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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by WorldMaker » Thu, May 19, 2022, 9:20 PM UTC

Tao332 wrote: post #117

WorldMaker wrote: post #108

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An EQUINE layout sounds like taking Dvorak to an extreme. E is the most common letter in English? Let's give the keyboard two of them! I'm half-tempted to mock up up such a layout just for giggles. It'd be a handy layout for dolphin.town, especially.

I'm running this to its ridiculous extreme. I'm imagining a keyboard layout that has duplicate keys matching letter frequency. The keyboard has to have 56 Es just to be allowed a Q. About 35 or so Ts. Etc. The odds favor you getting the key you want, so it's best to not even look.

That could certainly put a Quine in EQUINE. Mash the keyboard all at once to get a frequency chart that resembles the keyboard. That's your new keyboard.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by mxuribe » Thu, May 19, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

Tao332 wrote: post #116

mxuribe wrote: post #113

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I'm laughing so much on these, that my voice is getting...hor...well you get what i mean. ;-)

Enough already, y'all are beating a dead horse.

Lol :-D

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by cardiffspaceman » Thu, May 19, 2022, 11:39 PM UTC

lobocinza wrote: post #71

Why outhorse if I already have a in-house cat?

I think you're better off with the cat, they seem to be lighter on the keys, while you can see in the video that the horses, small as they are, are doing a number on they keys.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by phillipseamore » Fri, May 20, 2022, 12:23 AM UTC

ethbr0 wrote: post #4

In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)

I can confirm that the keyboard was fully functional except for keys not producing character output. RaspberryPi with short-to-ground sensor under each key (so the keyboard would work as a mat with the keys removed if the horses didn't like them [as referenced in the BTS video]), running on batteries, making this the world's largest wireless keyboard. Measured 5 by 1.8m with the smallest keys being a beefy 29 x 28cm.

Source: Wife's uncle did the electronics and software for it.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by nxmnxm99 » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 1:35 PM UTC

jhugo wrote: post #70

nxmnxm99 wrote: post #58

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Jeez, that guy was full of himself though. Looks like 14 years later he isn't the roaring startup success story he predicted.

How do you know that? Success can be measured in many ways, many of them not public.

You think he has a secret successful startup? Lol