>The QWERTY and PC-based layout (especially for some non-EN
>layouts) are simply not suited for the prolonged use of the SHIFT-
>pinky and stretching the hand to the control characters on the
>numeric row,

Nor is EMACS, at least on a CKIE (control key in exile) keyboard.

I actually had to get medical treatment in grad school after days of heavy editing, requiring me to twist my wrist and fully extend my pinky to reach the key. He said that they could send me to physical therapy, but I could do just as well myself with rubber bands on my last two fingers, stretching against them for some amount of time a couple of times a day.

Now, I surely wouldn't be one to tamper with university equipment, but a couple of days later, there was a little piece of plastic on my desk next to the keyboard. It apparently somehow escaped from the toggle mechanism on the capslock key, allowing me to remap control to it!
 

>I was the only male in my high school typing class.

gosh, that alone would have been enough reason to take it! :_)

mine was all male, for the simple reason that it was an all boys school.

It was also a mandatory class for freshmen.

>Nothing of this comes natural.

some does, actually, under the right circumstances.

wordstar (and I mean the original eight bit stuff, not the later extensions) was laid out rather logically and consistently with its diamonds and prefixes.

To the point that a couple of times, I instinctively used combinations that I hadn't consciously realized existed--and then sat back amazed as I realized what I'd done!

hawk, who used to type over 100wpm on a manual

the 6 in 7 don't die simultaneously.

Some keep growing before dying, etc.

The unicorns don't start as such, but have already survived most of their contemporaries. Having survived that long, it appears that only another 20% die.

"call me Zilog" . . .

perhaps they could call this processor the "Z80,000" :)

is it even *possible* for an item that much smaller to generate audio waves in the needed frequency?

It would seem to me that that function is a prerequisite to using the name.

This, rather, seems to be a curiosity in the general shape of a violin.

Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Graft & Swindling!

>Top gears usually are,

usually. But not always.

My '06 Miata GT has six speeds, but it's a close ratio without overdrive. (kind of annoying; it's at nearly 4krpm on the freeway. I toy with the idea of a 50% inline overdrive, which would need to downshift simultaneously to engaging).

And in the 80s, VW shipped both a 4speed and a 5speed on rabies and such--but the 4 speed had an overdrive, while the 5 didn't! [so the 4 if you mostly drove freeway, and the 5 for city ]

hawk

This is amazing. They are claiming that keeping the logs is a privacy risk to customers?

Is their security *that* bad???

If so, the order should include taking all of their systems and backups *completely* offline!

Would you rather it was efficent or effective?

âoeMake it easierâ is not a product strategy

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuxdesign.cc%2Fmake-it-ea...

TDS isn't helpful either

To put out a hacker prize for laid off employees to target big AI companies for data center elimination.

more importantly, would any of these have a chance in Robot Wars or Battle Bots?

In a different era, junkbuster was sufficient for trackers and such. It was most known for letting you keep a domain blocklist.

One of the lesser used features, though, was a provision for a "cookie jar", with the noted possibility that users could trade cookies to throw off (or just annoy!) those who tracked us.

I first put it on after loading a couple of large (for the time) pages full of animated gifs on a 486. It brought the system to its knees! (X on Linux did *not* react well to high loads in those days!)

And cookies are the reason my uid here is so high.

Originally, there was no login; you just pasted your name in to make a comment (I *said* that it was a different era!).

One morning I came in, and it had an announcement that cookies would now be used, and it was no longer possible to post without them.

As I was one of the many at the time who made a folder with the name of the cookie file, blocking their storage, I refused for quite a while. Eventually, though, I registered.

I would like to see a modern project to catch and exchange tracking cookies. Just for the fun of it.

hawk

Only somewhat correct. Unemployed because the AI companies convinced the CEOs that they can cut headcount and be fine.

And with 50% of the software engineers in 2019 now unemployed (even among senior level developers) they'll have you reviewing that code for minimum wage.