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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • The Hero Pro bionic arms, the creation of robotics engineer Joel Gibbard, a co-founder of Open Bionics, are made of 3D-printed lightweight materials that are muscle-operated. But their magic lies in the wireless technology and intelligent design.

    Controlled by two muscle sensors, Tilly can now open and close the hand, cycle through grip modes, and even fine-tune pressure strength

    It’s even in the article.

    Like, at which point do we start saying we are controlling things with our minds? When I am cutting a steak with a knife and fork, am I controlling the utensils with my thoughts? Maybe. Am I also controlling the steak with my mind/thoughts, by proxy? Where’s the line?

    Like, if she had a chip implanted on her brain, then I’ll consider it controlling with only her thoughts. But this is just straight-up “manual” control.










  • Also the object-verb and selection-verb paradigm just makes so much more sense compared to vim’s verb-object/-motion paradigm. Especially with the ability to have multiple cursors and selections. It’s so powerful.

    I started with Emacs for about a year or two, then vim for about 10+ years, then neovim, then VS Code with vim bindings for a few years, then Kakoune, which was very interesting, then VS Code with Kakoune bindings, then the switch to Helix was very natural. Never looked back after about 2 years with Helix.

    It’s basically everything I loved from VS Code but in the terminal. And all the keyboard goodness from vim and Kakoune, combined. It’s great.