masklinn (u/masklinn)

masklinn commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

I've been using a mouse from https://pmm.gg, it weighs about half as much as the mouse I swapped the guts out of (28 grams vs 60 grams). Basically a couple sheets of printer paper.

I don't really care about the weight, what caught my attention was they offer ceramic? coated magnesium scrollwheels. My otherwise mild skin condition completely destroys the shitty grippy/gummy rubber they put on scrollwheels and sometimes the sides of the mice. They offer the same coating on the shells, which I really enjoy.

Yes, it's expensive but it still costs less than replacing mice over and over. I spend too much time holding this damn thing to settle for anything less. The quality is exceptional, assembly was easy, and the carbon fiber rod that snaps into place horizontally across the shape makes it more rigid than the stock mouse.

masklinn · 8 hours ago

> My otherwise mild skin condition completely destroys the shitty grippy/gummy rubber they put on scrollwheels and sometimes the sides of the mice.

I’m not sure it’s even skin conditions. I think it’s just the natural oils in the skin. It’s part of what polishes plastics (e.g. keyboard keys), and over time it impregnates the rubber which swells then falls apart.

This process is why wet belts are stupid, no reason to think mouse wheel rubber is any different.

masklinn commented on Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice coloradosun.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/mooreds

mooreds · 10 hours ago

I don't think it is just Colorado. The water law in the west (of the USA) is all messed up. Or at least was created in a different time with different needs and different rainfall.

https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=3750 has more details.

masklinn · 9 hours ago

> Or at least was created in a different time with different needs and different rainfall.

And straight up lies. The Colorado water compact “average flow” was known to be nonsense when it was established, but politicians ignored the engineers’ estimates of long-term averages which were significantly lower than the figure the compact is based on.

masklinn commented on What are OKLCH colors? jakub.kr/components/oklch... · Posted by u/tontonius

twhb · 18 hours ago

Great post!

Also check out oklch.com, I found it useful for building an intuition. Some stumbling blocks are that hues aren’t the same as HSL hues, and max chroma is different depending on hue and lightness. This isn’t a bug, but a reflection of human eyes and computer screens; the alternative, as in HSL, is a consistent max but inconsistent meaning.

Another very cool thing about CSS’s OKLCH is it’s a formula, so you can write things like oklch(from var(--accent) calc(l + .1) c h). Do note, though, that you’ll need either some color theory or fiddling to figure out your formulas, my programmer’s intuition told me lies like “a shadow is just a lightness change, not a hue change”.

Also, OKLCH gradients aren’t objectively best, they’re consistently colorful. When used with similar hues, not like the article’s example, they can look very nice, but it’s not realistic; if your goal is how light mixes, then you actually want XYZ. More: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value....

Also, fun fact: the “ok” is actually just the word “ok”. The implication being that LCH was not OK, it had some bugs.

masklinn · 14 hours ago

> Another very cool thing about CSS’s OKLCH is it’s a formula

While it’s more useful for a perceptual color space, relative colors are supported for all CSS color spaces e.g.

    background-color: rgb(from var(--base-color) calc(r - 76.5) g calc(b + 76.5));

masklinn commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

orwin · a day ago

Belgium did not. My code currently help deploying updates on 3 nuke plants in belgium, so hopefully I'd know.

masklinn · a day ago

> Belgium did not.

It absolutely did, back in 2003. This was pushed back after the invasion of Ukraine then repealed but Doel 3 and Tihange 2 were shut down under the phaseout plan.

masklinn commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

seszett · a day ago

Belgium didn't phase out nuclear. They decided that someone in the future would handle the closure of the nuclear plants, and when the time came and no replacement plant had been built, we just kept the nuclear plants running.

masklinn · a day ago

Belgium legislated the phase out of nuclear in 2003 due 2025, opting to neither replace nor postpone closure of nor refurbish its at the time 7 reactors as their lifetimes ran out.

Then it had to postpone the closure of at least two reactors following the second invasion of Ukraine, and this year officially dropped the phaseout and opened the door for new builds (unlikely as they are).

masklinn commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

seanmcdirmid · a day ago

Did France really phase out nuclear, or do you mean the rest of Europe?

masklinn · a day ago

Mostly Germany, Belgium as well, possibly a few others.

France did shut down superphenix for completely ideological reasons tho.

Also stopped investing in nuclear but that was not really ideological (the nuclear buildup originated in something of a misprediction, and sadly the country didn’t really capitalise on it).

masklinn commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

picafrost · a day ago

We tried ideology driven energy policy in Europe and it hasn't gone well. We phased out nuclear power plants (because nuclear = bad) while doubling down on Russian gas dependency (because trade = peace). Clearly this has gone poorly and it will take Europe a decade to strengthen its energy sovereignty again.

There are good reasons to question renewable energy: the cost picture doesn't make sense right now, it has intermittency problems, etc. But killing renewable projects because, uh, farming or whatever?, particularly at a time when the demand for energy is growing faster than ever, seems short sighted at best.

masklinn · a day ago

Killing solar because “farming” is an unfathomable level of mind-bogglingly nonsensical.

Of course making sense does not in any way matter to this administration, and Trump hates wind turbines because of his dumb golf course, but still…

masklinn commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

blks · 2 days ago

Taxes and labour laws/no unions

masklinn · 2 days ago

Also limited to no environmental regulations and very… accommodating… administrations.

masklinn commented on What if every city had a London Overground? dwell.com/article/what-if... · Posted by u/edward

asdff · 2 days ago

There is a huge difference between light rail and heavy rail in terms of surface noise I find. Light rail on modern track is pretty quiet.

masklinn · 2 days ago

When light rail can go through every 2 minutes during peak hours, the difference is largely academic.

masklinn commented on What if every city had a London Overground? dwell.com/article/what-if... · Posted by u/edward

masklinn · 2 days ago

> in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city.

Paris’ RER is a mostly aboveground suburban rail network, it’s only underground when it reaches the city center. And it’s far from unique, that’s a common feature of commuter rail.

And while the metro is mostly underground, about 20km (out of 245) is aboveground.