So which is it? Am I fool for handing my car keys over to someone who tells me they're in this country illegally and that I'm not allowed to discriminate against them, or is that claim actually plausible, as your original post more than implied?
While your post may be informative, the implied leap in logic--that because lack of citizenship or legal residency is not an automatic disqualifier, you as a private citizen will be forced to hand over your car keys to someone who is going to steal it--is awful big, and could really only be considered logical by... a bigot.
Or maybe you weren't saying that at all. Maybe you just wanted to chime in that you find the idea of your tax money going to illegal immigrants disturbing, even though it has no real relation to what's being discussed. Which is totally normal, right?
Sure, it's great when you can inspect it before plunking down money. I'm sure there's plenty of fine former fleet cars. But how would you feel about loaning the car out after you've already bought it?
Seriously. I just had a rental with 5,000 miles on it. The thing looked, felt, drove, and smelled like it'd been used to drive angry pigs to and from a slaughterhouse by a lead-footed 9-day-old corpse with IBS. If there's one thing people don't give a fuck about, it's taking care of a rental.
Yep! Nothing like good old redundancy to make information accessible.
Also, we're getting pretty good at crypto these days. Why not apply the reverse? If you had to figure out a language from scratch, what markers would be the best? What about recursiveness? Stick a dictionary on the thing, once they manage to bootstrap the rest becomes much easier.
What happens when you have more bugs than you have time to fix? How do you choose which to work on first? How do you remember which ones lead to data loss, and which ones have a workaround? How do you remember how to reproduce each bug? How do you manage patches? How do you remember which patches are compatible with other patches? How do you track the number of reported occurrences of a bug so you can prioritize your fixes more intelligently?
These things may be pointless in a small project where you can remember all that stuff, but just because it's a one-person project does not mean that it's not too big to get lost in.
But first, go fuck yourself. I'm nobody's "bub", especially not some ignorant prick too stupid to see the yoke around his own neck, that worships the hand that holds the whip. I'm sure it'll be your hand holding it someday, until then I guess if you've got no choice, you might as well enjoy it, right?
The Gates Foundation practices something called "Leveraged Philanthropy". This means that they attempt to use the money to direct other money, instead of actually paying to charity.
There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but they have a clear recognition that money is just an abstraction of power, and they operate on that philosophy. They have partnerships with, and stock in, Monsanto for example. They use that money politically.
I'm not saying that they're necessarily corrupt--I don't have enough information to make a claim either way. But I will say that I'm not a fan of some of their bedfellows, and I'd feel much better, and think the world would be better off whether they're corrupt or not, if 500 million people had an extra dollar, than these two people have 500 million dollars.
The founder of eugenics, Sir Francis Galton, a half-cousin of Charles Darwin, formulated the idea that the protection afforded by civil society had prevented the kind of natural selection occurring in Darwin's Origin of Species from happening in humans, thus perpetuating the existence of weak and feeble-minded people who would have been unable to survive in the state of nature.
I wonder if the people that agree with this have ever questioned why we should pay the biological cost for a human that can survive in the wild, when the majority of people will never have to survive in the wild. Those big muscles and aggressive tendencies don't come free.
<ecode> is a relatively new tag. To their credit, it doesn't even widen the rest of my post, and I'd rather code be allowed to scroll anyway. Now if we could only get them to allow unicode so we can Zalgo up the place.
The funny thing is, every single test that has been posted in this thread either leans overwhelmingly toward Dvorak, or is a complete wash. Which is what you'd expect--as far as I know, neither minimizing travel distance nor maximizing hand alternation was a design goal for QWERTY, whereas both were for Dvorak. I really don't understand why there's even a debate on the subject of which requires less movement.
Alternating hands means that two consecutive letters must be typed with two different hands. The letter frequency is basically meaningless for determining that, although to be fair my method of looking at how many words could be typed with a single hand is a rough approximation at best. My experience, the sheer factor of difference in the rough approximation, and "common" knowledge all support my claim that Dvorak has far more alternation in hand usage, so I haven't tried to make any sort of accurate count. If you really want to do that, generating a list of letter pairs for each layout that require two hands to type and then doing a frequency count on those pairs would give you a much more accurate result.
It depends on your injury. Some are caused by excessive friction of the tendon in its sheath, in which case minimizing the amount of movement will minimize the additional injury. Others are caused by excessive strain in a poor position or excessive time in that position, but if your point is that getting off the home row keys gets your hands out of an injurious position, I think it would be more effective to improve the positioning of your hands so that they're never in a position that causes harm in the first place.
As for aspell not being a good list, look at the difference. It's a factor of 10. Aspell would have to be an horrifically bad list for my point to be invalidated. If you think you have a list that inverts the results, feel free to post it, I'd be interested to see its contents.
# Words typable with home row only, Dvorak: # aspell dump master | grep -E '^[aoeuidhtns]+$' | wc -l 1787
# Words typable with home row only, QWERTY: # aspell dump master | grep -E '^[asdfghjkl]+$' | wc -l 129
I don't care what keyboard layout you use, I really don't care which layout "wins" (Dvorak has already lost), and I really, really don't care about the irrelevant and probably bullshit "origin stories" of either one, but saying that QWERTY promotes using alternating hands is just factually incorrect, and that I do care about.
Alternate hands is much, much, much more common on Dvorak than QWERTY. I know this because it was one of my major frustrations with the Dvorak layout--all sorts of things I used to be able to type one-handed, I no longer could. I've used Dvorak every day for almost 10 years now, and I still don't have any one-handed combos unless you count "ls", which I don't, because I never need to type that one-handed, and it uses the mouse hand anyway.
Try it out--just take random words, and see if they're typable one-handed on each layout. Tally the results, stop when you're satisfied.
Actually, screw it, here:
# Words typable with left hand only, Dvorak: # aspell dump master | grep -E '^[pyaoeuiqjkx]+$' | wc -l 144
# Words typable with right hand only, Dvorak: aspell dump master | grep -E '^[fgcrldhtnsbmwvz]+$' | wc -l 95
# Words typable with left hand only, QWERTY: aspell dump master | grep -E '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]+$' | wc -l 2192
# Words typable with right hand only, QWERTY: aspell dump master | grep -E '^[yuiophjklnm]+$' | wc -l 292
I gotta say, that Cadillac commercial where they're pimping their touchscreen just seemed so stupid to me. If there's one place I want to do everything by feel, it's a vagina. But if there were two, it'd be a vagina and a car.
Slashdot Mirror
So which is it? Am I fool for handing my car keys over to someone who tells me they're in this country illegally and that I'm not allowed to discriminate against them, or is that claim actually plausible, as your original post more than implied?
While your post may be informative, the implied leap in logic--that because lack of citizenship or legal residency is not an automatic disqualifier, you as a private citizen will be forced to hand over your car keys to someone who is going to steal it--is awful big, and could really only be considered logical by ... a bigot.
Or maybe you weren't saying that at all. Maybe you just wanted to chime in that you find the idea of your tax money going to illegal immigrants disturbing, even though it has no real relation to what's being discussed. Which is totally normal, right?
Correction: I am not a stupid bigot. I probably shouldn't have spoken for the rest of Slashdot.
Sure, it's great when you can inspect it before plunking down money. I'm sure there's plenty of fine former fleet cars. But how would you feel about loaning the car out after you've already bought it?
Seriously. I just had a rental with 5,000 miles on it. The thing looked, felt, drove, and smelled like it'd been used to drive angry pigs to and from a slaughterhouse by a lead-footed 9-day-old corpse with IBS. If there's one thing people don't give a fuck about, it's taking care of a rental.
3) "rent" car using the usual fake ID stuff (or just tell them you're an illegal and they're not allowed to discriminate against you).
Just because you're a stupid bigot doesn't mean the rest of us are.
While we're on the subject, let's acknowledge eldavojohn's wonderful Rocket Man reference. Well done, sir.
Maybe the fondness for speed isn't caused by being rich, but being rich is caused by a fondness for speed. You'll be one of those jerks someday!
Yep! Nothing like good old redundancy to make information accessible.
Also, we're getting pretty good at crypto these days. Why not apply the reverse? If you had to figure out a language from scratch, what markers would be the best? What about recursiveness? Stick a dictionary on the thing, once they manage to bootstrap the rest becomes much easier.
This isn't true at all.
What happens when you have more bugs than you have time to fix? How do you choose which to work on first? How do you remember which ones lead to data loss, and which ones have a workaround? How do you remember how to reproduce each bug? How do you manage patches? How do you remember which patches are compatible with other patches? How do you track the number of reported occurrences of a bug so you can prioritize your fixes more intelligently?
These things may be pointless in a small project where you can remember all that stuff, but just because it's a one-person project does not mean that it's not too big to get lost in.
How do you triage your bugs?
Name a successful capitalist country.
But first, go fuck yourself. I'm nobody's "bub", especially not some ignorant prick too stupid to see the yoke around his own neck, that worships the hand that holds the whip. I'm sure it'll be your hand holding it someday, until then I guess if you've got no choice, you might as well enjoy it, right?
They don't like it when people get credit for saying, "Hey slave, go build that person a house."
The Gates Foundation practices something called "Leveraged Philanthropy". This means that they attempt to use the money to direct other money, instead of actually paying to charity.
There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but they have a clear recognition that money is just an abstraction of power, and they operate on that philosophy. They have partnerships with, and stock in, Monsanto for example. They use that money politically.
I'm not saying that they're necessarily corrupt--I don't have enough information to make a claim either way. But I will say that I'm not a fan of some of their bedfellows, and I'd feel much better, and think the world would be better off whether they're corrupt or not, if 500 million people had an extra dollar, than these two people have 500 million dollars.
The founder of eugenics, Sir Francis Galton, a half-cousin of Charles Darwin, formulated the idea that the protection afforded by civil society had prevented the kind of natural selection occurring in Darwin's Origin of Species from happening in humans, thus perpetuating the existence of weak and feeble-minded people who would have been unable to survive in the state of nature.
I wonder if the people that agree with this have ever questioned why we should pay the biological cost for a human that can survive in the wild, when the majority of people will never have to survive in the wild. Those big muscles and aggressive tendencies don't come free.
Actually there were three tablets, but he held one of them wrong.
<ecode> is a relatively new tag. To their credit, it doesn't even widen the rest of my post, and I'd rather code be allowed to scroll anyway. Now if we could only get them to allow unicode so we can Zalgo up the place.
The funny thing is, every single test that has been posted in this thread either leans overwhelmingly toward Dvorak, or is a complete wash. Which is what you'd expect--as far as I know, neither minimizing travel distance nor maximizing hand alternation was a design goal for QWERTY, whereas both were for Dvorak. I really don't understand why there's even a debate on the subject of which requires less movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#One-handed_versions
I don't have a book in text form to frequency count, but here's some combos in handy paste-to-regex/parse-as-you-wish form:
Alternating hands means that two consecutive letters must be typed with two different hands. The letter frequency is basically meaningless for determining that, although to be fair my method of looking at how many words could be typed with a single hand is a rough approximation at best. My experience, the sheer factor of difference in the rough approximation, and "common" knowledge all support my claim that Dvorak has far more alternation in hand usage, so I haven't tried to make any sort of accurate count. If you really want to do that, generating a list of letter pairs for each layout that require two hands to type and then doing a frequency count on those pairs would give you a much more accurate result.
It depends on your injury. Some are caused by excessive friction of the tendon in its sheath, in which case minimizing the amount of movement will minimize the additional injury. Others are caused by excessive strain in a poor position or excessive time in that position, but if your point is that getting off the home row keys gets your hands out of an injurious position, I think it would be more effective to improve the positioning of your hands so that they're never in a position that causes harm in the first place.
As for aspell not being a good list, look at the difference. It's a factor of 10. Aspell would have to be an horrifically bad list for my point to be invalidated. If you think you have a list that inverts the results, feel free to post it, I'd be interested to see its contents.
Oh yeah:
I don't care what keyboard layout you use, I really don't care which layout "wins" (Dvorak has already lost), and I really, really don't care about the irrelevant and probably bullshit "origin stories" of either one, but saying that QWERTY promotes using alternating hands is just factually incorrect, and that I do care about.
Alternate hands is much, much, much more common on Dvorak than QWERTY. I know this because it was one of my major frustrations with the Dvorak layout--all sorts of things I used to be able to type one-handed, I no longer could. I've used Dvorak every day for almost 10 years now, and I still don't have any one-handed combos unless you count "ls", which I don't, because I never need to type that one-handed, and it uses the mouse hand anyway.
Try it out--just take random words, and see if they're typable one-handed on each layout. Tally the results, stop when you're satisfied.
Actually, screw it, here:
I gotta say, that Cadillac commercial where they're pimping their touchscreen just seemed so stupid to me. If there's one place I want to do everything by feel, it's a vagina. But if there were two, it'd be a vagina and a car.