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mod6: i considered getting one of
these, but i wanted
to
try
the concave
thing first on something ~half
the cost.
mod6: speaking of special keys in
the middle, i suppose one could remap all of
the maltron keys into
the middle.
phf: “ and
then you
tell your keyboard driver og X or whatever
that you have placed
the parens {} [] () and <> (unshifted and shifted) in what used
to be
the 6YHN colum”
phf: he basically just
took
the naggum posts from ron garret's complete(-ish) archive of comp.lang.lisp
phf: definitely not "all public groups" but maybe
the keyboard is
there
phf: no, and i
think it was in emacs group, so no xach archive
phf: those are chorded AND you have
to
travel
phf: you're either chording or
traveling.
there's only enough space for alphabet
there. naggum's hack is
that he puts opening parts of { [ ( pairs on
the middle row, but he still has
to chord for closing. (he presumably uses electric mode)
phf: well, it's a
trade off between
that, and
travel distance
phf: unless you have unchorded specials, and you use number keypad for numbers, but
then you have hell of lateral
travel
phf: you already chord
to get
to any of
the special symbols, when you press shift
mod6: i vi/m, and i have
to say
that with
the kinesis,
the
tiny ESC key bugs me. so i remap ESC
to
the right
thumb ctrl key, and
the 'OS' key
to ctrl.
phf: yes, but it's nothing like
the item in question
phf: ~sounds~ is
the keyword here
phf: your modifiers are under your
thumb, and you chord
phf: but
the big insight of arensito is
to move all
the special chars into an additional mode. so parenthesis are for example on altgr-k altgr-l etc.
phf: yeah,
there's actually some "modern" qwerty modification
that puts special chars on middle column
mod6: phf: aha. even with qwerty on
the kinesis, it still messes me up a bit now on regular staggard row layouts. i never
tried alt layouts such as dvorak since a friend went
through
the same
thing. always found himself having
to switch everyone elses keyboard
to dvorak just
to "use"
their keyboard for a minute.
mod6: is
there any specific model you use/prefer?
mod6: it's got
the cherry mx reds. been using it for a month. im getting used
to it.
mod6: asciilifeform: also, re 'wires', indeed, just experiment at
this point, not for battlefield use.
jhvh1: mod6:
The operation succeeded.
mod6: !~later
tell gabriel_laddel_p Let me know how much entropy you'd like, I'll run ent
test & dieharder against it, let you decide if you want it. I'll ask 0.1 BTC per Gb. What is your bid?
☟︎☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> not sure, possibly nobody gave a shit. << iirc no websites for either existed at
the
time of listing.
mircea_popescu: not
tom ention
the part where it's "Car-sized" on
the outside and "q-bed sized" on
the inside.
mircea_popescu: he wants
to pay ~what pvc costs per
the weight for an ocean-going item. it's not unlike me speccing "i want computer made out of seminole grain.
they can make pasta out of it, why not computer."
mircea_popescu: phf
the "constraint" resultant strictly determines
the item as a psychological rather
than physical constructy.
phf: yes, but what about
the kraken
phf: considering
that
the
thing is designed for fambly, shooting will be a mercy
a111: Logged on 2017-01-05 03:32 mircea_popescu: famous russian gun commentator guy explains
this cannonicaly, imo. "thief - wants
to get loot. not
to die with you
there."
phf: (all of
this is pretty obvious, if you ask yourself, how did you have so many skirmishes during
the age of exploration, given how big
the ocean is and how few vessels compared
to now were on
the surface)
phf: or sitting without wind and current in
the middle of nowhere, praying
that you have enough gas
to
take you
to a closest stream
phf: so you basically have a choice between
traveling along known paths (that will connect land
to land, or near land)
phf: be at huge disadvantage if you're attempting
to avoid slipstreams.
phf: i don't have enough experience with open ocean sailing, but
the ocean is not as big as you
think, as far as pirate avoidance is concerned, because of
the currents. you have stable streams,
that are essentially mandatory for long distance
travel. piracy has been
traditionally carried out at various locations where
these currents
terminate or switch. if you're primarily relying on wind (and
there's only so much gas your little boat will carry), you will
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 22:30 mircea_popescu: if
the sheep found a way
to graze on rafts,
the wolves would ride around in speedboats.
phf: can presumably spec out
the
thing by noting all
the instances of "omg, i definitely not don't need X
that does Y what are you stupid" and building a constraint rules out of
them
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 00:18 mircea_popescu: eh, my recollection of
the discussion is, "there's houseboat and
there's yacht.
there's no batshit-nonsense for
the ~same reason
there's no golf club cum baseball bat cum
tennis racket."
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: diva send
the x61? I have someone waiting on me
to deliver a masamune atop it
gabriel_laddel_p: I'm happy
to compute myself, but am having a hard
time convincing ppl
to buy me FG
gabriel_laddel_p: I was planning on selling FG using
this, but have a lot on my plate
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: what,
the geiger counter NN
training, or another one?
gabriel_laddel_p: and will give a better prediction / faster convergence
than PRNGs