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“After years of typing on thin Apple keyboards, my fingers started to hurt. First a little, then badly. ” Patient: “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this” D
by melling 5y ago
“After years of typing on thin Apple keyboards, my fingers started to hurt. First a little, then badly. ”
Patient: “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this”
Doctor: “Then don’t do that”
I’ve been reading RSI stories for almost 30 years.
http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.htm...
Yes, coders will never type 180 wpm with most other solutions but isn’t it about time we found other ways to let people enter information with computers.
This solution from 7 years ago is memorable:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805053
- toyg 5y agoThat's going to eventually kill her neck. Maybe we should realize the human body is just not built for extremely repetitive actions, and work our way from there.
- melling 5y agoNo idea but that was 7 years ago. Hopefully, she devised another clever solution. Here’s one of the first stories I remember reading by the creator of TCL/Tk from the late 90’s https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php