touch typing is about as useful as … (whatever is the most useless thing). science? I spent years in science classes from elem all the way through uni, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, you name it, about as useful to me (and 99.6% of my classmates) as russian I learned along the way too. cursive is art and everyone needs a little art. my kid goes to private school and non-cursive is practically forbidden (you are allowed to print of course but not a single student does, it is beautiful getting to read what my kid writes when I get my friday folder :) )
touch typing is about as useful as … (whatever is the most useless thing).
I disagree. I cannot count the times I typed a documentation from an audio device without pausing the device once. Even short converstions in parallel are no problem. Being able to type without sight, by pure muscle memory is an invaluable skill.
Edit: also, try typing a dissertation in a two finger henpeck system and see how long it takes you.
how would this work? in sales it is straight forward, yes? you sell X, above projected Y, you get rewarded Z. how would this even work in software? I am projected to fix 37 bugs per week, I get bonus if I fix 51?
the thing is, sales are very individualized in general where software dev is team effort, I worked on myriad of projects/companies/… and besides “worked 4 weekends in a row to get a release out and was rewarded with ____” (should be rare occurence) I can’t imagine any reward scenario that would incentivize us
the elections is America for quite some time now (except for “hope & change” which left us hopeless and unchanged) has basically been choosing the lesser of two bad choices. 81m people did not want for senile grandpa in 2020, they voted against trump. 2016 same-ish and so on…
>> Why? And also: What can be done to change this in the future?
Two corrupt political parties that are owned by monied interests thanks to Citizens United, decades without campaign finance reform, and rampant "gifts" and extortion.
Neither party represents the people or their needs. They take money and make money. Laws are written by monied special interests. Members of both parties have been doing insider trading for decades, but now it is on naked display, bold and unashamed, as if it to say, "what are you going to do about it?"
Drastic systemic changes are needed on the order of a Constitutional Convention, but it is doubtful that it will happen without tremendous public outcry.
tremendeous public outcry is no longer possible as the country is so divided at this point that nothing can unite the public (short of national tragedy like 9/11). that shipped has sailed for america…
yea… on top of it all I think we have reached a point where we no longer have politics but cultism. I have number of friends (smart, educated…) who voted for trump in 2024. I have carefully listened to their arguments in october of 2024 as to why and while I did not agree, I understood their reasoning. the arguments were well thought through and made sense.
fast forward 16 months later and literally every argument that was made (except one), not only did not pan out but the exact opposite has and is been happening.
the sane politics here would end up as “boy oh boy did we fuck this up, so much fucking up, my bad for october of 2024 when you had to listen what we believed in” but we no longer can have that, what we have is blind following of the supreme leader with an “excuse” for every fuckup (all along the “you can see the big picture and long term plan”…)
I wish I was smart enough to answer this… Overturning Citizen United is probably mandatory start, there may actually be some light at the end of that tunnel but I am not holding my breath…
Gas is Texas is not that much cheaper than national average and will hit $4 soon if this “war” continues. I have several friends in Texas who are livid about gas prices.
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