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Whipped would be a better translation in this context. Took me a fair bit of searching to figure that out, because I normally associate whipped with cream, not cheese. Apparently some cheese can be whipped though.

The French Wikipedia has sheet music showing the rhythm of the song. And interestingly, it shows straight quavers. In English, I'd normally sing it with a swung rhythm, alternating crotchets and quavers.

I misread 50€ as 50c and was utterly shocked.

Might it not also depend just on how you define "the production team"? Since editing is often termed "post-production", it would be reasonable to exclude the editors from the "production team". To me that term seems more to imply the lighting, cameras, audio, PAs, and other people actually on set, rather than the task writers or editors.

• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• The Farmer in the Dell
• Le Fermier dans son pré (French version of the above)
• The Wheel of Time
• New Spring

The first three all related to a recent conversation in [email protected].

Lucky buggers. Apparently it was banned here until '92.

Oh wow. I've actually never used Dvorak on mobile. I always like to tell people that the same thing that made QWERTY good on old mechanical typewriters, the thing that holds it back on modern keyboards, is what makes QWERTY good again in the algorithm-assisted typing of a modern touchscreen.

Oh we have The Farmer in the Dell too!

But yeah, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is quite a bit darker.

And from there it continues building in that manner, adding cat, dog, goat, cow, and, finally, the final verse is (in full):

This has real There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly energy to it. Perhaps...

And we're off until the 18th.

It takes ages to get good at

It took me about one week to reach a basic competency, two weeks before I was equal in both (though this was partly because my QWERTY speed had also fallen), one month before I reached my pre-Dvorak average speed, and I capped out at about 30% faster in Dvorak than I was in QWERTY.

(Note: my methodology in testing this was very imperfect. It relied on typing the same passage on each keyboard layout, once per day, changing the passage each week to avoid too much muscle memory. Certainly not scientific, but relatively useful as a demonstrative.)

In a broader sense, my average comfortable typing speed in QWERTY was about 60–70. When speed-typing, I could push that up to 80. And the top speed I would hit in typing games was about 100–105. In Dvorak, those numbers shifted to 80, 100, and 120.

Granted, the comment above (or it might have been one of the very few good points in the article linked from that comment, I forget) made mention of the fact that some of the benefit is not in the keyboard layout itself but in the act of re-learning as an adult. I strongly agree with this. A secondary part that is loosely related to this in practice (though not at all in theory) is that by learning Dvorak you are not just "re-learning as an adult", but you are forced to learn proper typing technique. Hunt and peck obviously doesn't work when looking at your fingers shows you the wrong letters because the keyboard hardware is labelled according to QWERTY. Even a sort of situation where you are mostly touch typing, but imperfectly with the need to glance down occasionally, even if just for reassurance (which is where I was at with QWERTY) does not work with Dvorak. You become—you must become—a fluent typist. This may not be theoretically an advantage inherent to Dvorak, but for so long as the rest of the world is using QWERTY, it certainly is, as a matter of fact, an advantage. And for that reason, even if no other, I do strongly recommend anyone even vaguely considering it to switch.

causes a lot of little annoyances when random programs decide to ignore your layout settings

Not a problem I've encountered very often.

or you sit down at someone else’s computer and start touch typing in the wrong layout from muscle memory

This does happen. But personally I have found that my QWERTY speed is still faster than most people's, even if it's now a lot slower than either my Dvorak speed or what my QWERTY speed used to be. It takes maybe 10 seconds to adjust mentally. And if it's a computer you're going to be using regularly, just add Dvorak to it—it's a simple keyboard shortcut to switch back and forth.

or games tell you to press “E” when they mean “.”

Games are one of the most frustrating, in part because of the inconsistency. The three different ways that different games handle it. My favourite are the ones that just translate back into QWERTY for you. That listen for the physical key press, then display on screen an instruction that assumes QWERTY. My second favourite tends to be in older games only, and it's where it listens for the character you typed; on these it's as easy as just quickly switching back to QWERTY while playing that game. The worst, but still very manageable are where they listen for the physical key press and display the correct letter for that key according to Dvorak. But you quickly learn to associate a key with muscle memory, so it's not really an issue in practice.

Anyway, all of this is wildly off topic. Because my original comment was memeing. Nobody was meant to take it seriously. It was, as the kids say, for the lulz.

2 definitely does happen a lot with conservatives, but I think it's a stretch to suggest it happened here. The evidence @[email protected] provided seems a little inconclusive to me (I'd really want to see a broader history of satirical comments and/or anti-AI-hype comments prior to this tweet to be the real proof, not an after-the-fact comment which could be taken either way), but on the face of it taking the first tweet seriously is a bit ridiculous. Had they used some self-help book or a piece of genre fiction (even excellent quality genre fiction) it might have become a bit more ambiguous (even then, the idea that someone would sincerely hold out the idea of AI summaries as being equivalent to actually reading a book is a fucking stretch), but using Tolstoy? Someone famous for the quality of his prose? Give me a break. Nobody believes that.

1 is obviously just subjective and meaningless. Personally, had I seen the original tweet without context, I think I would have found it funny as a parody of the AI-hyping techbros. You're welcome to disagree, but only insofar as you disagree that you personally found it funny. You are not welcome to make a generic sweeping statement that "it was not funny".

He's a VC at Sequoia Capital. Apparently not a particularly important one, since he's not listed among the "key people" on the firm's Wikipedia page.

Still, I'd be inclined to say "boycott companies with Sequoia investment", apart from the fact that at least some of them have called on Sequoia to distance itself from Maguire.

Oh that's excellent. Yes, it's pretty much smack-bang on a "sewer gravity main trunk" from that map.

Interesting that it'd be labelled BCC on QUU infrastructure.