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@soegaard2 new keeb?
This keyboard is really weird: the space bar is backwards!
That’s a common “trick”!
Flipping the spacebar makes it easier to press in some positions.
First time I hear about that :slightly_smiling_face:
(personally I like the MS natural keyboard)
A lot of people mention wanting to use Racket at work - this is probably a good indicator of the due diligence you need to do in any organisation if you want it to be a success.
The keyboard with struck me as ideal for Slack. Didn’t notice the space bar.
Can confirm everything in the thread. Google is a bit of an outlier because of how much custom-built infrastructure there is in place.
I’ve been told explicitly that Racket will not be supported :disappointed:
But the reasons are reasonable though
just to be clear, I’m not suggesting embedding racket in google, just that if someone is interested in using racket(or any #lang) in their organisation, they should be aware it is a significant amount of work.
that was a nice break…back to debugging in ‘Intersystems ObjectScript’ :disappointed:
I love the colour gradient.
That said, I do use Racket for almost everything I do at work, it’s just that everything stays on my desktop and I can’t use Racket with Google’s resources
so lucky
Modern ModelM
Is the top right led for arrow-pad lock?
You mean the indicator LED? I think that’s for “Scroll-lock” a key that has been on almost every keyboard I’ve owned but I have never figured out what it is for.
(ugh now I realize how dirty it is)
scroll lock is the leftmost one I suppose. What about the rightmost one?
(middle one is caps lock I guess)
numpad lock, silly me
hm, no wait, I’m tired… yes, it’s scroll lock :man-facepalming:
The steel plate inside it gives it a real heft
that’s what real keyboards are made of :racing_car:
At least it won’t budge even if you type with a hammer
Scroll lock? Wasn’t that for DOS - for pausing text written to the screen?
Maybe? I just use Ctrl-S Ctrl-Q :stuck_out_tongue:
Hmm. “It’s complicated”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock\|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
Before keyboards with fancy multimedia controls I mapped print screen, pause and scroll lock to :black_left_pointing_double_triangle_with_vertical_bar: :black_right_pointing_triangle_with_double_vertical_bar: :black_right_pointing_double_triangle_with_vertical_bar: in XMMS.