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Re:We’ve decided to rename Riot on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:43AM (#23639091)
I for one will be immediately renaming my local nuRiot icon as Flibblr
Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:24PM (#23452990)
Something doesn't have to be encoded in law to be structural. If a cop racially profiles a black man and harasses him and his boss doesn't discipline him, that's structural. The structure has failed to provide the right outcome.
Re:I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:30AM (#23309317)
This makes me wonder if there's anything that can be made to behave this way on Linux? I had an issue with Gnome freezing on me 100% last night with seemingly no recourse than a hard reboot over and over until a full rebuild. Something deeply embedded like Task Manager would have been great to try and resolve the issue. Switching virtual consoles was broken too and as far as I know there's no way to cut through a problem like this.
Re:Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:58PM (#23174336)
This sounds like the method Star Trek: Voyager writers used to come up with their technobabble
Re:An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket on Sunday May 10, 2020 @05:04AM (#23131277)
From the Mars Mission page it seems the non-peaceful aliens aren't Martian natives: > The Aliens have originated from an unknown place in the cosmos, and are also searching for the crystals. In actuality, they are not from Mars And the wiki suggests it's a soft sequel to the Life On Mars setting, making their place in LEGO canon easier to fit together.
Re:We Are Trying Out PeerTube on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#23129621)
It was 1Gb initially, then on their 1st birthday 2Gb and slowly growing daily, which seemed practically unlimited compared to other email that were offering 100Mb at the most? A quick look at an article[1] at the time (who claimed it was "outrageous") show Hotmail were offering 250Mb and Yahoo had just launched 1Gb to catch up.

[1] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/gmail-rewards-users-with...

that page lists the NEXT PAGE symbol ⎘ and I wonder if that couldn't do as an "external link" symbol in a pinch, seeing as I've never seen it used as a next page symbol before.
Re:Dracula Pro on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:57AM (#22906587)
They're the ones I'm already using. I want to know what I'm missing out on! I've never seen Input though, so thanks for that.
Re:Dracula Pro on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:37PM (#22904894)
Do I need to buy this just to find out which fonts they're recommending?
Re:In Praise of Phone Calls on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:06AM (#22644332)
I'm in exactly the same boat. 40 years old and hate phone calls. But recently I've started to learn that the reason I hate them is because it always feels like I have to "prepare" for them and that's something I'm putting on myself. two things have started to change the way I think about them: 1) being in a call centre job where someone made it policy to stop reading the ticket before calling. this made it feel less important to have all the answers before calling and taught me that my preparation was only effective about 30% of the time. it also taught me how to politely stall or think out loud - the person on the other end in almost all cases is fine with the fact that you are human and don't know the answers immediately. 2) when I left that job I found my way into a completely different role, but one where my manager was a big proponent of making calls when things weren't working. For example if you've sent email after email waiting for someone, pick up the phone and call them - it triggers a completely different response. It's like they remember you're another human and not just a task to be done. You can quickly clarify any concerns or questions they have, and it genuinely helps move things forward. Couple this with lesson one, and not overthinking what I'm going to say it's made a big difference. I still hate calling, but between those two lessons I've become much less hesitant to pick up the phone because it can really change the course of a relationship or interaction.
Re:Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:26AM (#22616365)
Ooooh, of course this is .ten after .nine. I saw it and thought "0.10? they're only up to a point one release? they've been working on this for ages!"
Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:25AM (#22502164)
I was with you for the first half, until the demo of the command completion with clickable dropdown options and thought it looked just like the nested menus you're trying to kill. The difference is a slightly less cluttered interface, but for someone who knows what they're looking at is a menu all that different than selecting a command that gives a subset of followup commands on a single line?
Re:"This community is available in the app" on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:42AM (#22340430)
Tildes feels like Reddit used to. it's just low on new content at the moment. More users would be good.
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:40PM (#21550850)
So would you say that Reddit isn't a social network? I would have agreed at inception, but not anymore. I'd say the lines have blurred enough to look at any site where commenting is one of the primary functions as "social".
Re:Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World? on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:30PM (#21111279)
If it were the default state would people find it so hard to attain? It's hard not to want things, to not believe that there's just one more thing that could make things better. If it were simple it wouldn't be the core basis of so many religions.
Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:33PM (#21001431)
Or ask them to fix it and submit a PR. If their edge case broke it, then they should know best how to fix it.
Re:Sites with dumb password rules on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:20AM (#20894206)
Or just an inability to deal with character encoding.
Re:Sites with dumb password rules on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:14AM (#20894186)
That one smacks of character encoding issues or badly sanitised inputs.