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New comment by screenbeard in "We’ve decided to rename Riot"

screenbeard — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:43:18 +0000

I for one will be immediately renaming my local nuRiot icon as Flibblr

New comment by screenbeard in "America is giving up on the pandemic?"

screenbeard — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:24:13 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something"

screenbeard — Tue, 26 May 2020 10:30:19 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

screenbeard — Thu, 14 May 2020 01:58:11 +0000

This sounds like the method Star Trek: Voyager writers used to come up with their technobabble

New comment by screenbeard in "An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket"

screenbeard — Sun, 10 May 2020 09:04:18 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "We Are Trying Out PeerTube"

screenbeard — Sun, 10 May 2020 01:29:44 +0000

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...

New comment by screenbeard in "Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)"

screenbeard — Fri, 01 May 2020 10:01:20 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "Dracula Pro"

screenbeard — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:57:39 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "Dracula Pro"

screenbeard — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:37:55 +0000

Do I need to buy this just to find out which fonts they're recommending?

New comment by screenbeard in "In Praise of Phone Calls"

screenbeard — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 04:06:26 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release"

screenbeard — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:26:46 +0000

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!"

New comment by screenbeard in "CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line"

screenbeard — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:25:11 +0000

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?

New comment by screenbeard in ""This community is available in the app""

screenbeard — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:42:50 +0000

Tildes feels like Reddit used to. it's just low on new content at the moment. More users would be good.

New comment by screenbeard in " Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival"

screenbeard — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 03:40:27 +0000

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".

New comment by screenbeard in "Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?"

screenbeard — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:30:02 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "The Internet Relies on People Working for Free"

screenbeard — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:33:24 +0000

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.

New comment by screenbeard in "Sites with dumb password rules"

screenbeard — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:20:00 +0000

Or just an inability to deal with character encoding.

New comment by screenbeard in "Sites with dumb password rules"

screenbeard — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:14:14 +0000

That one smacks of character encoding issues or badly sanitised inputs.