own it, and many of us try to. America has consistently made awful decisions regarding race.
The point is more that white Europeans are not special, and much of the perceived enlightenment from Europe is either top-down messaging from socially unassailable elites, or from societies that are homogenous enough that the economically insecure don’t (yet) blame their struggles on the tiny number of visible minorities in their community.
Americans who “whatabout” any criticism from an imperfect messenger are probably not acting in good faith, but the inverse is worth considering as well.
I did exacltly that and made the 12-switch version of this for my daughter. As you note, a full size Pi Pico should have the 24 GPIO pins you need to avoid diodes.
For myself, I did a laser-cut numpad to use with the hand wired TKL-like I tend to use on my main PC. Then there are the others. I, uhh, may have a problem.
Right? I know we don’t like reading the articles around here, but this is about a $20 million submersible being commissioned from a company that has successfully gone down to Challenger Deep before.
It’s still billionaire wankery, but it’s much more reasonable in its budget.
EV sales slowdown is mostly a Tesla problem, according to sales data (arstechnica.com)
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....
Texas A&M bonfire will not return to campus (www.texastribune.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16228461...
Hand wired a southpaw 1800(-ish) keyboard with no stabilizers (lemmy.world)
Time+3D printer+laser engraver=keeb...
Microsoft is warping the PC industry into something unrecognizable (www.msn.com)
Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US. (wapo.st)
The Death of Movie Theaters - Beyond the Black Void (www.youtube.com)
And usually it's just right (lemmy.world)
Robert De Niro has award withdrawn after calling Donald Trump 'monster' outside trial (news.sky.com)
Robert De Niro has been denied a prestigious award after making a speech calling Donald Trump a “clown” and a "dictator "outside the former president’s trial....
gimme (sh.itjust.works)
Texas Republicans open to death penalty for abortion providers (www.theguardian.com)
GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder...
‘People ask me to use another door’: MEPs on bias, whiteness and rise of far right (www.theguardian.com)
From being repeatedly asked for ID to feeling threatened by harmful rhetoric, politicians say lack of diversity is undermining work of EU...
Macro pad suggestions
I rock a 60% which I love, but I’m learning blender and coding, lack of numpad has gotten frustrating....
Jumblie #240 (jumblie.com)
Post your scores and discuss the topic of the day. Try and use spoiler tags if you are going to mention any of the solution words....
A year after Titan sub implosion, an Ohio billionaire says he wants to make his own voyage to Titanic wreckage (www.cbsnews.com)