moogleii

> Am I particularly odd for only using my thumb for space?

If you're using Windows, no, that's inherently the clumsiness I was describing. If you're using Mac, I'd say, yeah, kinda. The thumb can easily and ergonomically handle the space, cmd, and option keys.

IMO, all your examples fall under the awkwardnesses that I had mentioned. Under a normal QWERTY layout, ~, 1, Tab, Q, Caplocks, Shift, and Ctrl are all controlled by the pinky. Under Windows, executing a simple CTRL combo means the pinky is no longer responsible for ~, 1, Tab, Q, Caplocks, Shift. That all moves to the ring finger, as you said, which means you've moved away from the normal home row typing position. Quite clumsy IMO.

Vs Mac, the thumb uses CMD, and the pinky remains in home row typing position and can handle all the keys it was originally responsible for. Both hands can stay on the home row at all times. Many simple keyboard combos can now be done with one hand without "exception logic" that runs contrary to standard typing. ctrl+shift in your example becomes cmd+shift, all easily doable on one hand. This also unlocks lots of mouse + keyboard combos since many left-side combos can now be done easily with one hand.

For the skilled typist who is very familiar with touch typing, more complex combos using both hands are even simpler now, because both hands can stay on the home row.

> If I use left-thumb for left-command instead then I can only figure a way that involves moving that hand completely away from the home row

I'm a little puzzled by this, why would your hand have to move away from the home row? Just so we're on the same page, on a Mac-standard keyboard, the cmd key is where the alt key is on a Windows-style keyboard, so directly adjacent to the spacebar.

It took me about 1 month of pain to convert. But now I find cmd far more logical than ctrl. Ctrl asks you to give up a pinky, a home key finger, to execute common chords - far more critical than a thumb, which is already designated for space and chord/modifier keys anyway, on both Windows or Mac. As a result, Windows requires two hands or awkward movement to hit something like ctrl-a, ctrl-z, ctrl-q, etc. The equivalent on Mac can all be one-handed.

And yet women seem to be defeating men at ultramarathons. I think more research is needed.

It isn't the best written piece, but your snippet feels taken grossly out of context. The rest of it:

"A common response is to invent new work, ask for status reports, and add bureaucracy. A better response is to go back to working on technical problems. This keeps the manager’s skills fresh and gets them more respect from their reports. The manager should turn into a high-powered spare worker, rather than a papersshuffler."

While being an IC and a manager is quite challenging, I think it's worth discussing the various permutations of it (only one of which is what the author has written about). It can lead to all sorts of systems (round robin leadership within a team being probably one of the most experimental). But for a more conservative, traditional system, there are many examples, e.g. Apple leadership coming out of former ICs.

Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44828559

That would be an aside, or a comment, not the point of the article.

Recently learned that one of Ben Franklin's sons was a loyalist. He fled to England after the war.

I didn't get the impression this was totally replacing static routes. Seemed to be augmenting it. But also, while your concerns are valid, I don't think they are large enough to not try these things.

Fairly misleading wording with such lines like "Most of the funding for all of the major browsers is going away"... it makes it sound like it goes directly towards the individual browser budgets. That might be true of Mozilla since they don't make that many products tbh, but with Apple and Microsoft, there's no evidence Google's payments don't just go straight into a general fund.

Dig deeper. Use a shovel instead of a spade.

There is an art to communicating that I think people learn around their college years...

On iOS, you can break through dnd with repeated calls (unless you turn that off, too).

That's still awful. We've all become complicit of sites spamming popups after first load. It's so annoying.

A VPN should help with that. E.g. for the Mac folks, Private Relay on vs off was a delta of about 100 city blocks for me.

Agree there was a lot of filler, but to be fair, your odd out-of-place zinger is just as annoying as the podcast. Fairly unattractive. And the cycle continues.

I tried them for awhile, but there was always just enough false positives to make it too intrusive for normal work flow, especially if you're normally a fast typer. In the end, it was better to either just add more thumb keys in a custom layout, or eschew such clever shortcuts altogether when using a normal keyboard.

I'm a bit out of the loop but wouldn't hosts have the original source material that they uploaded? Similar to how users have the source images/videos to whatever they upload to TikTok and Instagram? I suspect neither offer an export either.

Additionally, the author complains that an Apple Podcast user has to go through the app (and all its restrictions), but again, not that different from Instagram posts. As a user, you must go through Instagram to see photos. These users aren't there just for generic hosting, but also for the network effects. For those that want generic hosting, there are other more appropriate services, like google photos or maybe Flickr (or self hosting).

I'm not arguing the Podcasts/Instagram model is better, just that there is fairly old precedent, so the purported shock value seems pretty low.

The child in me is excited, but the adult in me is skeptical of the stairs mode. Unless there's some very obvious physical signal that the skates are in stairs mode, I can see some people injuring themselves trying to mimic the stairs demo because the skates weren't actually in stairs mode.

Maybe it was capped in gold or something

Unlike Windows, there's a separation of concepts between "application" and "windows" on Mac. Closing all the windows of an app doesn't imply closing the app. I actually think the Windows way is sloppy (and I came from Windows). I want that kind of granular control. So many times back in the day, I'd accidentally close all my Internet Explorer windows, and have to pay the time-cost of reopening the app from scratch. It's less annoying now with SSDs, but reopening an app is still more expensive than opening a new window for an already running process.

If I want the app closed, cmd+q / alt+f4. Repeated cmd+w / ctrl+w shouldn't also close the app (IMO).

I think he's saying sane businesses will stay away from GCP, leaving the hobbyists, and there aren't enough of them to sustain GCP.

I do get excited when I happen to find a mmWave hotspot and can pull 2 gigabit on my phone (for what purpose, I don't know), but after that, life proceeds as normal.

Yep, much of this experiment already happened: Android, Windows, etc. If it is so easy / steady-state to have both experiences simultaneously on one platform, why didn't it happen on either of those two? It will absolutely devolve into the lowest denominator.

And that's why I choose not to be on Android.

They're not enforcing it, they're simply incentivizing tip offs. Not much different than any other crime tip system the government has run. It's still up to the government to actually enforce it once the evidence has been submitted. If the agency wanted to, they could simply discard/ignore all footage.

I have never witnessed anything like his comment. If it happens, it hasn't directly impacted my living here. Still my first choice city in the US.

Police are everywhere in Manhattan. Pre-pandemic, it would be odd not to see several per day on patrol on a normal day to day. In SoCal, I can go days without seeing one.

Having said that, they don't have the best rep for enforcing traffic violations here.

I think Microsoft's play was to further strengthen Game Pass to the point that Sony can't deny it on their platform anymore (or at least make it hurt more to continue doing so). It makes sense that MS won't remove games from Sony's access, but it does give them more levers to play with. "Hey this game is 'free' on Game Pass (PC + XBox). You can still buy it for PlayStation, though."

And Sony's move is simply a defense against that.

> Tension joints for wood are seen in classic Japanese construction

If you’re referring to the wood bracket system, that is true, but for posterity, it didn’t originate in Japan. Imported, very likely via Korea (which also uses it in their classic construction), from China.

Unfortunately it can also be taken a bit too far. It’s not uncommon to essentially buy yourself out of punitive criminal justice via an apology and some cash (jidan/gomen money). It’s not totally unlike a settlement here, except it’s much more acceptable as an opening move (as a victim, you should seriously consider it). It seems to be inline with the goal of preserving social harmony and making “it” go away asap.