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by robotmay 6y ago
I once looked at a flat/apartment in a converted house here in the UK where the oven door got stuck on the wall opposite when you tried to open it.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Which for the majority of the UK means unpurchasable. With high rents in many places it's getting extremely difficult for a lot of people to save enough even for a deposit on a house, let alone buy it outright. Oddly I think refusing t
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by robotmay 6y ago
At this point I entirely suspect we'll never see the new AMD 6800/6900 cards in stock in the UK before the models are replaced. Scan.co.uk won't even take preorders, as they have no idea when, or if, stock will ever arrive. I
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by robotmay 6y ago
My local Japanese & Korean food store has something called "Morning Rice", which is, I believe, basically blended rice. It smells and tastes like liquid Shredded Wheat. It's not bad.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Pocari Sweat tastes like dispersible aspirin. I still don't know if I like it or not.
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by robotmay 6y ago
In the UK you can get a SIM for free from most networks as pay-as-you-go (i.e. you add credit to it instead of getting a monthly bill). With most of those you can happily receive messages on it without ever spending a penny.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'm not sure what other options work out better though. BTC is now only mineable by large groups with tons of hardware, which seems less fair to me. At least with the faucet approach everyone was equal in terms of what they could acqui
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by robotmay 6y ago
Originally it was distributed in a very fair manner, compared to other coins; it had a faucet which required captcha solving to get coins: https://medium.com/nanocurrency/the-nano-faucet-c99e18ae1202 Now, yes, you have
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by robotmay 6y ago
This is the only one I'm still interested in, and the only one I hold. When you transfer it around between your wallets and exchange it feels like "Yes, this is what I thought BTC would be". It's significantly more eco-f
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by robotmay 6y ago
From the screenshots this looks quite straightforward, which is a failing of most other software of this type. I'm quite curious to try it out.
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by robotmay 6y ago
That’s an interesting solution! As someone who likes a wider keyboard stance this makes a lot of sense to me, and I think it’d work well with an ISO layout too.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Haha no worries, it's actually a good question as to how it works, as I'm not entirely sure myself. I think the closest equivalent is genuinely musical instruments: I also never look at the keyboard of my accordions. I imagine a p
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah it’s a shame they’re all quite expensive really and thus quite hard to try a few different ones longer term. A vertical mouse might also be worth investigating perhaps? One thing I like about the MX Ergo is that it’s very easy to use r
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by robotmay 6y ago
Er, I am touchtyping, unless we have very different understandings of the term. I look at the screen when typing, or can type whilst holding a conversation with somebody. I can even look at the screen whilst holding a camera under my chin i
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ah perhaps it’s not clear enough that those 3 items are my own ideals and I wouldn’t claim them to be correct for everybody. The article exists precisely because I was seeing comments arguing entirely to the contrary, such as “movement is b
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have a Logitech MX Ergo which I quite like, which is a thumb trackball. I'm not sure how that compares to finger-trackballs though as I've never owned one, but a few friends have things like the Kensington one and like it a lot.
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by robotmay 6y ago
This is very much my experience! When I developed RSI I immediately went down the ergo-keyboard route, assuming I had been doing something wrong, when in reality it was just the change to a laptop for a long time. It was quite weird filming
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by robotmay 6y ago
I can heartily recommend folk music and ridiculous instruments ;) But more seriously, I did tai-chi in the past and found that a very reasonable low-impact way of developing strength in various areas.
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by robotmay 6y ago
The article does address both split keyboards and ortho-linear layouts. I disagree with both, personally. Interestingly the Kinesis article you link supports the arguments I make in the article, but their solution is obviously a split keybo
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by robotmay 6y ago
The thing that always confused me about home-row typing is that it seems oddly hard to hit Enter. My only guess to that is that it works better with an ANSI keyboard than with an ISO keyboard. I also found I type rarely with my pinkies, and
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Typing, RSI, and what I do differently(senryu.pub)
85 points by robotmay 6y ago|111 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
Curiously I find the opposite: home-row typing, or using wrist rests etc and keeping my hands static, cause me quite bad RSI. Instead I use a very "floating" style of typing where my hands move very freely over the keyboard, kinda
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh thank you, this is one I wasn't aware of :D One shared heritage song between the US and UK that I've known about for a long time is "St James Infirmary", the great blues song: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by robotmay 6y ago
For anyone interested in the subject, the Oxford Bodleian Library has an online collection of broadside ballads, which date back quite a long time in the UK: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk The broadside ballad was often used f
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by robotmay 6y ago
The EU seems to keep bringing focus back onto the over-65 efficacy. The German government has said it shouldn’t be used on over-65s, Poland has now followed, and Macron has been out in the press regurgitating incorrect statistics he misread
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by robotmay 6y ago
Among Us is a great laugh, we did that as a team last week. Getting your colleague thrown out an airlock for a murder you committed yourself never gets old.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I do keep a full off-site backup of all the important stuff at least :) Yeah RAID10 is a bit of an oddity. I definitely think it's the way to go on 4 disk setups, as it has the same failure level as a RAID5 but with significantly faste
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by robotmay 6y ago
Urgh all music recommendation engines are broken as soon as you go out of like the top 10 genres and big labels. Listening to folk music is basically “7 degrees of Beyonce”. Start with any English folk song, start the radio feature on Spoti
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by robotmay 6y ago
I'd love to see a 6 bay HP MicroServer. I too have a Gen8 and my only real complaints are: max 16GB of RAM, and only 4 drive bays which sorta limits you to RAID10 as a best compromise. In the newest model they've rotated the bays
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by robotmay 6y ago
I like seeing DOGE doing well. It has never been advertised as anything other than a meme so it's pretty funny watching it get memed into a huge pump. Compared to 99% of other crypto projects it makes no daft claims and doesn't ad

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