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by flkiwi 2y ago
I just blame it on atrocious corporate crapware making my camera not work again. "Sorry!" (I am not, in fact, sorry.)
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Not directly on point, but I've gotten pretty ruthless about protecting myself from some pretty serious zoom (or teams, in our case) abuse. I was in a meeting 3 days ago and the person leading it said "Ok everybody, let's hop
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Unless you're engaged in a high-stakes commercial negotiation, for example. The sales people in those are always on camera. The lawyers are routinely off. Part of that is a long, looooong history of negotiation via conference call, whi
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Ah, thank you. Hurricane-addled mind missed that.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Ok, so, assuming these facilities are indeed "top secret bases" that have armed security, military or otherwise, how do red teamers not get shot? Do they get right up to but not complete the intrusion? Do they inform security of t
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by flkiwi 2y ago
The dictionary meaning of "confluence", namely an aggregation or coming together of disparate sources of stuff (information, in this case) into a single place, makes perfect sense here. And searching for places that lots of inform
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Absolutely, and I’ve worked with (and tried to model myself on) people who hire people smarter than they are. If nothing else, management is itself a skill and many highly competent doers have little interest in management. And that’s ok! B
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by flkiwi 2y ago
The one flaw I see in the premise of this article is that, very often, high performers are much smarter and more capable than their managers, so expecting managers to recognize the talent and not be threatened by it when they do is unrealis
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I think there's a deeper implication that the naysayers _about the subject of the hype_ are usually right, rather than simply about anyone trying to exploit the hype. Metaverse was going to be the next big thing. Naysayers (correctly)
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I have a narrow bungalow kitchen. Double doors on our full size oven would make it slightly easier for two people to navigate around during a busy prep. Conversely, double doors on our fridge interact poorly with one wall, meaning it is imp
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by flkiwi 2y ago
"It's easy for days to go on with no 'change of landscape', and that can send anyone straight to depression." Counterpoint: That's an exact description of how I felt working in an office.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
"Switch computers often" can also apply to "switch computers with little notice". Even if 95% of my time is spent on one computer, it's nice to know my config is safely squirreled away and, uh, trivially unsquirrela
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by flkiwi 2y ago
It's interesting and a fun hacking challenge for someone so inclined but it also seems slightly ... I don't know ... extraneous? But the community that needs dotfiles is diverse enough to support everything from Linux From Scrat
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Aside from not having quite as robust an anti-spam approach as gmail (at least at the start), fastmail has been faster and easier to use than gmail was for me, and that's extremely high praise. Even something as obscure as setting a cu
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Me: I think I'll update nixos* Nix: barfs voluminous errors I've never seen before Me: whaaaat the farrrrk * nixos updates are pulled from a github repo
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Our family just found a stray kitten in a storm drain. She is feisty in ways I've never seen in a kitten. The amount of time I've spent thinking some variation of "our whole family is going to get rabies and die horribly&quot
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by flkiwi 2y ago
In fairness to Apple Weather, hyperlocal forecasts have inexplicably gotten far, far worse in the last few years (in my own anecdata anyway).
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I feel like people obsess over Dark Sky because it would have slotted almost unchanged into some hypothetical post-Mac OS 9 design language if "lickable" OS X had never existed. Or, if you prefer, Dark Sky embodied the engineered
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by flkiwi 2y ago
It is cluttered and messy. Or, if you prefer, it does not have the feature of thoughtful information design that was a primary factor in Dark Sky's success, in favor of cartoonish and distracting animations and cluttered layout. The
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Agree, though there's still something about Carrot's underlying design language that is less subtle and refined. It's a very, very minor complaint given the effort Carrot clearly made (and their evident appreciation for a c
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by flkiwi 2y ago
The unmatched clarity and simplicity of the data. The Weather app isn't in the same league. To my eye, it's a cluttered, gaudy mess, certainly compared to Dark Sky. Carrot Weather has a mode that is almost a replacement for Dark S
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I feel like there was a "lost in translation" issue with the way they phrased the diversion. My assumption was that they didn't have enough fuel to attempt another landing in Tampa AND THEN to divert if it failed (which, give
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by flkiwi 2y ago
In my own experience (and the takeaway is “software is hard” not “I am right”), every movie I watched via plex had audio desync issues, which has never been an issue with Jellyfin.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I can think of lots of possible answers outside Europe and North America, particularly where infrastructure is either limited or unreliable.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
A fascinating topic around my family is the playwrights who insist that the play be delivered precisely as written, most of whom are the same playwrights who refuse to allow genderswapping roles (even innocuously), updating pop culture refe
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by flkiwi 2y ago
A few years ago, I came into the orbit of a public speaking coach, and he and I worked together for a few weeks. Your comment fascinates (and reassures) me, because he was emphatic that I had to abandon my own natural way of speaking entire
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Fascinating. As someone who has written (and read) a lot of code and written (and read) a lot of legal language, and as someone who has consistently recommended that young people learn programming principles before going to law school, I&
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by flkiwi 2y ago
This is my text message tone for a few key family members. It brings me joy on the rare occasions my phone isn’t muted.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Odd. I don’t get relevant results using Google at all. Sometimes I get results that are in the same topic, but I can’t remember the last time a Google result gave me a result on the first page without a VERY specific query. Kagi knows what
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Spontaneous Proximate Lithobrake Acceleration Termination.

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