rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

> Does anyone else think that standard advice about finger positioning is designed for people with far longer pinkies than humans actually have?

For example, the image below (from the "touch typing" Wikipedia article) clearly seems to depict some sort of humanoid alien with fingers of exactly equal length.

I may not know what a natural typing position is, but I know it's not *that*

Everyone deserves to eat bread they've baked for themselves. As a materialist, I don't believe food tastes better just because you make it yourself 😉 , but realizing you have the power to make fresh bread *any time you want*: That sh*t's intoxicating.
#food #baking

Best advice I can give to new programers:

* Dont be scared to write it wrong, you can always rewrite it.

When I code i expect to rewrite it.. i usually write a shitty version of the idea just to make sure the idea works then i rework it several times and consider the overall design before commiting. If yuo try to do it right the first time through you wont do anythijng at all, or you will come up with a perfect idea that the second you start to implement you realize doesnt work at all... doing it wrong is how you learn to do it right.

"Fork the Government" - Planet Money podcast https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949764249/fork-the-government

Fascinating story about how civic hackers helped Taiwan manage the pandemic. It's amazing how much someone can help by just slapping together an app in a few hours using some public APIs.

The executive producer of Dr. Who states that the doctor didn't know his real age (implying when he does state an age its a guess or a lie).

"The thing I keep banging on about is that he doesn't know what age he is. He's lying. How could he know, unless he's marking it on a wall? He could be 8,000 years old, he could be a million. He has no clue. The calendar will give him no clues."

In retrospect this makes a lot of sense. When your ona different planet at a different point in time every other day you have no real reference point to judge your own age by. Eventually you simply have no idea if you 100, 1000 or a million.. Days and years on planets are all different and you never stay for long enough to count it...

#DrWho #TV

I really do not grok people who go through life not creating anything, not questioning anything, taking the path of least resistance every time. But this is the norm???

#Vim hint of the week (because I'm searching this regulary again):
You can insert the word under the cursor while in command mode with:
<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>
This comes in handy when you want to [s]ubstitute a word, without having it to retype again.

:%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/newWord/g

#Vim #Vi #Editor #Programming #VimTips #VimTricks