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Thanks for the response! Typing that paragraph in dvorak definitely felt smoother than qwerty. The tent is a good idea for handling the switch, maybe I'll be a convert yet

Thanks for the detailed response!

> My diet, for example, is pretty much a model of what many people would ideally like to eat

Can I ask what this consists of?

Can I ask how long did it take you to be touch typing on dvorak and how would you describe the benefits?

I like the idea of 'better' input methods including key layout but in reality I've found it simpler to stick to the defaults of the world. I'd be interested to hear your experiences

"Let's stop pretending education is a public good", now that's a dystopian phrase if I've ever heard one.

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Perfect example, exactly why I don't use dvorak despite hearing its praises constantly. We live in a qwerty world.

Your experience is unsurprising. It depends on how much time you spend in a default configuration and how disparate your config is to that default.

I have no qualms using default vim despite it not being my standard method of work, but I still hate the feeling of any case where some muscle memory sequence does not result in what I expect. Ideally I don't want to have to think about anything outside of the problem at hand at all, and this is exactly the kind of thing that breaks immersion.

Because of this, among other reasons, I like small configs, standard input methods, programs with sane defaults and having a simple dotfiles repo.

On this note I can't wait til the next best set of standard input/output comes along, like AR screen so we can move around freely and naturally while working... that's the dream

I compiled hello world in Rust into wasm the other day for the first time and it was incredibly satisfying for whatever reason. New technology is fun I guess.

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I used a vim config that was intuitive to me and that I loved before I used much of default vim and that's exactly how I felt... so...

I'd say the most basic advantages a web app has for a user are no install, cross platform support and same look and feel across those platforms. These advantages may not seem all that important to the technically inclined but they are massive.

From the producer side: web applications are faster to prototype, develop, publish and monetize than desktop applications. This is also a massive advantage for the average application, cost wins.

The main advantages a native desktop application still has are performance, native look & feel and native feature support.

Purists will argue these native features are super important (they are in particular cases), meanwhile economics will keep pushing towards more web and electron apps. Such is life.

I think this is the reality for most areas, it's never been simpler to actually get projects doing something useful in the wild

The feature creep at every level of abstraction is a significantly bigger problem than just the existence of each layer of abstraction imo

React w/ Babel is undoubtably over hyped and yet surely its still a fairly significant value add over vanilla JS (when applicable) for how simple it can make state management and putting together UI.

Evergreen browsers, ES6 and etc are also make development significantly smoother in my experience, and I didn't even experience much before IE9.

No idea why the notch is a headline feature, no users will care. In any case, the design looks like a win to me.