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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by chrismorgan »

ljm wrote: post #155
miah_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).

Same deal if you remap the key in Windows using the PowerToys utility. Only, it'll happen whenever something pegs the CPU. Never had the problem when using SharpKeys to rewrite the registry.

Yeah, back when I was using Windows, I had RAlt mapped to Compose with WinCompose, and RAlt would get stuck occasionally when the system was under significant load, so I’d need to manually disable WinCompose, tap RAlt to clear its spurious down state, and then enable WinCompose again.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by SahAssar »

Karellen wrote: post #62
asplake wrote: post #7

> tumblr is fractally broken. it's not wrong in any specific way, it's wrong at every possible scale.

This line is likely inspired by the concept of "Fractal Wrongness": https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness and 2012's "PHP: a fractal of bad design": https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

> Fractally wrong people are often immune to the stopped clock rule because they are not exactly stopped clocks. More like clocks losing a random number of seconds a day, in the wrong time zone of the wrong planet, in the wrong solar system.

That's a wonderful definition.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dredmorbius »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #227
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bit flips from cosmic rays happen all the time. It's inevitable that they sometimes change state in deleterious ways.

Well, bit flips happen all the time, and we call that "cosmic rays". It is not obvious that bit flips from cosmic rays in the more usual sense of "cosmic rays" happen all the time.

That's actually testable and determinable from several perspetives.

- Isolate any other sources of ionising radiation.

- Check to see if prevalence increases or decreases with increased or decreased cosmic ray exposure (atitude, shielding, detected cosmic ray storms).

- Are the characteristics those of single-bit flips? (E.g., power-of-two changes to values, or similar.)

- Are the errors nott repeated for the same hardware component. (E.g., under increased cosmic-ray influence, bits flip at an increased rate, as predicted, but which bits flip is random and has no detectable pattern, as predicted.)

You end up with very strong circumstantial evidence of altered bits due to cosmic ray influence.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by greenyoda »

keeganjw wrote: post #27

This reminds me of when the spacebar stopped working in the YouTube search box. I thought my keyboard broke for a sec until I realized it worked just fine everywhere but YouTube. Then later I found out it wasn't just me... https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22323716/youtube-search-b...

Interesting... I've seen spacebar not work in Flickr's search box too. It happens to me sporadically.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by Semaphor »

ygra wrote: post #184
Kuraj wrote: post #49

I don't know how many Polish people who owned a Radeon card in the 2000s are there on HN but I'm sure they can all relate :-) as the card software would overwrite the key combination used to type the letter "ć" and open the Catalyst Control Center instead. Argh!

That's why Ctrl+Alt hotkeys should be avoided completely. Someone hasn't told Jetbrains, though, and as a user of US International I run into a fair number of weird issues due to that.

> Someone hasn't told Jetbrains

They also didn’t tell Microsoft. Outlook, MS Teams, and Jetbrains IDEs are my main offenders (using the EURKey layout).

Recently tried a HN-recommended todo app. It actually registered some Ctrl+Alt combination as a global hotkey.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by rawbot »

Toutouxc wrote: post #170
js2 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

> BTW, why does caps lock even still exist? Dunno, but in my country we use a QWERTZ layout where you can't write the letters Ě, Š, Č, Ř, Ž, Ý Á, Í, É without caps lock, because with Shift those keys produce 2, 3, 4, ..., 0 So that's why I need it. :)

Isn't this why Alt+Gr exist? I use US-International and you can do Alt+Gr + Shift for a different set of characters.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by [deleted] »

Toutouxc wrote: post #170
js2 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

> BTW, why does caps lock even still exist? Dunno, but in my country we use a QWERTZ layout where you can't write the letters Ě, Š, Č, Ř, Ž, Ý Á, Í, É without caps lock, because with Shift those keys produce 2, 3, 4, ..., 0 So that's why I need it. :)

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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by 10GBps »

Reminds of of reddit. Man that text edit box is so dysfunctional. Sometimes you type and nothing happens. Sometimes typing will start selecting random stuff on the page, hiding comments, saving some, and other weird stuff. Cut and paste is a 100% gamble. Random keys won't work some times. Sometimes you post a comment and only half shows up or other weird things.

It's really bizarre and I think has to do with some sort of logging/spyware they run on the site.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by rawbot »

macintux wrote: post #162
athorax wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.

I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control. Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.

Careful, you might let a few shots off in Quake like that. Trigger discipline and all.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by rawbot »

Joker_vD wrote: post #211
Kuraj wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait you mean the GeForce Experience overlay? I must have reassigned that right after installation so I didn't remember. But at least this one warrants having a hotkey in the first place!

I've reassigned it to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+] because that is one of the key combinations I'll never press accidentally... or intentionally, for what it matters: what do I need this overaly for anyway? Also, it's also somehow easily memorizable, after all, I still remember it after 4 years since I've bought my NVidia graphics card.

Combinations with Media Keys and Numpad keys is a good solution to this problem.
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