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Re:Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012) on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:27AM (#40596616)
I used one for 10-15 years, and the extra column of characters definitely were bad for RSI. My right ring finger’s tendon was impacted the most. The extra reach to arrows, the enter key, etc. were too much for me. I went back to a US layout and don’t have issues now.
Thanks for that. In my case I suffered guessing and tracking for years before I gave in and had extensive tests done. As for cures, that’s another story.
I’ve thought about similar apps, and gave up on the end because allergies were to complex to surface through logging. What type of allergies and tracking were you working on?
They were focusing on hydrogen cells and this slowed them down as the EV market took off.
This is well put. I understand most of this now, but Talk about things I wish I understood in my early career. Along the lines of performance reviews, I've had HR try to negotiate demotions for my team members who were doing on target work. So when it comes to performance reviews, I always suspect that HR may have a metric on resource costs.
Re:On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:21PM (#23945488)
Thanks for this. It’s exactly what I’m interested in as I play with my Garmin and kayak this summer! I loved Strava in the early days, but as it tries to be a full social network, it’s lost much of its charm for me. I’m more interested in routes and stats, than what some athlete is doing in Chamonix.
This drives me nuts too. I search for “COVID Tokyo news” and it takes me to a government website (https://stopcovid19.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/), when what I want to do is see all the latest news indexed by google.
Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:26PM (#21623895)
Amen. I miss results that aren’t just SEO optimizations. Sites like this hurt the quality of the web by suppressing results that are what people are searching for.
Re:The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:05AM (#21450805)
Good question. It sounds strange to me too. I wonder if there’s some unintuitive loophole like the paper itself doesn’t write political articles and sources them from other places.
Re:Why I don’t love light rail transit on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:50PM (#21449711)
It’s an incentives problem in the United States. In Japan, for example, the railways are private (so they need to turn a profit) and you usually have supermarkets and department stores on the stations. The stations are the hub. When you look at commuter lines into large cities in the US, you are driving hours to a parking lot with nothing but a platform near by.
Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:46PM (#21449686)
They poked the wrong dragon. It’s impressive that CF invested the resources in fighting them. What’s unfortunate is the number of small companies that have been killed by patent trolls.
Re:Pure CSS – Lace on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:17PM (#21447162)
It looks normal on mobile safari.
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:11PM (#21438710)
Apple TV is also a dumpster fire.