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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I learned typing on a mechanical typewriter back in school. I thought it would speed up my typing on the computer, but actually didn’t, because what I did on the computer was programming, which is quite incompatible with ten-finger typing.

    But nowadays it is actually helpful when I write texts, although I have to switch context quite often (reading the original text in one window, then switching to the editor to write the summary). Still faster than other peoples “eagle typing”: looking for the right key and descending on it with one finger.




  • You are either naive or new to this planet. If you tell industry that this or that thing is voluntary, it will definitely not happen. There must be thousands of examples out there. “Voluntary” regulation never worked on this planet.

    If you want industry to do something, there is the stupid way of bribing them into it, and the smart way of simply forcing them to comply. If you do the latter, they will still squirm, complain, and demand money (loads of money!) to follow the law. If you forgot to define fines for non-compliance or made them too small, they won’t follow the law, either, of course, so the fines have to be painful enough so they can’t just file them away as “costs of doing business”.