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by flkiwi 3y ago
This is so weird to me. I’ve worked in wildly successful global companies to which I have contributed wildly successful work collaborating with people I have never once met in person, over years of working with them. I am, emphatically, not
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I'm sorry to be that guy, but what is a "screen lock" button? Does the X220 have a button to lock the display, or (again, I'm sorry) are you talking about ScrLock (Scroll Lock)? Writing this on a ThinkPad with great appr
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by flkiwi 3y ago
What I love deeply about this reply, is that the "you think about the Roman Empire?" people would absolutely gesticulate wildly, then point, and breathlessly exclaim "SEE? I DO NOT DO THIS!" I mean, I get you. I just w
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Or we're spot on and different people have things that stick in their minds, that frame their mindset, that drive their creativity, whatever. I'm not prepared to question anyone's testimony about something as funny and trivia
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by flkiwi 3y ago
In my head, there's now a "Number of days since I thought about the Roman Empire" sign and it just went to 0 when I read this headline. Though I feel like this should sneak by on a technicality, namely that I didn't th
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Pretty sure I passed some sort of test with my wife when I told her "Oh, think about it and not in the context of it coming up in a book or legal concept, but just sit and ponder the Empire? Once every six months or so?" but the
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Oh absolutely, but I'm sort of sampling from the group on this thread. There's a surprising amount of "just mute it" as if the burden of not hearing slurs should fall on the hearer. Purely as a practical matter, a privat
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I'm just surprised there are apparently that many people who are (a) running around yelling racial slurs (b) as if it is a routine thing people do and (c) equating yelling hate speech as "swearing". I mean, I grew up with goa
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I work at a large company that uses Jira. I had a need to create an issue tracking system for a non-IT org with a large volume of repeatable, largely repeatable tasks with an easily defined workflow and the need to track various approvals a
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by flkiwi 3y ago
The best baseball game I ever saw was Greg Maddux's 77-pitch complete game. There are a distressing number of people who would consider it boring (MOAR HOME RUNS!), but it was an absolute masterclass in trajectories, velocities and psy
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I'm not a basketball fan and know very little about the sport and this was an incredibly moving and well-written story about the human tale behind a transient sport moment. I guess you need to know that getting a ball-sized object thro
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I'm not questioning what you're saying here, but I'm in a state of near-constant confusion about what "a replacement for Twitter" means and how it apparently means so many different things to different people. For m
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I've been using my X1C on battery for the last 4 hours on a transpacific flight (hello from the middle of nowhere) and am looking forward to about 4 more hours. The seat has a convenient power plug, but it's awfully nice to leave
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by flkiwi 3y ago
>You lose the connection with them, and they with you. I work in an organization with 10s of thousands of workers across the United States. I will never, in the best circumstances, see more than a handful of them in person, other than in
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I partially reject the premise, that people who play video games are pursuing instant gratification vs. those who "work." Of the hundreds of people I've worked closely with, I've seen no significant difference in willing
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Infantilism is such a silly term in this context. I'm a fully grown, reasonably successful person. I know who I am and what I'm doing. I also play video games and absolutely refuse to wear suits except for a few religious and gove
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Aside from this post ultimately seeming like a bit of a joke given its conclusion, I found myself reflecting on a few things: - Prompting people to send me MORE email is a horrifying thought and set me right off thinking this would be a par
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Parent here. That's the implication, but my intent was somewhat gentler, along the lines of "Using what appears to be professional language shortcuts common in an industry is sometimes suboptimal when communicating with interested
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by flkiwi 3y ago
If it were phrased as "discovered a mathematical solution in string theory that would, if confirmed, represent a topological soliton" that would strike me as more accurate. But this is the reason I stated up front that I'm a
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by flkiwi 3y ago
From a layperson's perspective, "discovered" is doing a LOT of work in the linked article given it appears to be a hypothetical construct (topological soliton) within a hypothetical construct (string theory).
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Except I'm not talking about a cube. I'm talking about the 3-dimensional representation of the outline of a square, not including the filled in bit. (Wouldn't be a cube anyway, as only 2 dimensions of what I'm thinking
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by flkiwi 3y ago
I'm having a good time imagining a bottle that is in the shape of a continuous, right angled rectangular solid (a 3d representation of the outline of a square) with a spout hidden in a corner and how the design patent application would
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by flkiwi 3y ago
TST is great, but it's nothing like Edge vertical tabs, which contain exactly the right amount of functionality for zero friction use. I have tried to get the same effect in Firefox, Vivaldi, pretty much anything that isn't Edge,
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Nor that horrific "Discover" button that looks like a dollar store logo (which is probably not an accident).
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by flkiwi 3y ago
Edge's vertical tabs are game changing, exceptionally useful and well-executed. No combination of browser extensions comes close (for me). That's literally the only reason I use Edge. I want someone to release an "Edgium&quot
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by flkiwi 4y ago
miniflux is great. I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, but it would be super-nice to be able to enter a youtube username (for example) and have it build a feed from it, as Google is, at best, wil
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by flkiwi 4y ago
MerrySky is so good. Geometric Weather is a fantastic app with the same look and feel. Carrot Weather also just (?) added what is effectively a "DarkSky mode". It's lovely.
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by flkiwi 4y ago
What's interesting about your question is that (and I'm saying this as a Silverblue user) it's a great question, and I'm fascinated by the incredibly successful projects that don't even bother trying to answer it: m
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by flkiwi 4y ago
It also has an almost absurdly calming and friendly visual brand. Arguably, that has nothing to do with the product but ... it also kinda does. I'm a Silverblue guy right now, and that has largely cured me of distro hopping, but NixOS
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by flkiwi 4y ago
It’ll do great in middle management.

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