mandw

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by mandw 4mo ago
Lots of people were typing like that. As far as typing today, different layouts, hobbies with ergonomic keyboards etc we see far more people touch typing today than were in the 80's. I wouldn't call it abnormal, I was pecking
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by mandw 4mo ago
Fair enough. I assumed everyone would have watched it by now from here :)
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by mandw 4mo ago
I have to admit, when a specific person died I was feeling so bad about it I never watched the last episode. I still have it on the drive how many years later.
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by mandw 8mo ago
I did feel my post was a bit unneeded when I added my edit :) My point about the 30% was that you mentioned that he got in rust and attributed it to essentially, better algorithms in the rust lib he used. Once he knew that then its h
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by mandw 8mo ago
The only real question I have with this is did the program have to have any specific performance metric? I could write a small utility in python that would be completely acceptable for use but at the same time be 15x slower than an imple
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by mandw 8mo ago
Yes, copied it in to my scratch buffer to read it, not readable in the browser at all with a dark background. It did then make all the elisp nice to look at.
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by mandw 9mo ago
I think the same thing, and then I went a little smaller! I went to a large split then to a 58 key split, then to a 42 key split. At 42 I saw no advantage in going smaller other than it being smaller if you liked the look of it. Then I
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by mandw 9mo ago
I don't think Miryoku is a good layout for many either, it will depend on your usage. A strange thing is that many come in to the small split keyboard world and then don't have the motivation to come up with something that wor
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by mandw 1y ago
I recently downloaded a number of magazines froma now defunct publication from late eighties. No onesells them and annas archive was the only place i found them. its not exclusivly pirating, its a source for a lot of out of print.
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by mandw 3y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. The news I was after was usenet feeds, I have archives of some groups but thought it would be interesting to rather than go and read it all at once have it put a new days worth of posts every day from the pas
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by mandw 4y ago
If it could be OK for you other than that, there is usually a timeout setting that can be applied before it is recognised as a press. For example, any press under 200ms is ESC, anything over will register as Ctrl. The timeout can be
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by mandw 4y ago
I remember this! Dad sold commodores and we had this, I think i had it on quite a bit.
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by mandw 4y ago
I am not sure people really optimise for speed, they do it for comfort. When I moved to dvorak my speed dropped by quite a bit and I never regained it but that was done for comfort, and it is more comfortable no doubt. I lost the sp
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by mandw 4y ago
I think your reply is still based on a standard keyboard. When you get to more ergonomic keyboards you can stay on the homerow and also reach modifiers without moving. While most people do not have an ergonomic keyboard then what you
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by mandw 4y ago
Yes, it's a good move for people using control a lot. I am using evil mode in emacs so I have the escape in the same place. I also use homerow mods which i find really great. With the homerow mod, the homerow keyas &#
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by mandw 4y ago
Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo Prolog, all things I got at an age when it was just a hobby in high school. In fact I can still look over at my bookshelf and see turbo prolog books.. some things you cant bring yourself to throw away! I
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by mandw 4y ago
I have used tiling wm's for a while now, on the desktop and on the laptop. I have to say its made the laptop productivity so much better and shines even better on a smaller screen IMO. Thats a combo of not just tiling but often swap
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by mandw 4y ago
You don't scan the screen looking for labels. You are looking directly where you want to be and a label should appear over the place you want to go. That is the label you type to jump, you will never even notice the others or scan th
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by mandw 4y ago
I dont have that kb, you could keep that top left key mapped to tilde and move escape somewhere else. I put escape on the caps lock as its used a lot for vim/emacsevil. Caps lock is used a lot less so could be candidate for add