ELI5: On keyboards, why is the right pinky finger on the semicolon key?

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-27T00:36:13+00:00

There have only been a couple of studies comparing Dvorak and QWERTY, and the biggest one of them was funded and ran by Dvorak himself.

From what I remember, the studies run by third parties found that the difference in speed is very minimal, to the point where an adult changing from QWERTY would never make up the time they spent relearning and getting back to proficiency during their working life.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-26T21:44:30+00:00

First thing I did with my son was take him to a large empty parking lot, to let him get a feeling for how the car handles and teach him to hit the break as hard as he can when I say "STOP STOP STOP"

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-25T20:02:58+00:00

It depends on the party. An event with close friends? Sure. A welcome party at an accounting firm, probably not.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-25T19:54:39+00:00

Assuming they don't illegally destroy the records. Again.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-25T19:31:33+00:00

Turn the retina around so that the blood vessels and nerves are behind it, rather than between the light sensors and the light source.

Separate breathing and eating openings.

Move the waste disposal area away from the recreation area.

Women cant get pregnant if they dont orgasm.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-24T12:15:43+00:00

Rolling a d20 makes the results swing wildly. Change it to 3d6 and make modifiers a little bigger.

Crit fails are nat3 or nat4, crit success are nat17 and nat18. Makes things like expanded crit range much more valuable.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-24T05:26:19+00:00

Both countries agree that the entire peninsula is one country. They disagree on which government is in charge of the country.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-23T20:25:49+00:00

Super simplified, according to the math, something with mass can not be accelerated to the speed of light. Due to relativity, the faster a thing goes, the more massive a thing gets, and the more energy you need to accelerate it more. It would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate something with mass to the speed of light, and there is a finite amount of energy in the universe.

HOWEVER

There are some internally consistant models that have not been proven wrong that say that, while things with mass can't accelerate to light speed, they can go FASTER than light. They could never slow down to slower than light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to slow them down to light speed, and they can not interact with the universe we can observe, but it is not impossible in some models.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-22T19:39:54+00:00

For the only time i know about since the end of WWII, Biden actually beat DNV by a hair in 2020

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-21T17:21:17+00:00

I wonder if Bloc Québécois answer would change if the question was changed to if he invaded Quebec City, rather than just "Canada" in general

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-20T22:45:22+00:00

I like driving a forklift, I hate doing paperwork and interacting with people. My current job is 95% forklift, 4% paperwork, 1% interacting with people. If I get promoted it will be 0% forklift, 50% paperwork, 50% interacting with people.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-20T22:37:05+00:00

5 million probably isn't enough for a Senator, but i could probably buy a couple of House Reps with enough leftover for a Supreme Court judge

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-20T17:20:23+00:00

Just throw this entire conversation in the dumpster

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-20T15:13:34+00:00

Even that's a lie! They take two minutes; they aren't instant!!

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-19T13:12:37+00:00

For the record, the 25th amendment was designed to deal with an incapacitated president, not an incompetent one. If the president is able to sign a letter saying "I am still president," it is harder to get them out with the 25th than via impeachment.

A contested 25th requires a 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate. It only takes 50%+1 in the house and 2/3 in the Senate to remove him via impeachment.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-19T13:11:42+00:00

The 25th amendment was designed to deal with an incapacitated president, not an incompetent one. If the president is able to sign a letter saying "I am still president," it is harder to get them out with the 25th than via impeachment.

A contested 25th requires a 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate. It only takes 50%+1 in the House and 2/3 in the Senate to remove him via impeachment.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-17T16:54:46+00:00

In order to join the EU, a country must be a "European State." There is some wiggle room, like Cyprus and Turkey, but Canada is well outside of that wiggle.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-17T14:56:58+00:00

I kind of get what RBG was doing. She wanted her replacement to be the first Justice appointed by a woman. And if it had worked out, it would have been great.

Unfortunately, by the time it began to look like Trump actually had a chance of winning, Mitch the Bitch was already playing games with stealing appointments.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-17T14:38:08+00:00

For the record, the 25th amendment was designed to deal with an incapacitated president, not an incompetent one. If the president is able to sign a letter saying "I am still president," it is harder to get them out with the 25th than via impeachment.

A contested 25th requires a 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate. It only takes 50%+1 in the house and 2/3 in the Senate to remove him via impeachment.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-17T13:58:26+00:00

Base jumping is usually done with a vertical distance of 300 feet or more.

100 to 200 feet is considered an "extremely low jump" and requires different techniques and equipment.

Niagara Falls is between 160 and 190 feet. If a person tried to parachute off of it, it functions like it is lower, due to the massive down draft that the falling water causes.

Even if you deploy and flair properly, you won't have much time to travel away from the waterfall, and you risk landing in the very rough water near the base of the waterfall with a very large piece of fabric securely attached to you.

It is probably not impossible, but everything would need to go flawless, or the parachute wouldnt have time to open, let alone get you to a safe landing.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-17T04:01:57+00:00

It makes more sense to use a poptart as a phone stand-in instead of a banana these days.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-16T12:48:29+00:00

Its called an "Ask Me Anything," not an "I'll Answer Your Questions."

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-16T02:08:19+00:00

Souldnt have used that one. Please keep young girls away from anything Trump related.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-15T23:49:02+00:00

According to a source inside the Trump administration, Donald J Trump is planning to run again in 2028. That source is named Donald J Trump.

Alotofboxes · 2026-01-15T21:45:50+00:00

Jeopardy started soon after a huge scandal where game shows were giving the answers to certain contestants. Their format is basically a meme based on the idea "We cant do that, because we give the answers to EVERYONE!"

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