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LOL usability didn't occur to me somehow. Was totally immersed in the beauty of it 😍

This really looks like it should be fitted on a spherical surface. Maybe a huge soccer trackball. That would be a spherical version of the keymouse

Sorry you are going through this.. some departments may have a faculty member in charge of student affairs / student-faculty relations. If there is such a person, I suggest you talk to them. Since this matter is already out in the open (in a way), I don't see a downside to doing this -- if nothing else, this leaves a paper trail. Be mindful how you communicate to this person: state the facts, describe your feelings and the impact of the matter to you, but try not to pass too much value judgement on the actions of your advisor -- You are still in a position of weakness, you need to be able to stay on the program, possibly rotate out of your current lab or even transfer out of the department/school, and you never know in which way the impression of how you handled this matter will impact the prospect of these options. If you are seriously considering transferring due to hostile environment, try to attend conferences and make connections -- it's easier (compared to those fresh out of undergrad) now that you're already in grad school, have done research, and have your own funding (in fact, mention this to whoever you're interested to work with). Good luck!

Technically technical

If you want ergonomics, go for ProArc EM03 fingerball (and the Nulea / Sanwa variations, all MTE clones). If you want more buttons, go for the Elecom Huge. FWIW, I stopped using the Huge after getting the ProArc (much better ergonomics)

In general you'll be happier if less fxxk is given to someone else's opinion. I'm not sure how important "someone else" being a parent is, other then maybe the correlation with the time spent with them or the survival resources they had control over, etc.

This was the 2020 material science Ig Nobel winner. Personally I think their control for the annealing process is flawed but somewhat understandable given the difficulty in securing the amount of material necessary for a more refined experiment. For reference, here are all the papers citing this work: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=17315240754674471683

Semimak is an excellent layout, have fun switching!

Nowadays I'm mostly using a layout that I made based on the original Maltron layout as designed by Lillian Malt (where you put 'e' on a thumb key, and 's' on the vowel hand index home position) and only fall back to dvorak as a last resort (travel on a laptop etc.) It's more about reducing the use of bottom row mid/ring/pinkies than speed or other related statistics (the theory is that by restricting them to the top two rows, they stay longer in their more natural curvature, thereby reducing tendon stress). With 'e' on a thumb, you avoid the double stacking of the vowel cluster of most modern layouts, but still have the vowel hand index finger freed up for consonants, which then makes it easier to only have infrequent letters on non-index bottom row.

Very interesting. I wonder what happens if instead of gzip, a lossy compression is used.. would mp3 beat jpg?

Very refreshing to see the technical content of the notion of entropy succinctly summarized in the first sentence. Too many articles about entropy fixate on interpreting entropy as "order" or "disorder" without ever giving a precise account of what entropy is.

I typed dvorak at about the same speed as you, and got up to 110~120 on semimak when I tested it, before moving on. I have no doubt I could have gone faster by keeping at it (my problem was with the stuffy feeling of the 3-finger vowel cluster), so I think you'll have no problem exceeding your dvorak speed. During my test drive, I was able to switch back to fluent dvorak typing after perhaps an hour or two of acclimatization (fwiw, I mirrored the left/right hands on semimak, which eased the learning, but may have made frequent switch more difficult.) A different physical keyboard may help: I did find it easier to switch back on my Microsoft Natural, which is what I used for years with dvorak.