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lgunsch commented on Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023) aresluna.org/the-primitiv... · Posted by u/kens

gwd · 2 days ago

So did you actually get any faster?

I switched to Colemak pro'lly 15 years ago, and while my fingers certainly move around a lot less, I don't think my top speed on typeracer.com has improved over what I was able to do on QWERTY before switching, nor do I seem to make fewer errors.

On the whole 1) I do like Colemak a bit better, but 2) I don't think it was worth the switch, although 3) it's certainly not worth a switch back. I think 4) if everyone started with Colemak things would be better, but 5) given that they don't, I'm not sure I'd recommend anyone else choose Colemak over QWERTY if they're learning, based on my own experience.

What's kind of weird is that with all the ink / bits spilt over this issue, all we have are two 50+-year-old studies whose raw data are unavailable. How hard would it really be to re-run an RCT?

lgunsch · 2 days ago

I'm happy I switched to Colemak around 13 years ago. Mostly due to elbow pain. I do find it made a difference there.

In general, I do type faster than before, and faster than many people around me. That's likely only because I actually had to practice.

lgunsch commented on Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024) jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-... · Posted by u/walterbell

lgunsch · 5 months ago

I've seen a number of ESP32 IoT devices here on HN, and I haven't heard many of them use firmware encryption with an eFuse.

In this case, it would have been pretty hard to create a certificate if you couldn't read the firmware.

But, also pretty impressed at the same time. I think this is the first Hacker News article I've read about an ESP32 IoT device which has any encryption at all.

lgunsch commented on The Format Dialog in Windows NT twitter.com/davepl1968/st... · Posted by u/develatio

aargh_aargh · a year ago

I may be misremembering, but Dave has spoken on his Dave's Garage Youtube channel about running a separate software business selling small utilities and later selling some of them to Microsoft. This might have been one of them. A quick search confirms that he also claims that here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...

lgunsch · a year ago

He talks about it in one of his videos. The zip directory was a product of a side hustle of his, which Microsoft then bought out. In the video he comments how much easier it was to integrate when he had access to more internal apis.

lgunsch commented on Ask HN: Does Microsoft Teams work in Firefox for you? · Posted by u/ParetoOptimal

lgunsch · 2 years ago

I haven't checked in many months, but in the past it never has. It kind of semi-works but it's pretty buggy. I use Chrome for teams.

I'm on Arch Linux.

lgunsch commented on Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup duplicity.us/... · Posted by u/GTP

lgunsch · 2 years ago

Years ago I used a very simple bash script font-end for Duplicity called Duply. It worked very well for the half-dozen years or so I used it.

lgunsch commented on Comic Code: Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface tosche.net/fonts/comic-co... · Posted by u/orphea

lgunsch · 2 years ago

This is my most favorite font to date. I've tried lots of others, but I've enjoyed this one the most. 100% worth the purchase.

lgunsch commented on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 github.com/Airblader/i3... · Posted by u/harporoeder

stoppingin · 3 years ago

I've been a long time i3wm user, and I couldn't be happier with my workflow. What network managers are people using together with i3? I've been using wicd for a while, however with Debian deprecating Python2 this won't be viable for long. I haven't found another lightweight GUI network manager which works well with i3. This might not be the perfect place to ask, however I don't use Reddit.

lgunsch · 3 years ago

I use iwd and systemd-networkd. I don't use may applet or gui control. With my setup I just and up ignoring network configuration the majority of the time.

Edit: I've found iwd such a huge improvement over past wireless networking solutions. It's a big improvement.

lgunsch commented on Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022 · Posted by u/impish9208

lgunsch · 3 years ago

I've used Roam Research for note taking for the last year. Before that, I spent two months trying out a dozen competitors. Using it the last year has been amazing for me. I definitely can't go without it now.

lgunsch commented on Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online duplicati.com/... · Posted by u/memorable

lgunsch · 3 years ago

I've been using Duply as a simple CLI front end to Duplicity (not Duplicati) for years now. It's worked great for me on many servers and personal machines.