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Criticism: - Non-standard layout - Where's the arrow keys block? Insert/delete/home/end/pgup/pgdown block? - Non-staggered keys makes it hard to type due to mistyping on the wrong row

Questions: - Do you have nkey rollover? - Would you accept "optional" wires? Note: gaming requires fast response times. Hell even programming/writing sucks when there's key lag.


> Where's the arrow keys block? Insert/delete/home/end/pgup/pgdown block?

In the nav layer. One popular layout of split keyboards is two 3x5 grids of keys with 3 thumb buttons. With this configuration, it is common to map modifier keys to the home row keys, activated when they are held down. Likewise, for numbers, symbols, navigation, a thumb key is held down to activate that layer. Your fingers never have to stretch more than one key-length away.

Miryoku is a popular implmentation of this. It looks crazy, but you can get used to it really quickly, or alter it to your own taste.

https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku


I get the idea, but how comfortable is it for shortcuts requiring multiple modifiers?


I have a 34 key split and it's decently comfortable. I have my mods mirrored on both halves so depending on the non-mod key of the shortcut I use the opposing hand for mods.


Ortholinear is a standard but non-orthodox layout for keyboards. And when you see 60%, it means you are getting only the main alphanumeric section with esc often smushed into what would otherwise be the ~/` key.

With 60% keyboards, you are often using modifier layers baked into the keyboards' firmware to get back your function keys and your control block like page up


I actually don't think I'll be going back to a staggered keyboard. Ortholinear layouts make setting up layers a lot easier, which gives you the ability to set up momentary arrow key or cursor movement blocks.

ZMK supports N-key rollover and layers.


The trade off you make with these keyboards is that you have to learn a different muscle memory, in return for less finger contortions, more comfort, and less hand waving around the keyboard.

If that's not appealing to you, there's probably no reason to get into it. If it is appealing to you to live mostly on your homerow, then the learning curve is not all that great, maybe a couple of months.


I mean, if you're going to design and build a keyboard only for yourself all from scratch, why would you expect a standard layout? The whole thing is bespoke to you.


Downvoted because this video promotes the assassination of Brian Thompson.


What interactive visualization software is that - D3.js?


What framework did they use for the powerpoint?


> Vlad was a mean boogeyman

Vlad drove back the pig-fucking turks who were trying to steal Christian land. He was a hero.

> Muh National Socialists

Hitler tried saving Europe from bolshevik communists but was crucified by evil men. Kiss his ass!

> Muh anti-semitism

We're Christian. Anti-Christian is the word that you should fear!


Peter Thiel met with White nationalists? Time to start buying Palantir stocks!


I tried installing Steam on Linux Mint but it fails to load. What's the point of all this work if you can't even get Steam to load on the most popular distro of all time?


Not an "admirable" move as the previous commenter "ignoramous" states. All historic events can be debates. Nobody ought to have the power of political censorship. It's about time White people realize that the holocaust is used as a mind fuck to demoralize us and beat us down into submission. The last thing to do is to compromise on letting a crappy Silicon Valley company dictate what is/isn't legitimate free speech and/or thought crime (a la 1984).


> In summary, an opportunist's career advice is: ignore OKRs, switch projects well before the consequences of your decisions can be measured, act happy and easy-going, package bad news as appeals for slow systemic adjustments, don't make anyone look bad, perform rituals with enthusiasm, grow headcount faster than baseline, let work invent itself, follow management fashions, avoid acute failures, believe this sincerely.

What is the source of this ridiculous anti-capitalist rant?

> Marx thought that to be fulfilled, humans must feel a connection to the end result of their work

Of course, the author is a marxist!


If you read my twitter (@spakhm) I'm about as anti-marxist, anti-woke, anti-oppressors vs oppressed as can be. (I do think Marx's writing is very interesting, but in a glass-of-wine-ponder-once-in-your-life kind of way, not in a lets-try-implementing-this-again kind of way). I grew up in a communist society, I definitely want marxism as a political force to be eradicated off the face of this earth.


Is there any proof that automation will destroy jobs? Citation needed.


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