I lost an arm in 1991, but had it re-attached. I'm still not sure if that was a good idea or not. I wasn't awake when the decision was made. My Dad argued for, the doctors were initially against the idea, but no doctor now will remove it.
So now I a arm that is basically useless from below the elbow, the only real control I have is at the first knuckle, all fingers together. My forearm is more skin graft than skin.
I've tried a few alternate keyboards, but gave up trying to learn and now just use a regular keyboard and a track ball. I had to learn to write again as it was my dominant arm. Computer programming is probably the best available career, so I'm glad I already had an interest in it.
I really identified with the everything is slower part. There is very little I can't do, but everything is so slow that I just do a lot of things half way. I still don't have a good way to clip my finger nails.
I got nothing from the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia do to an improperly filled out form. At the time, if you worked for a family business, you needed to be registered differently, which I was unaware of. Still bitter to this day.
>I still don't have a good way to clip my finger nails.
I'm not an expert in this or anything, but I've found lately that I prefer frequently sanding down my fingernails with an emery board rather than clipping them with clippers (which can leave jagged edges). If you were to staple or glue an emery board to something solid, maybe that would help.
You can probably achieve the same effect by taping/stapling some fine-grit sandpaper to a piece of plywood and setting it in your lap while you run your fingernails over it. I've had some success doing that with I think 180/240-grit sandpaper for a "coarse" filing of the nails, followed by a finer grit (320 or 600) as I get close to the optimal fingernail length.
Has he released his source code for that yet though? From what I've heard it's still not available anywhere.
As for voice recognition; it's pretty good but not nearly perfect yet. When you can limit the vocabulary though (as you can in most programming contexts) it does already perform rather well.
So now I a arm that is basically useless from below the elbow, the only real control I have is at the first knuckle, all fingers together. My forearm is more skin graft than skin.
I've tried a few alternate keyboards, but gave up trying to learn and now just use a regular keyboard and a track ball. I had to learn to write again as it was my dominant arm. Computer programming is probably the best available career, so I'm glad I already had an interest in it.
I really identified with the everything is slower part. There is very little I can't do, but everything is so slow that I just do a lot of things half way. I still don't have a good way to clip my finger nails.
I got nothing from the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia do to an improperly filled out form. At the time, if you worked for a family business, you needed to be registered differently, which I was unaware of. Still bitter to this day.