I find the "Why choosing Ü?" table to be particularly amusing. Just cherry-picked language features where Ü happens to achieve all of them!

You are partially right. I cherry-picked features which I personally find important. But since they are so important for me, I bothered designing/implementing them in the language in a right way.

"Will the police stop and search people on the street looking for unauthorized phones? Prison sentences for buying a non-state computer on the black market? Charges of organized crime for smuggling in containers of open-source software on USB sticks?"

Come on, do people seriously believe this will happen?

Isn't it happening in the USA right now at borders and it happened before when encryption was a munition?

The sum-product conjecture asks: for any finite set of real numbers, must at least one of the sumset or the product set have size at least

It was posed by Erdős and Szemerédi in 1983. This paper constructs a clever counterexamples using high degree number fields with bounded root discriminant.

Haven't tried it in Claude Code yet, but I would say over on claude.ai it is noticeably better at following instructions.

This is cool, but honestly, I find it hard to believe that 50,000 units were sold.

I've personally bought at least 10 of these things. Some of us build keyboards for fun!

If you find that hard to believe, keep in mind this is just one product in a rather crowded niche marketplace, so there's undoubtedly tens of thousands more similar products that have already been sold.

Really? Why?

I know people who made like 3 or 4 of these keyboards from kits.

That I think they are insane and just buy the chinese knockoffs does not negate the existence of the other guy.

Yup, people who are into niche hobbies can be almost obsessed with it. Like a guy having 50 zippo lighters, or someone having collection of retro consoles. Same here, people are building more than one keyboard because they love it.

What made Ferrari think it was a good idea to have the guy who killed the headphone jack and shipped the butterfly keyboard design their first EV?

Is this not old? Since then they have also required all social media to be public.

Perhaps I'm alone on this, but I find all the different colors and diagrams distracting rather than helpful. It feels cluttered to me.

For me it iſ the old timey eſſ that iſ moſt diſracting.

I'm slightly baffled it existed in the first place, considering they also used the small s, and it looks almost exactly like the f. To be fair, I am equally confused that so many modern typefaces don't distinguish I and l.

I ſuſpect the uſers of ye olde ſ were/are all liſping.

Yeah, why bother updating the diagrams but then do long s throughout?

Not sure, it's name is literally "ai slop" backwards.

Absolutely ridiculous. Meta has been a major player in destroying an entire generation's attention spans, self-esteem, and childhood. They will never be held accountable for their actions.

Or, rather, they will only be held "trivially" accountable.