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by brimble 5y ago
For Elder Scrolls games, that's gotta be at least half the appeal. The main quests usually aren't impressive, and god knows the gameplay is... subpar, to be generous. The discovery aspect, both of the physical environment and in f
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by brimble 5y ago
People may not change much, but the same person can behave very differently under two different systems or leaders, or with a different workload.
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by brimble 5y ago
Oh, sorry, got confused about the context I guess. I use the ordinary settings panel to make that an extra ctrl, anyway.
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by brimble 5y ago
... which one's that? Fn?
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by brimble 5y ago
What's crazy to me is that I was promised Back In The Day that everything would be sunshine and roses in software design, and especially in Web design, once the "digital natives" took over and all those bad ol' print des
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by brimble 5y ago
I think there are a few related causes behind this behavior: 1) Visual changes show better than feature lists. I'm not convinced this matters anywhere near as much for customers as marketing folks seem to think it does, but marketing
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by brimble 5y ago
Good social science possible, but is difficult and (sometimes) expensive. If you can get the same personal outcome by doing something cheap and easy instead, of course that's what most people are going to do. Fixing that seems to be
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm reminded of the SlateStarCodex post that mulls over the difference between "real" ADD and just having totally ordinary (but pretty great) difficulty focusing on the exact same boring crap on a computer screen day, after d
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by brimble 5y ago
I've got some pretty good predictive powers, myself. I predict that in twenty years, no matter how thoroughly this is debunked, I'll still see this treated as true constantly , and, even when what's under discussion is taki
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by brimble 5y ago
I take the state of things as more a strong indictment of the rest of the industry, than Apple's being super-duper awesome. Turns out pretty-good is, like, way better than the rest. :-( I guess that's what you get with a market
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by brimble 5y ago
> I've never been on a team where developers talk 50% of the time. We have a meeting to prioritize tickets once a week and talk to other devs when necessary. Shit, I have—but if you count only productive hours, it's more like
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by brimble 5y ago
As an Apple user, I really wish they had competition. I'm a long-time Linux user too, and that ain't competition. I still use Windows a little for work, and personally for gaming, and wow, is that ever not an alternative to wh
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by brimble 5y ago
It's a case where not having something like the old-school hierarchical Windows Start Menu with its delightful "accessories" section, is unfortunate. Takes a little more digging to find the fun stuff (and even there, Windows
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by brimble 5y ago
I'd prefer Amtrak over aircraft for lots and lots of my travel, if not for this. Hell, I'd probably travel more total, too. Even if the price were the same as flying for a given destination. The huge trip-duration and arrival-time
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by brimble 5y ago
> e.g. couldn't browse the web and listen to mp3s at the same time without occasional distortion This comes from most desktop operating systems being shit at the task of being a desktop operating system . BeOS could do that just fi
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by brimble 5y ago
Insistence on this site that iOS devices are "only for consumption" (or similar) baffle me. The things are I/O powerhouses. They're out-of-this-world. The only way that can be true is for people with weirdly tiny notions
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by brimble 5y ago
I've not dug into it, but explanations I've read that claim they kinda did have a culture until they reverse-acquired themselves with the DoubleClick purchase have some ring of truth, just from my casual external observation ove
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by brimble 5y ago
> For me that means I want a career where you can reduce to a 24 hour or less work per week. Now I work more to save and invest money to give my future self more options in how to balance children, work, friendships, sleep and hobbies wi
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by brimble 5y ago
Easier said than done, but I think the key is learning to (selectively!) not give a shit. It's crudely put, but is the gist of what a lot of self-help stuff is, including fancy-pants stuff like Stoicism. The blocks are purely in your
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by brimble 5y ago
Some retain memories from that age range, but it isn't the norm, sure. I definitely had strong memories from age 5 or 6 that lasted well into my teen years, which surely had an effect (they were mostly bad ones—I used to do some terri
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by brimble 5y ago
Kids can always take more. There's always something you could be doing to help them, to improve their future prospects, to make them better-adjusted, give them better nutrition, give them some help with making friends or maintainin
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by brimble 5y ago
Whoa, there's one I didn't know about. I should probably take the time to RTFM for that stuff, after more than a decade on the platform. Every time I find another little Apple utility, I end up getting something out of it.
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by brimble 5y ago
MacOS' "productivity" software is my favorite I know of. I'd have to go back to historical (10+ years old) versions of similar products to find ones I like better. Their quality is excellent . They're light on reso
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by brimble 5y ago
They're still not, due to software bloat. Technical and human-imposed restrictions mean iOS devices tend to be the closest to feeling "fast enough". Desktops are hampered by little always-on utilities being written in fucking
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by brimble 5y ago
I know the post you're responding to probably got a, "wait, that doesn't follow at all..." out of a bunch of folks, but I'd recommend letting it be to speak for itself—most everyone else can see the same thing you d
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by brimble 5y ago
That might well be true. I only use the Mac App Store to download Xcode and update first-party software, so I'm not sure (and, at any rate, I'm signed in to an iCloud account, so I wouldn't know if that part doesn't work
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by brimble 5y ago
As noted, I used other distros, also for years at a time. They weren't much better, just harder to fix when they broke (usually on upgrades... or when trying to use new hardware... or because I tried to do something that should work, b
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by brimble 5y ago
Lots of people use lots of ports that aren't USB-C, and are inconvenienced by having to carry dongles and extra cables if their laptop has very few kinds of built-in port. These people have actual needs and reasons behind their behavio
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by brimble 5y ago
Cool, you've flatly refused to assist/present-to the client, and will now be-fired/lose-the-contract. See why people need to connect to stuff other than what they personally own?
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by brimble 5y ago
Heavy Linux user since about 2000, was my main desktop (and laptop!) operating system from about 2002-2011. Mainly Mandrake (mostly early on), Ubuntu, Gentoo (on the laptop, and elsewhere—probably my most-used personal distro), and Debian.

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