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It's pretty telling that RMS had to stop coding because CTS. Edit: Not carpal tunnel syndrome, as he explains in https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html h
by ihaveajob 6y ago
It's pretty telling that RMS had to stop coding because CTS.
Edit: Not carpal tunnel syndrome, as he explains in https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
"""In the mid 90s I had bad hand pain, so bad that most of the day I could only type with one finger. The FSF hired typists for me part of the day, and part of the day I tolerated the pain. After a few years I found out that this was due to the hard keys of my keyboard. I switched to a keyboard with lighter key pressure and the problem mostly went away.
My problem was not carpal tunnel syndrome: I avoid that by keeping my wrists pretty straight as I type. There are several kinds of hand injuries that can be caused by repetitive stress; don't assume you have the one you heard of."""
- crispyambulance 6y ago> The FSF hired typists for me part of the day... That must have been a job from hell, probably went through a lot of them!
- falcolas 6y agoManual transcription is still a thing today. Stenographers being one of the more well-known examples.
- zozbot234 6y agoStenotype keyboards are way better from a RSI point of view, though. Unfortunately, no one has come up with the "theories" or systems that would allow use of them for specialized input like programming.
- jrockway 6y agoI've seen a few conference presentations about using steno for programming. It does seem to involve building your own library of commands, but people seem to have done it and use it daily.
- kybernetikos 6y agoPlover is often used for this, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRFKZGWrmrM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRFKZGWrmrM http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/