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by ahelwer 6y ago
Custom-built keyboards are very cool, but I will never understand putting all this love into a non-ergonomic design. Typing on something with no separation or tilt murders your wrists! Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts will spend ages refinin
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Per your chart, single-thread performance has been basically flat since 2012. There's also negligible difference between SATA and NVME SSDs for regular desktop work (there are many videos demonstrating this). I have a six-year-old comp
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Take a look at this story, where covid-positive hairdressers interacted with over a hundred clients (all involved wearing masks) without infecting any of them: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm692
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes, this has also helped me (at one point my wrists were bad enough I had to start mousing with my non-dominant hand). It seems like pulling exercises such as deadlifts or pull-ups or just rock climbing in general help the most.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Currently I use the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, an enormous dinosaur which can reliably be bought for $20 used. I had the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard for a few years before that, which I liked, but the build quality was very ba
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The three most impactful things you can do to avoid wrist injuries are: (1) Ensuring your chair, desk, and keyboard are set up so your wrists are straight when typing (2) Using a split/tilted keyboard so your wrists do not need to rota
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There are only a couple competitors that are split, ortholinear, and mechanical (ergodox and some small custom others). They all charge over $300 afaik. You can get decent split/standard/membrane keyboards for $80-120 from goldtou
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've been getting deep into the home office ergonomics hole now that I'll be working from home indefinitely. There's a real danger here - I generally pride myself as someone who is conscientious of consumerist tendencies, but
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Kinesis Freestyle Pro is more similar, except for the ortholinear layout.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
No no you don't understand, people working of their own volition is distortion of the job market .
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Interested in your experience here. Do you feel safe when, for example, crossing the street?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
With coronavirus lockdown I've taken to going on long strolls while listening to audiobooks. Since I don't like wearing noise-canceling headphones due to situational awareness concerns (opting for a cheap pair of Koss PortaPros),
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Very clearly written, excellent read. Thanks for linking.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You can draw a direct line between: (1) Israel's status as a member of the US empire and its interests in the middle east (2) Testing & development of weapons & tactics against the Palestinian population by Israel (3) Training
825.
by ahelwer 6y ago
Israel is an extension of American interests in the Middle East, an esteemed member of the empire. Palestine is, among other things, used as a test lab for riot control tactics & equipment [0]. Maybe you're from the UK where it&#x2
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The system can of course continue to grind & lurch for a very long period of time. However, here we have a global forcing function: climate change, and the likely mass refugee crisis. America is not set up politically to welcome those r
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This phenomenon was also described by Foucault, and is now usually called Foucault's Boomerang[0]: "It should never be forgotten", Foucault said, "that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and jurid
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Imperial Wars Always Come Home(patrickwyman.substack.com)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If anyone is interested in example of a reversible operation, the simplest one is logical negation of a single bit. The second-simplest is CNOT, or controlled-not, where one bit is the "control" bit and another bit is the "ta
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The short answer is that all of this info is out there, but it doesn't live in pop science articles. For materials scientists the value proposition is clear: quantum computers will enable efficient quantum chemistry simulations. Here i
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Everyone I know who identifies as a stoic is an emotionally stunted software engineer who realistically isn't tasked with stoically shouldering very much of anything.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, you can't rewrite anything in TLA+. It's a formal specification language, not verification language. So you usually use it to catch spec- or algorithm-level logic & concurrency bugs then manually write the code to corres
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes. Like stoicism. You aren't emotionally insensitive/unintelligent, you're a masculine Roman general!
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Only on Hacker News could you find someone taking issue with the widely-used & understood phrase "cold shower".
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Your ability to draw reason out of text is flawed, then. Your dog has no ability to influence human politics whatsoever; you do.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I will answer this question in two ways: one, I will tell you how I learned, and two I will tell you how I would have liked to have learned with the benefit of hindsight. Different people will value one more than the other, but both are mor
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Popular science has been trying to explain quantum mechanics to people for well over half a century now, and it hasn't worked one time. All we got was a bunch of woo like What the Bleep do We Know?! You need math. There's no oth
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, anyone could yes. That's why if you want messages you're sending today to remain secret for longer than a decade, you use a cipher that isn't fully broken by quantum computers like AES. It's really just the key dis
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by ahelwer 6y ago
NIST is already well into a post-quantum crypto competition. Any serious user of cryptography will have switched to the new protocols by the time quantum computers become powerful enough to crack production RSA. Cloudflare has already proto
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Quantum computers are modeled with extremely basic linear algebra. Quantum states are vectors and gates are matrices which multiply those vectors to get new vectors. How much simpler do you want? You can explain most of it as rotations arou

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