I was at ~120wpm on qwerty before switching; I swithed completely once I knew where all the keys were. I was at about 15-20wpm at the time. Now I'm generally 50-60, after about a week.
@dynge@RL_Dane@sotolf
A bit, at this point, but I'm gaining fast. I've got short bursts of up to 80 wpm, and I figure if I can get up to 100 consistently, I'll be in pretty good shape.
The thing about colemak so far: while I don't type faster in it, at least not yet, It definitely gives me less stress in my hands and I can sustain speeds for longer.
Also, I intentionally waited until summer break to switch, which has helped.
@dynge@RL_Dane@sotolf
Might be worth checking something out I saw the other day—I believe monkeytype has a way to shuffle back and forth between multiple layouts, to help make sure you know how to use both.
@benjaminhollon@RL_Dane@sotolf yeah I have seen it. Have not tried it though. I think it is more of a game type. I understood it as it randomly changes during the typing. That's not exactly what I'm looking for
@sotolf@benjaminhollon@RL_Dane yeah I have a hope that since my qwerty typing isn't "correct" and basically only uses 5-6 of my fingers for qwerty, that I my brain may find it easier to switch because with colemak Im trying to learn proper hand placement and movement. So the typing experience is wildly different.
@dynge@benjaminhollon@RL_Dane I think there is something to that, if you have some kind of hook to hook your muscle memory into it's easier to keep apart :)
@sotolf@dynge@RL_Dane
In my case though, I never properly learned qwerty, I think, so I'm finding I have almost no memory of how to use it, now that I have learned a layout properly. XD
The furthest I ever got when learning qwerty was ~15-20wpm. The buildup to 120wpm was entirely based on muscle memory, not actual knowledge of where the keys were. That means I often will use the qwerty key still, since context-based memory still has it, but if I try to consciously locate a key, I can't.
@RL_Dane@sotolf@dynge Ha, no. I touch type. It’s just all based on muscle memory. If you told me to type something, I could easily, but if you asked me the location of a specific key if would take a hot minute to figure it out.
@benjaminhollon@sotolf@RL_Dane yeah I think I am starting to notice that too. When thinking about the location I get confused between colemak and qwerty at times now.
@dynge@benjaminhollon@RL_Dane haha :) trodde det bare var noen som hadde kommet på et eller annet random, men så så jeg at du var dansk og alt ga litt mer mening, dynge blir mest brukt om søpledynge på norsk, jeg regner med at konnotasjonene er litt finere på dansk :)
@sotolf@dynge@RL_Dane “I am not a teacher.” Inside joke in my mandarin class; we learned the phrase early on, thought it funny, and proceeded to respond with it whenever we weren’t sure what was going on. :)
@sotolf@dynge@RL_Dane I didn’t realize Japanese characters are that similar! I wonder how much that would stay the case for traditional Chinese; I learned simplified.
I remember reading a guy's blog on slashdot* circa 2000-1. He was a Chinese guy who had studied in America, living in Japan.
He had a much harder time absorbing the language than other students, because HE COULD READ many of the Kanji, but couldn't pronounce them. I remember he once mentioned how he would pronounce Tokyo in Mandarin, and it had no resemblance to "Tokyo."
According to my self-diagnostic routines (which are pretty detailed and accurate) I have been going through a period of high neuroplasticity since about last August. I’ve been definitely taking advantage of it every chance I get!
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
In my case, less of it has been around university in itself, and more due to living on my own for the first time and getting (and/or having) to make my own decisions about a lot of things that I never got to decide before.
Ah, that's what I'd call a life-chapter-marker. You will remember that time in your life fairly keenly. Life will really go into slow mo when you leave college unless you make a concerted effort to keep things revved up, intellectually, and also make sure to shake up the status quo in your life pretty often. I know many older people who couldn't tell you if they did something in 2010 or 1990. Life settles into a groove, and time kinda melts.
Due to the aforementioned mental diagnostic routines I developed about seven years ago when we moved from India to Malaysia, I have a very detailed memory and understanding of my mental state and development at any given time since then. It's been really handy, actually, and I'm not sure what originally triggered it. Any decision I make, no matter how absentminded at the time, can be traced back during later reflection to its exact motivations.
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
That was very soon after I began taking writing more seriously. It was about five months later that I first considered it a career, and the website redesign I initiated with that in mind was the basis of what is now readable.css.
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
Poetry doesn't make a great career. It doesn't sell well enough to live off of. So I say my point stands. ;)
(this is why I decided to start publishing my poetry on my site without trying anymore to sell it. Though I'm curious if it's improved enough now that I could sell it if I wanted.)
I think I'd have to write for fun, as I don't know how I'd ever make a living off of writing. The competition is just too ferocious, and now bloody ChatGPT. :P :(
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
ChatGPT is more a brick thrown into the pond that stirs anything up than actual competition, at least at this point. But I can see it making it harder to feel confident about trying to make a living in the industry.
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
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But as for knowing when I did what? No such luck for me; that's not how my brain tends to work. I think of eras of time in terms of where I lived. That's visible even in that last post, when I said that I developed this self awareness "when we moved from India to Malaysia", then used that knowledge to extrapolate the "seven years ago."
To have a good knowledge of what happened when, I think I may have to continue my nomadic lifestyle. :)
@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf
That's a fair point. I guess in part the location-based time thing is more about how I talk about time than how I think of it internally. I'll have to do some reflection to tell for sure.
(In case it helps give a window to my mind, the way I'd probably go about said reflection is to come up with a list of significant memories, then try to do an out-of-awareness description of when they happened, seeing how I describe the time. That can give me a good idea of what time-keeping method I associate with each event.)
I've never heard of that, but it sounds like a phallic reference XD
If you have a coffee maker, you can boil an egg. Maybe soft-boiled, I dunno. Kinda hard to control the temperature and duration.
But it can be done in a pinch.
Also, meat can be cooked with aluminum foil and an ordinary household iron.
@RL_Dane@msprout@dynge@sotolf
You make a hole in bread, then put it in the pan. Crack the egg so that the yolk lands in the hole. It ends up as a fried egg in the middle of toast. Really yummy.
@benjaminhollon@msprout@RL_Dane@dynge@sotolf They basically spend a lot of time in hotels, so they make these quick cut style cooking Tiktoks, where they use whatever is available to them, often the iron, or the little single cup hotel coffee maker to make pretty decent looking meals. It's pretty good as far as highly shareable short form brain candy social media content goes.
I remember this! VERY labor intensive, but fascinating result. You can eat four eggs and think you've only eaten one. Deceptively light-tasting.
P.S. WHOA. Is youtube blocking yt-dlp now?!? Or is the version on Debian just ancient and not up on the latest arms race with EL GOOG?
It worked until just a few days ago, I think.
@RL_Dane@msprout
Well this is also the version from the new NixOS channel that's barely a month old. (Which seems to have the same verion as unstable—they may backport it since getting new versions is important.) The 22.11 verion is 2023.3.4.
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