GarnetFloride

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by GarnetFloride 7d ago
We saw it over the weekend and had a blast. There were a lot of easter eggs and cameos that we saw but we know we missed a fair number of them. Not enough to see it in theaters again but at home with freeze frame. You could tell the people
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by GarnetFloride 9d ago
are you kidding me? It's right in the preamble "promote the general welfare" if clean water does not count, then neither should all the other BS they've argued into existence over that phrase should either.
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by GarnetFloride 10d ago
Sometimes you need to think outside the box, sometimes inside the box, and sometimes you need to think about the box itself. Some people will tear down Chesterton's fence because they don't want to feel limited, others won't
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by GarnetFloride 19d ago
Civilization occurs when one person helps another who cannot help themselves. That's a simple definition, but it should suffice for this discussion. Your original comment was what to do about those people whose labour does not equal or
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by GarnetFloride 19d ago
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." -A Christmas Carol (1843) The whole point of civilization is to help people. If a business cannot support civilizati
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by GarnetFloride 1mo ago
Picked up by Apple, of all places, and Brandon finished the first draft of the screenplay last week.
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by GarnetFloride 2mo ago
I use Mortimer's system for non-fiction works, which is where it makes the most sense. I would also use it if I was doing a really deep dive in a fiction work. For most fiction that I am reading for entertainment, the first 50ish pages
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by GarnetFloride 2mo ago
Now we just need something to replace paper for a whole new rock-paper-scissors paradigm.
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
So many things are like that. Trying to bolt on accessibility or security as an afterthought never work as well as making those things part of the initial design. I've been at this long enough that yes I know that just getting somethin
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
WordStar was great once you had the keycombos memorized. WordPerfect was great for doing lots of formatting it was so easy to make a signature for printing a booklet or zine. I've been using Scrivener as my creating space. It is great
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
You can't look at the total acreage of the state as a metric when 64.4% of the state is owned by the federal government. The proposed site is twice the size of Manhattan, NY and sized for 9GW of energy which is more than the entire sta
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
Wasn't there a case of a F-150 running over a Lamborghini in a parking lot a few weeks ago, because the driver of the pickup couldn't see the supercar?
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
But, but, they're digital natives, oh course they know all about computers. /s I get that. I used to be able to overhaul a VW beetle on the side of the road with regular tools. A couple of years ago my car's transmission&#x27
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
That is truly awesome. Good on you.
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
For one company, I made documentation for archive and backup software and I worked closely with tech support. Most customers were sysadmins, and a small subset had no clue what they were doing and they would call us for every little thing e
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
I never try to speak to everyone as a tech writer. Tutorials are for people who'd never used our software before, but even then I could assume a certain level of computer literacy, for example they can launch out software or browse to
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
Authenticity basically revolves around waves of immigrants. The authentic food comes from the time and place the immigrants came from. 20 years later things have changed. Food prices in both places have changed and so the cuisines split. Th
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
Some people looking for ways to extract wealth through the school system. There are always cuts at the classroom level but more money than ever at the admin level. Some people are actively trying to sabotage the school system because the un
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by GarnetFloride 3mo ago
After 12 years of trying, my manager has finally convinced the boss that dev docs and user docs are different, because Claude made different documentation for different audiences. When I was in tech support I wrote down the solutions to tic
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
The thing that drives me the most nuts is when it is just that one ad, shown over, and over and over again, sometimes twice in a row, which just makes me note to never, ever buy from them ever. Though I did notice last week lots of unique a
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
I help run a writer's symposium. We get about 200 presenters and 1200 attendees a year. No one's journey is the same. What worked for one; failed for another. You have to find what works for you. Writer's rules are more like
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
That is useful insight. The concept of the Sunk Cost Fallacy may be useful to you.
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
Are you an extrovert or introvert? Look at how you spend your time. Do you have to spend time with people or have to be alone sometimes? What do you do when you have nothing else to do? I know that's really hard these days with all the
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
Just started working on a book to celebrate the 50th year of our symposium, which is coming up in 5 years. The initial idea is a how-to book, filled with essays from past contributors, but since we only started yesterday - that may change.
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
In general, I am talking about non-technical or technical in a different field. In my case right now, our users are civil engineers, they just want to be able to use our software to model the environment. They really don't want to beco
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by GarnetFloride 4mo ago
My manager just told me that after 12 years of trying to get one of the founders to understand the difference between dev docs and user docs, they tried getting Claude to do it and he finally got it that they are different. He'd been s
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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
Location: Orem, Utah Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering Résumé/CV: htt
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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
A quote that stuck with me: "We are all crew on Spaceship Earth. There are no passengers." And anyone that thinks they are the captain, is wrong.
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by GarnetFloride 6mo ago
I've lived in a 100 year old house and and in a brand new house, they both had issues. That also both had advantages too. Oddly the older house had a better designed kitchen. Our lives change over time and our housing has to adjust t
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by GarnetFloride 6mo ago
Look up Roman concrete. There are 2000 year old bridges and aqueducts still in use. We only recently figured out how to reproduce Roman concrete. We’d have more but a lot were blown up during WWII.

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