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by tonyedgecombe 18d ago
Pages has an export menu (File -> Export To -> PDF).
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
MacOS's current Finder dates from 2001 Arguably it dates from NeXTSTEP so 1989.
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
That has changed. I'm not sure when but it definitely asks me if I want to replace or merge.
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
>The thing is, it needs to be 1:1. I'm not sure about that outside of Excel and even then only for a small proportion of users.
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
The main thing that has changed isn't that Linux has got much better but that most corporations deliver their internal applications through a web browser. The days of companies being anchored to win32 are long gone. Of course there are
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
Perhaps it's just bad art.
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
I think that is quite likely but it is going to be a painful transition. Especially for the people who were only attracted to the profession for the money.
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by tonyedgecombe 19d ago
I’m not sure about the car. I seem to remember reading that commute time has been remarkably consistent even going back to Roman times. All the car allowed us to do is build homes further away from our workplace.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
I get no end of confusion because mine is firstname@firstnamelastname.com. People have told me that isn’t correct.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
Yeah but he didn’t unlock his kids locked down devices before he left.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
You have to remember that a lot of people here work for companies causing these problems.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
The fucking article. Or you could imagine a more polite alternative.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
Which doesn't really matter anymore as all Google will do is slurp it up and regurgitate it without attribution.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
The unemployed people I know all enjoy slow mornings. It's the rich that seem to be working themselves to the bone.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
Everybody worries about money no matter how much they have got. I remember some study where people were asked how much they would need to feel comfortable. No matter where they were on the wealth scale the answer was always about 50% more t
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
He should get off Twitter, that place can make you miserable.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
Most of those things don't cost very much or are free.
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
I have mixed feelings about travel. Simply because so much of it seems to be about status chasing. Then you have the whole commercial world trying to convince you it is important. You never see them suggesting you take a ten mile hike from
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by tonyedgecombe 20d ago
I’m not sure about that. I suspect we are getting a lot of false positives. Several times the author of an article has joined the conversation and vehemently denied using AI. Ultimately the post appears here because it is getting upvotes. I
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by tonyedgecombe 21d ago
Yes but I'm also getting a bit tired of reading complaints about it as well.
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by tonyedgecombe 21d ago
Don't hold the iron by the hot end. I taught my children to solder when they were younger and despite telling them they both did it (once).
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by tonyedgecombe 21d ago
Also https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-19951... (if you are in the UK).
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by tonyedgecombe 22d ago
I've heard the same about pirated software, people who have downloaded thousands of programs. People are strange.
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by tonyedgecombe 22d ago
In the UK you get a stern letter from your ISP and that's it.
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by tonyedgecombe 22d ago
Pieter Hintjens (the ZeroMQ guy) died from bile duct cancer which he put down to parasites acquired after eating sushi in South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens
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by tonyedgecombe 22d ago
I suppose that depends on how dystopian you think current middle management is. I've had managers that were deliberately malicious, AI would almost certainly have been better in that situation.
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by tonyedgecombe 23d ago
Fire and motion, Joel Spolsky blogged about this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
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by tonyedgecombe 23d ago
People like that are usually pretty good at deflecting onto other people. Likely you will end up being blamed in some way.
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by tonyedgecombe 23d ago
Some of us don't want suggestions that are relevant to us. Targeted suggestions are more likely to draw you into the machine.
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by tonyedgecombe 24d ago
GDP growth is adjusted for inflation. If you are seeing GDP growth then the population is getting richer (as a bloc).

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