It is currently under reconstruction, it sounds like much of it was beyond salvage and has to be remade but it is difficult to find much info on this, bits and pieces strewn about the web. The project was resumed in 2023 and the BOR stated they were still committed to reconstructing the star map. In 2024 they completed the new underlayment and I have yet to find anything from 2025 other than that Monument plaza is still closed to the public.
It is a convention of The Long Now Foundation to get people to think of time in terms of 10k years instead of a lifetime at best. It goes hand in hand with their 10k year clock.
Yes. It’s an artistic choice, about as meaningful as the Hoover artist’s claim that, “There is an angle for doubt, for sorrow, for hate, for joy, for contemplation, and for devotion.” Both have a meaningful denotation in the mind of the creator, but don’t necessarily resonate with others.
I think the real problem is that most people don't identify their actual problem so they can form a good question which will help them beyond the immediate need. Your problem was not finding that specific detail but navigating that API and this is the sort of question AI can be very good with.
>I can't find anything in this API, can you break down its structure and offer some advice on how to effectively navigate it?
Possibly a bit too generic but generic is a good place to start, it lets you judge the AI's grasp on the topic. Let its answer guide you in a few followup questions.
It is more about identifying the problem and forming the question, trying to understand the problem instead of looking for the answer. It does not matter if you are asking a person or AI or digging through books at a library, and it will help in identifying the best place to look for answers or may allow answering the question ourselves. This is one of the traits that good teachers all have in common, they don't just answer their students questions as asked, they consider if the question is coming from a larger problem which the student does not see.
Most people are going to go for the quick and easy answer and this is not new, all that changed is where they get the answer from and sometimes the quick and easy answer is the appropriate solution, we can't learn everything.
My aluminum X13 has taken that sort of fall, all that happened was it got a small abrasion on the corner it landed on. I know of a T14 which took a similar fall and did not survive. I think with either plastic or metal, that sort of accident is a matter of luck, exactly how it hits the ground, and if it was open or closed.
I am just waiting for linux to get sorted out on it and then I will buy. It might not be perfect but it looks pretty great. I mainly wish it had a headphone jack, bluetooth is not great for working on music.
>Surely "howdy" derives from "how do you do?" and not "hello."
It seems most likely but the OED (at least in the second edition) says:
>[Note. The conjectured derivation from the phrase how d'ye? is impossible, since the Sc. form would then have been (huːdɪ). On the analogy of Sc. gowdie = goldy, howdy might go back to holdie, an appellative (like brownie, etc.) from hold, friendly, benevolent, kind: cf. F. sage-femme.]
But the OED has many oddities regarding American vernacular and I personally take it with a grain of salt when it comes to this area. It's only definition for "howdy" is as an alternative spelling for "howdie," a midwife and ignores the common US idea of it being "how do you do," but it does include a "see how d'ye" where it includes "howdy" and various other spellings for the sentiment of "how do you do."
How can that work? Middle click is the "paste" function in X11. If I'm in a terminal emulator, how can I two-finger scroll over the output history buffer?
What if I am hovering over an edit box of a form on a web page. Doesn't that paste some random text into the edit box if I try to middle-click+trackpoint?
Also, isn't the middle button much smaller than than the left and right buttons on a laptop? I recall constantly missing the middle button when trying to paste on laptops that had the middle button.
Pinch-zooming: I assume that it's impossible to pinch zoom with a trackpoint.
I don't know.. Trackpoint seems much less ergonomic and less useful than a trackpad to me.
Middle click is held when you scroll, only pastes if normal quick click. Never have had an issue with accidental pastes, unlike the trackpad which I do palm on occasion and cause various accidental events. You can zoom with ctrl-middle click, I used to have that rebound to just ctrl-trackpoint but in the situations where I am using the trackpoint I tend to prefer zooming with the keyboard so that binding got lost along the way. No idea if there is a binding for scrolling through the history, I never interact with my history that way, you can always do a custom binding.
>Trackpoint seems much less ergonomic and less useful than a trackpad to me.
You still have a trackpad, it is not either or. For more mouse heavy tasks I prefer the trackpad or trackball if it is handy. For things which require lots of back and forth between keyboard and mouse, I prefer the trackpoint. Everywhere else is a mix, scrolling a long website I tend to use the trackpoint but for general browsing tend towards the trackpad, editing this post I will use the trackpoint but will almost certainly use the trackpad to click "reply" since my fingers will be going back to general browsing mode. I just use which ever is most suited to the task.
Pinch zooming is not the same as keyboard zooming though. With pinch zooming, the entire webpage is magnified, including images. With keyboard zooming, the images become smaller (to my great annoyance) while the rest of the web page becomes larger.
Palm rejection on all laptops that I have used has sucked, except for Apple. I don't know how they do it, but palm rejection is almost perfect on MacBooks.
Your zoom issue is probably browser based behavior, with Vivaldi, keyboard zoom does the entire webpage including images. But you can always setup your own bindings for this stuff to get the behavior you want, at least you can do it on linux.
I havn't had any issue with palm rejection on linux in a long time, it is just something that happens on occasion and almost perfect is exactly how I would describe it. The point of that was just that trackpads error more frequently than trackpoint scrolling, which I can't recall ever being confused for a simple middle click; paste happens on release and once you move the trackpoint while middle button is down, it is no longer a middle click so will not paste on release.
Pointer accuracy and the possibility to keep your hands on the keyboard while navigating the cursor. Clickpads make it harder to get pixel-perfect pointer accuracy without compromising pointer speed since the act of pushing down on the pad to click invariably moves the pointer. A touchpad with separate buttons does not have these problems but those are becoming rarer and have not been available on your preferred device for a long time.
Is it possible to operate the trackpoint with your thumb? Being able to keep my fingers on the home row while moving the pointer would be a feature I'd pay for.
Seeing how your thumb normally rests somewhere in the vicinity of the space bar and the 3 buttons underneath it it is possible but not the most ergonomically sound way to do it. Normally you'd operate it with your middle finger, use your thumbs for the buttons and space bar and that way your hands do get to rest in their assigned areas on the keyboard. It sits between the g/h/b keys so you can try simulating using one on any keyboard you have, just imagine three buttons - two wide ones with a raised smaller one between them - just underneath the space bar.
Really? I have always used one of my index fingers, the other fingers stay on their keys in the home row. Do you find an advantage to using your middle finger or just one of those things you do because that is how you always have done it?
Yes, index finger, I stupidly used the wrong term. INDEX FINGER. It is too late to edit that post so for anyone interested in not getting some weird crippling finger affliction use your INDEX FINGER to massage the nub.
Besides what the other poster said, trackpoint scrolling is amazingly good and life is just better in any programs which require a great deal of back and forth between keyboard and mouse; PureData is a good example, type a few words, select and move stuff, type a few words, select, move, repeat for hours on end.
Some people have years of trauma from poor touchpads on windows laptops. I have coworkers who to this day when sitting down at a computer will as their first action plug in a corded mouse.
Probably some wood working tool, guess if I had to pick it would be my ECE Wedge set smooth plane since it is my most used tool by a long shot and it taught me a great deal about using planes.
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