I mean yeah, you gotta respect Keine for the stuff she has to go through, but that calculator would make her job a hell of a lot easier.

NegativeSoul said:

I mean yeah, you gotta respect Keine for the stuff she has to go through, but that calculator would make her job a hell of a lot easier.

I was wondering what was going on. Thanks!

Annoying that someone's selfishness would stop another benefiting. Like hindering a promotion because it would upset one's comfort.

It's more like Mokou feels that giving Keine a calculator would make all her efforts in using and teaching the use of an abacus for naught.

Moonspeaker said:

It's more like Mokou feels that giving Keine a calculator would make all her efforts in using and teaching the use of an abacus for naught.

Plus It looks like Keine made the abacus herself!

NegativeSoul said:

I mean yeah, you gotta respect Keine for the stuff she has to go through, but that calculator would make her job a hell of a lot easier.

A lot of people who use an abacus will swear that they can go as fast, if not faster with an abacus than a calculator, and slide rules are similar (albeit have an inherent loss of accuracy problem). (And that's a basic 4-function calculator, so it's not like you're going to be doing calculus any faster on it, anyway...)

Some things aren't strictly better, they're just more effort to learn, which is a sunk cost after you've already learned. In a similar vein, if you already know how to ten-finger type on a QWERTY, you're not going to be too interested in a Dvorak keyboard, even if it IS more efficient, and probably aren't all that interested in having everything be touch screens or voice commands.

Mr_Stizblee said:

Plus It looks like Keine made the abacus herself!

I'm all for Keine being able to do that, but it looks like she's learning from a book there.
She probably grabbed it off Kourindou.

NWSiaCB said:

A lot of people who use an abacus will swear that they can go as fast, if not faster with an abacus than a calculator, and slide rules are similar (albeit have an inherent loss of accuracy problem). (And that's a basic 4-function calculator, so it's not like you're going to be doing calculus any faster on it, anyway...)

Some things aren't strictly better, they're just more effort to learn, which is a sunk cost after you've already learned. In a similar vein, if you already know how to ten-finger type on a QWERTY, you're not going to be too interested in a Dvorak keyboard, even if it IS more efficient, and probably aren't all that interested in having everything be touch screens or voice commands.

Dvorak may be somewhat more efficient, but everything was designed around QWERTY. Try going WASD in Dvorak, you just can't

Goldilox said:

Try going WASD in Dvorak

Or maybe just rebind the keys? It's not like this is an unsolvable problem.

emojispam said:

Or maybe just rebind the keys? It's not like this is an unsolvable problem.

I'm not talking just about WASD, most games and programs are designed around QWERTY. You would have to rebind 10-30 keys for every one you deal with. It's very much possible, but not very fun.

i already have hell playing IaMP on qwerty. Rebind D to leftshift instead of v really helps tho

It may be complicated with the determination of Keine to “steal” her job... but maybe it could kinda be useful for Kyouko though... (I mean, Yamabiko aren’t good with math, right?)