There are loads of systems where every button and encoder has many functions, with modal or paged interfaces. But I'm trying to stick to a model of no hidden or ephemeral state with my modular, just for fun, I guess. Mostly analogue, so no non-volatile memory to store settings, the positions of the patches and knobs set everything, and the test is that if I power it down and back up it must come back doing what it was doing when the power went out (very long cycle lfos notwithstanding!)
When a laptop can simulate anything, the physicality of the interface is most of the attraction, so might as well go all the way...
I remember in the very early days as a hobbyist working with cgi perl scripts for forums or guest books where the script just edited the "static" content in place.
The script would write new html files for new posts and do "fun" (I mean, terrifying) string manipulation on the main index to insert links to posts etc. Sometimes they used comments with metadata to help "parse" pages which would see edits.
These both were, and definitely were not, "the days" :D
Catches me every time too. And it's so quick. You can go in to a shop to pick up a packet of crisps thinking it's daytime, but actually is quarter past 6, so you come back out and it's full dark!
I'm in the southern UK, and I'd take our late-May/early-August "it's light while I'm awake and dark while I (should be) asleep" all year round if I could get it.
Unfortunately there are lots of materials run through a table saw which can trigger a sawstop. A false positive destroys the blade. Decent blades cost several hundred dollars, and are intended to be resharpened and last for many years.
I belong to a community hobbyist workshop. There are a lot of rules, lockouts and a key in place around the table saw usage, but they won't install a sawstop because they can't afford to keep up with the wasted blades.
Personally, I think I'd rather have one, but I can absolutely see why people would disable them if they were mandatory.
Have you read Infinite Jest? Barely any of the book is really about it (the actual theme being a study of addiction is many forms), but the ostensive premise is that a video clip has been created that's so compelling that it's impossible to stop watching it.
Some of the asides are also hilariously/terrifyingly prescient. The passages on the evolution of video calling are some of my favourites.
I've been to enough boutique hotels in the Netherlands with clear glass doors from bedroom to bathroom to say that probably wasn't a "future" thing, just a Dutch thing...
Because then it would need more registers for the other purpose?
But actually the decision about which general purpose registers to use for what is made at compile time (hence we're discussion a compiler flag here, the frame pointer is not a hardware dictated feature), so the question is actually kind of moot. If the compiler is out of registers to allocate and instead uses the stack, the CPU isn't reasonably going to be able to undo that.
It's an ML story. The article specifies that the current (now previous?) state of the art models are numerical, crunching vast equations representing atmospheric physics.
You can safely return that oyster card and get your deposit back now :D
I live in London and recently passed a convenience store whose signage advertised the usual stuff: "Fresh veg. Off licence. European specialty foods. Oyster". I was genuinely confused for a second that such a place would carry such short shelf life seafood...
Pre-pay card are gone here. The only people I know now who have an Oyster branded card are those who get discount or free travel.
You still don't appear to get it though. The fact that there even exists an option (never mind a default) which does not scrub storage between use by different tenants is completely unacceptable in a multi-tenant environment.
I was also given to understand that while boxes give optional privacy, a big part of their function in older theatres was to be seen, rather than specifically to see the play. Presiding, if you will.
At least that's the oral tradition I've been given in the UK. Makes sense for the old aristocracy, the US may have wanted to make a deliberate break with the tradition?
Ireland is an independent country, not part of the UK.
Pubs in the UK are much less like this than in Ireland, which I also believe are quite special. There are pubs like this in the UK, but they're less and less common the larger the town you are in - which (my pet theory) correlates closely with the likelihood that there are people in the pub who don't already know each other anyway...
Edit for clarification: the more people are mixing in the pub, the more likely they all knew each other beforehand. Likely because it's a small town pub, although tight community pubs do still exist still in London - they're rare).
My work laptop has a touchscreen. I've never used it, but other people use it by accident fairly often. Usually only once each though, the look of shock is sometimes even worth the fingerprint :D
When a laptop can simulate anything, the physicality of the interface is most of the attraction, so might as well go all the way...