Caruana was born in Miami and discovered in New York. His parents are immigrants, but he is homegrown talent. As for Nakamura, I'd say he most likely didn't know how to play chess when he moved to the U.S., meaning he is homegrown talent too. Wesley So is the only straight-up import in the top grouping.
Hikaru Nakamura, although born in Japan, moved to the U.S. when he was two. I think that long predates any "changing country allegiances". His mother is also American.
Fabiano Caruana was born in Miami and only moved to Madrid when he wished to pursue a professional chess career (at the age of 12).
The only one fitting your description of changing allegiances is Wesley So.
If you have something with doubleshots, the keys will get glossy but NOT lose their lettering.
Also, POM (Delrin) keys are way more resistant to erosion and skin acids than ABS. You'll slowly lose the surface texture and develop a shine, but the letters won't go away. Cherry generally uses POM keys on their own-branded keyboards, whether mechanical or not.
No more beige keyboards. They always get so fantastically filthy, so fast. I also don't want a big-ass Enter key (yes that's actually what high-end keyboard enthusiasts call it) that just serves to make Backspace that much harder to find.
I implemented a similar design myself, although I made several other changes to minimize the distance to the mouse, including moving the cursor block to the left as well.
Assuming you (1) don't have anyone near you to complain about the noise, and (2) don't need more than 2-key rollover for gaming, because the Model M lacks diodes.
MX Red and MX Black and MX Clear and all the other linear switches don't really have a sound any more offputting than a clacky rubber dome. MX Brown just barely does. It's just the Blue and other clicky switches like Kailh Green that are known for being annoying. The real killer in an office environment is a Model M. Buckling spring keyboards are loud.
I have a Cherry G86-63401, but with the alphanumeric keys taken from a G86-61411. I would have preferred the version without a trackpad (gaining 12 keys), but the one with just happened to be under $60 on two separate occasions (I have two now).
Why? Well, it's an 18x8 matrix (no stagger), aside from the segment lost to the trackpad at lower right. It's rubber dome, but it's a nice rubber dome. The keys are POM (Delrin). All the keys that are not stolen from the other keyboard are the type with plastic lenses, under which any graphic can be placed. I have it arranged in a modified Dvorak layout of my own design, because it is completely programmable at the hardware level.
However, if mechanical keyboards are more your thing, there is Tipro. They're not common at all in the U.S., but they are in Europe. Cherry MX Black switches, matrix or staggered layout, fully programmable. Also expandable (you can attach modules end to end). Another option, if you can find it, is the rare Cherry MX Brown version of the G86 series which has all the features of a normal G86, but with mechanical switches replacing the rubber dome and membrane. Although rare, I have seen these sell for under $300.
This is really a question for Deskthority, don't you think? There are hundreds of threads on this topic there, and also people willing to sell you things.
The fuck are you on about? I think the guy is a crappy human being, but I don't hate him. He's never done anything sufficiently close to personal for me to bother with love or hate. Mostly it has been amusement as he tests everyone's patience simultaneously, when I bother to care at all. I also always thought there was a good probability he was right about fearing falling into U.S. custody.
You, on the other hand, have gone out of your way to make it personal for no visible reason. Kindly go fuck your hat.
Make that absinthe and go, and I could believe you had actually made a hipster artist AI. It doesn't bother making art when you tell it to, because that would be selling out. It only does it when nobody is looking, and it's sure you've never heard of any of its work.
Some works are going to be greatly assisted by automation, others not at all, and some only slightly so.
I've certainly found this to be the case with music. For certain genres, I can use Band In A Box to do a good 3/4 of the work of creating the accompaniment. I can even let it come up with multiple melodies and instrumental solos, and then edit them into one "take" that I like by stitching fragments together and maybe shifting them in range to make them transition better. For some tracks, though, I can't use BIAB at all. Either it has no idea how to handle the genre, or it's just too far outside the mainstream, like covering Metallica with a string quartet. BIAB can do Metallica, and it can do string quartets, but it can't really grasp how to merge the two without someone making a MIDI file "explaining" how it is to do that, or creating a custom style.
Sometimes software is responsible for the majority of composition, and I just basically edit, orchestrate, and render it. Examples: 1 | 2 | 3. On the opposite end, on many tracks the computer is little more than a digital instrument and a tracker that tells it when to play, while all instruction is input by me personally. Examples: 4 | 5 | 6. Which one is better? I'm convinced I write the tunes with greater replay value, but when scoring for a game, that's not always the highest concern. Sometimes what is desired is outside my wheelhouse, but I know software can handle it, like example 3. Sometimes it's a genre where I'm merely competent, and good automation (directed by me) has value in coming up with ideas, as in the case of example 2. But other times I want to do something different, like example 4 and its shifting time signatures and 5-tone equal temperament. I don't know of any software that generates microtonal or xenharmonic music like this. (Perform it? Yes, but not WRITE it.)
Which are better? Generally, the ones I put the detail work into are the better ones. If the automated stuff sucks, I just kick the software until it spits out something I like, so either I'll eventually get a decent result, or no result at all. But all of them have a place -- not every moment in a game calls for high art in the soundtrack. Sometimes it only takes two chords to set up a mood.
There are people with CD players (and they use them) even now, so yes, there will still be internal combustion vehicles. They just won't be what most commuters want or need.
And don't be a fuckwad. I can be a dick too, but I try very hard to aim it only at targets that deserve it. Fuck off, you puling, pusilannimous pissant.
You will probably see domestically assembled cars once the market turns electric though. The batteries could be produced locally while the rest of the car comes from China or whatever, because they are heavy, and critical to performance, and the first place an unscrupulous Chinese company will cut corners, knowing it may be years before people notice.
It also pins their hopes on a proven but not entirely mature technology, and it just happens they've got a pretty big investment in battery chemistry research. Maybe they know something the public doesn't, or maybe they just like the idea of selling more domestically made vehicles and shutting down the purchase of vehicles from neighboring countries -- unless those countries are also going electric. They have enough financial pull in the region that others might lean the same direction for purely pragmatic reasons. Even if nearby nations don't, individual businesses will, if they can sell across the border.
Twenty years ago it was stupid to drive an EV unless you were out to prove something, or you lived in Avalon. Now it's viable, but not ideal for everyone. By the end of the 32-bit Unix time epoch, 20 years hence, internal combustion vehicles will be like CD players or chrome tapes. We'll remember what they're for, and be glad we no longer require them, even though they were nice at the time.
One second-gen Prius I was familiar with made it upwards of 200k. What finally did it in was the piston rings. Considering what it was supposed to represent, death by burning oil is kind of ironic. Can't really complain about the service lifetime, though. I would not be the least bit surprised if the battery pack and drive train were sold before they even got it back to the scrapyard. The Prius uses a very conservative power cycle range, because the batteries were still a bit of an unknown in practice. It turns out the batteries were as good as claimed or slightly better, and Toyota's over-engineering means they'll live decades.
It doesn't need an airport, it's supposed to be VTOL. It's also closer to the size of a car than that of a helicopter, so they could carry it inside Air Force One, wheel it out, and fly away. Go to the event, then fly back, load it back into the plane, and move on to the next stop. Don't paralyze half a city for a caravan.
If this means not having to completely shut down a large section of the city every time the President flies into the airport (because he can air-taxi rather than road-caravan back out), then let's fucking do it already. I don't care what President or what city, this will be economically helpful by eliminating a half day of downtime for a large chunk of the city.
It seems to me that the whole laser-to-bowl volume should be wrapped in the goggle material and/or something completely opaque, and that the laser should refuse to operate if it's not. That's just a basic industrial safety interlock, and this is pretty much an industrial bong. It's not hard to design a box that will happily leak air but not light. That pretty much describes every camera.
Funny, it's the reverse for me. The smoking went way down after my income fell off. The smoking was half the reason I was able to stay sane long enough to keep that job as long as I did.
That's why I have a bong made from a plastic "yard glass" used at frat parties. If anyone drops my bong and it actually breaks (more likely, the weed that jumps out of the bowl will be worth more than any damage), they can just get me another $3 yard glass to punch two holes in. The metal stem isn't going to break.
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If you need more violence in your mind games, perhaps chess boxing is for you.
Caruana was born in Miami and discovered in New York. His parents are immigrants, but he is homegrown talent.
As for Nakamura, I'd say he most likely didn't know how to play chess when he moved to the U.S., meaning he is homegrown talent too.
Wesley So is the only straight-up import in the top grouping.
Hikaru Nakamura, although born in Japan, moved to the U.S. when he was two. I think that long predates any "changing country allegiances". His mother is also American.
Fabiano Caruana was born in Miami and only moved to Madrid when he wished to pursue a professional chess career (at the age of 12).
The only one fitting your description of changing allegiances is Wesley So.
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Keyboard pic.
Mapping Caps Lock to Backspace is more useful than mapping it to Enter.
If you have something with doubleshots, the keys will get glossy but NOT lose their lettering.
Also, POM (Delrin) keys are way more resistant to erosion and skin acids than ABS. You'll slowly lose the surface texture and develop a shine, but the letters won't go away. Cherry generally uses POM keys on their own-branded keyboards, whether mechanical or not.
No more beige keyboards. They always get so fantastically filthy, so fast. I also don't want a big-ass Enter key (yes that's actually what high-end keyboard enthusiasts call it) that just serves to make Backspace that much harder to find.
Unless that keypad is on the left.
I implemented a similar design myself, although I made several other changes to minimize the distance to the mouse, including moving the cursor block to the left as well.
Assuming you (1) don't have anyone near you to complain about the noise, and (2) don't need more than 2-key rollover for gaming, because the Model M lacks diodes.
MX Red and MX Black and MX Clear and all the other linear switches don't really have a sound any more offputting than a clacky rubber dome. MX Brown just barely does. It's just the Blue and other clicky switches like Kailh Green that are known for being annoying. The real killer in an office environment is a Model M. Buckling spring keyboards are loud.
I have a Cherry G86-63401, but with the alphanumeric keys taken from a G86-61411. I would have preferred the version without a trackpad (gaining 12 keys), but the one with just happened to be under $60 on two separate occasions (I have two now).
Why? Well, it's an 18x8 matrix (no stagger), aside from the segment lost to the trackpad at lower right. It's rubber dome, but it's a nice rubber dome. The keys are POM (Delrin). All the keys that are not stolen from the other keyboard are the type with plastic lenses, under which any graphic can be placed. I have it arranged in a modified Dvorak layout of my own design, because it is completely programmable at the hardware level.
Here's a pic.
However, if mechanical keyboards are more your thing, there is Tipro. They're not common at all in the U.S., but they are in Europe. Cherry MX Black switches, matrix or staggered layout, fully programmable. Also expandable (you can attach modules end to end). Another option, if you can find it, is the rare Cherry MX Brown version of the G86 series which has all the features of a normal G86, but with mechanical switches replacing the rubber dome and membrane. Although rare, I have seen these sell for under $300.
This is really a question for Deskthority, don't you think? There are hundreds of threads on this topic there, and also people willing to sell you things.
tl;dr: The first trip to Mars will be all, or almost all, doctors with hobbies.
The fuck are you on about? I think the guy is a crappy human being, but I don't hate him. He's never done anything sufficiently close to personal for me to bother with love or hate. Mostly it has been amusement as he tests everyone's patience simultaneously, when I bother to care at all. I also always thought there was a good probability he was right about fearing falling into U.S. custody.
You, on the other hand, have gone out of your way to make it personal for no visible reason. Kindly go fuck your hat.
Being both an asshole and paranoid didn't mean he was wrong.
Make that absinthe and go, and I could believe you had actually made a hipster artist AI. It doesn't bother making art when you tell it to, because that would be selling out. It only does it when nobody is looking, and it's sure you've never heard of any of its work.
Some works are going to be greatly assisted by automation, others not at all, and some only slightly so.
I've certainly found this to be the case with music. For certain genres, I can use Band In A Box to do a good 3/4 of the work of creating the accompaniment. I can even let it come up with multiple melodies and instrumental solos, and then edit them into one "take" that I like by stitching fragments together and maybe shifting them in range to make them transition better. For some tracks, though, I can't use BIAB at all. Either it has no idea how to handle the genre, or it's just too far outside the mainstream, like covering Metallica with a string quartet. BIAB can do Metallica, and it can do string quartets, but it can't really grasp how to merge the two without someone making a MIDI file "explaining" how it is to do that, or creating a custom style.
Sometimes software is responsible for the majority of composition, and I just basically edit, orchestrate, and render it. Examples: 1 | 2 | 3. On the opposite end, on many tracks the computer is little more than a digital instrument and a tracker that tells it when to play, while all instruction is input by me personally. Examples: 4 | 5 | 6. Which one is better? I'm convinced I write the tunes with greater replay value, but when scoring for a game, that's not always the highest concern. Sometimes what is desired is outside my wheelhouse, but I know software can handle it, like example 3. Sometimes it's a genre where I'm merely competent, and good automation (directed by me) has value in coming up with ideas, as in the case of example 2. But other times I want to do something different, like example 4 and its shifting time signatures and 5-tone equal temperament. I don't know of any software that generates microtonal or xenharmonic music like this. (Perform it? Yes, but not WRITE it.)
Which are better? Generally, the ones I put the detail work into are the better ones. If the automated stuff sucks, I just kick the software until it spits out something I like, so either I'll eventually get a decent result, or no result at all. But all of them have a place -- not every moment in a game calls for high art in the soundtrack. Sometimes it only takes two chords to set up a mood.
There are people with CD players (and they use them) even now, so yes, there will still be internal combustion vehicles. They just won't be what most commuters want or need.
And don't be a fuckwad. I can be a dick too, but I try very hard to aim it only at targets that deserve it. Fuck off, you puling, pusilannimous pissant.
You will probably see domestically assembled cars once the market turns electric though. The batteries could be produced locally while the rest of the car comes from China or whatever, because they are heavy, and critical to performance, and the first place an unscrupulous Chinese company will cut corners, knowing it may be years before people notice.
It also pins their hopes on a proven but not entirely mature technology, and it just happens they've got a pretty big investment in battery chemistry research. Maybe they know something the public doesn't, or maybe they just like the idea of selling more domestically made vehicles and shutting down the purchase of vehicles from neighboring countries -- unless those countries are also going electric. They have enough financial pull in the region that others might lean the same direction for purely pragmatic reasons. Even if nearby nations don't, individual businesses will, if they can sell across the border.
Twenty years ago it was stupid to drive an EV unless you were out to prove something, or you lived in Avalon. Now it's viable, but not ideal for everyone. By the end of the 32-bit Unix time epoch, 20 years hence, internal combustion vehicles will be like CD players or chrome tapes. We'll remember what they're for, and be glad we no longer require them, even though they were nice at the time.
One second-gen Prius I was familiar with made it upwards of 200k. What finally did it in was the piston rings. Considering what it was supposed to represent, death by burning oil is kind of ironic. Can't really complain about the service lifetime, though. I would not be the least bit surprised if the battery pack and drive train were sold before they even got it back to the scrapyard. The Prius uses a very conservative power cycle range, because the batteries were still a bit of an unknown in practice. It turns out the batteries were as good as claimed or slightly better, and Toyota's over-engineering means they'll live decades.
It doesn't need an airport, it's supposed to be VTOL. It's also closer to the size of a car than that of a helicopter, so they could carry it inside Air Force One, wheel it out, and fly away. Go to the event, then fly back, load it back into the plane, and move on to the next stop. Don't paralyze half a city for a caravan.
If this means not having to completely shut down a large section of the city every time the President flies into the airport (because he can air-taxi rather than road-caravan back out), then let's fucking do it already. I don't care what President or what city, this will be economically helpful by eliminating a half day of downtime for a large chunk of the city.
It seems to me that the whole laser-to-bowl volume should be wrapped in the goggle material and/or something completely opaque, and that the laser should refuse to operate if it's not. That's just a basic industrial safety interlock, and this is pretty much an industrial bong. It's not hard to design a box that will happily leak air but not light. That pretty much describes every camera.
Funny, it's the reverse for me. The smoking went way down after my income fell off. The smoking was half the reason I was able to stay sane long enough to keep that job as long as I did.
That's why I have a bong made from a plastic "yard glass" used at frat parties. If anyone drops my bong and it actually breaks (more likely, the weed that jumps out of the bowl will be worth more than any damage), they can just get me another $3 yard glass to punch two holes in. The metal stem isn't going to break.