TheUniverseandNetworks

@TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember WordPerfect when it was still a DOS program. The simplicity of “this format code affects all text after it” was elegant.

  And then we got Word foisted on us, with “this format code (which you have no way of viewing) affects the block of text before it” so if you accidentally delete or move that format code then you screw up a seemingly random bunch of text. And here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was fantastic! 😊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing proxmox, virtual machines, and others⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

  If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hitting the High Notes (2005)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always loved reading Joel’s stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that’s kinda got buried now. Things come & things go…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been doing email since it began. Same frustrations.

  Solutions (workarounds):

  1. Email is structured with “executive summary” & “detail”. That way I can write all the words I want but people can only read the first paragraph.
  2. Never ask questions. Tell them what I’m going to choose, & give them opportunity to disagree. That way if they don’t respond usefully I can take their “non-response” as a response & proceed anyway.
  3. If I need to ask a question, use a phone call or go to their desk, or (shudder) make a meeting.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting article, I agree with his analysis, not sure (yet) that I agree with his conclusions. My brain needs to think about it in the background for a bit (just the way mine works).

  TLDR: we should expect conversational interfaces to be an addition to the workflows we currently use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side).”

  Yeah - this is exactly why you should reverse park. When you come out again into potentially a stream of traffic, if you reverse park, you’re coming out forwards, you can see them & they can see you. If you forward park you have literally no idea what you’re backing out into.