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Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hopes-of-big-bang-discoveries-ride-on-a-future-spacecraft-20240417/

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Article URL: https://nautil.us/nine-rebel-astronomy-theories-that-went-dark-544315/

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Article URL: https://theconversation.com/why-being-humble-can-make-you-a-better-leader-227265

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A few months ago I finished TypingClub and while I type much better now, I couldn't keep my right hand on the home row for too long because I would have to shift it to the arrow keys anytime I wanted to move around. Recently I decided to completely disable and replace them with H J K L after I started learning Vim. Vim uses those keys because those were the arrow keys on Bill Joy's keyboard when he made Vi.

I wonder if it should've stayed that way with keyboards. If the average non tech savvy person knows to press shift to capitalize, as well CTRL C X V, then would it be easy for them to know to press a modifier key plus H J K or L to move around? In such case would it help to print the modifier key in small font on the corners of the H J K L keys to help type them?

It seems like computer have really been optimized for low learning curves for the average person, and to the cost of efficiency, at least arguably.

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Article URL: https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_seite?nid=26506&sprache=en&seitenid=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072979

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072962

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Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/16/1244702372/could-the-u-s-force-treatment-on-mentally-ill-people-again

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Article URL: https://stack.convex.dev/databases-are-spreadsheets

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Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-better-at-keeping-customers-than-temu-shein-2024-4

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/google-terminates-28-employees-after-series-of-protests-read-the-memo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072892

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Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/14/the-next-mass-extinction/

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Article URL: https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/live-theater-comes-to-google

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Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/04/17/2024/former-us-treasury-secretary-larry-summers-warns-trump-plans-would-set-off-an-inflationary-spiral

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Article URL: https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Heiser_24:eo.abstract

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Article URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162413/eternity-only-will-answer

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Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-aquires-oriole

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Article URL: https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072686

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Article URL: https://cobalt.tools/

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-18/google-suspends-workers-protesting-1-2-billion-israeli-contract

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072677

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Article URL: https://github.com/al8n/ruserf

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