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Hands: What We Do With Them
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- danso 10y agoIf programming didn't take so much handiwork I think I would've taken knitting as something to do while watching TV. My roommate used to take her knitting to the coffee shop and pub, which inadvertently was a good conversation starter for guys.
- c54 10y agoLast year I developed tendonitis from bad laptop posture and stress. Any attempt to put my hands towards 'keyboard' position was extremely painful in both forearms. It was kinda mindbending just how useless I felt without my hands to type at my computer... I felt like I was missing a part of myself. It still flares up occasionally, I'm much more careful with my hands now. Hands, man.
- sneak 10y agoThis is why I don't put my hands into small, tight spaces of unknown contents (or at least my right, if completely unavoidable). I imagine most people don't really think of such things. Even a minor injury (e.g. tendonitis) can wreak havoc on one's day to day life.
- walterbell 10y agoTry a keyboard that can be "tented" to the natural position of your hands, http://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/ http://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/
- pimlottc 10y agoI was looking at their mobile ergonomic keyboard, have you tried it? There aren't many options in that space. For all their conveniences, laptop ergonomics are really terrible.
- woodandsteel 10y agoThe 2015 book <i>Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity</i> (MIT Press)by the noted philosopher Colin McGinn argues that the freeing of the hand through bipedal locomotion lead to language and the great explosion in intelligence that produced <i>homo sapien</i>
- woodandsteel 10y agoDarn, I thought that would produce italics.
- walterbell 10y agoYou can use asterisks to start/stop italics
- Razengan 10y agoI do wish we could see what octopuses can achieve given lifespans longer than a few years, and maybe slightly less dangerous environments.