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thedday··on Ask HN: Is split keyboard worth the effort?
I use a split keyboard for my work laptop when I'm at work. To tell the truth, it corrects my typing by forcing my fingers to the correct hands. I hate it! For years I've typed using whatever fingers could reach the desired keys and did not think about which hand I should use. Now it shows me down and I have to relearn my high school trying teacher's typewriter lessons.

In short, no physical pain, but not a fan. It's too slow.

thedday··on Ask HN: What were the most early Unix type OSes for x86?
I think Coherent, of Mark Williams, is a bit older. According to Wikipedia it was first released in 1980, but probably was for the PDP-11, at that point. I used it on an 80286 for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_%28operating_system%2...
thedday··on Ask HN: What key combination do you prefer for search on a website?
Control-f for find is a classic. I do like using slash (/) for finding as well. If you're recognizing the keys yourself, do away with control and just have at it with f or slash for find, t and b for top and bottom and left and right arrow keys for next and previous pages, if such are applicable.
thedday··on Ask HN: Dark Sky EOL, Which weather app do you like?
Shadow Weather is okay. It's still not as good as Dark Sky.
thedday··on Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day
Who the heck is Levy?
thedday··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
Yeah, it's a junction point, but it's also useless. Open a command box and CD to it; now what? A file explorer and set it as the directory, again, now what?
thedday··on Poll: Would you rather have more daylight in the morning or evening year round?
I would prefer to have the extra hour of light in the evening. I usually go for my daily walk after work.
thedday··on Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
And water. They need lots and lots of water. And everything has to be ultra clean and to start that way in creation, shipping and in use.
thedday··on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
I do miss my Treo. I preferred it to my Blackberry. Both were better and less distracting than my current ad-presenting spy box.
thedday··on Ask HN: What Chrome/Firefox extensions do you recommend?
Privacy Badger and ABP. Also uBlock Origin.
thedday··on Ask HN: Are Domain Specific Languages Still a Thing?
What about something like Robot Framework? It is used as a test language and is in widespread use to test websites as well as embedded systems. The underlying language is Python, a scripting language which might also be a DSL under some definitions.