I originally learned qwerty and touch typed at 60WPM, during a really boring job before smartphones and before we had internet to the desktop at work and I entertained myself learning to type again, but on dvorak
So after 3 months I was back to 60WPM
I really like that dvorak has all the vowels on the left of the home row, and t and h are on the right of the home row right where finger tapping cadence works for "th"
So my speed hasn't increased, but my fingers don't need to move as much for common words. I don't think it's worth it if you play games on the computer, many games don't map keyboard controls well. Eg Minecraft moves everything to whatever key is in the same place as the qwerty key; 7 days to die doesn't change anything, so you need to choose keys for everything, or if you're happy with the defaults, just change the ones that conflict when you fix "wasd" to ",aoe"
The door lock failing should just disable the self cleaning mode
Mix ingredients - how long? Until they are mixed. If a thing needs stirring for a length of time the recipe will tell you
Beef doesn't go golden brown when you sear it
Golden brown is the colour of cooked wheat flour products - things toast to golden, they don't sear to golden
For me if Christmas eve is a Monday we usually get the whole Monday off, if it's later in the week we only get a half day. We get from Christmas eve 12 noon to January 1 off normally
ISP around me had policies like "we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees"
The common refrain of how we're doomed by climate change and the fact we can't fix it, so nothing matters anyway has their fingerprints all over it
I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I'm not breaking that streak
Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I'm still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that
Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural
Of course significant parts of the population spell "than" with an e, or "then" with an a, and/or don't know the difference between it's and its
Would you care to pluralise octagon?
Internal combustion cars are about half as efficient as big fossil fuel powerplants. The big ones waste a third of the energy as low grade heat; cars waste two thirds of the energy as low grade heat
Don't forget that big batteries can react in fractions of a second to large power demand spikes or dips, stabilising the grid far better than spinning steel can
There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example
- using an LLM to produce a draft, then
- Editing and correcting the LLM draft
- Finding real references and replacing the hallucinated ones
- Correcting LLM style to your style
That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process
LLMs can't cite. They don't know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style
You'd be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM
If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the other references won't be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper
Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote
Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over
I can't say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)
And goatse gave us the ability to laugh at that Micky Mouse clock
His parents were not all that well off. They invested $300,000 in his new company. That's within the ability of many middle class workers
His parents were employees, not business owners.
When I refresh a post, all the comments I have hidden become unhidden
When I comment, all the comments I have hidden are unhidden
Please make remember hidden comments, ideally f forever, but at least for the session. The current state of hidden comments is frustrating
Reddit Enhancement Suite for example keeps hidden stuff hidden, and annotates the root hidden comments with a count of new unread comments above them