necrotic_comp

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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
I use a thinkpad-style keyboard and my mouse is on the homerow. It feels like that is much more efficient than this, as you get the precision of the mouse without having to move your hand. I don't understand why more people don't
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Different states are not different countries, and, if I may be so bold, the U.S. should be held to a higher standard than theocratic states or dictatorships.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
That's a really low bar.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
1000% I have three of them currently.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Middle click with thumb, mouse with index finger for moving through the document.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
You can / should change the sensitivity so it doesn't require so much force. I like it to move all the way across the screen with very little effort ; if you're getting finger strain, you should look into its settings.
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
I agree with the sibling comment. There's no real alternative to the trackpoint. Nothing comes close, but the initial hour or so of using it is weird ; frankly, I don't remember it because I did it about 20 years or so ago, but ev
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
This is a learned skill, and it's on the listener to not take the criticism personally if it's not directed personally. I had to do this at my last job, and let me tell you, once you get over the hump of criticizing ideas instead
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by necrotic_comp 4y ago
Ugh I over thought this and had a really basic word in the mix of my super silly sat vocab words - by my estimate this was different, but not by their metric.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
The external keyboard probably makes it tolerable, but yeah, it's likely hard to deal with. I'd love to see how it works in practice, and how long the author keeps it up.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
I'm actually really curious about this setup. Can you go into a bit more detail about how it works ?
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
9/11 blue is such a distinct color, and it's seared into my brain. It's so intwined with the day, it's part of the permanent collection at the museum: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/tr
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
icewm is a bit different, but it has a "windows95" type theme that, while it doesn't look nearly as good, is insanely functional. I've found it to be a window manager that is easy to script, easy to use, and gets out of
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Agreed 100%. I saw this and immediately fell in love. This is incredible and I'm super stoked to see how it comes out.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
What does it mean "don't have any firm values of their own" ? What kind of example can you provide ?
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
I think the salarymen would probably disagree with you on "enjoying life".
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
I was going to say - that's basically what emacs is . It's a LISP machine that has an initial set of applications built in for editing text.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Even better - https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?variant=16969883648090 - I've been using one of these since they came out and they're fantastic. I used to have one of the old thinkpad external keyboards -
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Yep ! The mouse isn't a mouse if it's on the home row. :) Not enough people got behind the trackpoint in its day and it makes me sad that it's not the default mouse input for programmers.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
This is the Thayer method, iirc https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... For each class, a text lesson is assigned. This assignment includes a reading and specific problems associated with the re
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
I really don't feel this at all. I am constantly doing new things, constantly learning things, and time feels like it stretches on forever. I'm over 40, so this isn't the effect of me just starting my career. 10 years ago fe
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Institutions striving for equity within a white supremacist framework does not mean that the framework is not white supremacist. It means, instead, that institutions have recognized the imbalance and are doing a small part to correct it.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
what was the model of the acer ? I have an asus 1015e that is my favorite computer I've ever had, but it's very old at this point and essentially unusable because its disk is so slow and it has very little memory. I'd love to
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Android handsets aren't really linux boxes. I can't ssh into them, I can't write little python scripts, etc. An actual, general purpose, real foss portable phone factor computer will be amazing as it matures.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
That's how I'm seeing this - as a mini linux computer with the ability to make calls and send text messages at some point in the future. Just a linux computer with a cellular modem sounds amazing to me, tbh.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
This happened with my onsite interview as well. I was working on local, user-based systems and hadn't done anything with networking/web-scale/sharding/etc. I did very well with data structure questions, and had one diffi
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
What are you trying to say ? It seems like you're making some sideways comment about "the media", but I'd really like you to spell it out.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
I agree, that seems like a very bad idea.
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84871/why-do-criminals-g...
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by necrotic_comp 5y ago
yeah, I started because my body was getting creaky after years of judo and I wanted something lower impact - it's definitely significantly less stress on your body than either wrestling or judo, but you still get jostled around and in

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