The thought of learning a new keyboard is kind of scary. Is there any true difference? 30 years of typing on a QWERTY here. I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade?
>I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade?
Assuming you can already type that fast, 3-6 months at most I would think (with daily practice / full immersion). My best speed with QWERTY was 160wpm and I was able to get to 120wpm+ with Dvorak and later Workman in under a year each. One big tip I have is to not avoid typing particular things. Enable the punctuation, symbols, numbers. You're gonna be slow at everything at first, so might as well train in a well-rounded way. A friend of mine chose not to do this and struggles greatly with typing numbers and symbols. monkeytype is my favorite site to train speed, but there are some others that are useful for the first few days as you're drilling where the keys are and getting used to typing common bigrams.
Not nearly a decade. There are great resources that start you with just a few keys and add more over time. Once you have all 26 letters, it’s time to move on to MonkeyType or an equivalent. You will absolutely have reduced output for a few weeks. I notice a huge difference compared with QWERTY when typing on a MacBook all day. You should not switch layouts for speed, but rather for comfort. The GitHub link contains a few interesting graphics about efficiency if you’re interested, but the very high-level result is sizable comfort gains.
Probably around one month. Using Colemak Mod-DH on an external keyboard and QWERTY on my Macbook. My brain is switching automatically, cannot use them in a reverse order.
I loved it! As soon as I start to do these things, I get stressed and become much worse! Anyone remember the car game where you raced against others by typing? That was fun but forgotten the link.
I had some typing classes in middle school but they never stuck. The only reason I became a reasonably fast and confident typer—which ended up being amazing for everything from work (emails and Slack more than code!) to HN to writing a lot on Quora—was Type Racer :P
It's amazing how much easier gamification can make it for me to stick with something.
My boss is a designer and does the same. He has come into a mature product's codebase, the only project the company has, he called me about 6 months ago and started boasting with a screenshare showing me how he had 5 terminals open and smashing through ideas straight into production.
Now the system is failing, he thinks I am going to go in and fix all of his problems. Told him straight what I told him 6 months ago, he owns it, so get it fixed.
Not sure what happens to myself or the company by the end of the year.
Needs to be more stories about these people injecting AI Hopium and destroying their product, there isn't enough of them.
Does anyone ever wonder why a doorbell needs to be connected? I do, so I don't have one. Diminishing returns by design? I've never been like "oh I am glad my doorbell is connected to my network". Wondering what marketing I didn't see (and fall for).
A normal, physical doorbell is 24/7 connected to electricity, else it wouldn't work. It typically has no surveillance capabilities, except when used, it makes a sound/signal/buzz. That's typically its purpose.
A 'smart' doorbell [meta: I hate this terminology, and will just call it 'doorbell camera' for the rest of this post] needs electricity in order to do the very same, but it also serves another purpose: record (via camera and microphone, and sometimes other sensors ie. IR camera). This recording of data can be stored, analyzed, etc. For example, you can perform ML on the feed to detect dogs, you can do data analysis on it for example when postal service usually arrives, you can record postal service stows packages away in the premises, etc. In order for it to be analyzed, it needs networking capabilities (wired, or wireless). Doorbells need to be serviceable, so they can typically be dismantled from the outside. Wired and wireless can both be MITM'ed, and DoS'ed. If that happens, you want the feed to be recorded as much as possible, in order to record the attacker. You also want to secure your feed. In order to MITM or DoS a wired doorbell, physical access is required which is why a wired doorbell is superior IMO.
There's no need for your camera to have internet access. Some ports have to be accessible from your NVR; that's it: you need to be able to update the firmware (e.g. to protect against vulnerabilities such as KRACK), and you need to be able to record your stream (e.g. access the RTSP stream). A speaker or screen can be useful to communicate with a visitor. Your NVR can manage all of this, and so can you (usually via a reverse proxy with internet access, but we shouldn't neglect authentication here). The doorbell camera itself doesn't need such. It does, however, need some form of networking capabilities.
So what I do: apart from having it in a separate VLAN, I record my feed, and immediately store it locally (on-prem) and remotely (via adequate internet access; in my case, not in cloud). However, my doorbell camera is connected via Wi-Fi. This is where the story e
There's also different levels of smart doorbells. Our doorbell is smart, when it rings, it sends a notification to our phones, but we don't have a camera hooked up to it.
I honestly write it off. "especially if you ask the right questions" just collapses to being a bag holder because I didn't ask the right questions with or without AI.
Ah interesting, I seen the title "run into" as "bump into" or in this context, get to where 100k people are. I don't know any US addresses far from population centers so I pumped in Area 51!
I thought the same thing and further that it really depends on what time of the day it was and who was out of their houses to be able to run into them.
Toyota... When we look after a dog for a few days for a friend, it beeps. When I put shopping on the back seat, it beeps. Drives me wild. It "beep... beep... beep..." for a minute then "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP".
I wouldn't get another because of how annoying that is.
I once made the mistake of renting one of those cars, putting my backpack and some groceries behind me, and driving straight onto a freeway. This absolute sh*tbox was beeping so loud I was afraid for my hearing. I drove some 10 miles like this before I could pull over and move the things. I'd not set foot in one of those cars ever again (same goes for Lexus). I was dreaming of really bad things happening to people who thought it was a good idea to emit series of very loud beeps while the car is driving.
I once rented a VW which beeped the seat belt warning at me from the weight of my phone in the passenger seat. It was absolutely insane. Seat belt nags are an utterly terrible feature.
I am finding an interest in this subject as well. Just wondered if you (or any reading) had any good book recommendations about the age of sail. I seen one of the Spanish first ship of the line's flags and the scale was incredible. Plenty of stuff going on in the UK as well, but I'd like to visit Netherlands and Spain's museums too. Hopefully we both make the trip some day to learn more.
The way I answer this question is, I don't because my boss is saying to basically accept whatever LLMs spit out which is fine by me because I have explained the risks of doing this to our only product and it was shrugged off. I am both disgusted and excused and just take the salary.
