K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@ceoln I tracked down why it's doing this, but it'd take a code change to fix it and I'm not really knowledgeable enough about the codebase to figure out how. It's a problem in the web frontend, so if you use something like [Halcyon](https://halcyon.cybre.space/login) or [Pinafore](https://pinafore.social) it won't show up (but then you don't get the extra features that have been added to QOTO's frontend, of course).

QT: https://qoto.org/@khird/110743110511955766

@ClaraListensprechen4 @freemo

@NunavutBirder Your second idea's a good one, but the first one opens a pretty big loophole.

Suppose there are two teams that are both in the market for a head coach. Both have enough to spend the full coaching cap on their staff, but Team A has a substantial excess that Team B does not (that is, in the absence of the cap, Team A could afford to spend much more on coaching than Team B). If fired coaches are exempt from the cap, Team A can offer longer contracts to outcompete Team B for talent. The downside to a long contract - you have more dollars left owing on the books if you fire him - prevents Team B from matching Team A's offer, because Team B would need that money to pay the replacement, while Team A can afford to pay both the fired coach and his replacement.

@mitch obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/984/

@trinsec I love this stuff! But it's hard to come by in North America.

@mitch you can pick and choose the servers you want to see by using domain subscribes.

@Bahais_Mexicali Paul was a member of our community for many years. It's nice to see people remembering him.

@dragfyre

@mitch that doesn't mean they were low alcohol. If I did the math right, even the weak grog they served to sailors with drunkenness problems was 9% abv.

It's actually a pretty interesting part of human evolution. By coming down from the trees, our ancestors were picking fresh fruit less often and eating fallen, overripe, fermenting fruit more often. So we self-selected for the ability to metabolise alcohol, which enabled us to take quantities of drink that wouldn't spoil on journeys where potable water wasn't available.

@mitch eh, prior to pasteurisation the safest way to keep drinks from spoiling was to make them alcoholic. It's the same ethanol we use for hand sanitiser today, and not many pathogens can tolerate it. Imagine having your row house packed shoulder to shoulder with dudes who've fallen ill from some fungus growing in the non-alcoholic juice or whatever, and they all desperately need to take a runny dump. And you have one toilet from 1700something for them to share.

@mitch apps that steal focus, and if you alt-tab back to what you were doing, the program hangs and needs to be force-closed

@freemo yeah I'm not a huge fan of the error-catching process either. But it's at least measuring the same way across the board, whether that's by tokenizing words or a quarter of the letter rate or whatever. It's easier to interpret a number where I have that context than one like your keyboard's self-measurement where I don't.

I just did five and got 88, 76, 88, 80, 93. Your 127 would have been first in any of those races.

@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!