Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't see a website linked, you might want to edit that in to your post.

Edit: found it: https://clockwooork.github.io/

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It works great and the config is simple. It doesn't handle triggering things from those keypresses, but you've probably already got something running that does that.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I happily use Helix for Rust, etc projects, and as a general editor. I switch back to VSCode for TypeScript/Svelte projects because the plugins make it more productive for me. I do miss the editing experience and need to check if there's a VSCode plugin that lets me not confuse my muscle memory.

Helix was the thing that finally made me remap my caps lock key to esc.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I killed my MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 by fumbling half a cup of tea into it. I miss having the scroll/zoom in the centre, since I had to replace with the new Microsoft LXM-00004 model (with the stupid Office button) and that's just got dead space there. Some customisable buttons would be perfect.

I've seen some ergonomic mechanical custom setups, but I've never been brave enough to start down that rabbit hole.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just had mine arrive yesterday!

I have one of these
macro keyboard with 12 keys and three knobs

I'm using ch57x-keyboard-tool to configure it, because I don't fancy running some random closed-source Chinese code (the manual links to a file on Google Drive). It also means I can move over my config when I switch to Linux.

I have two keys for switching between headphones and speakers, and some set up for shortcuts I forget (like ctrl-shift-e for the network monitor in Firefox). One key types "hello" just because I can.

I've got the large knob controlling volume, and I can click it to toggle mute. The other two are currently set to scroll, but I don't need that as my mouse has better ergonomics for scrolling.

I still have plenty of unused keys and it's got three layers so I won't be running out in the foreseeable future.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

The Phoronix comments are notoriously toxic - I went to the article mostly to witness the incoherent rage in the comments and wasn't too disappointed.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

I disagree, they have it working on the nRF52840 (which is new and supports new things like NFC and Thread/Zigbee). This means people can start developing features against that chipset.

Hardware doesn't mean "production-ready model".

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've coded in some esolangs, but never one that's nondeterministic - seems a nightmare! The design has the hottest paths most likely to degrade so I guess the idea is to have redundancy in your code?

The simple hello-world example is already 2002 lines long, so "production-ready" Furchtbar must be enormous.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

This isn't a million miles from what bitcoin mining does, although in that case they're trying to find hashes that start with a lot of zeroes.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The uncropped version makes it a bit clearer:

It's also clearer that it's from an AI.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just saw the top two thirds, and had to scroll to see the punchline and the comm - what a pleasant surprise! For me, it's the 3DO but that's too niche for most.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DFRA

That doesn't work, though.

For a recursive acronym, you want something like ADFRA Didn't Forget Recursive Acronyms.

 
 

Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s

This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.

I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.

* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

 

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

 
 

https://xkcd.com/2937

Alt text:

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

 

While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).

http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm

The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.

The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.

 

This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.

Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring

Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)

 
  • Chechnya officials have banned music deemed too fast or slow, restricting compositions to a tempo of 80-116 BPM.
  • Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision at a meeting, as reported by TASS.
  • The ban affects all musical, vocal, and choreographic compositions in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Chechnya is a republic of Russia since losing the Second Chechen War but this means that the Russian national anthem, at just 76 BPM, is also banned.

 

This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.

It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833

Abandoned industrial building 2/8

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