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I grew up on IRC and that was just the way to talk, so it seems totally normal to me for async chat-based stuff. Actually, it’s odd, when someone uses proper capitalization on chat, it feels all “formal.”

Agreed. Traditional TV and radio ads target demographics, not individuals.

I grew up with a CoCo 2 that I got for Christmas when I was 5. I remember the BASIC book it came with that had programs you could type in. Also, Demon Attack!

By downsizing, you mean cramming my family into a crappy, small apartment in a terrible school district?

I switched my kids to Linux too. They have a multi-seat setup so now they can both use the PC at the same time. With the state of Linux gaming, we have yet to encounter a reason to boot back into Windows.

Interesting point! How about if instead of a burrito I order yakisoba or chicken tendies?

Unreal Tournament and Quake 2 for me.

I like TUIs for a lot of reasons, but this one might be the biggest.

I agree, I never found changing diapers that difficult or bad. I was also hardened by years of chronic insomnia so the sleep disruption wasn't a big deal, I took most of the night-time duties to let mom sleep.

The thing I remember being most annoyed about was cleaning all the bottles. That was really obnoxious.

Not to mention that it seems like everything has to go through like 10 redirects just to log in, and then you have to dismiss various pop-ups before you can just do whatever you went there to do. Some will say that the last part is just a UX problem, but in my opinion, sluggishness is the king of UX prooblems.

On the topic of Electron, I’m really torn. I can’t help but feel some gratitude for the fact a few of the work tools I need work on Linux (stuff like Slack, Teams, Zoom).

You’re not alone. Like many in this thread, I have kids and a house, etc. etc. Never needed anything like this. Maybe jotting down a note with pen and paper now and then, or at most, e-mail myself a reminder of something.

I have to wonder if some people use these systems to make themselves feel more important than they actually are.

Hmm, when I think “old Internet” I don’t think Napster, IE, WAP… I think usenet, gopher, telnet MUDs, IRC netsplits and FTP warez.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. The brain zaps I got when stopping Lexapro (Escitalopram) were identical to brain zaps I get when I’m sick from something like the flu and I’m very tired. I have no idea as to an explanation. Anyone else?

I found this disappointing too. I know they don’t have the resources to build their own equivalent of Nanite and such, but… On top of the performance issues, there were a number of things that actually looked so much better in the 2014 game. For example, the forcefields and water ripples.

I just found out the Talos 2 DLC is out on Steam this Friday!

It really kills my productivity too, although I don’t suffer from ADHD. For me it’s about the feeling of being seen/watched that makes me feel anxious and self-conscious all the time. I’d also be happy with a cubicle as long as it blocks line of sight.

and Outer Wilds!

Unity has been quite solid for me on Linux lately. It’s mainly just minor annoyances like the project settings window being too small when you open it so you have to resize it, little stuff like that. Nothing that has prevented me from getting the job done. I still prefer to use it on Linux because the glitches annoy me less than, well, using windows.

Unreal works okay for me, but I’ve had to submit a few patches upstream to work out some Wayland issues. Other than that, it’s about as bloated/buggy/slow as it is on windows. Most of the time if I think there’s some Linux-specific issue I’ll open the same project on windows only to discover it was the same.

Keep going and you eventually arrive at GLib

All of those things are better done in writing so that:

- There’s a record of decisions and the thought process behind them

- When asked for input I can take time to consider a response and therefore give a higher quality reply

- I can refer back to conversations or search them when I inevitably forget some detail

- I don’t miss key information because I was out sick or had to take a bathroom break

- There’s a paper trail you can copy/paste when there’s a disagreement in understanding

- In meetings it can be frustrating to try to get a word in: there are often too many people or just one really chatty bastard who won’t stop

- It’s easier to scroll past chatter about weekend plans and sports than it is to sit through it in a meeting

The problem with meeting notes is they only reflect one person’s understanding, and often the person taking notes only has half an understanding anyway. Meeting notes are like JPEG compression set to the lowest possible quality.

I work with a team that spans +9h and +16h from me and it’s great because there are few meetings and lots of written communication. It’s very easy to search past communications to find old materials or decisions, and that’s not just hypothetical: I do it ALL the time.

We’ll use meetings, but for more tactical purposes: troubleshooting a specific problem, or doing a demo of some feature (although even then I would suggest demos are better as a recorded video).

Most objections are really something like “wah, I don’t want to read or write, it’s too haaaard.” Reading and writing were some of the earliest inventions in human civilization and everyone learns them starting in pre-school. It’s a low bar for a grown professional.

Probably a multi-year class action suit where everyone who got screwed over eventually gets $0.79 for their troubles while lawyers on both sides get a fat payday for creating exactly nothing. That’s what this precious “social contract” gets you, and I piss on it.

Very interesting. Jutting my jaw forward makes a very obvious loud squeal at what sounds like a lower frequency than my normal background tinnitus. I never noticed that before.

I do clench my teeth a lot from anxiety and get muscle pain in the sides of my face on occasion. I wonder if that’s related.

I always just assumed this was a normal thing that everyone had and never bothered to look it up. Sounds exactly like the roar of a high wind to me.

I don’t have any (diagnosed) neurological disability but I would do poorly in that situation too. Excessive context switching is a major source of stress: adrenaline, fast heartbeat, high blood pressure. Makes it almost impossible to stay focused and motivated.

Honestly, I kind of agree. I’d be hard-pressed to think if any concrete advice I’ve received from other parents that was worth a good god damn, either from my generation or older. If you ever wander into any parenting forums, it gets so weird and culty very quickly.

Now, I’ve had useful tips for infants since they’re basically a brain stem with a mouth and a butthole, but when they get older it’s my experience that kids are just too different to apply any one broad set of strategies to them all.

I have a lot of respect for teachers, I don’t know how they command a whole room full of them.

I know what you mean. I’ve got two girls, 5 and 6, who love to fight over the pettiest shit. Like, when they’re in the car, one will yell “she’s looking out MY window!” “NO I’M NOT” “YES YOU ARE” etc.

The good news is that at their age right now I’ve been noticing more and more moments where they’re nice to each other, help each other out, etc. Still plenty of rivalry, but it seems to be on the decline in the past six months or so.

Two kids having some kind of competitive tantrum is so much more difficult than just one kid having a tantrum. They set each other off over and over in some kind of fucking feedback loop from hell. Sometimes the only strategy that works is to get them separated ASAP any way you can, which can be really hard if there’s only one grown-up home at the time and the kids’ bedrooms share a wall….

Those shows are so formulaic, they have to do something to entertain themselves I suppose.

Isn’t it obvious? More browser tabs.

An appropriate comment in this, the month of September.