I found it interesting that key travel time was considered, often it isn’t.
A similarly interesting article: Measure and reduce keyboard input latency with QMK on the Kinesis Advantage (2021) (Basically, took an existing keyboard and replaced the controller.)
“In case of an emergency, Exits are here, here, here, here, and here.”
– Walt Disney’s original Aladdin
“I’m not going to ride on a magic carpet! I’m afraid of grounds!”<br> “You mean heights, and stop being silly!”<br> “I know what I mean! It’s the grounds that kill you!”
– Terry Pratchet, “Sourcery”
The same story told from an environmentalist perspective: https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm
So what really saved the whales? Well, the answer is first, the whaling bans. […] In the face of this enforced shortage of whale oil, lubricant manufacturers and other users of whale oil had to try to find a satisfactory substitute.
Lo and behold, in the 1970s there was a sharp rise in research and development spending on esters. Chemists worked out how to create synthetic alternatives.
(The posted article has this too, and expands on the business side of it.)
You don’t focus blindly on your feet and invent stuff. You watch someone else do things and you copy what they do. You are standing on a very large pyramid of hobbits. The big brain is mainly to remember what everyone else has figured out years ago.
You can have many shower thoughts, and most of them will not work out. But don’t stop having them, because eventually you will stumble upon something of value. Then you get to tell your grand-children, and they will listen and copy what you did.
Also in Europe. I’ve heard about Grenoble (France), but there seem to be more now. Check out adfreecities.org.uk too. Most don’t seem to ban 100% of all ads, but close enough for me.
Maybe people who are used to this will become less tolerant of online ads, too.