realaether

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by realaether 2y ago
Off-topic: just one look at that homepage, the icons in particular, brought back such fond memories of the pre-flat design time. Those halcyon days when it was normal for buttons to look like buttons. (Maybe I'm just using the wrong ap
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by realaether 3y ago
This reminds me of Dense Discovery ( https://www.densediscovery.com/ ) and Tom Scott's newsletter ( https://pad26.aweb.page/subscribe ).
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by realaether 3y ago
Perhaps they thought such a clever person wouldn't be suitable for a cat, since cats like to have "owners" they can actually train.
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by realaether 3y ago
Nowadays they're just called data visualisation engineers.
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by realaether 4y ago
Is "Trung Nguyen" the same company as "Trung Nguyen Legend"? Dropped by their cafe in Hanoi (old quarter) and loved the no. 5 blend (at least I think that's what I got — memory is fuzzy). Extremely fragrant Torrefac
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by realaether 4y ago
Context: I still drink, but significantly less than I used to; I don't think I ever qualified for an alcoholism diagnosis. I'm also very much into coffee, tea, and good food: everything that involves olfactory pleasure, basically.
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by realaether 5y ago
Two things make Google Sheets infinitely more useful than Excel to me on a daily basis: - Regex support in find & replace and regexextract(). - FX rates as a formula instead of as a data type. IIRC Excel requires 2 columns to display a
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by realaether 5y ago
When you purchase Bitwig, is it a one-off, rather than working on a subscription model? Sad to say that's rather refreshing if so.
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by realaether 5y ago
I had a long conversation about this a week ago. My worry is that "hacking" things — in the sense of "finding a way to use a program in a way that the developer didn't directly intend" — is getting harder every year
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by realaether 5y ago
Could it be the [Forgotten Employee: The American Dream]( https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ )? > After 30 days, I became convinced that I was a forgotten, non digestible entity in the corporate sto
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by realaether 5y ago
Google Docs does this.
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by realaether 5y ago
Any pointers on getting started with the postfix/dovecot method?
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by realaether 7y ago
Absolutely agree. This is why my closest friends today are those I met in primary and secondary school: we were all there, though we didn't always want to be; we all had homework that we didn't want to do; we all had teachers we d
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by realaether 7y ago
Strongly disagree. I'm Canadian-Hong Kong, grew up in Hong Kong, and have family in China. Chinese citizens (by which I mean only mainland China, and excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) need exit visas to leave the country and they