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atoav
1y ago
One of the main issues with systemd (as someone using it everywhere) is IMO that even experienced people can have a hard time understanding from which context a command is running. E.g. if you "just" want to automate a script that
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atoav
1y ago
> It's not clear to me if the study is isolating the variable they're measuring properly. > Surely there's a "control" shipping lane somewhere that was cleaner to begin with or never cleaned up. As mentioned i
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atoav
1y ago
(I managed to get it to behave by adding more instructions about the behavior it should avoid with examples)
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atoav
1y ago
I instructed ChatGPT to tell me things as they are without fluff. Since version 5 it constantly starts with a line like "Let's address this without fluff!" or even "I am giving it to you straight!". It keeps constan
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1y ago
Additionally there are movies who just have something unique to them that a niche audience may love, but both critics and the general audience treat them more harshly. The truth is that other peoples opinion may or may not be a good proxy f
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atoav
1y ago
That isn't an accurate summary of what the article says. The part you mentioned is telling about early manegerial sciences trying to fix workplace issues that arose during industrialization. The article itself doesn't offer any st
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atoav
1y ago
I am also used OPs method and it is the reason I now work in a technical job despite having studied art. I just followed my curiosity and that lead to an expert-level understanding in some fields (I later got some formal proof of said exper
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atoav
1y ago
"An operating system for Arduino boards?" — my first thought.
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atoav
1y ago
Yes, of course you can optimize your communications. Humans tend to donthat constantly, this is just a matter (or: a mirror) of your priorities. If you care you optimize your communications and don't do if you won't. Whether you
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atoav
1y ago
Well everything comes in shades. Lets say you write meetingnprotocols of your meetings down with obsidian. The markdown/freeform and cross-linkable text body of obsidian is perfect for this. But you'd now be able to have a bit ric
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atoav
1y ago
Yes, but the average Obsidian user may or may not know what a database is an why they should care. As an engineer I like precise language, but we should not forget that multiple audiences require multiple levels of explainations. Otherwise
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atoav
1y ago
To me 4 to 5 got much faster, but also worse. It is much more often ignoring explicit instructions like: "generate 10 song-titles with varying length" and it generates 10 song titles that are nearly identical length. This worked s
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atoav
1y ago
It may be a surprise to you, but there was nothing in your post that I didn't knew. I know all that. Just like I know the rationale behind Blender's Right-Click-select. The terminal as a tool is shaped by its history, but that doe
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atoav
1y ago
Well yes and no. If I give people a 16 mm camera, a roll of film and a black sack, the likelyhood they will make a positive learning experience is limited. That means some theory is needed first, especially if you have varying levels of k
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atoav
1y ago
Correction: Windows 11, that was a typo, sorry.
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atoav
1y ago
I use KDE as a daily driver at work, privately run windows 12 and maintain six modern macs at my workshop. Of the bunch KDE is easily the best, with the least amount of weird unexpected behavior and the most logical, user-centric way to lay
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atoav
1y ago
> The universality of copy/paste is overrated. It's literally just adding shift in terminal emulators, no biggie. As an university level educator: This is repeatedly a major hurdle for beginners, that makes the terminal (just t
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atoav
1y ago
As a university level educator that also has assistants that learn through practise I must say I find the question: "Is tutoring better than practise?" useless. Better at what? In which field?Thst surely highly depends at what t
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atoav
1y ago
Dadaism? Most art -isms didn't have subgroups who killed people. If people killed others in art history it was mostly tragic individual stories and had next to nothing to do with the ideology of the ism.
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atoav
1y ago
As somone who uses text and paper for todos, happily for years now after spending equally much time procrastinating in search of the perfect task management system I will now do a half-ironic take on answering your points: > having your
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atoav
1y ago
As an introvert I'd argue those are basically just: "be empathic". That means you should not treat others in a way that annoys or demeans them – because you yourself would not like that either, right? Empathy implies you can
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atoav
1y ago
Studied Film and worked professionally in overdubbing for a while. I recommend in that order: 1. figure out if your mumbling is just a habit or a logopedic issue 2. get a speakers training of the type actors or radio hosts would If you wond
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atoav
1y ago
Well the thing is, that sometimes being there and giving them a nod is already saying enough. No need for words. Showing them you care is appropriate if you really do.
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atoav
1y ago
A absolute rookie mistake is thinking your exhaustion-level has a linear correlation with the quality of the results. I know people who get suspicious if they haven't exhausted themselves, how can they have done a good job if they are
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atoav
1y ago
No, they are giving you a tiny fraction of the cake you earn them. The fact is that you are there to make them money.
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atoav
1y ago
Well a classic would be to insist the employee treats the company like "family" and comes in when someone misses their shift on their free day. But when the employee is in need the employer discards them like an expendable resourc
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atoav
1y ago
When I was producing no-budget movies (people work for you without pay!) the secret trick was to keep a mental list of why people were here. Diana the camera assistant was here because she liked to learn, John the actor was here because he
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atoav
1y ago
This is my experience as well. As a former freelancer the standards I hold myself to are exceptionally high. Then I got employed and carried that standard with me (still do). The problem is that this means work will be pushed my way, becaus
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atoav
1y ago
> You can create as many Slack channels as you want, but all that is worthless if you don’t build the culture where it’s okay to use them. Well the problem with corporate offtopic spaces is obvious: It is (potential) surveillance. One of
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1y ago
I had GPT-5 fail at the task of generating 5 songtitles with varying length. Then when I asked it how it obeyed my rule about varying length it tried to gaslight me by explaining these songtitles are 5 words long [lists 3-word songtitles].
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