@electrineer these are things that I think about and analyse day to day — the steep angle actually helps me a lot as I only move my hands to the keyboard to type (‘free floating’) rather than resting in that position long term.

@molaram what factors here would you say contribute? I’ve had repetitive issues in my music career when playing double bass a lot but in computing I’ve used this kind of highly raised screen for a long time and I find it very comfortable. Any setup I’m working with gets tweaked endlessly until it works perfectly for me ergonomically. I’ll welcome anyones insight or point of view though.

@electrineer haha, that’s something that I miss from work! I get by though.

@funvengeance the faders are a little jumpy but ok for most things, the encoders are quite nice — good acceleration curve. The pads are average but fine for cliplaunching or sampling/slicing. X/Y pad is decent. The best part is the keys which have a great feel and are nice and expressive with a wide range of velocity curves. Lots of customisation possible for all functionality. I would rebuy.

@funvengeance took a lot of hard work over a few years and I had some non technical expedience in tech which assisted me. If you look up my post history there are a few long posts from throughout that process. I’m 3 weeks into my first serious data science role now (and currently WFH!).

@Root this person had a little merit in that I laughed slightly (in that silently, not really laughing but mildly amused kind of way) while reading your rant.

@unsignedint that can be true in some instances but I think the cases of intelligent people who simply followed a passion earlier in life and that of unoriginal thinkers taking analytic programmes ‘because you should’ balances it out to the point that it’s a detriment to any individual who tried to judge people on this criteria alone. Someone will always come along and surprise you for either good or bad reasons — best to just judge each person on their individual merits!

@unsignedint I don’t believe that the programme anyone studies has even remotely anything to do with their ability to think — anyone with the inclination to do so can learn any practical skills pretty quickly, so in fact it often provides valuable perspective and the ability to think about problems from different points of view.

@undef magenta is a really cool project and one of the few ML in Creativity projects that I agree with and support the ethos of! Would be cooler if it was written in Haskell though ;)

I also have a ThinkPad with the same layout and I have to agree — once you get the hang of it, the Fn and Ctrl keys are perfect placed. I wouldn’t swap them.

In fact, I love the keyboard on this thing!

@halfflat reminds me of the feeling of wearing roller blades all day then taking them off and in the first steps relearning how to walk (played roller hockey as a teenager so we’d wear skates for hours in a row)

@Floydian Thought you might like this by the way:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

- That's a (very early) demonstration of our performing with code (TidalCycles syntax built on the Haskell language). It's actually really simplistic compared to what we do now, but cool to see it in action.

The instrument Saydyy is playing at the start is an Electronic Khomus -- soviet engineering at it's most ingenious!! We just commissioned a new one actually, which is coming to us from Northeast Siberia and increases the scope of what we can do!

There's a little more info on that here:

https://udaganuniverse.com/culture/...

@Floydian you’re welcome to. Here’s a link to the larger wallpaper version which we use ourselves:
https://dropbox.com/s/...

@Floydian Thanks! Saydyy Kuo (my wife, who I should certainly name!) carved the logo into lino then we scanned an ink stamp of it and digitised it.

I also agree — she created a work of art there! It’s connected with Sakha mythology, which is a topic she recently published about in the ‘culture’ section of the website.

I think it’s irresponsible for anyone involved in technology or business to not educate themselves on the basic technical principles and business applications of Blockchain tech. Nobody can say how the pieces will fall — but there are certainly pieces up in the air right now.

I suggest Manjaro with xfce

@tacyarg this is the computing equivalent of “what’s the time?” -> “time to buy a watch”

Anyone who understands UNIX knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Anyone who has an interest in participating in the future should at minimum understand the basic technical foundation of Blockchain and have an idea of potential applications — preferably taking an active interest in the field.

I’ve only had good experiences with Manjaro. Got no time to be setting up Arch and prefer Manjaro to the few Ubuntu/Debian variants that I tried beforehand.

That’s what dynamic typing will get ya! ;)

Apparently neutral networks are the next big thing. You can write one in HTML and get 2 birds stoned at once.

Laughed out loud at some of the most cliche ‘linux people’ replies I’ve ever read.

I don't mean this in a negative way -- I just saw the humour in it. I use Manjaro myself as all the Arch config is something that I don't have the time or need for.

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I went down the dual boot -> single boot -> dual boot linux road a while back

Functional programming matters.

@Sarcaxxo I use this for Haskell & R code. I love it.

I personally also settled on Manjaro with xfce as the perfect general purpose flavour of Linux for me. Also use a few specific niche versions for certain tasks, such as an AVLinux Debian partition for live coding performances.

That learn you a Haskell book does a good job of working you into Category Theory application in practice without knowing that it’s category theory (until it’s too late!!).

I’d still recommend studying some category theory though as it’s awesome, and then you can go about using big school words like bifunctor and monoid in the category of endofunctors so that nobody can understand you.

@dontPanic Vim yes, I’m onboard. I have vim and nvim installed with different sets of plugins for different tasks. I have no time for Vi and its old school weirdness however.