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As someone who's learnt both colemak and dvorak in the past, it is my opinion that the utility of being able to use qwerty anywhere, at any computer, without having to adjust settings or install and configure keymaps, far outweighs any purported advantages of either colemak or dvorak or any other exotic layout.

That said, other people's situations will differ from mine, and I can see why you would switch if you were say, writing slabs of prose in seclusion, or lived in a country that is majority non-qwerty already.

while : ; do scrot ss-$(date +%s).jpg ;sleep 60 ;done
I watched one the other day called "final space". I don't think it had much magic either.
Re:The reason crypto is down on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:43AM (#17713254)
I have completed KYC for numerous exchanges, it is not impossible at all, no more than opening a bank account is impossible. I don't think current market prices have anything at all to do with KYC.
Re:Farewell, Google Maps on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:50PM (#17571369)
>there seems to be no obvious way to suggest missing destinations. Unless Maps.Me use their own database for business listings, you just edit the map directly from openstreetmap.org or one of the many fat client map editors that are out there.
Defacing the wikipedia page isn't a productive way to vent your frustration, but I can sympathise with why those vandals are frustrated. I wanted to view the Australian electrical wiring standards document only to find it cost something like $200 for a single document. I was able to obtain the NZ version, which is nearly identical, for free. Personally, I would have paid up to $30 without too much complaining.
Re:Subscription Hell on Sunday May 06, 2018 @08:42PM (#17009593)
>can't think of a file manager though

http://dopus.com/ not exactly subscription, but you buy a major version, and each new major version is a new purchase.

I've seen this idea proposed countless times, but they always seem to either fail to deliver in terms of "FOSS" or turn out to be a kickstarter phantom project that never ships.

The latest phone I see people pinning their hopes on is https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Re:Retro Review: 2009 Mac Pro in 2018 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:17PM (#16675231)
I use a 2009 iMac daily. I've upgraded it to 8GB ram & a 1TB SSD and it works great.
Re:Why I dumped Google Maps and switched over to Bing on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @07:02PM (#16589143)
I don't need or use any of those things that Google has over the competition. And frankly, the majority of those features are well past what constitutes "mapping" in my opinion. Apple maps are accurate and up to date and their directions are mostly right. Bing maps are accurate and up to date and their directions are mostly right. From my own limited experience, OSM maps are more up to date than Google's in heavily populated areas.
Re:Fitter, happier, and other fantasies of modern life on Sunday March 11, 2018 @08:18PM (#16565442)
Back crunches are very much a real thing, and one of the core exercises in 5BX (https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rfburger/5bx-plan.pdf) Chart 2, Exercise 2
Re:Google's C++ Class on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:41PM (#16526480)
Is there a list of all classes available under developers.google.com ? I could not find one from the front page. Edit: found it, https://developers.google.com/products/#a
Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:45PM (#16462187)
Google seems to taken up a mantra of "if it ain't broke, break it" lately.
What country?
Re:My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:53PM (#15737213)
someone who makes things
If it can't meet current demand on the Tesla 3, how could it possibly ship much larger vehicles with presumably a much greater battery capacity in a relevant timeframe?
Why is blocking Facebook bad? I do not think the existence of Facebook has been a net-positive for society.
Re:Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:36PM (#15606122)
I found this video of Chuck speaking in 2011 just awe inspiring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBjuSCX8jE
All they need is a single incident, not even involving an actual explosion or deaths, and the brand will be irreversibly ruined forever. Why put your company branding on such a thin razorwire of acceptance in the first place?
There is a huge difference between sounding like an advanced feminine product, which from your follow up post is what you're getting at with the iPad comment, and using BOOM in the name of a company in an industry that has lots of dramatic media coverage and footage of mid-air explosions, landing explosions, explosions just after take off, and so on.
Re:After the end of the startup era on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:39PM (#15530082)
To answer your question, no.
Whoever chose that name for the company really didn't think things through.
Re:The Minimalists want you to be happy with less on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:12PM (#15455176)
I've always found the most joyous part of consumerism is the researching for a particular product pre-acquisition, rather than the product itself post-acquisition.

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