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The Lisperati1000 Computer
- blue1 6y agoNice, but I've never understood the appeal of reduced keyboards such as this, where even the digits require a modifier key. On the contrary, I would really like an XL version of the Lisperati with an enormous keyboard, space-cadet-like, that also includes unshifted parentheses.
- butterisgood 6y agoWhy not parentheses on foot pedals?
- convery 6y agoSpeaking of, random advice: If you're doing remote meetings a $3 pedal for push-to-talk is awesome.
- BlackFingolfin 6y agoWhere do you get such a $3 pedal? I only found ones starting at maybe $10, and they seem to be crap based on reviews.
- cestith 6y agoI had a buddy once upon a time who wrote APL or some dialect of it in Emacs. He had two keyboards hooked up to one system and had two foot pedals. IIRC one was Meta and the other Super.
- DonHopkins 6y agoBecause foot pedals are for double double bucky bits! ;) Double Bucky (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie") Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and Meta side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! (For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.)
- jonathanstrange 6y agoThat was my first thought, too. Ideally there should be extra keys for the parens, e.g. a tenkeyless where [] are switched with (). Edit: Oh, and slightly more controversial, ctrl and tab need to be switched, too.
- alpaca128 6y agoThe reason I use one like that: it's more comfortable and ergonomic, and I have the same typing speed but with higher accuracy because I don't need move my hands or wrists. Can you reliably press F2 or ` without looking? I can, and always with the exact same finger movements because the hands don't move. It seems to be a "love it or hate it" thing but I wouldn't go back to normal keyboards. They're fine, just like old touchpads are usable, it's just not a great experience.
- 1MachineElf 6y agoIf you can touch type, they're faster to use because you spend less time moving your hands about between keypresses.
- DonHopkins 6y agoLisp machine keyboards had unshifted parenthesis keys so you could type s-expressions with one hand while holding a Hefty bag full of nitrous oxide in your other hand.
- user-the-name 6y agoCool looking, impractical, and ultimately useless - the perfect Lisp device.
- dang 6y ago"Don't be snarky." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You've unfortunately been posting quite a few comments that break the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful; we're trying for something a bit different than internet default here.
- user-the-name 6y agoAre you, though? It seems a lot more like you are trying to force a veneer of respectability over what is still a whole lot of pretty awful views here. I would be more impressed with an actual push towards trying to get people to genuinely be less awful, rather than trying to push them to be polite while doing so.
- dang 6y agoWe don't give a shit about veneers. That canard is usually brought up by people making excuses for bad comments, as if they were somehow posting them out of principle. Anyone can read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html or slog through 50k moderation comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang (not that I recommend it) and evaluate what we're trying to do here, but the shortest way is to simply look at the first site guideline about comments: "Be kind." If you don't think that's about "getting people to be genuinely less awful", I don't know what to tell you. We're working overtime to try to do that. It is in no way easy, and if you claim to care about this, you should be helping to make it happen, not degrading this place further. As for "awful views", any large, open internet forum gets the full panoply. To go from seeing an "awful view" to imagining that moderators condone it in any way is a non sequitur. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- soapdog 6y agoI really like this, it might actually be a cool machine to code a little text editor and use for drafting. Anyone knows what that display is?
- detaro 6y agosearch 1920x480 on aliexpress etc - super-wide formats like that usually originate from automotive use cases and then trickle down into more easily accessible markets once they're made in large numbers, and that's what's happened for 8.8" 1920x480 recently.
- soapdog 6y agoThanks!
- afandian 6y agoI've got a couple of AlphaSmarts (4x40 old school LCD character display) which I was thinking of retrofitting some ESP32 brains into. I'm not sure how snug a fit this screen would be, but it's got to be worth a go.
- schaefer 6y agoWe also use these displays in slot machines, where a long, skinny touch screen replaces the old physical button deck.
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- beprogrammed 6y agoI love this, time to make one for myself!
- cafard 6y agoA screen that size seems to call out for an APL descendant.
- joaogui1 6y agoAny idea what are the specs?