I did not know those existed. But I'm not surprised Emacs users would be seeking them out.
Nor am I surprised that an entire writeup on Emacs-triggered hand strain is one of the hyperlinks on the article you linked.
image transcription: picture of a statue of the Hindu deity Durga. The statue has ten arms.
caption underneath the picture reads: in Hinduism, Durga is revered as the goddess of war, motherhood, and protection. But did you know she also wrote the default key bindings for Emacs?
I voted for Harris, but I feel like it's pretty obvious why someone would vote third party instead.
One need only reject the premise that voting should be a strategic act of harm reduction. Mind you, I'm not saying "is" here. I'm saying "should be".
We may not take their approach, but you have to admit that there's value to it. They are embracing the world as it ought to be, whereas we are trying to work with the reality of the situation as we perceive it.
And we could be perceiving incorrectly. For all we know, Trump could loose-cannon his way into making Netanyahu's whole party lose their next election. It may not be likely, but nothing in this world is certain.
For all we know, the Heritage Foundation could destroy so much of the government and economy so rapidly that it weakens all of the property rights and FBI operations aimed against self-sufficient mutual aid, and communes start springing up all over the place. It's not likely without massive turmoil, starvation, and bloodshed. But however unlikely, we cannot predict the future!
Cyncism is costly in terms of mental health and well-being. In order to choose pragmatism over principles, we must accept a reality where no good choices exist. But that's not something we can do everywhere. We can't repeatedly choose the "least miserable option" and still be able to hold ourselves together and function. It's just not possible.
Humans need hope to survive. They need a hill they can hang onto. They need to be able to say, "on this ground, I fight for what should be rather than what is."
Some people's hill is their ballot.
I, on the other hand, will start a sentence, -- something like, "but regardless, what really gets overlooked is..." -- and realize that from word 1, I didn't even have the concept of a point.
I realize, in that moment, that I was ENTIRELY reciting tokens.
A pile of sentient filth crawls out of a sewer somewhere, and first thing conservatives want to do is make it into a State Senator.
How surprising.
From his Idaho GOP page: his number one priority is to remove rape and incest exceptions.
Issue 1 . The top issue for Idaho is to abolish the unnecessary, harmful and wasteful curse of abortion. I will introduce legislation that eliminates the current affirmative defense for having an abortion in accordance with state guidelines. The only exception to the prohibition on abortion is to save the life of the mother.
Women are not good for the press in England under martial law...
... and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.
You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to help.
A lot of people are offering explanations, but I think I'm going to give one too.
Think of recoil in a gun. If you don't have a mental image of it, watch a few youtube videos of people firing handguns. Look for videos of big, high-recoil handguns, like the Desert Eagle or the Magnum (or the Super Ruger Redhawk according to chat-GPT).
You need to get a good look at handguns pushed backwards as they are fired.
Now think about this: those bullets aren't pushing against an atmosphere. They are pushing only against the inside of a gun.
But when this tiny, tiny bullet pushes super-fast against the gun, using the gun to accelerate to incredibly high speeds very quickly... it pushes the gun really hard in the other direction.
Get that mental image into your head. Small object can push large object with a lot of force by kicking off of large object with insane speed.
Now: Take away the person holding the gun. Take away the planet. Take away the atmosphere. Put that gun in space and pull the trigger again. (Just make sure to use a gun that has modern ammunition that doesn't require oxygen to fire).
What happens to all that recoil? What does the recoil do to the gun now? The bullet still goes flying out of the chamber. Still does this by pushing against the gun.
Hopefully it should now be easy to imagine that the gun will start moving.
Rocket fuel is basically a tank full of bullets.
The main function of rocket fuel is "heavy stuff that is shoved out of the spaceship to make it move."
The reason we use highly explosive fuel is because "shoving heavy stuff away from you at the speed of a bullet" is going to move you more than "shoving heavy stuff away from you at normal speed."
Does this make any sense?
Plus "math skills" is one of those areas where stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophesies have incredibly influential power.
Math is difficult for everyone, and emotional factors like, "having the confidence of yourself and your peers" are important in making it through difficulty.
Oh, you're coming from Ubuntu! That's a much more manageable transition.
Yeah, going directly from Windows to NixOS is a harsh transition.
I'm finding some details in this stackoverflow question
According to the question's first comment,
Those default arguments get filled in when you're invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn't do that. –
Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05
Then one of the answers says:
This worked for me:
nix-build -E 'with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}'
Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.
I don't currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I'm not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it's more user friendly and I'm not quite ready for NixOS.
I know why: and are further from the home row than . is millimeters from the pinkie finger on either side. Your pinkie can reach that thing while the other three fingers stay put. is in a similarly easy position, (and, in fact, another bit of Emacs advice I ran across is "switch with ", which feels like it wouldn't be "often recommended" for Emacs users if default Emacs was conducive to the standard qwerty keyboard layout.)
The bottom row of the keyboard is just too far from the home row. strains my right hand so much that I rarely reach for it instinctively, and using my left? Gotta say, whoever chose (zap-to-char) and (scroll-down-command) as the punishments upon any failed attempt at reaching M-x really knew how to intimidate the newcomers and the slow-learners (like me) to these heavy-duty text editors.
The same story goes for . The Odyssey that stands between my right pinkie and is so easily blown off-course that said pinkie never volunteers to embark when I think "" for fear it will never see its wife Penelope again... which means I end up typing C-x (and all that follows) entirely with my left hand... which stretches my left hand off the home row and trashes my accuracy.
But I feel like I should note at this point: I have large hands and unusually broad shoulders, and if one of my hands is resting on the home row in a comfortable position (75-80 degrees), the other one is reaching the home row at a stark diagonal (50-60 degrees). Maybe I'm the unusual one. Maybe I'm a rare kind of person who needs to be using a rare keyboard to accommodate my stature. And maybe everyone else can use Emacs just fine (... though, again, I note: there are a few too many ergonomic hacks for Emacs available online for that to be the case).
Main point: for me -- and apparently a decent number of forum users giving each other Emacs advice online -- the bottom-row modifiers are hard to hit. And it should come as no surprise, considering how far those keys are from the home row.