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  • 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"

  • `systemd` is all you need
  • 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

  • damn, must've just missed him
  • 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?

  • What's up with that?
  • 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

  • Clever, clever
  • 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

  • Clever, clever
  • 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

  • Do you make $5,000/day?
  • 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.

  • [Bug/Feature request] Remember user hidden comments

    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

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