noir_lord

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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Among some, for others (including me) him been attached to it is very much a counter signal.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I think that's a little simplistic/reductive. In some areas IBM still holds if not a technological advantage at least the first among equals position, they just aren't areas that are flashy or generally known outside of folks
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
When I had to use a Mac for work, Rectangle was a life saver since it basically let me replicate manual window management pretty closely to how I've done it on Linux forever, between that and iterm2 it wasn't a terrible experien
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
On board got "good enough" and the separate cards died away. In fairness on board (depending on the board but on the whole) is pretty good.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Yep, clicked it, saw his face in the thumbnail and closed the tab.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
As with all things human it's a continuum and the education system (at least as it existed when I went through it which was to be fair decades ago) wasn't always great at getting that message across. I had a friend in my year, bri
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Gradual progress is still progress. Just pick a specific task that you do routinely (say markdown editing) and just use neovim for that one task - eat the elephant one bite at a time and markdown is generally small enough/light enoug
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
neovim, general text editing/small scripts/markdown where the task is short/light enough I just want to do it and keep moving. Intellij for basically all software development that is more than 2 minutes.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Makes the transition from secondary (high) school to post-secondary school education particularly brutal since you've never really had to work for something and have no idea what good habits look like. Reading the material before the
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
That was the final straw that stopped me using it. I didn’t/don’t want the AI, I didn’t like the telemetry but it could be turned off but the cavalier disregard to just yeeting shit into a tool used by that many people no thanks.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I trained and qualified as an Industrial Electrician (not on the same scale as a PhD academically but not a trivial amount of work to do either) and decided I loved the theory and hated the practical. I'm a software engineer and none o
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I got out right told the reason I wasn’t getting promoted was because I was too valuable where I was which was getting a critical project back on track. I resigned the next day and since the company had a mandatory gardening leave period by
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
In my experience senior management hires management consultants to tell them to do what they wanted to do anyway but now they can blame the consultants. The two consults in Office Space absolutely nailed it.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
My missus is Hungarian, I'm sure it's a lovely language but it just sounds like Klingon to me. Which makes it hilarious when she's annoyed at the boy.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> CROYDON sofa I mean.. we have the Windsor Chair ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_chair ) and the Welsh Dresser ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_dresser ) and those both slightly pre
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I mean that honours the legacy of how TeX came to be - in spirit at least. > This method, dating back to the 19th century, produced a "classic style" appreciated by Knuth.[6] When the second edition was published, in 1976, the
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Considered building something like this over a decade ago (because my mum has chronic health problems that are manageable but require a lot of management) and I'd recently been diagnosed with Chrohn's. I thought about the design&#
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Not using Amazon (in light of geopolitical events and quite frankly, just not liking the way they do business or Jeff Bezos (as he presents himself to the world)) has been a net positive. There was a time it was good and convenient and the
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
The related Over Engineering Post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335292 Does seem like overkill but everyone scratches their own itch.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
You know when we (they) tell you not to do any personal computing on work devices/systems and to keep your devices completely separate from work ones. Yeah this (and lawsuits/investigations) are why , the employer owns the data,
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
XP was indeed when I stopped caring about Windows updates, SP2 was a huge deal - after that they where either "eh" or actively things I didn't want. To be honest I think the reason I stopped care was more that I started using
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Run (as Administrator) in a terminal reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Should restore the old right click menu (it did last time I used it at an
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Today’s winner of Poe’s Law of the Day goes to your comment. Well done.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
That and I'm pretty sure they are using NMS as a backport target to test systems for Light No Fire (which is an instant buy for me, Hello Games have completely redeemed themselves in my eyes).
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Not just that it is also strategically smart, if you are a geopolitical rival of the United States the absolute last thing you want to do is be the external aggressor that unifies them again (if temporarily). Far better to just sit back a
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> the damage they could do to civilisation.. Not could, already have. That ship sailed, reached it's destination, had a leisurely visit to the chandlery and is on the way back to do it again.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
In theory quite strict, in practice multiple parties have been caught breaking them and nothing really gets done. A rule is only a rule if it's enforced.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Indeed which is why "taking back sovereignty" as an argument by the pro-Brexit folks was a bit disingenuous (if I'm been kind). It would also require us leaving a whole bunch of international treaties though since "Natio
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> this can be taken as an indication that they intend to do business with China the US does not approve of. At least, they want the option. Indeed, it also acts as a counter balance/hedge against the US's demands in the future.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> No war between the UK and the US was needed. No war was "needed" to settle who was #1, it was clear that we (the UK) simply couldn't maintain the empire as it was and we definitely couldn't have fought the US. We we

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