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polotek, to random
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If you haven't checked in a while, Firefox is good. Like really good. If you're tired of Chrome taking literally all of your ram and CPU, you should try switching.

purp,
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@agentydragon got it. Yeah, the only thing I found on how to do it is maybe a bit hacky: https://support.mozilla.org/kn/questions/1367908

cmconseils, to random French
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:psyduck:

purp,
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@cmconseils Yup. All three times.

xgranade, to random
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It kind of sucks that "adult toy" is a euphemism for "sex toy." Like sure, those are all well and good, but what about poseable figures that break if you look at them the wrong way, or gunpla, or ESP32-C6 dev boards, or completely impractical computers that beg to be called cyberdecks, or 3D printers, or infrared cameras, or overly fancy drones, or record players and vinyl albums, or anything that still has a floppy drive in 2024?

purp,
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@xgranade ... and power tools. Best toys for adults ever.

Oh, and mig welders. And plasma torches. And ...

foone, to random
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I ran into a bug in a program but logging is off. I'll just enable logging and run it again, surely I'll quickly run into the same bug again, it'll definitely reoccur!

Behold, a fool.

purp,
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@foone or maybe my fave, things that don’t break when debugging is enabled?

dave, to random
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I've been wanting to teach ChatGPT how I work, as I would an developer partner, so we can get more efficient over time and tackle more ambitious projects. Even...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/openai-tests-stronger-chatgpt-memory-heres-what-itll-remember-about-you/#ftag=CAD590a51e

purp,
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@dave @davew brings new meaning to "memory management"

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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When you write SQL code snippets, do you put keywords in all-caps?

purp,
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@xahteiwi almost never. All caps reduces legibility. https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/design-readability#:~:text=Avoid%20using%20all%20caps.,identify%20words%20by%20their%20shape.

rands, to random
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If you’re not sleeping well, you’re not doing good work.

If you’re not exercising, you’re probably not sleeping well.

If you’re not eating well, you probably aren’t exercising.

purp,
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@tomcoates @rands you are legion?

purp, to random
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Welcome to our annual "The Internet Is The Least Reliable Source Of Information" Day! 🤡

purp,
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@ggoodale fair point. I think the difference is that the flavor of intentional absurdity has a bit more of a djagittit-huh twang to it. But I'm just jaded, that's all.

kellan, to random
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Working from Austin today after trouble catching a flight post eclipse. Need noise cancelling headphones to block out the grackles.

purp,
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@kellan i’m not sure noise canceling technology has advanced quite that far.

major, to random
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I'm helping a non-profit try to claw some money back from Hostgator that was charged in a super predatory way and during the process, Hostgator "lost" all of their invoices.

Convenient. 🤦‍♂️

purp,
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@major very smart.

purp,
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@major Ugh. Sorry to hear they got taken. Had a similar experience with Hostgator more than a couple of decades ago where I canceled and they "didn't have a record of it," then proceeded to change the expiration date on my card and keep billing.

Eventually had to dispute with the bank, who did a full chargeback. What a pain.

purp, to random
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@annaleen is the person we all want to be when we grow up. Pre-ordering mine now. https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/111864764005744712

purp, to random
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Discovered this election that even more of the folks I listened to as proxies for different aspects of county and state politics have hung up their spurs.

Many thanks, MM, LD, JKW, and others, for all the years you spent so much time on local issues and shared your thinking. It was hugely helpful. ❤️

purp, to random
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I’d almost move to NC just to vote for Sarah. She’s done the homework and she’s looking to help NC put its advantages to work for its people. ❤️🗳️
https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/112170520559771744

purp, to random
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It's got pathos and victory, and Bread Jesus 2.0. What more could you ask for?
https://infosec.exchange/@plinth/112190593531837505

drewda, to random

Most everyone of these blog posts with titles like "Culture Change at Google" by Google alums -- commenting on how sad and shocking of a change it is for that company to now have recurring layoffs, rather than just shift staff to more important projects -- are practically verbatim transcripts of the same things that were said and written ~20 years ago about HP.

purp,
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@drewda … and HP was a 65 year old company by then, where Google is checks 25 years old now. Faster is better?

jillrhudy, to librarians
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As a librarian, I never want to see a pair of eclipse glasses again. I’m exhausted. Only one hour and 27 minutes left to hand these out and answer the phone. @librarians

purp,
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@hauntedhideaway @librarians @jillrhudy I desperately wanted there to be a donut pinhole camera on the internet, but it's beyond my research skills.

purp,
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@hauntedhideaway @jillrhudy @librarians eclipse viewing donuts? That's a great idea. 😛

palvaro, to random
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I have been wearing my wife’s Apple Watch and it just told me that I was playing Black Sabbath too loud in the car and now I’m angry at it

purp,
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@palvaro On the one hand, it feels like being not the Lucifer is a good thing.

On the other hand, I really want to see you spend the first minute and a half of a lightning talk drawing a pentagram on the stage and lighting black candles. Sets the mood.

Bronwyn, to random
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Do I tip the bed delivery people (paying a large delivery and setup fee) and, separately the mattress delivery people (no setup really but they take away the old one and also paying a delivery fee) and if so how much?

It’s hard to want to tip on top of the big delivery fees but it’s probably the right thing to do. Figuring these things out feels like such a burden and I wish we could do away with tipping and just pay people more.

purp,
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@Bronwyn for us, we tend to start at ~$20 for delivery of large things to a place inside the house, and scale up according to difficulty and level of service.

We were fortunate enough to be able to generously tip the two gentlemen who recently delivered a new washer and dryer to our second floor laundry room and took the old ones away. They did it quite well, and I very much appreciated not having to work four laundry machines through that torturous path.

purp,
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@Bronwyn Like other said, and true of all tips: you should tip according to your means and the value you feel you received.

Figure the delivery fee covers crew time and vehicle costs, so look at it from the perspective of how the service was. Did they take time to get it exactly where you needed it? Did they clean up well when they finished? Were they careful not to damage your walls and belongings? That's good service.

How much is about how you value that service and what you can afford.

tomcoates, to random
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Quick question: how do you guys actually feel about Meta making Threads Fediverse compatible?

purp,
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@kellan @tomcoates that was exactly the reset I did when coming here. It's made a lot of difference.

betsythemuffin, to random
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Fucking around with XSLT for ... reasons... and tbh, from a language perspective I'm finding it equal-or-better as an experience to most "modern" web templating languages.

The only real issues I'm having are around documentation & compatibility due to it being unfashionable.

purp,
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@betsythemuffin I end up with similar $REASONS about once every 7-10 years, swear for a while as I’m reviving those neurons, and walk away wondering why it didn’t become more prevalent.

purp, to random
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Way back when, I remember the "SECEDE!" bumper stickers in that were maybe not common, but certainly not uncommon in Austin in the 80s. I'll confess I loved the independent spirit of them, but even much younger me recognized how short sighted they were.

I feel like Greg Abbott somehow missed that second part.

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