"For the past two months, I’ve been living in the world of keystroke tax."
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#2The article doesn't mention voice-recognition software. I wonder if the author has tried using it.
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#3The article doesn't mention voice-recognition software. I wonder if the author has tried using it.
Even the best voice recognition software is really really bad.
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#4The article doesn't mention voice-recognition software. I wonder if the author has tried using it.
Even the best voice recognition software is really really bad.
I have a friend who had extremely bad CTS and used Dragon Dictate extensively both for programming, and for dictating English text. She said that after a surprisingly short period of training and acclimatization it achieved extremely high input rates, comparable to her touch typing.
I'd be interested to hear what experience do you have to balance that.
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#5Having suffered with RSI for quite a few years, I've found that the best preventative+restorative tool is a wrist-brace. The moment I feel any pain, on it goes - whether I'm going to type more or not, the brace is necessary to take the strain off and allow the wrist to recuperate.
I really regret not discovering that a few months sooner, because I may have done some permanent damage. The problem is that (counterintuitively) just taking a break from typing and resting the hands doesn't take the stress off - the neutral position/state of the hands keeps a great deal of stress on the wrist. I can infer this because the pain continues when I take a break, but goes away the moment I put a brace on. Only when I put a brace on, did my wrist get a chance to "heal" - simply taking a break didn't help.
YMMV, but -man- I hope this advice happens to help someone - it took a long time for me to figure this out. I only figured it out because a physical therapist friend of mine told me it sounded a lot like certain kinds of tendonitis she'd run into with athletes, and suggested the brace.
Re: "For the past two months, I’ve been living in the world of keystroke tax."
#6Every time I see photos of a startup or workplace where everyone is issued a laptop with horrible ergonomics, I think two things: 1) boy it sure was fun to be in my twenties, and 2) you're going to regret everything fifteen years from now.
Re: "For the past two months, I’ve been living in the world of keystroke tax."
#7The article doesn't mention voice-recognition software. I wonder if the author has tried using it.
Even the best voice recognition software is really really bad.
That was true twenty years ago. Nowadays Dragon NaturallySpeaking, while missing some obvious improvements the vendors refuse to make (if I were looking for startup company ideas, I'd seriously consider that one - 'improvements the vendors refuse to make' is one of the best signs of a market opening) is far, far better than just continuing to exacerbate RSI.
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#8> Pain reminds you that your body is an entity of its own, that your body isn’t you. Rather, it’s the machine that the mind utilizes to bring your thoughts and desires into manifestation. And just like every other machine, sometimes things go wrong. The problem here is you can’t just call Toyota or go to Apple and get a new one.
Bit off-topic, but I would disagree with this "proof" of mind/body dualism. If anything it shows the opposite: your body and mind are the same by virtue of your mind experiencing pain due to physical shortcomings of the body.
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#9Get one of these for programming: http://specialneedscomputers.ca/index.php?l=product_detail&p...
And for writing English text, try Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
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#10I had RSI even after 2-3 months of quitting full-time work, plus I would wake up with CTS, but eventually it has gone away but after spending significant amounts of time away from typing heavy work.