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@freemo out of curiosity, and for an apples-to-apples comparison since I don't have a self-monitoring keyboard like that: could you let me know what sort of numbers you get on typeracer? I'm usually in the mid-eighties, and I don't think I've ever seen someone hit >120 in one of my races. So I'm curious whether it's down to difference in measurement methodology or your speeds are actually that far ahead of anyone else I've seen.

@morettiphd@thecanadian.social Jason Maas likes to play games when you give him a hot mic, dating back to his time in Edmonton. One match he deliberately disabled his mic; the next, the league made threats should he do that again, so he let one of his unmic'd assistants call the game and just occasionally swore into his headset, providing no usable audio for the broadcast. I'd be completely unsurprised to find that he's taken measures again to avoid his play calls being recorded electronically.

@realcaseyrollins hope you've been well! In case you are still interested: Canada's four university football conference championships will be held today, with the winners to play in a single elimination tournament over the following two weeks for the Vanier Cup.

1PM Eastern: Loney Bowl (Atlantic University Sport), Bishop's @ St. Francis Xavier
https://austv.ca/watch/694
1PM Eastern: Yates Cup (Ontario University Athletics), Laurier @ Western
https://oua.tv/watch/1437
2PM Eastern: Dunsmore Cup (Reseau du sport etudiant du Quebec), Laval @ Montreal
https://qub.ca/tvaplus/tva-sports/en-direct
4PM Eastern: Hardy Cup (Canada West Universities Athletic Association), Alberta at UBC
https://canadawest.tv/watch/1284

The AUS and OUA games are free to watch but require registration; the RSEQ and Canada West matches are paid. Enjoy!

@freemo that's actually not often an issue unless you're in a tech-support role or something where you're working on lots of different people's computers every day. If it's a computer you use enough to have your own account on, you can save your preference for Dvorak there. Then it's just a case of building the muscle memory so you can touch type properly - the physical keys will say QWERTY but you'll type on them as if they were Dvorak.

For background, I've typed exclusively Dvorak for essentially my entire adult life, but I never learned QWERTY properly to begin with - at my school, the accelerated program taught slideshow/spreadsheet skills instead of typing. I guess they assumed that we'd be bigshots and all have secretaries or something, but that was no longer true when I got to college, and, being the nerd I am, I decided to teach myself to touch-type Dvorak. My method was to have the keymap overlaid on the screen and not switch around my keycaps, so I wouldn't develop hunt-and-peck habits the way I had with QWERTY. First week I relied on the overlay, second week I used my memory and trial-and-error when I forgot, and then my third week was on this horrible ancient system where backspace cleared the whole damn line instead of the most recent character, so it was really punishing to make a mistake.

@freemo depends. There are certain times it can be an obstacle. For example, the undo/cut/copy/paste commands are now scattered across the keyboard. Some software that uses keys based on position rather than letter value (e.g. WASD keys if you're a gamer) works automatically, some needs to be configured, and some just leaves you stuck with unusable keybinds. Importantly, early in your boot process (BIOS password, disk encryption) you'll still have to type in QWERTY because the computer doesn't know anything about your keyboard settings until after you've decrypted that information.

It will restrict your options for customising your keyboard, because many keycap sets have different profiles on a per-row basis, so keys that are in a different row between QWERTY and Dvorak will stick out. Obviously you'll touch-type most of the time, but sometimes you run into situations where you have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse, and you'll need to find a key with your left hand for which only your right hand has muscle memory.

Also, if you swipe-type on your phone, some of Dvorak's strengths become weaknesses. Alternating fingers turns into a lot of back-and-forth. Concentrating heavily used keys onto the homerow means you have to be very precise, and even then there are a lot of ambiguous words. For example, swiping S-O-T could be:
- soot
- snot
- snout
- stout
- shot
- shoot
- shout
and that's if you aim perfectly. If you miss by one key and type S-E-T there's a whole different set of words. The poor autocorrect can only do so much for you.

@freemo sorry to hear that; best wishes for your quick and full recovery!

... and it's in the books! The season is now [archived](http://www.sportsclubstats.com/2023/football/Canada/CFL.html) but I can make corrections if necessary; just let me know if you see any errors. #CFL #CFLoM

@mjambon I'd guess it's because it's not very useful to quote a number when you can see "to the nearest cloud", so Yahoo only reports it on a clear day.

Another possibility might be humidity, but I wouldn't know why it's only sometimes shown in that case.

@mjambon Visibility distance?

The #CFL season is updated at [Sports Club Stats](http://www.sportsclubstats.com/football/Canada/CFL.html). There's still a week to go, but the remaining games can't affect the teams' finishing order at this point. As always, please let me know if I entered anything wrong.

The streak continues into year 18! #TogetherWeRide #YeMenOfCalgary #CFL #CFLoM #CalgaryStampeders

@freemo on mobile, the key fingerprints are too wide and cause line breaks in places that make things hard to parse. Perhaps this would be clearer if you formatted them as two lines, each of five blocks, each of four characters, instead of all ten blocks on a single line.

@Bahais_Mexicali block them, wait a few seconds, then unblock them (so you don't have a block list filled with meaningless names of deleted accounts).

@mitch fun! I'd been recruited to play by a friend a couple years ago and I was excited to try it out, but the pandemic broke it up before we really got going.

@freemo At a quick guess, you're close, but it's energy, not moment. The nuclear decay processes are very short range and all the electrons know about it is via electromagnetism (since they don't participate in the strong interaction, the weak interaction is too short-range, and the electron's mass is too small for gravity to be important). If you want the electrons to leave their orbitals, you need to pump some energy into them. The less-negative electromagnetic potential energy from the reduced nuclear charge isn't necessarily enough for that to happen quickly - the atom just exists as a -2 ion for long enough that the alpha particle has time to escape.

I'm not a particle physicist; just trying piece together what I remember from undergrad physics.

@graand I think Dave's been a reasonable head coach over his tenure; a team unused to losing is just a bit on tilt. I'm less sold on Dave as the GM - time hasn't proved moving on from Bo to Maier to be a wonderful decision.

@graand yep. Cheering for the Stamps - I'd hoped for a Hamilton win so that Calgary's last two games would be meaningless for their opponents, but no such luck.