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by autocorr 6y ago
Wow it's amazing to see true art and deep complexity turn up places you would have never expected it; like discovering the depths of Conway's Game of Life, fractal art, origami... Where you spot something, go "huh, that'
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by autocorr 6y ago
Who doesn't like having nice peripherals? :) I'm the same between a work and home desktop. It's great to not have to carry anything to or from the office. Maintaining several computers also helps avoid the "single point
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by autocorr 6y ago
The Dell Latitude series also have superb Linux hardware support too. You can often get the series cheap like-new/refurbished on the web because business IT departments frequently liquidate them on upgrades. I got this Dell Latitude 72
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by autocorr 6y ago
Just a note for anyone thinking about transitioning from macOS to a Linux desktop workstation, like the author here: I would advise against using "as light a desktop environment as I can stomach". Full-featured desktops like KDE a
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by autocorr 6y ago
A common question seems to be: why not put such a telescope in Earth orbit? This is a spinning, liquid mirror telescope that uses centripetal acceleration to turn a pool of liquid mercury into a parabolic mirror. Orbit does not provide the
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by autocorr 6y ago
Do we though? I have no idea where you're getting your second sentence from. Judging by your username as "no tankies" and reading your comment history I can see you have a keen interest in political arguments. In general comm
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by autocorr 6y ago
> The analogy presented is flawed because your friend discovering a house in a society with agreed upon law isn't an iron age civilization discovering a stone age civilization and pushing it aside like every civilization has done wh
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by autocorr 6y ago
That's not the main point in the series on chemical weapons though. The main point is that modern armies are mobile and well equipped ("the modern system") and that chemical weapons are only well suited to stationary, fixed o
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by autocorr 6y ago
The Science news article reports that new STEM faculty jobs are at about a third of what they were last year. Like they say, universities, especially big public ones have had their finances nuked by the pandemic and imposed hiring freezes.
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by autocorr 6y ago
It doesn't seem right that heavily VC dependent companies have dumped more than 200 million USD into pushing prop 22[1]. I mean, they're questionably profitable and spending 0.2 giga-dollars on lobbying just this prop? [1] https:
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by autocorr 6y ago
I think we should have an National Science Foundation level federal institution for free software. Stallman advocated for this early on I think. The NSF funds fundamental research to the benefit of all (setting aside the issue of pay-walled
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Puzzles for the Game Hex(mseymour.ca)
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by autocorr 6y ago
While the first part of the article is on alternative keyboard layouts like Dvorak, the second half of the article is actually a discussion of personalized shorthand "brief forms" (somewhat confusingly called "shortcuts"
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by autocorr 6y ago
You're right, I had assumed it was obvious from context since we were talking about the Advantage and Dactyl-Manuform specifically. The market may be there though, since the Advantage has basically been the companies main product for R
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by autocorr 6y ago
Given the rapid development of the hobbyist landscape from 3D printing, I suspect it will only be a matter of time before Kinesis comes out with a split design. Although the Kinesis is actually very easy to mod, and there are quite good res
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by autocorr 6y ago
You'd have to mod the case and do some wiring, but since the ErgoDox is just a Teensy running QMK you could in principle hack it. I think all you would have to do is find an unused pin on the uC and then wire that pin to the foot pedal
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by autocorr 6y ago
Thanks for the great write-up! It's interesting to see how much room there is for personalizing and optimization once you lift the lid on the first change. I started the journey with an ErgoDox and now am typing this on a fully custom
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by autocorr 6y ago
Vimium is great! From a usability stand-point, hints are a very useful way to navigate web-pages without requiring a lot of dexterity to select small elements. Once skilled at typing the hint labels, it's almost like having eye-trackin
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by autocorr 6y ago
Yeah as a heavy vimmer I also used Ctrl-[ with Caps-as-Ctrl for the longest time on a regular full-sized keyboard. Esc is great to have on a thumb key though. I used it on one of the outer ones on my ErgoDox and it worked well. A nice vim q
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by autocorr 6y ago
A DIY custom actually![1] It's a split with 3 x 6 alphas, 3 thumb keys, and a palm key. I really like it but I was already moving in the direction on layout-minimalism on my ErgoDox. You can find a pic of my layout here[2]. Happy to an
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by autocorr 6y ago
For some context, this project was basically made to one up someone else, so it's not fully serious. Part of what makes the keyboard funny though is that (a niche of) the custom mechanical keyboard scene has been moving to many fewer k
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Alma Discovers Misaligned Rings in Planet-Forming Disk Around Triple Stars(public.nrao.edu)
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by autocorr 6y ago
The keyboard in the submitted post comes with a buzzer built-in. I think they had one in the Planck that beeped when it turned on or connected to bluetooth or something. So you could program QMK to do this almost certainly! :)
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by autocorr 6y ago
Well they are more time consuming and expensive to build for hobbyists, but I think that the main reason is that when you get a fully programmable keyboard it enables a lot of useful features that obviate things like dedicated function keys
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by autocorr 6y ago
This is exciting to see a new split keyboard available commercially (and not as a group-buy or kit). I hope that it along with others like the one keyboardio can grow the market so that we may eventually see wider adoption beyond hobbyist c
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by autocorr 6y ago
Me too! I really enjoyed his collections on the "Fremen Mirage"[1] investigating the "hard times make hard men" trope and "Practical Polytheism"[2]. Brett's articles are mainly social histories which are v
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Programming's dirtiest little secret (2008)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
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by autocorr 6y ago
It's tangential to the article, but I've found it's been really helpful to have dedicated copy and paste buttons on the left hand. On Linux the highlight and middle click is nice, but not every application can be selected (li
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by autocorr 6y ago
This has been submitted a few times to HN, but I've really appreciated listening to all of the different noise generators while working from home recently. Are there are other tools or sites that people like to listen to while working?
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MyNoise: Background Noises and Interactive Soundscapes(mynoise.net)
2 points by autocorr 6y ago|1 comments

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