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by allenu 5y ago
It’s incredibly frustrating. I find myself paging down as soon as I see a thread turning into memes and jokes, or collapsing whole threads. It made me start to think it would be great if there was a “serious replies only” filter to omit all
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by allenu 5y ago
I've encountered this so many times myself, and I still get burned on it, but mostly because sometimes the work you're doing is so technically interesting that the "reward" is the work itself. Then, when you finish, you
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by allenu 5y ago
This is great! Thanks for making it. I turned on everything and for a second it felt like I was in the middle of a crazy on-call session.
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by allenu 5y ago
Good examples. These feel like "noble lies". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie It's a delicate act to pull off, obviously, since you absolutely have to be right, and must assume that the other part
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by allenu 5y ago
I may have to try out Tomoe some time. I used Moleskine long ago but eventually moved away to Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks. I find their paper works really well for my fountain pen usage. I even write on both sides of each page, something I av
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by allenu 5y ago
I've been using LastPass for several years now as a paying customer and I really like it. However, I wish they would focus on their usability a bit more. The UI is a little more complicated than it needs to be and some common actions t
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by allenu 5y ago
I have noticed that sense of "domination" come out in interviews as well. I remember long ago having one interview where the interviewer was asking me to code something which I knew would be impossible to complete in the time allo
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by allenu 5y ago
It’s funny that unedited, poorly rehearsed “presenting style” has in a way taken on a life of its own. Speaking to a director off-camera, quick jump cuts of multiple takes, drawing attention to flubbing of lines, are all sort of techniques
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by allenu 5y ago
I’m old too (43) and I enjoy short videos that get to the point as well. If a video is too long or takes too long I’ll just skip ahead and until I hear them talking about specifics. There was a point a few years ago where there was this sud
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by allenu 5y ago
This aesthetic brings back memories. I remember it was a look about 10 years ago with blogs like Hipster Runoff using it.
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by allenu 5y ago
I really like the five whys to get to the truth of what went wrong, but unfortunately, in practice you only take the whys so far. For instance, where I work, if we have a large enough on-call issue, we have an RCA to figure out what went wr
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by allenu 5y ago
Wow, the slowness of Desqview BBSes is something I haven't thought about for 30 years, but yes, you are right. I remember calling into a Roboboard-based BBS that switched to Desqview and seeing the characters type out so slowly on my s
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by allenu 5y ago
This is such a funny product. The original chatter telephone toy is one of my mom's favorite toys when she was a kid. She always brings it up and eventually found one at a garage sale to buy for herself. This would make for a funny Chr
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by allenu 5y ago
It’s hard to tell exactly how the horizontal note taking and linking work, but it does remind me a bit of Gingko [1] which works as a nested outline style note taker. I think having nested lists is a “natural” way to organize your thoughts.
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by allenu 5y ago
Very cool idea! I love the idea of a "pony express" kind of daily pickup. It's very easy to grok the idea. In some ways, it reminds me of back in the day with BBSes and FidoNet long-distance mail distribution happening early
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by allenu 5y ago
I’m with you. I bought the HHKB and thought I’d love it but I didn’t. I also found the keys too “heavy” but I did buy the quieter model, so it never felt loud to me. I have gone back to an old cherry brown switch keyboard and have preferred
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by allenu 5y ago
I’m considering canceling my Netflix as well. There’s a ton of stuff but I find most of it unappealing. Much of the stuff I had previously put in my watch list has over time disappeared from their catalog. I think on average I find about on
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by allenu 5y ago
I also found it informative. If I see a clip explaining something that has a large number of dislikes, I immediately back out and look for another one. Most of the time, those dislikes are warranted. I honestly don't know if it's
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by allenu 5y ago
That only really solves the problem of authenticity if all speeches are “NFTed”. If you see a video of a politician making offensive remarks outside of a speech setting, you can’t say it didn’t happen just because it wasn’t in NFT format.
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by allenu 5y ago
Which also does not define it… at least a quick search for “united” turns up nothing.
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by allenu 5y ago
Very cool list, and interesting to see the differences from someone with very fresh eyes. Little differences like this between countries makes me miss travel. One of the most exciting things about travel is those first few days in the new c
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by allenu 5y ago
I have the 2020 Intel one as well. I think the key travel still isn't what it was in 2015 or earlier, though. They are still too shallow for me. It's minor, but I do feel I bottom out too quickly on them. It feels like tapping on
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by allenu 5y ago
I didn't even notice that they were full height. There was something off aesthetically when I saw the pictures of the new keyboard and I figured it was just the missing touch bar. As a touch bar hater from the beginning, I'm super
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by allenu 5y ago
I feel like in this particular case, the first step is to recognize there's a "problem" at all. I don't know the person in this story, but it seems like to them, communication is not that important. Maybe the most import
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by allenu 5y ago
I feel the same way, and to me it's all about the authenticity. The context of social media takes away from the authenticity of the post. Someone may genuinely just want to share some dish that they just created, but in the context o
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by allenu 5y ago
It's a beautiful book just to have around to flip through! I have to admit I only bought it to look at and not read through.
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by allenu 5y ago
This is a good one and has been discussed on HN before: https://practicaltypography.com/
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by allenu 5y ago
I had an experience recently with Door Dash where after you order, their app will suggest buying additional items from 7-11. They give you a ten minute window to add items. I assume the driver will pick them up after your order. I decided t
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by allenu 5y ago
I remember back then my editor of choice in DOS was QEdit. I think it used up less space with its menus, although it's funny to think I enjoy using vim today whereas back then in my youth it may have been too much for me. I do miss the
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by allenu 5y ago
Similar to (1), I somewhat have a process for async discussions. Sometimes, when I know starting a Slack thread will lead to lots of discussion, I wait until I have mental space to be ready to switch to them. Once those conversations start,

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