gnicholasgreen
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Am I the only one here that doesn't have any problem with my home SONOS system? My family constantly plays music in most rooms of the house using a Spotify premium account. It's been a godsend, and it truly makes me feel like we are living in the future. All the sueing and inter-corporate politics is a little annoying to hear about, but I still listen to the speakers daily without giving it all much thought.
Comment · 7 years ago
> they're always the same square shape and its always about fancy keyswitches, RGB, and little else.
This is where I disagree. I had severe hand and arm tendon pain for years, and finally dove into ergonomic mechanical keyboard options. It solved my issues, and I no longer feel the pain after typing all day.
I easily spend $350+ for a keyboard, and it's a very practical, life-changing decision, which involves a non-rectangular, non-RGB keyboard.
For reference: https://ergodox-ez.com/
Comment · 7 years ago
This article was a little goofy, apparently as a daily user of the EegoDox EZ, I'm a "coder who is actively working to bring about the singularity." ... Ok, cool.
Back to reality, though I couldn't recommend the ErgoDox EZ more. It's a quality piece of kit; built well, the graphical configurator is convenient, and the support is top notch. I had a keychatter issue early on, and they responded immediately with updated firmware that solved the issue. I've gone back to it as a daily driver multiple times over any other keyboard.
Comment · 7 years ago
I had major forearm/hand tendon pain for years, and switching to an ErgoDox EZ cured it. I also switched to a standing desk at the time, which helped.
I've also spent lots of time with an Atreus62 and a Dactyl Manuform, and still use the ErgoDox EZ as my daily driver. It's just so great.
Comment · 9 years ago
The "solograms" were an amazing addition to the movie. My friend and I both commented on them walking out of the theater.
The visuals in the film we're really well done, in my opinion. In fact, I really enjoyed the movie as a great throwback to coming of age on cyberpunk material such as Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, et al., whitewashing politics be damned.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've heard this oft repeated over the decades. I wonder if there is a legitimate historical source for it.
Comment · 9 years ago
I understand that we are discussing readability here, with 'most readable' being the general consensus in the comments as being synonymous with 'better.'
That said, I see readability as something that is part of a greater equation. Take your last example of the Verge homepage. Often designs like this are intentionally designed to throw the viewer out of the flow of easy information consumption and disrupt your sense of hierarchy on the page. They are trying to get you to snack on different sections, not read left-right, top-bottom.
This sense of confusion also serves to hide the fact that they place the same article multiple times on the same page, in different contexts. This gives the reader the sense that there have a lot of content and a lot going on.
My point is that readablility is a sliding scale that can be used as a tool to varying effect.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is what I do, and now GitHub styles match my editor styles. It makes my brain tranquil.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not OP, but check out workremotely.io
Comment · 10 years ago
'ortholinear' might be the term you are looking for.
On a personal note, I've found no issues bouncing back and forth between and Ergodox and regular, non-split, staggered keyboards.
Comment · 10 years ago
You can buy the Ergodox EZ pre-built, which is a nice split mechanical keyboard. If the price is too high, there are people on r/mrchmarket who are selling ones they've built using generic parts for half of that price, sans keycaps. Either way there are split mechs out there.
Comment · 10 years ago
The Ergodox EZ can be purchased pre-built, and is a fantastic mechanical ergo keyboard. You can choose your switch type on purchase.
Comment · 10 years ago
I took the dive on an ergodox ez a couple of months ago. It took me nearly a month to get fully comfortable with it, but now typing on a regular keyboard just feels less than ideal. I just ordered a second one for my home computer.
Comment · 10 years ago
These threads come up often in various news aggregation sites, and I feel that the comments tend to overflow with people that have no commercial flying experience stating things like, "commercial pilots don't do REAL flying like small aircraft pilots do, they just turn on the autopilot and watch."
This is only true in the sense that there is less hands-on-the-flight-controls time. Flying a large commercial aircraft is actually very difficult - so difficult, in fact, that the menial tasks like physically handling the controls can be better delegated to an autopilot most of the time. The control of the aircraft has been abstracted out into much higher-level management of systems. It's more like the manager who has one eye on where the company is headed and one eye on what tasks his employees are completing, and it is his responsibility to make sure those things match.
I try to explain this relationship to my friends by likening the autopilot to something more like cruise control in the car: when you turn on cruise control, it allows you to take your foot off the gas pedal, but by no means does it mean you aren't actively managing the safe outcome of the trip; it's just a different tool. Sure, autopilots are more complex than cruise control, but that doesn't adulterate my main point.
Don't get me wrong, it has always been a struggle to make sure that pilots of large aircraft get enough stick time and emergency training; you have to fit recurrent training into an already very busy schedule and spend lots of money on expensive simulators. That being said, the FAA (USA) regulates pretty heavily how much and exactly what types of recurrent training is necessary to maintain your position, and stall recovery is one of them.
This statement: "many pilots struggle to perform the most basic and critical maneuver, a stall recovery" seems like pure applesauce, and if they want to back that up with some better data about how that has changed over time and how it has affected airline safety over the years, I'd love to see it. We are in a relatively safe period of airline travel, and I believe we will continue to be.. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/07/travel/aviation-data/
They produce a non-flickering warm glow that is way more relaxing than a bluer "daylight" bulb, at least for us. They are somewhere around $10 a bulb, but have significantly increased the cozy factor of our house. We run dimmers in all of our hangout areas, and bring the brightness way down.
The article argues that twilight is bluer than daylight, and therefore tells our bodies to get ready for sleep, however I would argue that warm diffused light tells my brain that it's after twilight, like cavemen around a fire at night.