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Lots of people were typing like that. As far as typing today, different layouts, hobbies with ergonomic keyboards etc we see far more people touch typing today than were in the 80'…

Fair enough. I assumed everyone would have watched it by now from here :)

I have to admit, when a specific person died I was feeling so bad about it I never watched the last episode. I still have it on the drive how many years later.

I did feel my post was a bit unneeded when I added my edit :) My point about the 30% was that you mentioned that he got in rust and attributed it to essentially, better algorithms …

The only real question I have with this is did the program have to have any specific performance metric? I could write a small utility in python that would be completely acceptable…

Yes, copied it in to my scratch buffer to read it, not readable in the browser at all with a dark background. It did then make all the elisp nice to look at.

I think the same thing, and then I went a little smaller! I went to a large split then to a 58 key split, then to a 42 key split. At 42 I saw no advantage in going smaller other th…

I don't think Miryoku is a good layout for many either, it will depend on your usage. A strange thing is that many come in to the small split keyboard world and then don't have the…

I recently downloaded a number of magazines froma now defunct publication from late eighties. No onesells them and annas archive was the only place i found them. its not exclusivly…

Thank you for the suggestion. The news I was after was usenet feeds, I have archives of some groups but thought it would be interesting to rather than go and read it all at once ha…

As a little bit of fun to add to the day with the coffee it would be interesting to subscribe to something like comp.lang.lisp but get what was posted at some period in the past. F…

If it could be OK for you other than that, there is usually a timeout setting that can be applied before it is recognised as a press. For example, any press under 200ms is ESC, any…

I remember this! Dad sold commodores and we had this, I think i had it on quite a bit.

I am not sure people really optimise for speed, they do it for comfort. When I moved to dvorak my speed dropped by quite a bit and I never regained it but that was done for comfort…

I think your reply is still based on a standard keyboard. When you get to more ergonomic keyboards you can stay on the homerow and also reach modifiers without moving. While most p…

Yes, it's a good move for people using control a lot. I am using evil mode in emacs so I have the escape in the same place. I also use homerow mods which i find really great. With …

Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo Prolog, all things I got at an age when it was just a hobby in high school. In fact I can still look over at my bookshelf and see turbo prolog books.. …

I have used tiling wm's for a while now, on the desktop and on the laptop. I have to say its made the laptop productivity so much better and shines even better on a smaller screen …

You don't scan the screen looking for labels. You are looking directly where you want to be and a label should appear over the place you want to go. That is the label you type to j…

I dont have that kb, you could keep that top left key mapped to tilde and move escape somewhere else. I put escape on the caps lock as its used a lot for vim/emacsevil. Caps lock i…