For most of us in the medical field, typing is an activity as important as speaking and one of the most practical and useful skills to possess (I have come to the conclusion that I learned only 2 truly practical things while in elementary and high school: English and typing). Regardless of sex, if we type the way we talk, all of us do a lot of typing. Additionally, women are better communicators because they have a larger catalog of facial expressions and body movements. 1 This difference is even present in young girls, who tend to be more linguistically gifted than their male counterparts. Women speak an average of 7000 words per day, whereas men average only about 2000. Although most editors I know are men, women are much more facile with words, spoken and written. Personally, I wish we could all switch to using a base twelve number system, and a better standard system of measurements based on that.Editing is a mostly lonely activity, with many hours spent staring at the computer screen and keyboard. I like A6 size pocket notebooks pretty well. ISO paper sizes have an ugly too-skinny proportion (√2) and are hard to design for because they don’t fit a grid, but it’s not really that big a problem in the end. inches and feet and miles is pretty much a wash, for practical purposes. Temperature in ☌ is inconvenient compared to ☏ for human-relevant comparisons but it’s not really too big a deal. In the kitchen it’s nice that metric users tend to weigh dry ingredients instead of using volume measures, but on the flip side everything measured in decimals creates a lot of unnecessary arithmetic. I’m not at all convinced that it helps anyone else, but it’s also. Overall the Metric system is definitely helpful compared to the “imperial” system for undergraduate science students. Too bad for electrodynamics students that MKS units displaced CGS units. Thankfully the French revolution’s terrible metric time system and metric angle measures never caught on. it sucks in many ways, but at least it’s standard. On the upside, even while keyboards turned to ****, personal computers spread to every corner of the planet.Īs for the metric system. Can’t really blame any country in particular for the cost cutting, but it’s hardly a surprise that a $5 keyboard isn’t as nice to type on as a $1000 keyboard. Then in the late 80s we downgraded to $100 keyboards, then $30 keyboards, and ultimately by 2000 or so we got down to $5 keyboards. We got rid of all the (inflation-adjusted) $1000 keyboards and downgraded to $300 keyboards in the 1980s. Most of the features that lead to RSI and slow typing, as well as ugly beige/gray plastic everywhere, can be blamed on the Germans. But many of the problems constraining keyboard designs in arbitrary and suboptimal ways come from German standards from the 80s, which basically doomed the wonderful tall keyboards of the 70s, and enshrined the modern standard shape. The enter key was originally designed the way is it on the ISO layout, you can see that on old typewriters and computer keyboards (even the US ones), when creating the US layout and rearranging the physical layout (for no reason at all anyway), they could have at least done something useful, like the HHKB did for example, by playing the backspace-key directly above the enter-key and putting the additional symbols in the upper row.īut that's just how Americans are, and always where, they don't give a ****, and as long as the USA refuses to accept the standard ISO layout, along with the metrical system and so many other things, you will have to deal with it.įor what it’s worth, all the standard keyboard layouts are ****. And you know what? That's probably what actually happened. Its like they didn't know how to fill-out the gab above the ANSI enter key and just put a random symbol which nobody uses frequently and made the key bigger for no reason whatsoever apart from being big enough to fill out the gap. I personally don't necessarily mind to use the Qwerty layout, but the ANSI physical arrangement of the enter-key, / \ key and backspace-key are driving me mad.
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