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Tap Dance – The Jenkins (thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Clearly, its the tap dance feature within open source firmware, QMK, that is rising in popularity. People just want to be able to double tap and tap and hold for extra functionality on their keyboard and trackballs.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago

So relieved I wasn't the only one thinking this

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn I need a qmk compatible keyboard

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Don't forget the trackball!

If they have vial compatible (qmk) firmware then you can configure the tap dance from the gui rather than having to customise and compile your own key map.

Not to be confused with via, which doesn't support tap dance.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

my niece and nephew, both less than 10, do tap.

I think the nephew does it because he is the only boy in the group of about 30

hehe that kid is gonna be a heartbreaker

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some boys are born with an innate sense of game

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reasons I took choir in highschool. 100+ girls, maybe 20 guys. And facing a full length mirror the entire class.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Ours was very mixed with boys and girls. It was the easiest required fine at credit to get in order to graduate. The art class at our School sucked. It was more like an art history class and you had to write more papers than English class.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Via Tom Scott's newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

That was really cool, worth a post of its own, thanks for sharing!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Ah 0.0000something percent change on the scale. I love misleading graphs formats!

Huh, desktop shows the y axis values but I don't see them on mobile.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If he knows how to search for Google trends, he should know how to use Google Maps to locate local dance studios that teach tap dancing, which do indeed exist.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Judging by his outfit, he's already learned how to tap dance. He's looking for a place to do it.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

And a dance studio is the place! I don't think even back in the day they had places you could just walk in and tap dance without some sort of permission to use the space first.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's the figure of speech "to tap-dance around (a topic)" meaning to make concerted effort avoid talking about a particular topic all the while talking about many things that are adjacent to that topic. It's usually to avoid coming across as offensive or ignorant in some way.

The underlying cause and/or whether a bit more knowledge on the part of the speaker could render the dance unnecessary is highly contextual (and mostly irrelevant here), but nevertheless, people tap-dance around topics all the time. (The previous sentence might even qualify as an instance.)

So, the question is: How much contribution to this n-gram is people pointing out that someone is, or was, tap-dancing around a topic?

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve heard people say “dancing around” a topic but I’ve never heard of anyone include the word tap in that

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I have, and my experience is objective and universal, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯