Isn't it funny how important States' Rights are to Republicans when they agree with the result, but they invoke the Commerce Clause whenever they don't like it?
I had to stop taking weekday gigs because they had me rolling home around 3:30 am, which severely compromised not only my performance at work the next day, but probably made me a hazard on the road driving to work as well.
Exhibit A: Brian May, forced to choose between his astrophysics doctorate and his career with Queen, didn't go back for that doctorate for several decades.
Exhibit B: Tom Scholz, electrical engineer from MIT. Also multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Boston. He had to be convinced to market his (ultimately successful) Rockman product line, because he thought it would distract from his musical aspirations.
Exhibit C: Tom Lehrer. He ultimately walked away from a successful "novelty music" career to return exclusively to academia.
Will the planet sneeze out humans, or do we collapse first? If we collapse, will it be due to things already done (like greenhouse gas emissions) or will it be a mistake we have yet to make, such as a smarter, self-replicating version of Tay?
It takes the occasional fail.
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It takes occasional failure for people to remember that anything can break, because YouTube is exceptionally reliable on the whole. We were starting to forget that this type of failure could even happen.
I've been in a channel where there were multiple bots, but they would only speak when spoken to. This was a reasonably acceptable compromise, as people who thought it was funny to troll the bots got themselves kicked, not the bots. Of course, once we realized they were all using slightly different implementations of Markov chains, we started repeating certain phrases that included a word that simply didn't see much use in our channel. That way, when someone did use such a word when querying the bot, they got something resembling our canned answer because it's all the bot had to work with.
Objection 1 is why Colemak was invented, and although I didn't stick with it, I did give it a spin for a couple weeks. The inventor himself says it's not much of an upgrade from Dvorak in normal typing. My keyboard has a full set of one-touch "CTRL+letter" keys, and they are arranged in a QWERTY-like layout for exactly this reason.
Objection 2 is much less of an issue now that people generally bring their own laptops to classes and labs. Or, you can get a programmable keyboard like a Cherry 82xxx series, or a Tipro. Remap your keys on your own hardware, and just plug and chug with everyone else.
That said, the faster you can do the brain-to-page dump, the less you're going to lose along the way. Recovering your rhythm from a typo is probably more important than the actual typing here.
Neither Dvorak nor Colemak take "much longer to learn" than QWERTY. They may even take less effort to learn. The reason they seem hard is the same reason high school Spanish seem hard -- it's not your first rodeo. If the world could be retconned such that everyone grew up using Dvorak or Colemak, I guarantee nobody would be plausibly claiming it's "hard to learn". It's just that learning to type twice is demonstrably harder than learning once.
Within a few hours, I was at half my QWERTY speed. This made it tolerable to continue.
Within two weeks, I was at my QWERTY speed.
Within two months, I was hitting 80 WPM, as opposed to the 45 I got (and still get) from QWERTY. This slowly ramped up to 90, where the primary limitation on my speed is how fast I can think, not how fast I can move.
Except Dvorak isn't just "mildly more efficient", it's much more efficient and doesn't preclude being able to type on a QWERTY keyboard. Dvorak to Colemak is "mildly more efficient", to the point where the creator of Colemak advises Dvorak users not to bother.
If you can't make the numbers dance like the Bistromathics drive on the Heart of Gold, you don't understand statistics.
10%. 9 to 1 against. 1 in 10. They all mean exactly the same thing. If you haven't grasped this yet, it's not because you have a "fixed mindset". It's because you don't understand statistics.
Oh, I see ACs when I mod. But if you explicitly whine about ACs being ignored, when they can't even post on other sites with registration, you're not earning any sympathy with me.
Obviously I didn't mod you either way, because I'm replying.
Not so. Windows has improved enormously in the last two decades. It's just that it hasn't done so in a complete vacuum, you must also consider how any competitors have improved.
I make images of my boot drives periodically, but I'll move the schedule around if I know a Windows update is coming. I haven't needed to roll back to one yet because of Windows itself, though I have used an image to get back up and running after a drive failure.
I'm not protecting against just poor OS updates, but against a rather large array of possible issues. The extra effort I make to back up before an OS update is pretty minimal.
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Isn't it funny how important States' Rights are to Republicans when they agree with the result, but they invoke the Commerce Clause whenever they don't like it?
I had to stop taking weekday gigs because they had me rolling home around 3:30 am, which severely compromised not only my performance at work the next day, but probably made me a hazard on the road driving to work as well.
Exhibit A: Brian May, forced to choose between his astrophysics doctorate and his career with Queen, didn't go back for that doctorate for several decades.
Exhibit B: Tom Scholz, electrical engineer from MIT. Also multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Boston. He had to be convinced to market his (ultimately successful) Rockman product line, because he thought it would distract from his musical aspirations.
Exhibit C: Tom Lehrer. He ultimately walked away from a successful "novelty music" career to return exclusively to academia.
Will the planet sneeze out humans, or do we collapse first? If we collapse, will it be due to things already done (like greenhouse gas emissions) or will it be a mistake we have yet to make, such as a smarter, self-replicating version of Tay?
It takes occasional failure for people to remember that anything can break, because YouTube is exceptionally reliable on the whole. We were starting to forget that this type of failure could even happen.
Make that a Cherry G86 series. (There are some rare and highly desirable mechanical versions in the G80 series.)
I've been in a channel where there were multiple bots, but they would only speak when spoken to. This was a reasonably acceptable compromise, as people who thought it was funny to troll the bots got themselves kicked, not the bots. Of course, once we realized they were all using slightly different implementations of Markov chains, we started repeating certain phrases that included a word that simply didn't see much use in our channel. That way, when someone did use such a word when querying the bot, they got something resembling our canned answer because it's all the bot had to work with.
It's not unusual for me to have 30 to 40 channels in a project, and many of those are going to be stereo (so, effectively two tracks).
As you said about virtual instruments taking RAM: Alicia's Keys is 18 GB of samples. For one fucking piano.
Objection 1 is why Colemak was invented, and although I didn't stick with it, I did give it a spin for a couple weeks. The inventor himself says it's not much of an upgrade from Dvorak in normal typing. My keyboard has a full set of one-touch "CTRL+letter" keys, and they are arranged in a QWERTY-like layout for exactly this reason.
Objection 2 is much less of an issue now that people generally bring their own laptops to classes and labs. Or, you can get a programmable keyboard like a Cherry 82xxx series, or a Tipro. Remap your keys on your own hardware, and just plug and chug with everyone else.
That said, the faster you can do the brain-to-page dump, the less you're going to lose along the way. Recovering your rhythm from a typo is probably more important than the actual typing here.
Neither Dvorak nor Colemak take "much longer to learn" than QWERTY. They may even take less effort to learn. The reason they seem hard is the same reason high school Spanish seem hard -- it's not your first rodeo. If the world could be retconned such that everyone grew up using Dvorak or Colemak, I guarantee nobody would be plausibly claiming it's "hard to learn". It's just that learning to type twice is demonstrably harder than learning once.
My experience with Dvorak was vastly different.
Within a few hours, I was at half my QWERTY speed. This made it tolerable to continue.
Within two weeks, I was at my QWERTY speed.
Within two months, I was hitting 80 WPM, as opposed to the 45 I got (and still get) from QWERTY. This slowly ramped up to 90, where the primary limitation on my speed is how fast I can think, not how fast I can move.
My current keyboard is not only Dvorak, but a custom matrix (no stagger) layout.
Except Dvorak isn't just "mildly more efficient", it's much more efficient and doesn't preclude being able to type on a QWERTY keyboard. Dvorak to Colemak is "mildly more efficient", to the point where the creator of Colemak advises Dvorak users not to bother.
If you can't make the numbers dance like the Bistromathics drive on the Heart of Gold, you don't understand statistics.
10%. 9 to 1 against. 1 in 10. They all mean exactly the same thing. If you haven't grasped this yet, it's not because you have a "fixed mindset". It's because you don't understand statistics.
It's almost as if the entire device was covered in s. Do not look directly at the s!
Why should the license cost $150 when a ham license costs $5?
I never claimed it was a good solution, I only posited it as Microsoft's motivation.
Make that
1. Relentlessly push average users to store all their valuable data on OneDrive.
However, changing the defaults really isn't any harder than changing anything else in Windows. It's only a right click and a couple tabs away.
It's a data collection instrument. That data has to sit somewhere, it doesn't have a continuous uplink to the MRO. Photos take space.
Oh, I see ACs when I mod. But if you explicitly whine about ACs being ignored, when they can't even post on other sites with registration, you're not earning any sympathy with me.
Obviously I didn't mod you either way, because I'm replying.
Sugar is bad for you, so avoid it.
Sugar substitutes are also bad for you. Stop liking what isn't good for you!
Fuck that. Accept that life is a terminal disease. Look at the various risks and make your own decisions. I choose sugar in moderation.
It's both.
It's a feature upgrade, and it's a security update.
Not so. Windows has improved enormously in the last two decades. It's just that it hasn't done so in a complete vacuum, you must also consider how any competitors have improved.
I make images of my boot drives periodically, but I'll move the schedule around if I know a Windows update is coming. I haven't needed to roll back to one yet because of Windows itself, though I have used an image to get back up and running after a drive failure.
I'm not protecting against just poor OS updates, but against a rather large array of possible issues. The extra effort I make to back up before an OS update is pretty minimal.
Bite my jiggly silicone ass!