I never had the pleasure of trying one of those keyboards. The 6–7u-long spacebar is a trapping of its typewriter heritage just like QWERTY and staggered keys.
Even on their full-size keyboards with numpads, Apple spacebars are only 5 keys wide. Thumbs are for Command!
Even better: split spacebar! On my daily driver I only have a 1.25u key for my primary space. On the left I have a luxuriously large 2.25u SpaceFn key.
I never really went down the keyboard layer rabbit hole until recently when I was looking for a really good, small, portable mechanical keyboard and came across the Planck 40% kit over at Drop. I loved this idea of having a split spacebar with two dedicated keys for different layers.
I mean, it's kinda necessary for such a small board... But still, cool concept to my naive little mind.
Traditional space bars really do take up way too much... space...
I've tried SpaceFn on a standard 65% keyboard with one spacebar, and I'm not a big fan of the experience. I found it difficult to get the timing right between registering press vs hold.
However, on a board with two spacebars — like Keebio's Quefrency or Sinc, or an Alice/Arisu board — I love it. I use my right thumb for space most of the time, so it's just a regular space key, and my left space is set up in SpaceFn style. Fn-B is a repeatable space key if I need it on that side but I hardly do.
I'm also weird in that I like to have the same modifiers on both sides, especially on keebs split in two. On a 65% with one spacebar, I use the Caps Lock key for left Function, and the bottom key of the rightmost nav column is End on press and Function on hold.
Control on Caps Lock is what gives me Emacs pinky for whatever reason. I keep two Control on the corners.
I wish the gunshots came after formal declarations of war by Congress, something that hasn't happened since before the current and previous Presidents were born.
Also wish Congress wasn't a clown car perpetually headed off a cliff.
But the Department of War became the Department of Defense, so I guess all these gun shots aren't war anymore.
And as for the gun analogy, I'm reminded of the "production for use"[0] defense from Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday:
"And so, into this little tortured mind came the idea that that gun had been produced for use. And use it he did."
Congress being a clown car is problem #1 for sure. Though congress unfortunately is at least somewhat or perhaps majorly representative of the will of the people so the problem is mostly that we're idiots.
I hear you on the need for a declaration of war, but as I'm sure you realize, it's not practical for most of the modern conflicts we find ourselves in. Congress has also explicitly given the Executive the power to conduct limited engagements because conflict develops much more quickly in many cases than Congress can act and we need to be able to respond quickly.
Now of course one might argue something such as that we shouldn't be in areas or be doing things that could instantly cause a conflict and of course that sounds great to me, but then after a second glance you realize that, well, for example Americans must get oil and gas from the Middle East and so here we are without a formal declaration of war protecting shipping lanes.
Saw her live in NYC back in 2005 when she was doing roots reggae.
Sly & Robbie was the rhythm section, with Burning Spear on vocals and percussion. Maybe Mikey Chung on guitar?
I was totally surprised at the combination — this Crazy Baldhead amongst Dreads — but one of the best live shows I've been to. Surrounded by reggae icons, she was a boss on that stage.
That was likely due to her collaborations with both Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound initially, but she was a long time admirer of roots and dubwise. The caribbean influence in UK/Irish pop culture is much stronger than in the US (other than hip hop).
As a fan of Dub Syndicate, I didn't know they collaborated, thanks for this info.
Before seeing her live, I hadn't know a lot about her besides "Nothing Compares 2 U" and of course the SNL controversy... realizing much later she had sung Bob Marley's "War" while wearing red, gold, and green.
Just now thinking about her performance of "Vampire" that night is giving me goosebumps. She was a real one.
I'm an On-U Sound obsessive to some degree (I'm an acquaintance with one of Adrian's sound engineers, and I've met a few of the lads from Tackhead) but man the guy gets around. Just this year were new albums from Horace Andy, African Head Charge and this week Creation Rebel announced their first album in 30+ years.
The more post-punk reissues (e.g. New Age Steppers) is also right up my alley.
But yes, I got the impression early on that Sinead had more than passing familiarity with roots and dub. It just seemed to be always at least at the edges of every album in one way or another. On "Faith + Courage" it was quite prominent.
Isn’t the stereotype (and possibly reality) that Irish women are full of moxie and maybe or maybe not respected for it depending on who cares?
Like she experienced IRA bombings and you’re saying she’s supposed to be intimidated by reggae artists who smoke weed and practice non-violence and/or intimidated by their fans who do so?
No idea, but it seems like it's intentionally made so that no matter the orientation of the deck (face up or face down), the first card you see (not counting jokers and ad cards) will always de an ace. The two suits of those aces are just the two most liked suits (ace and hearths).
The curious part is that this order doesn't mean anything for card players, in fact it would probably be better for most games if the decks where printed in random order, but for magicians this order is really important for many effects. For example, if you perfectly shuffle the deck 8 times it will go back to it's original order.
As noted in one of the article comments: One of the first settings I change on my iPhone is "Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast" for this very reason. It darkens both the blue iMessage and green SMS colors, but I mostly do it because I do find that green color "gross" and annoying/distracting.
Even Harry’s birth name is “Henry” — Archie’s middle name “Harrison” is clever though.