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I HEARD THAT! One coffee mug coming up!
Top rack of the dishwasher only? I love your dual use chorded keyboard and remote detonator. Please keep creating the craziest stuff possible!
Thank you! I'm trying!
Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard
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> Reminds me a bit of this really cool project I saw the other day: https://there.oughta.be/a/macro-keyboard I'm in love with this, I have to build it. Thanks for the recommendation! > (Side note, anyone remember the Optimus Maximus, where each key was an LED screen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard ) Yeah, what happened with that? IIRC it never materialized.
If you like keys being screens, https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck is available right now.
They seem nifty in principle, but in practice I know I'd never look at them...
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#193Neat. Embedding a multiple axis gyro or accelerometer so you can recognize wrist gestures could be the next step to get creative with additional keys. Ex. left flick could be delete.
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Though here is the definition from Merriam-Webster, which I'd consider the standard reference for US English. any of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimb especially : one other than the thumb That seems more correct to me because I don't think in normal usage saying that "most people have 10 fingers and 10 toes" would be considered an inaccurate statement. And, if someone said they have…
> Though here is the definition from Merriam-Webster, which > I'd consider the standard reference for US English. M-W considers itself a "descriptive" dictionary, not a "prescriptive" dictionary. That means that it will tell you what people who use words mean to say, but it will not tell you the actual meaning of the words. Therefore it is absolutely NOT a standard reference for English. The nuance is sometimes impor…
Much as I dislike literally==figuratively I'm not sure what descriptive vs. prescriptive has to do with standard reference. I'm somewhere between the poles. On the one hand see figuratively comment. On the other hand, languages are living things. And, to my example, if you tell me you have four fingers on one hand, I'll ask you how the accident happened.
I also think you'll find a lot more organizations that use MW as their reference standard than other US dictionaries.
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> Though here is the definition from Merriam-Webster, which > I'd consider the standard reference for US English. M-W considers itself a "descriptive" dictionary, not a "prescriptive" dictionary. That means that it will tell you what people who use words mean to say, but it will not tell you the actual meaning of the words. Therefore it is absolutely NOT a standard reference for English. The nuance is sometimes impor…
Much as I dislike literally==figuratively I'm not sure what descriptive vs. prescriptive has to do with standard reference. I'm somewhere between the poles. On the one hand see figuratively comment. On the other hand, languages are living things. And, to my example, if you tell me you have four fingers on one hand, I'll ask you how the accident happened. I also think you'll find a lot more organizations that use MW a…
Descriptive: Describes how people use the language.
Prescriptive: Describes how language should be used.
Descriptive dictionaries are highly favoured by those who like to effect change (I'm deliberately avoiding the word Liberal because I'm not in the US and I understand that word to be politically charged for many HN readers). Prescriptive dictionaries are more favoured by those who keep traditional values. Descriptive dictionaries can be used to say "I'm using the word correctly" and prescriptive dictionaries can be used to say "you're using the word incorrectly".
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Hi, paramedic friend here. The whole "paramedic notes" thing was just a very dubious pretext. I was looking at a small notebook page of notes after a call (no patient identifiers, not that it would have mattered), and was curious if anyone would be able to make out a single word. Stavros is Greek, so he was the obvious choice. That's where the story in the post picks up (with a little creative license). In reality, l…
Voice dictation and transcription?
There are a few challenges I can think of there. The most obvious is that there are things that are accurate and relevant, but I might not want to point out to a patient in the moment (a combative drunk patient might take offense to my documenting the presence of multiple empty liquor bottles, for instance). Obviously this information is part of the patient's medical record, and available to them in the future for review if they want, but there are things that I don't necessarily want to speak out loud in the moment.
The other, more subtle, reason is that free form handwriting gives me a lot of flexibility in on-the-fly formatting to emphasize important information, etc.
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Much as I dislike literally==figuratively I'm not sure what descriptive vs. prescriptive has to do with standard reference. I'm somewhere between the poles. On the one hand see figuratively comment. On the other hand, languages are living things. And, to my example, if you tell me you have four fingers on one hand, I'll ask you how the accident happened. I also think you'll find a lot more organizations that use MW a…
Descriptive: Describes how people use the language. Prescriptive: Describes how language should be used. Descriptive dictionaries are highly favoured by those who like to effect change (I'm deliberately avoiding the word Liberal because I'm not in the US and I understand that word to be politically charged for many HN readers). Prescriptive dictionaries are more favoured by those who keep traditional values. Descript…
But organizations mostly want to talk to people in the language that they use. They have zero interest in being the language police. They may decide that their writers shouldn't use literally to mean figuratively. But, at least where I work, we're mostly interested in using the language that best connects to readers.
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#199in theory you could do this with a single key . be a pain in the ass to use though
Ahh, looks like we've finally come full-circle. Apparently telegraph operators could type 30-40 WPM with Morse code!
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#200in theory you could do this with a single key . be a pain in the ass to use though
That was actually one of suggestions I (the Josh in question) brought up. I'm also a ham radio operator, and my morse isn't _great_, but it would definitely be faster than trying to learn this chording.
In general though, nothing is going to beat the speed (and disposability) of a cheap pen and paper.