The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Windows 7 doesn't have an emoji picker. 😿
Ah, good times....
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Windows 7 doesn't have an emoji picker. 😿
Alright, pipe down granddad
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@Tsaukpaetra There's a halfling character in my favourite D&D campaign who literally rode one of our Paladins into battle once. It was amazing. We laughed till it hurt.
This was the same campaign (And the same Paladin) that gave rise to my current signature. After spraying holy water just everywhere he completed the ritual by assaulting us all with a blunt instrument: to whit, a dragonborn.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
assaulting us all with a blunt instrument: to whit, a dragonborn.
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A plugin that replaces all " Tsaukpaetra has upvoted your post in The Official Thread." notifications with " Tsaukpaetra has read your post in The Official Thread."
Bad idea: push all of those notifications to every user.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Windows 7 doesn't have an emoji picker. 😿
Alright, pipe down granddad
Heh.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Windows 7 doesn't have an emoji picker. 😿
Alright, pipe down granddad
Heh.
Proof evident!
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Just to clarify ... I pressed like to mark your post as read
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This post is deleted!
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OpenGLaDOS
Project goals: produce a speech-controlled AI assistant who can perform simple tasks like opening doors, controlling machinery and monitoring guests' activities when plugged into a home or industrial environment. Extra functionality can be added in the form of pluggable modules known as "cores". Also has a sense of humor. GPLv3 licensed.
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@anonymous234 Does it include support for running test environments?
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@Tsaukpaetra I like this guy. For those who skipped the outro:
This probably isn't going to be a coherent outro. It's 8 in the morning, I haven't exactly slept yet.
You know what is coherent? A really out of place rhetorical question that's used to segue into a spons— Skillshare! is today's sponsor!
I'm going to pretend you haven't heard this from 30 other YouTubers: Skillshare is an awesome online learning community with over 25000 courses and tutorials.
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No? Join the fucking club. That shit sounds boring as fuck. But they've got it.
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The KDE5 version of Kate changed its scrollbar. At first it was kind of annoying. "Why are you overriding standard system widgets!?!
But what's improved over the typical scrollbar is that when you click on a particular place on it, you go right there, instead of paging down or whatever. Which, when you can kind of see the structure, for files that you deal with a lot, you learn right where you need to go.
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@boomzilla I love that feature.
PhpStorm also has something like it.
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@boomzilla VS Code does that.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla VS Code does that using only 6gig of RAM.
FTFY
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
You know what is coherent? A really out of place rhetorical question that's used to segue into a spons— Skillshare! is today's sponsor!
He's no Linus
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@boomzilla Sublime Text also has that. Something I've recently started doing is creating headings with an ASCII art plugin to easily find stuff in my notes
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@hungrier said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
creating headings with an ASCII art plugin to easily find stuff in my notes
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@boomzilla Visual Studio has that. Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Scroll Bars
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@dcon I turn such things off in my IDE; I prefer a separate outline window (which I can sort and otherwise do things with other than just read) that isn't using visual tricks but rather works on the semantic level. I guess it is what I'm used to…
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@dkf said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@dcon I turn such things off in my IDE; I prefer a separate outline window (which I can sort and otherwise do things with other than just read) that isn't using visual tricks but rather works on the semantic level. I guess it is what I'm used to…
You'll notice it's off in my options... (I tried it when it first came out, forget why I turned it off but obviously I didn't like it...)
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla Visual Studio has that. Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Scroll Bars
Or right-click the scrollbar and look for the appropriate option.
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@hungrier said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Sublime Text also has that. Something I've recently started doing is creating headings with an ASCII art plugin to easily find stuff in my notes
Today I stole that idea - thanks
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
But what's improved over the typical scrollbar is that when you click on a particular place on it, you go right there, instead of paging down or whatever.
Shift-Click in your typical Windows scrollbar will do that.
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@Parody said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Shift-Click in your typical Windows scrollbar will do that.
WHAT. I've been using Windows for about 25 years; how did I not know that.
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@heterodox said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Parody said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Shift-Click in your typical Windows scrollbar will do that.
WHAT. I've been using Windows for about 25 years; how did I not know that.
It's not like there's a Tutorial that would tell you about such things...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It's not like there's a Tutorial that would tell you about such things...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbS8ELv3RQ
(ok, this doesn't either)
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@heterodox said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Parody said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Shift-Click in your typical Windows scrollbar will do that.
WHAT. I've been using Windows for about 25 years; how did I not know that.
No shit. TIL...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It's not like there's a Tutorial that would tell you about such things...
A what?
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It's not like there's a Tutorial that would tell you about such things...
A what?
Also known as "goat mom".
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Because I have no idea where else to put this...
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@Tsaukpaetra Did you intend to post Imgur's 404 page?
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra Did you intend to post Imgur's 404 page?
No. Apparently the image has been deleted.
Oh well.
Edit: This was the intended image:
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@Tsaukpaetra
I don't think that's a good idea. Quixotic, more likely. But it pokes at the cognitive dissonance that "we do everything for our children", yet we're leaving them nothing but a smoldering ball of IoT, so I'll go with it.
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tl;dr They're buying up closed shopping malls and turning them into distribution centers.
And it seems like the opposite of sad to me. Those malls were going to go away with or without Amazon.
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@boomzilla Does the article mention that they basically stole the idea from an episode of South Park?
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@hungrier I don't recall that, but the original WSJ article might.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
And it seems like the opposite of sad to me.
People are sad for the passing of the world they knew, no matter how inevitable it was.
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@dkf I remember a time, not that long ago, when being a supermarket cashier was seen as the lowest possible job (not necessarily the most degrading, but you know, the kind of things you do when all other options have been exhausted, that you hate but can't get out of etc.). Now that we see malls closing, automated checkout, Amazon warehouses etc., the cashier is losing this image (while the reality of the job and those who do it probably haven't changed a lot!), and it's the Amazon warehouse worker that has become the scarecrow of bad jobs (while in reality I am not sure that it really is any much worse than cashier).
Funny how perception of things change, yes.
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@remi It is far from the first 'lowest-grade job you can have' to disappear in the last few hundred years. And it probably won't be the last - I believe they're working on burger flipping robots too.
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@kazitor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
A plugin that replaces all " Tsaukpaetra has upvoted your post in The Official Thread." notifications with " Tsaukpaetra has read your post in The Official Thread."
Bad idea: push all of those notifications to every user.
For completeness, wouldn't it also have to work for those pesky notifications from the Likes topic?
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@remi said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@dkf I remember a time, not that long ago, when being a supermarket cashier was seen as the lowest possible job (not necessarily the most degrading, but you know, the kind of things you do when all other options have been exhausted, that you hate but can't get out of etc.). Now that we see malls closing, automated checkout, Amazon warehouses etc., the cashier is losing this image (while the reality of the job and those who do it probably haven't changed a lot!), and it's the Amazon warehouse worker that has become the scarecrow of bad jobs (while in reality I am not sure that it really is any much worse than cashier).
Funny how perception of things change, yes.
Not "burger flipper?" "Would you like fries with that?" Maybe this is a cultural thing. Most grocery store cashiers in the US have been unionized since forever. Not a super high paying job, but not something used to scare kids into studying, either.
See also: barista.
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@boomzilla
What's the first thing a ${HATEDSCHOOL} graduate learns out of college?
"Would you like fries with that?"
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@boomzilla I thought about that when writing, and I think that, at least around here, burger flipper is for one thing not so common (or at least was), but also it was more seen as a student's job. So yeah, not nice, and not something you do by choice, but also not something that you do all your life and where you would stereotypically see e.g. a single mother with no diploma.
No idea why, I guess you're right, it's probably a cultural thing.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Most grocery store cashiers in the US have been unionized since forever. Not a super high paying job, but ...
... higher status than the people stocking the shelves, retrieving carts from the parking lot, or standing at the exit of Walmart pretending to check that the items in your cart match the ones on your receipt. It requires being trusted to handle money and at least some training in operation of the POS terminals.