Nice, but I've never understood the appeal of reduced keyboards such as this, where even the digits require a modifier key.
On the contrary, I would really like an XL version of the Lisperati with an enormous keyboard, space-cadet-like, that also includes unshifted parentheses.
The reason I use one like that: it's more comfortable and
ergonomic, and I have the same typing speed but with higher
accuracy because I don't need move my hands or wrists.
Can you reliably press F2 or ` without looking? I can, and
always with the exact same finger movements because the hands
don't move.
It seems to be a "love it or hate it" thing but I wouldn't go
back to normal keyboards. They're fine, just like old touchpads
are usable, it's just not a great experience.
Lisp machine keyboards had unshifted parenthesis keys so you could type s-expressions with one hand while holding a Hefty bag full of nitrous oxide in your other hand.
The great thing about those custom-built keyboards is that
they're freely programmable and you can put anything on any key.
Finding keycaps that actually match the configuration is another
issue...
Because foot pedals are for double double bucky bits! ;)
Double Bucky
(C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.
(Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")
Double bucky, you're the one!
You make my keyboard lots of fun
Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
(Vo-vo-de-o!)
Control and Meta side by side,
Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs,
plus a few!
Oh,
I sure wish that I
Had a couple of
bits more!
Perhaps a
Set of pedals to
Make the number of
Bits four:
Double double bucky!
Double bucky, left and right
OR'd together, outta sight!
Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
Double bucky, I'd like a whole
word of you!
(For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.)
I had a buddy once upon a time who wrote APL or some dialect of it in Emacs. He had two keyboards hooked up to one system and had two foot pedals. IIRC one was Meta and the other Super.
search 1920x480 on aliexpress etc - super-wide formats like that usually originate from automotive use cases and then trickle down into more easily accessible markets once they're made in large numbers, and that's what's happened for 8.8" 1920x480 recently.
I've got a couple of AlphaSmarts (4x40 old school LCD character display) which I was thinking of retrofitting some ESP32 brains into. I'm not sure how snug a fit this screen would be, but it's got to be worth a go.
You've unfortunately been posting quite a few comments that break the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful; we're trying for something a bit different than internet default here.
It seems a lot more like you are trying to force a veneer of respectability over what is still a whole lot of pretty awful views here.
I would be more impressed with an actual push towards trying to get people to genuinely be less awful, rather than trying to push them to be polite while doing so.
We don't give a shit about veneers. That canard is usually brought up by people making excuses for bad comments, as if they were somehow posting them out of principle.
Anyone can read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html or slog through 50k moderation comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang (not that I recommend it) and evaluate what we're trying to do here, but the shortest way is to simply look at the first site guideline about comments: "Be kind." If you don't think that's about "getting people to be genuinely less awful", I don't know what to tell you. We're working overtime to try to do that. It is in no way easy, and if you claim to care about this, you should be helping to make it happen, not degrading this place further.
What I am saying is that you are applying the rule of "Be kind" only at the most surface level. You are allowing very unkind posts, as long as they are phrased somewhat politely.
I'd need to see specific examples where you think that is happening. Certainly it isn't our intention. If we're failing to enforce the guidelines as intended, I need to know about it.
People bring this argument up semi-regularly, though always without links, and it has even become a bit of a trope. When I've asked for links in the past, what I've found is either (1) posts we missed (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) or (2) posts where the interpretation of 'unkindness' is tendentious and mixed with ideological concerns.
Of course interpretation is always involved. No two people would make the same set of moderation calls, there will always be edge cases where views differ, and there are cases where we just make mistakes, i.e. our initial interpretation changes after people point out things we didn't see. We're happy to correct those.
But it also sometimes happens that people's interpretation goes through an ideological filter, such that pretty much any disagreement with their ideology strikes them as 'unkind'. We can't moderate HN that way. It stretches the meaning of the guideline beyond its scope, which has to do with how people treat each other, not how others treat their views—even if we personally agree with their views.
On the contrary, I would really like an XL version of the Lisperati with an enormous keyboard, space-cadet-like, that also includes unshifted parentheses.