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Sheridan

@ sheridan @lemmy.world

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  • What's the browser(s) you use?

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  • Right now I use Vivaldi on my work computer. For my personal devices (MacBook, iPhone, two iPads), I've been mainly using Kagi's Orion browser for about a year. It's a WebKit browser but even on iOS it can run (some) Chrome/Firefox extensions, which I think is pretty neat. I also dabble with iCab. It's a very eccentric browser with an interesting history that goes back to the 90s.

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  • I tried a standing desk and it made my back pain a lot worse.

  • Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

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  • Why do these things require microphones?

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yep. I learned to touch type through different kids typing programs back in the 90s. The one I remember the most was this game where there are two talking hands and you have to help them take back control of a city from this angry green blobby alien with a German accent. Apparently this alien's one weakness is typing.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • Mass migration like that occurs (from my memory at least) when the newer alternative has much better functionality, performance, and ease of use compared to the status quo service and has a low barrier to entry (sign up is quick and straightforward). Do any of the decentralized Discord alternatives fit these criteria (honest question, not rhetorical)?

  • Address it

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  • I've never had a therapist provide a chaise lounge. Is that not a thing anymore?

  • Worse that worst

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  • where grammar?

  • Was The Brave Little Toaster all that dark?

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  • It was the scariest shit I ever saw at age 5. Watched it several times as a kid. I would hide under the pillows during the clown scene. The AC blowing up at the beginning also freaked me out.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • I actually like the ribbon UI compared to what came before. Jensen Harris from the office design team way back in 2008 gave this talk about how they invented the ribbon:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • I know that workflow style is good for like dissertations and academic journal articles, but the sort of templates I have to design and work in are more splashy and dramatic. The look and structure is more akin to what you see in artsy magazines and books—pages with dark background colors, decorative stock images, vector shapes, etc. Can Latex be used for that?

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • I consider myself a Word power user. I've spent 1000s of hours in it and I know just about every obscure feature and quirk. I've designed professional corporate template suites in it.

    I hate it so much. It is so fucking archaic and janky. It has so many modal dialogs. There are features I need to get to regularly that are like 6 modal dialogs deep, and I have to close them all to see if the change I made was good; if not I have to go through them all over again.

    It has a sort of stylesheet, but it has built in styles that you can't delete if you don't need, and the inheritance hierarchy among them is a mess. Then there are "font themes" which are conceptually separate from the styles but can impact them.

    I could go on. All the Word alternatives aren't much better because they imitate Word too closely in my opinion. I think the approach to word processors needs to be rethought at fundamental level.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

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  • It seems intuitive but also 2000 years ago people thought that for example the eye emitting some sort of substance that interacts with the surrounding environment to be an intuitive explanation for how vision works, so intuitions need to be tested.

  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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  • I thought the ribbon cables inside PCs was where memory was stored. I remember at like age 6 watching my older sister upgrade the RAM of our family computer (a 486 machine I think) and seeing all the mess of ribbon cables in the inside and I assumed that was memory. I guess because it reminded me of the tape inside a cassette?

  • Dick gets Tarred

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  • What is it with Ricks?

  • US of A

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  • We're going to see a lot of recycled political cartoons from 2003.

  • What's your kinda-unimpressive 'claim to fame'?

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  • My great grandfather tailored some clothes for President LBJ. It was after he left office I think.

  • What is your New Years resolution?

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  • Propose to my gf.

  • Only 1% of People Can Solve This

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  • This is just your average scene from season 3 of Strange New Worlds.

  • What's your favorite OLD Youtube video?

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