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§ ¤ µ - keyboard oddities |
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Mar 21, 2025 - 2:06 PM - by JoeP
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The standard Finnish (and Swedish) keyboard has, obviously, the extra letters the alphabet uses: ä ö and å.
Presumably for general international use it also has a key that acts as a deadkey for other accents: ¨ ^ and ~ (producing eg ü, ô or ñ) and one for ´ and `.
As well as the shift, lots of characters are accessed via AltGr - the right Alt key - including the ~ mentioned above and symbols like @${[]} which makes programming a bit more fiddly but I'm getting used to it. But it also has some characters that I've never had the need to use.
§ (section symbol) is available top-left, under the Esc key ... I can imagine legal types getting some use out of this - any thoughts?
¤ (I don't even know what to call this) is available as shift-4. What's this even for?
And µ (mu) is available as AltGr-M. Why mu and not other Greek letters like pi and delta?
A whole bunch of other letters are available via AltGr like ß þ ð ŋ but you have to remember them. The above ones are actually printed on the keycaps.
Image at File:KB Sweden.svg - Wikipedia
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A thread in which Specious complains about Skeptoid |
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Feb 28, 2025 - 3:00 AM - by specious_reasons
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I am bucking tradition and creating a new thread because I've complained about the Skeptoid podcast in the past, and I'm positive it will happen again. I haven't searched the forum, but I remember being annoyed with Brian Dunning's take on DDT and electric cars. Most commonly I find there's some white, middle-class, libertarian bias to some issues — especially when science doesn't point to a clear answer. Oh, and the wire fraud conviction, which I will bring up again later.
Note that I actually like the podcast. It just sometimes gets me very annoyed.
Today's complaint is about Skeptoid Podcast #977, A Dingo Ate My Baby.
Did you know that the phrase, "A Dingo Ate My Baby" has a dark history? That the Chamberlains suffered the dual tragedy of losing their baby to Australian wildlife and then being convicted of murdering her?
Actually, yes I did. I'm a little younger than Dunning, but I remember this as international news. I'm pretty sure I was aware that the Chamberlains were eventually cleared of the charges, if not entirely aware of all the details. Thankfully, this episode does give us a good overview of this tragic situation. It was nice to know all the details.
However, Dunning tells us, in a slightly scolding tone, "There are a lot of things everyone agrees probably aren't best to joke about, and this certainly qualifies. It's probably a lesson for all of us in taking that little bit of extra trouble to learn any true backstory there might be when we craft a joke or write a movie or a story."
Sorry, no. First of all, I am fairly certain the writers of Seinfeld and the Simpsons knew of the tragic backstory. Second, I am of the opinion that any subject matter is a target for humor, especially tragedies. Finally, "A dingo ate my baby!" is objectively funny, especially when said in a terrible Australian accent. Just... [Read More]
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