Not sure what made the diagrams, but I think you've correctly identified the Excalidraw handwriting font. There's two versions, Virgil[1] and Excalifont[2], both under the MIT license.
It doesn't have to be controversial, even. It might just be a little bit private.
I'm on a social tech Slack that uses the CHR. It means if someone asks a question about, I don't know, how my company does something, I can say "ah, yeah, we used to use vendor X, that didn't work because of Y, and now we're with Z instead" without worrying about a blog post showing up that says "wlonkly from company Foo says that Foo used to use X but dropped them because..." but they can definitely use the information I gave them to help solve their problem.
I remember, as a little kid, being "in charge" of telling my father when to dip the headlights because I saw the glare of a car coming over the next hill or around the next curve. Of course he saw it too, and wouldn't blind an oncoming driver, but he'd make it seem like it was all up to me.
That would've been around 1980, in some kind of late-70s Pontiac, I can't remember what model, maybe a Bonneville. But it definitely had a floor switch.
IIRC, a big problem with them was that they would rust out in areas that salt the roads in winter, when the driver would track in salty slush on their boots.
if the parent poster was talking about merely emergency lights being battery powered, and hence main passenger cabin lighting turning off a full 4 minutes before the crash, we go back in a circle and have to explain the apparent absence of passengers texting friends and family about a scary power loss during descent (people would quickly try to figure out if power sockets for their consumer electronics were no longer providing power either and learn from each other that it is the case).
Another common mixing/mastering speaker back in the day, not sure about now, was the Auratone Sound Cube and its descendants -- tiny enclosure with a single driver, not full range, but "unforgiving midrange".
It's both, I think, depending on the conventions around the thing being group-bought.
What you describe is unquestionably a group buy, but in, for example, the mechanical keyboards community, a "group buy" is paying the designer of a thing (keyboard, keycap set, etc.) for the expense of third-party production up front. It's really more of a preorder that requires a certain volume to proceed. But regardless, they're called group buys in that hobby.
(With expected mixed results, I should add -- plenty of keyboard "group buys" never come to fruition, and since they're not backed by a Kickstarter-like platform, the money is just gone. The /r/mechanicalkeyboards subreddit has many such stories.)
Hah I was recently looking at that subreddit and yeah that’s why I don’t like the idea of that kind of group buy. It’s a gamble on everything working out and everyone doing the right things. I also would argue that requesting a known designer/manufacturer to make N of a specific item is different than asking an unknown designer to do so for the first time. Terminology aside, this is my original point: that is a risky way of doing things and communicates to the consumer that the product is unlikely to just get made and be available.
Absolutely. If one was uncharitable, one might suggest the reason that some of those group-buy-powered companies run their own storefront instead of Kickstarter is so that their customers associate them with "buying" and not with "funding".
Puppet and Chef are still broadly used, but much less so in younger companies, and they're Boring Technology now -- so they'll be underrepresented in the kind of companies that HN likes, that give conference talks, and so on.
Overall I think the declarative nature of Puppet and Chef lend themselves more to still automated, but longer-lived, nodes. Not quite pets, but things that stick around for more than one deploy.
I know what you're getting at here and I agree with you in spirit, but:
A lot of life-alteringly physically disabled people can drive cars. For example, lower-body paraplegics and double amputees can use hand throttle and brake controls. Single leg amputees can drive with a single leg, single arm amputees can drive with a knob on the steering wheel, and so on.
And bicycles do not work to all ages in the same way that cars don't. When you can't make safe decisions in traffic a bike can't work. Heck, a tumble off a bike could be the end of mobility for an elderly person.
(I wonder how many places expect mobility scooters to be on the sidewalk vs. allowed on a bike path?)
I think the monospaced font is Comic Mono.[3]
[1] https://plus.excalidraw.com/virgil
[2] https://plus.excalidraw.com/excalifont
[3] https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
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