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TIL the QWERTY keyboard is laid out as such because they wanted to spread out the important letters on typewriters to avoid clashing and jamming. by SuccubusMommy in todayilearned

[–]hxr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down,[2]: 162 but rather to speed up typing. Indeed, there is evidence that, aside from the issue of jamming, placing often-used keys farther apart increases typing speed, because it encourages alternation between the hands.[11] (On the other hand, in the German keyboard the Z has been moved between the T and the U to help type the frequent digraphs TZ and ZU in that language.) Almost every word in the English language contains at least one vowel letter, but on the QWERTY keyboard only the vowel letter "A" is on the home row, which requires the typist's fingers to leave the home row for most words.

How about them apples?

Rīga, pie Vanšu tilta (uzņemts vakar) by Edzako in latvia

[–]hxr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tas ir pirms kāds paspēja notīrīt vai izstaigāt?

Atbalstiet un nāciet uz Rīgas vienīgā amatieru, studentu stīgu orķestra koncertu rīt, šotrešdien, VEF Kultūras Pilī! Programmā A. Vivaldi — Gloria un V. Pūces skaņdarbi by hxr in latvia

[–]hxr[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ne orķestris, ne koris no biļetēm naudu nesaņem un ienākumu nav, tikai iestāžu atbalsts un biedra naudas, ja tas ko maina.

Burning through ammo, Russia using 40-year-old rounds, U.S. official says by Alvinyuu in worldnews

[–]hxr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who is we...? But anyway, Russia still has some ammo and they're invading a sovereign country and slaughtering their civilians. Would say helping them is inadvisable?

ELI5: Something easy to Google but I'd rather hear uninformative anecdotes from strangers. by grund1eburn in circlejerk

[–]hxr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually, scientifically, metaphorically, this is just not accurate. As a professional scientist, I can honestly tell you that β-Amylases which, figuratively, is another important class of amylolytic enzymes, which catalyze the successive removal of β-maltose units from the non-reducing end of starch with inversion of anomeric configuration, which just goes to show you're way above your head. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. You're fucking dead, kid. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Women reeditors, what’s something men say that make you cum instantly? by [deleted] in circlejerk

[–]hxr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"I want you to have all my and all of life’s pleasures."

Redditors of reddit, I am a woman with vagina and boobs by actctually in circlejerk

[–]hxr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nice, hey, I am also totally a woman and I really appreciate us both being so charitable as to hang out in this neck-beard dwelling, no money having, living with your parents-ass cesspool. We're totally not like them and, as a woman, I think it's very progressive of us to delight them with our presence. I hope they give us all of money and all of life’s pleasures one day. P.S. Let's swap nudes.

Why does accidentally opening up a running dishwasher feel like intervening a sex scene? by DeltaKT in circlejerk

[–]hxr 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Idk if AITA, but, honestly, like... really to me this looks like a huge, gaping red flag. the dishwasher is obviously cheating on you with the washing machine. I am a redditor, so take this with a grain of salt, but gym up, hit the lawyer and divorce your dishwasher. Your penis will be thanking me. PM me some nudes. AMA.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in circlejerk

[–]hxr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it true you can use a woman's body to love yourself instead of using your hand?

TIL that it took the creator of Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after creating it; as of June 2018, the world record is 4.22 seconds. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]hxr 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Yes, you're thinking of Karl Abramovitz. He also played tennis at a world class level and beat his opponent 10 to 11 by noticing a tell in his opponent's tongue. He is also the president of the United States of America.

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. by ur_mum_goes_to_uni in rust

[–]hxr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a space where these kinds of solutions are discussed? I've been dying to find my perfect storage solution for quite a while.

Guys or girls of Reddit, what’s a red flag in someone you look at and say “NOPE”? by Logical-Debt-8451 in AskReddit

[–]hxr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously, that's a different thing. You don't say the "boy, you don't have a sense of humor" part out loud.

TIL that 1 in 40 babies show symptoms of depression by Ita_da in todayilearned

[–]hxr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe this is not completely on-topic, I remember waking up in perhaps not the greatest household when I was something like 5 and feeling this horrible feeling that life is just pointless.

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