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NY's public transit is not great. It works, but it's dirty, slow and unreliable.

No it's not. It's pressure sensitive and about as fast or faster than a trackpad with movement. I've never had a problem with speed, even across multiple, large, monitors.

I use a thinkpad-style keyboard and my mouse is on the homerow. It feels like that is much more efficient than this, as you get the precision of the mouse without having to move your hand.

I don't understand why more people don't adopt it. Is it because it's so different from a normal mouse ?

Different states are not different countries, and, if I may be so bold, the U.S. should be held to a higher standard than theocratic states or dictatorships.

That's a really low bar.

1000% I have three of them currently.

Middle click with thumb, mouse with index finger for moving through the document.

You can / should change the sensitivity so it doesn't require so much force. I like it to move all the way across the screen with very little effort ; if you're getting finger strain, you should look into its settings.

I agree with the sibling comment. There's no real alternative to the trackpoint. Nothing comes close, but the initial hour or so of using it is weird ; frankly, I don't remember it because I did it about 20 years or so ago, but everywhere I've worked, I've made sure to buy a keyboard with a trackpoint.

Currently I'm using the Tex shinobi keyboard, and before that I used the IBM USB keyboard with the X220 layout.

When navigating with the mouse on the web, I currently have my thumb for the mouse buttons, my index finger on the trackpoint, and middle, ring, and index for movement on the HJKL keys. Nothing beats that for speed and hand movement a mouse is a little more accurate, but I'm willing to trade that for not moving my hand all the time. (I also just realized I switch hands a lot for moving the mouse - not something you can do with a mouse.)

This is a learned skill, and it's on the listener to not take the criticism personally if it's not directed personally.

I had to do this at my last job, and let me tell you, once you get over the hump of criticizing ideas instead of the person, things get a lot more efficient.

It's great.

Ugh I over thought this and had a really basic word in the mix of my super silly sat vocab words - by my estimate this was different, but not by their metric.

The external keyboard probably makes it tolerable, but yeah, it's likely hard to deal with. I'd love to see how it works in practice, and how long the author keeps it up.

I'm actually really curious about this setup. Can you go into a bit more detail about how it works ?

9/11 blue is such a distinct color, and it's seared into my brain. It's so intwined with the day, it's part of the permanent collection at the museum: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/trying-remember-col...

icewm is a bit different, but it has a "windows95" type theme that, while it doesn't look nearly as good, is insanely functional.

I've found it to be a window manager that is easy to script, easy to use, and gets out of the way for the most part. I spent a lot of time looking for a good window manager, trying all the usual ones (gnome, kde, xmonad (stayed there for a while!), dwm, etc.), but I've found this one to be the best and least obtrusive of any of them.

Definitely worth a look if you're still in the hunt and not necessarily keen on making something look pretty.

https://ice-wm.org/

Agreed 100%. I saw this and immediately fell in love. This is incredible and I'm super stoked to see how it comes out.

What does it mean "don't have any firm values of their own" ? What kind of example can you provide ?

I think the salarymen would probably disagree with you on "enjoying life".

I was going to say - that's basically what emacs is. It's a LISP machine that has an initial set of applications built in for editing text.

Even better - https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?variant=16969883648090 - I've been using one of these since they came out and they're fantastic.

I used to have one of the old thinkpad external keyboards - http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/lenovo-thinkpad... - and I used those until they broke and I couldn't find more.

I haven't used the unicomp ones, but I can wholeheartedly recommend the shinobi.

Yep ! The mouse isn't a mouse if it's on the home row. :) Not enough people got behind the trackpoint in its day and it makes me sad that it's not the default mouse input for programmers.

This is the Thayer method, iirc

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

For each class, a text lesson is assigned. This assignment includes a reading and specific problems associated with the reading material. Each cadet is expected to "work the problems." (Note: Prior to 2000 these problems were called "drill problems"; the current terminology is "suggested problems.")

• "One learns mathematics by doing mathematics." Cadets are encouraged to be active learners and to "do" mathematics. Group work is encouraged and expected. Special projects are a major portion of each core mathematics course-work on these projects is done in teams of two or three.

• Cadets are required to study the concepts of each lesson in such a way as to be ready to use them in three ways: 1. To express them fluently in words and symbols 2. To use them in proof and analysis 3. To apply them to the solution of original problems

• The instructor's goal during each lesson is to cause the maximum number of cadets to actively participate in the day's lesson. One of the instructor's roles is to facilitate the learning activity in the classroom. This may take the form of a question or a remark to clarify a point.

• Class begins with the instructor's questions on the assigned text lesson. Cadets are asked if there are questions on the assignment. Example problems are worked and discussed. Cadets are sent to the boards to work in groups of two or three on specific problems that are provided (so called "board problems"). These board problems may be similar to the problems assigned with the text lesson or they may be "original."

• Cadets are selected to recite on the problems they work. Questions are encouraged.

• The instructor spends a few minutes to discuss the next lesson. This practice is commonly called the "pre-teach."

I really don't feel this at all. I am constantly doing new things, constantly learning things, and time feels like it stretches on forever. I'm over 40, so this isn't the effect of me just starting my career.

10 years ago feels 10 years ago, and this effect of time speeding up just doesn't register with me.

Institutions striving for equity within a white supremacist framework does not mean that the framework is not white supremacist. It means, instead, that institutions have recognized the imbalance and are doing a small part to correct it.

Additionally, the Jim Crow south is just one of many flavors of white supremacism, and just because we don't have Jim Crow laws now doesn't mean that the problem has gone away.

(editing bc apparently this is poorly worded sarcasm?)

what was the model of the acer ? I have an asus 1015e that is my favorite computer I've ever had, but it's very old at this point and essentially unusable because its disk is so slow and it has very little memory.

I'd love to replace it with something more usable.

Android handsets aren't really linux boxes. I can't ssh into them, I can't write little python scripts, etc. An actual, general purpose, real foss portable phone factor computer will be amazing as it matures.

That's how I'm seeing this - as a mini linux computer with the ability to make calls and send text messages at some point in the future.

Just a linux computer with a cellular modem sounds amazing to me, tbh.

This happened with my onsite interview as well. I was working on local, user-based systems and hadn't done anything with networking/web-scale/sharding/etc.

I did very well with data structure questions, and had one difficult interview and one question about sharding a globally scaled system. I had never dealt with anything on that scale, and didn't even know how to think about it.

I realize that there was a gap in preparation, and I'm confident that that one interview out of 8 is what nixed my chances.

What are you trying to say ? It seems like you're making some sideways comment about "the media", but I'd really like you to spell it out.

I agree, that seems like a very bad idea.