Germans (and similarly, other countries following the Vienna Convention) do it like this:
Bike path
No bikes
How about this? Is this a bike-free road, as in Alkoholfrei? That’s why text doesn’t belong on road signs.
(Yes, I’ve since learned that -frei in a compound word and frei as a n adjective are different but you can’t tell if that’s meant to be a space because it’s a bloody pictogram and 4 letters.)
No, American signs mostly use “NO” in text to indicate “not allowed”. Very inefficient.
In Europe, we use multiple thin black slashes over a greyed-out sign to indicate the ban has ended.
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They have more money than ever before! Just not worth as much
Fans are usually loud in proportion to their speed. Quiet ceiling fans have a big diameter and many blades. Doesn’t a small fan cause a lot of noise?
Ionic wind generators also exist. Cool to have a particle accelerator but not very strong and catches dust (that’s why they’re called “air purifiers”)
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During coal shortages in WWII, Switzerland used to run a few steam locomotives on electric heaters, combining most disadvantages of the two system (heavy, inefficient, needs wires except for about 15 minutes)
Damn, DuckDuckGo is bad at searching weird characters. Should have checked that, thanks
Prague is my ISP-reported location. Strange that DDG uses it although I disabled results specific to Czechia.
Reminder that Steamboat Willie (1928) was scheduled to enter public domain in 1986 (or 1955 if not renewed)
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𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐 𓄿𓈖𓎼𓂋𓇌 decodes to S42-x-t-B1 A-n-g-r-y using Manuel de Codage’s hieroglyphic alphabet
The transliteration is ꜥbꜣ-ḫ-t-st ꜣḫ-n-g-r-y or sḫm-ḫ-t-st ꜣḫ-n-g-r-y, Gardiner’s code is S42 Aa1 X1 B1 G1 N35 W11 D21 M17a
I don’t know when U+13430 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH VERTICAL JOINER is used. When I paste the MdC code here, I see some above each other but not when I paste that back here or in UnicodePad, so it looks like the rendering works different in different contexts. The converter may be wrong: only :, not - should cause characters to stack, and it should prevent that with a ZWNJ or force that (if supported) with U+13430. Maybe try another?
Also, 𓏭 is just a variant way of writing 𓇌, much like 𝚊/𝑎, ϕ/φ, Л/Λ, 論/论, 𓁔/𓁕 etc.
Given that the ASCII code for 𓄿𓈖𓎼𓂋𓇌 is an English word and contextually sensible, I spent way too much time trying to find what someone must have typed into some converter to get 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐 but I couldn’t find a satisfactory answer. Note that the MdC code never contains single letters CEJOUV so they may have been dropped, and even more letters are dropped to get phonemic codes in examples I’ve seen like “Tutankhamun” → twt-Ꜥnḫ-ꞽmn → 𓇋𓏠𓈖𓏏𓅱𓏏𓋹𓋾𓉺𓇓.
I have a small number of fine hairs on the back of my fingers’ first section. That’s the sharpest and most sensitive body part that fulfils the criteria and I think I could “scan” the screen with it. I also remember feeling something with the tips of my fingers, maybe ionic wind or capacitive current flow at 60 Hz (refresh rate).
Wild that most households just used to have a 25kV particle (electron) accelerator but maybe an array of 3x800x600 transistors (TFTs) wired by transparent coating on glass is wilder.
blindfold
I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.
Fake. Windows 95 devs couldn’t have guessed I’d be seeing this on an OLED screen. The screens they targeted tingled when touched. /s
KDE Connect is also a control option
It’s the lowest-tech device that can do this with sufficiently low running costs to make it free to use. Much better than the more common infrastructure of QR codes and a server of audio files (or worse, app!)
And there are hiking trails with information panels that have this technology (the button switches narration languages or bonus tracks) for accessibility to the visually impaired built into the post. It does not need to be this big (you know how tiny an exercise bike generator, 10W power regulator, MP3 player, amplifier and speech-capable speaker can get) but the tall-human-sized bent pipe is an artwork by itself.
These converters are usually not AI but this one is almost certainly vibe-coded:
https://toolkitsplus.com/tools/font-converter/mdc-hieroglyphs
It has a lot of flavor text that seems to be more focused on “use this to make a Unicode representation, which is SEO/AEO/GEO friendly because it can be turned into keywords/tokens” than “use this because it’s accurate to the MdC spec”