TheUniverseandNetworks @ TheUniverseandNetworks @lemmy.world

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Very nice! Well done 👍🏼

Been doing email since it began. Same frustrations.

Solutions (workarounds):

1. Email is structured with "executive summary" & "detail". That way I can write all the words I want but people can only read the first paragraph.
2. Never ask questions. Tell them what I'm going to choose, & give them opportunity to disagree. That way if they don't respond usefully I can take their "non-response" as a response & proceed anyway.
3. If I need to ask a question, use a phone call or go to their desk, or (shudder) make a meeting.

Interesting article, I agree with his analysis, not sure (yet) that I agree with his conclusions. My brain needs to think about it in the background for a bit (just the way mine works).

TLDR: we should expect conversational interfaces to be an addition to the workflows we currently use.

With this type of strike you know if you've provided power to it to unlock it.

The other part (which unlocks with the key) is in the moving part of the door, so any connections to it are going to have to navigate the hinge & survive repeated bending. So why do that?

The obvious way is to use a standard magnetic intruder alarm switch, then the connections can be on the frame.

It will operate when the door is opened, not when it unlocks, but it's so much simpler to implement.

Yeah. I retired a year ago, every now & then I say to myself "I'm sure I had a script for that..." bit then I can't find it of course, which makes me sad.

Oh & I used to sign in to GitHub with a username & password, then GitHub said I needed to change my password, and emailed me a link to my old work address, which I can no longer access.

So I'm going to have to fork my own stuff!

Some say the mice are testing us (Douglas Adams)

I've noticed that whenever there's a group of people together, someone will be the leader, it doesn't matter who the group are, there will be a leader & everyone will know it.

Now that leader has a choice to be a bully, or someone who tries not to be a leader.

So yes we absolutely need to train our kids what good (inclusive) leadership looks like, so they can either follow those people, or be those people.

I guess it's more likely the list was drawn up before paramedic was a thing, and then no one thought to change it. The low effort option.

This is the way

"Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side)."

Yeah - this is exactly why you should reverse park. When you come out again into potentially a stream of traffic, if you reverse park, you're coming out forwards, you can see them & they can see you. If you forward park you have literally no idea what you're backing out into.

The only paid app I've got is Sound Profile. Puts the phone on quiet (except for family) at night, or silent (with auto resume to normal) in meetings. It's on my & spouse's phones.

Yeah, shout out for rsync also. It's awesome. Combine it with ssh & it feels pretty secure too.

A long time ago I was repairing my dad's camera, I found an article describing the exact fault & a link to how to fix it, but the link was dead.

Used the wayback machine to find a text only copy of the fix (no pictures) which was enough.

Was immensely proud that someone had had the idea to invent the IA & have been recommending it ever since.

generate electricity.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity the other way around.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity.

not generate electricity.

generate electricity the other way around.

not generate electricity...

Edit: I dumbly misread your post (energy/electricity) & thought of this, which I will leave here because it made me smile & that's a good thing.

How do we know that lots of people didn't figure this out & then got on with their lives? Because there was no way for them to tell all the other people in the world, we'll never know, or if they wrote it down it's been lost, so likewise we'll never know.

Is hard to imagine what the world was like before mass literacy and mass communication.

Not sure if this counts (as a car), but it was a three wheeler (Reliant Robin), gutless and rattly, all the fun of going 50 mph without breaking the speed limit. All the engine weight was directly on the front wheel, so the back end (no weight at all) would slide out wonderfully around corners.