After skimming through the comments derailed into AfD/BSW discussions, I'm happy to find this comment, because as a non-extremist German, this is the reason I want the German gold out of the USA. Right now, it makes as much sense as storing the gold in North Korea. It will just be held hostage or stolen by the local dictator.
The user can choose their time zone when they sign up, and the service can prevent them from changing it (or heavily limit how often it can be changed)
The sibling comments are a perfect demonstration why projects tend to balloon in complexity and ever-increasing requirements just to deal with rare corner cases.
YAGNI. A niche tool whose selling feature is time-restricted usage shouldn't have to account for weirdos that miss the point of it and cheat with their clock.
This is wrong thinking about evolution. The potentially beneficial mutations are already out there in the population. They gain dominance in the population after a large die-off of folks who don't have them and the remaining survivors reproduce.
Not all potential traits are going to be present in the population. If this were true nothing would go extinct as there would be enough diversity in this theoretical population to see some individuals with the right combination of traits.
It it somewhat more likely to happen when you have say a flask of bacteria where they grow logarithmically by the hour in terms of generational time and have much simpler single cell systems vs us poor multicellular well differentiated humans that are waiting until our thirties when reproductive systems start failing to have our 0.6 kids or whatever the rate is in western countries where diversity is already quite low due to a lack of significant african demography in most populations out of africa. Even in places with significant african background population numbers, social history means these alleles have not yet dispersed across the population homogeneously and are maintained in their demographic subset.
Yeah but the selection for who survives is going to be based not on a specific gene, but on membership in the group with the will and power to kill for the remaining arable land.
On QWERTZ, backtick ` is: a dead key, situated left of backspace, and it's in the "upper row", too.
So there the combo is actually Alt+Shift+´+Space, in need of two hands - it's very hard to imagine a worse default key combo choice for this task, compared to Alt+Tab. I'm glad you made it configurable.
Fun fact: one of the first public drafts for multi-line Strings in Java expected the delimiter to be ```, until I pointed out the issue as above to Brian Goetz at JAX in Mainz where he had presented said draft. My proudest professional moment.
Take away: If you deal with keyboard magic and ergonomics, spend a couple minutes to check your assumptions behind your defaults in the other big keyboard layouts.
this. i'm on the swiss german keyboard layout. backticks are hard to do as a keyboard shortcut. they barely work as a character (e.g. for markdown formatting) but with a bit of pracitce that _does_ work.
try getting default vim bindings to work on a swiss german keyboard... i eventually gave up.
I'm in the same boat as you and after 15 years of coding I finally switched to the US layout 3 weeks ago. Got a Wooting 60HE and installed the EuroKey layout and so far I'm super happy about the switch and many default shortcuts make a lot more sense (e.g. no more acrobatics needed for ctrl+b+[ to enter tmux copy mode).
The first few days are a little rough to unlearn all the muscle memory but I found this neat site to practice typing with your own public gists: https://www.codetyper.io/
I've long used the US international layout with Alt-Graph deadkeys. (For the full experience, you can perhaps buy an ANSI format keyboard from the Netherlands?)
It takes some practice getting AltGr+y as ü and AltGr+w as ä and AltGr+p as ö into your muscle memory, let alone AltGr+circumflex instead of just circumflex to get the dead key (raison d'être requires AltGr+Shift+6 to type properly), but I've found it's otherwise a remarkably workable tradeoff.
I don't know what QWERTZ is but as a life long Swedish Linux user I can tell you that backtick is a terrible key to use as a keyboard shortcut. It's often relatively hard to find and hard to generate.
No. On German and Swiss layouts, that key is a dead key: it doesn't type anything by itself when you press it. It's meant to combine with another subsequent keypress in order to yield a whole glyph with a diacritic as in, e.g., backtick followed by "e" giving "è."
It's been a while since I've been at a proper QWERTZ layout aus dem Sprachgebiet over a US QWERTY keyboard, but my memory is that the dead keys have odd behaviors when you try to incorporate them into shortcuts.
The alt+[key]. On linux it is alt+tab (between different apps) and alt+[key physically above tab] (between windows of the same app), regardless of keyboard layout. Moving the shortcut away from there or even to convoluted things like "Alt+Shift+´+Space" seems very strange, hence the the question.
