8y, 15w
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Mark Dain
MAN VS MACHINE! Windows 10 is installed!
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ElementaryOS was a really easy install on my older MBP, by the way. Didn't try it under Boot Camp, though, just right down to the bare metal.
7y, 35w
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😀 Tom
Are they that intelligent and well versed in politics and the affairs of the world, or are they just repeating what they hear online?
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It's mostly the echo chamber of LGBTQ teens (and teens who think it's cool to be LGBTQ even though they haven't had enough life experience to really know).
7y, 36w
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My teenagers have been turned into angsty puddles as a result of this election.
7y, 37w
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John Olinda
Now's your chance to rise up and take back the system for the people! Fight for the users! Or something like that!
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Now's my chance to keep my head down. Need to keep paychecks flowing as four kids will be expecting Christmas this year.
7y, 39w
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My boss got fired yesterday. Awesome chaos and many back-channel conversations at work this morning.
7y, 39w
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John Olinda
Now's your chance to rise up and take back the system for the people! Fight for the users! Or something like that!
7y, 39w
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There's something wrong with planning to spend a Sunday writing software specs.
7y, 41w
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😀 Tom
There 2017 version comes out tomorrow in the US (already released in other countries). Supposedly it still has a "coil whine" that is caused by the graphics hardware/firmware. Though it has a completely new WiFi/Bluetooth card that is the same in both the DE and windoe versions of the laptop. I'm hoping it has a super key instead of the Windows key.
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"Coil whine" was never an issue for me. Could be my ears are just too old. But I can't hear any such thing with the first version.
7y, 41w
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😀 Tom
Also consider the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, though it more expensive. I would buy one for myself if I needed a new laptop today.
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I've got a Dell XPS 13 DE from the first round they put out. It's been a serviceable machine, but lots of niggling little issues (trackpad driver flakey, bluetooth intermittent, that sort of thing. These days I'm spending more time on a Lenovo 100S Chromebook repaved with GalliumOS. As a dirt-cheap box that is good enough for editing code, it works.
7y, 42w
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Martijn
The new job still keeping you busy?
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Yeah, asskickingly so. Better than unemployment for sure.
7y, 49w
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Mark Dain
That sounds nice! I'd love to do purely backend work! What sort of work do you do?
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At the moment I'm working on tools to synchronize data sets among three core apps that belong to our company plus some large number of third party read-only partners. Fun stuff.
7y, 49w
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Martijn
I was thinking of using tables today at work, just to get some stuff vertically-responsive-100%-height-filling. Can't use flexbox because of browser support.
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You guys remind me of how much I have to be thankful for in that I'm working on a 100% back-end/infrastructure component at the moment. My UI is the command line!
7y, 49w
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So damned busy I can't even keep up with Sublevel. *waves on the way through the room*
7y, 49w
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Dorcas
Or introversion. Not quite sure about that.
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Well, I used to enjoy going places and seeing things, but more so if I didn't have to interact with people. The introversion is long-term. Swapping a few pixels with a few personae on Sublevel is just about enough for me.
7y, 51w
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Some time in the last few years my attitude towards travel changed from 'that sounds like a cool trip, let's go' to 'my god this is a pain in the ass, can't I just stay home?'. Another sign of encroaching age, I'm sure.
7y, 51w
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Nkrs
Today I saw the worst billboard ad so far: "rentable space for all kinds of celebrations: weddings, christenings, birthdays, and funerals".
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I recall that when I bought my first suit, the salesman assured me that it was ideal for "weddings, wakes, and funerals."
7y, 51w
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😀 Tom
It takes some practice (maybe a couple dozen eggs in one day), but you should be able to get to the point where you tap it on a flat surface to crack it, and then you pull the shells (not at the crack) to seperate. If done right, you should never touch the yolk. I don't cook, but I've had to bake many cakes for bake sales.
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Yep, you never *should* touch the actual egg part. But it's not the end of the world if you do. Well, maybe phobias aside.
7y, 51w
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