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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • You seem to be talking about computer games, so I will say this:

    • The easiest way to do this is to forego the hardware altogether. Mouse movements and keyboard inputs are trivial to generate programmatically and grabbing the screen contents is easy too. Building a software that understands the objective of the game and can react accordingly is the hard part
    • If you wanted to do this outside the computer where the game runs you could emulate a HID device on another computer and forego the keyboard and mouse, but it would be only useful to avoid some anti cheat systems
    • It is certainly possible to also build a mechanical system too, but adide from being a fun challenge for an experienced mechatronics engineer, I don’t see the point, especially if you are a beginner

    In all of the above, start with the first one these solutions can be expanded to be more complex.

    What games are you looking for that would benefit from this, that don’t offer computer opponents?









  • We have a concept of word inflection, which can be used to replace a lot of words that English would use to denote something being a question, ownership markers, causes and effects etc.

    Compounds are fun too, since you can do chaining:

    Viskibassokitaravahvistinpiiri

    Whisky base guitar amplifier circuit


  • Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän.

    It’s the longest word you can make in Finnish without using compounds, which can be infinite length.

    It means, very loosely translated "I wonder if the outcome was a result of their lack of ability to cause others to be disorganized. "

    I know, Finnish is an enviable language.


  • Safer, very high power to weight ratio, better self discharge stability and good temperature range performance are the advantages. The most important one is of course the lack of massive environmental impact of water hungry lithium mining in dry environments and the geopolitical challenges evident in lithium sourcing.

    There are a few electric vehicles with this chemistry and I predict it will replace lithium based chemistries in lower cost, smaller vehicles.






  • That hiding candy (or other things people wanted) was a universal property of grandmothers.

    English is not my first language, but I had heard the expression “search all nooks and crannies”, but thought the last word was grannies - cranny is an unusual word.

    Now,my own grandmother was in the habit of hiding candy for us to find. I thought the expression existed because all grannies hid things. Search all nooks and grannies!