mattalbie

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by mattalbie 6y ago
Newspapers feel they have an obligation to report what our representatives say, good or bad, but they also have editorials that comment on that reporting. In some cases (like The Economist) reporting and commentary are mixed together. Most
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by mattalbie 6y ago
That’s a good idea. Thanks!
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by mattalbie 6y ago
I do this but include the symlink command in the document. That way all the links become one copy and paste.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
The answer on StackExhange is very good, but misses the history of why 4:3 exists in the first place, which had a great deal to do with mechanical reasons. This is well explained on Wikipedia's entry on the Academy ratio[1]. 1: https:
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by mattalbie 6y ago
I read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ for the first time this year. Highly recommend.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
It was worth it for me. I spend lots of time learning the tools I use for work (database systems, departmental protocols, client interactions) and having a better personal productivity tool is at the center of everything I do. It's wor
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Computers are for organizing; paper is for thinking.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
This is also what org-mode[0] does. My files are 'logbook', 'life', 'project-1', 'project-2', etc. At any time I can hit a key and capture an idea/meeting to any of those places, and as I'm
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Fantastic. Very useful and I have a lot of trust in the company sticking around.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
If you're a subscriber they do full-text search and archiving.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Lots of terminal based stuff but particularly fzf. Also Mimestream, a Gmail client.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
A History of the Crusades by Steven Runcimen.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Fantastic book! But yes, Incredibly dense, but easy to read. Feels like 5 years of research is packed into each chapter (which I suppose is true). But so worth it. I think about a concept from that book at least every week.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
As someone who lives in California, I can't imagine there being that much snow on the ground.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
The best piece of advice I ever heard was "all you need is less". For me, simply doing less stuff, but being more "intentional" or "mindful" or whatever you want to call it, is the key. For example, I used to h
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by mattalbie 6y ago
33 is a great age to have a kid (if you want them, and if you're in a position to do so). I had to wait (long story) until 37 and there's part of me that regrets it a little bit. There's a real benefit that comes from upendin
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by mattalbie 6y ago
As a manager, I would say tell your manager about your struggles. Or tell someone who is in a position to ask you what you think in those meetings.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Are you reading the book? Do you like it?
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by mattalbie 6y ago
It’s a very minor point but this article makes it sound like the generic term for a union buster is Pinkerton agent. Pinkerton is a private company who does security work these days, but has a long history of doing exactly this. Fascinating
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Totally in the same boat. I’ve taken to sometimes doing a fake commute walking around the block before I start work.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
People tire of politics when (they feel) the conversation becomes unconvincing, pedantic, or monotonus. That doesn't mean those people have the wrong attitude, it means the argument is not compelling.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Came here to say this. I mean, just trying to figure out how to use a particular Emacs function, I can search GitHub for that function and find hundreds of examples of people using it. So incredibly useful.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Even someone like me, a VFX professional who does a lot of RAW processing, dealing with RAW is sometimes such a chore. There are plenty of times where I want to use Halide and I want to shoot RAW but I also want to easily share a photo (wit
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by mattalbie 6y ago
That video is required viewing for my team.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
I didn't see this one anywhere. You can use modifier keys in combination with Hot Corners. Go to [System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners] and when you make your selection just press the modifier you'd like to use
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Nice!
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Right-clicking worked for me. Also works with YouTube. Lovely tip.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
You can also do this by opening a new window, resizing/positioning it how you'd like, then immediately closing it. Next time you create a new window it will be exactly the same.
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by mattalbie 6y ago
It's not just limited to dragging windows around. The mouse-clicks get passed to the background app. You can use it with anything. It's called click-through and has been around for a long time. I first learned about it here: http
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by mattalbie 6y ago
Command + R also does this.

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