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  1. Comment on Students and their ChatGPT in ~tech

  2. Comment on Why didn't Keynote take off? in ~tech

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    I always preferred Keynote. A lot of features were more intuitive, less clunky, and involved fewer clicks than PowerPoint. I used Keynote for basically all of my presentations from 2009-2021. Then...

    I always preferred Keynote. A lot of features were more intuitive, less clunky, and involved fewer clicks than PowerPoint. I used Keynote for basically all of my presentations from 2009-2021.

    Then I started working at a job that uses PCs fully integrated with the Microsoft system. So now I’ve been 100% PowerPoint for the past four years or so. I still find it frustrating despite many attempts to customize the toolbars and shortcuts in a more efficient way. But that’s me with Microsoft generally. I also think Keynote makes cleaner, more attractive presentations.

    I suspect that’s how it is for a lot of people. Microsoft is just so integrated into the working world that it’s going to dominate, and that often leaves no choice for the user. I would not use Microsoft in any capacity were I not forced to by my employer.

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  3. Comment on Volodymyr Zelenskyy Fox News interview after Oval Office meeting in ~society

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    That was so crazy to watch the Republican primaries for 2016. All of the other candidates, Fox News, all the Republican commentators, and like 60% of Republican voters saying for months that Trump...

    That was so crazy to watch the Republican primaries for 2016. All of the other candidates, Fox News, all the Republican commentators, and like 60% of Republican voters saying for months that Trump is wholly unfit for office, a total moron, in it only for personal gain, etc, etc. Only to drop off slowly as it became clear that he was going to be their nominee. And then they all ate their shit sandwiches and went all in. Even so many of the supposedly ideological conservatives made their way through the “anti-anti-Trump” route, which of course just became pro-Trump.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Texas officials report that an unvaccinated child has died of measles in ~health

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    Agreed. 99.7% chance of things being ok. But I feel like we (humans) also often learn the wrong lesson when we do something with a small probability of a catastrophic outcome and then that outcome...

    A 3 in a 1000 chance does seem fairly "rare" to me

    Agreed. 99.7% chance of things being ok. But I feel like we (humans) also often learn the wrong lesson when we do something with a small probability of a catastrophic outcome and then that outcome doesn’t happen. Like the drunk driving example above. I’ve known people who thought they were “good” at driving buzzed because they hadn’t gotten in a wreck. Doesn’t mean they aren’t engaging in high risk behavior.

    In the case of vaccinations and drunk driving, our choices also put other people at risk.

    We’re talking about diseases where we need high immunization rates to avoid spreading them to people who can’t be vaccinated. With a big outbreak, it’s only a matter of time before someone like that does because of other parents’ choices.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on US President Donald Trump shares bizarre AI vision of what Gaza will look like under his rule in ~society

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    And on top of that, it’s for absolutely blatant self enriching corruption. What the fuck is wrong with the United States.

    And on top of that, it’s for absolutely blatant self enriching corruption. What the fuck is wrong with the United States.

    16 votes

  6. Comment on Algorithmic Complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think in ~tech

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    This is a good point - many people have always had a tendency to let other people do the work for them. Hence snarky websites like Let Me Google That For You. Or did anyone ever come across...

    This is a good point - many people have always had a tendency to let other people do the work for them. Hence snarky websites like Let Me Google That For You.

    Or did anyone ever come across ChaCha? I remember being baffled about why my younger sister and her friends (teenagers, maybe 2010 or so) would text ChaCha a question and then wait for a response instead of just googling it. Literally it was just asking someone else to Google it for them, but I guess it meant they didn’t have to bother evaluating sources.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Grammar errors that actually matter, or: the thread where we all become prescriptivists in ~humanities.languages

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    I think any semi/bi/demi construction applied to time is ambiguous. It’s just unclear whether it’s being applied to the time as a period / duration (the length of time between events) or the...

    I think any semi/bi/demi construction applied to time is ambiguous.

    It’s just unclear whether it’s being applied to the time as a period / duration (the length of time between events) or the frequency. If you apply the halving to the duration, you double the frequency and vice versa.

    For example, annual can be equivalently interpreted as “1 year between events” or “1 event per year”.

    Does bi-annual then mean “2 x 1 year between events” or “2 x 1 event per year”? Does semi-annual mean “0.5 x 1 year between events” or “0.5 x 1 event per year”?

    4 votes

  8. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! (v4) in ~tildes

  9. Comment on Grammar errors that actually matter, or: the thread where we all become prescriptivists in ~humanities.languages

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    I’d like to invite my best friend (the CEO) and the mayor.

    I’d like to invite my best friend (the CEO) and the mayor.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Why blog if nobody reads it? in ~tech

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    We regularly apply that perspective to other types of art - playing music is a big part of me but I’m perfectly happy (and actually prefer) playing for no one but me. Similarly people paint for...

    We regularly apply that perspective to other types of art - playing music is a big part of me but I’m perfectly happy (and actually prefer) playing for no one but me. Similarly people paint for the sake of painting or write poetry for their own private enjoyment or personal growth. Acting is I guess more performative by nature but there’s no reason it needs to be.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders in ~tech

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    Hard agree here. That’s actually why I finally started donating monthly a year or two ago. It’s legitimately a serious accomplishment of humanity.

    One of the few things that remains steadfast is wikipedia, in my view, at least.

    Hard agree here. That’s actually why I finally started donating monthly a year or two ago. It’s legitimately a serious accomplishment of humanity.

    33 votes

  12. Comment on US President Donald Trump announces 25% tariffs against Canada, Mexico starting Tuesday; 10% against China in ~society

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    In your defense, the run up to US presidential elections is literally a year and a half. Trump announced his candidacy for 2016 in mid 2015.

    In your defense, the run up to US presidential elections is literally a year and a half. Trump announced his candidacy for 2016 in mid 2015.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (2007) in ~music

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    I haven’t listened to this in forever! The student radio station at my college had a secret CD swap at the holidays for everyone who hosted a show - this song was on the mix I got. First time I...

    I haven’t listened to this in forever!

    The student radio station at my college had a secret CD swap at the holidays for everyone who hosted a show - this song was on the mix I got. First time I had heard them. There were some other great songs on the CD but this was the one that got played on repeat.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Do you think stressful games are kind of bad for your health? in ~games

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    I’ve always been the kind of person who has more fun playing with cheat codes for infinite life. I never enjoyed the stress even when I was young.

    I’ve always been the kind of person who has more fun playing with cheat codes for infinite life. I never enjoyed the stress even when I was young.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on "Someone must have figured this out…" — A blog post about building wind chimes! in ~hobbies

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    This is really cool - thanks for sharing! My wife and I were just talking about wind chimes the other day. This could be a fun project for us…

    This is really cool - thanks for sharing! My wife and I were just talking about wind chimes the other day. This could be a fun project for us…

    2 votes

  16. Comment on I’ve acquired a new superpower in ~games

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    Try crossing your eyes as slowly as you can and don’t worry about things being blurry. You can see the out-of-focus images get closer and closer together, and then for me they pop into focus when...

    Try crossing your eyes as slowly as you can and don’t worry about things being blurry. You can see the out-of-focus images get closer and closer together, and then for me they pop into focus when they overlap. It’s like my brain recognizes that it’s supposed to be combining the two views from my eyes into one picture again. Everything else is blurry and out of focus.

    Like others said, you can essentially do the opposite as well where your eyes relax instead of cross. This isn’t as natural for me, but the same thing happens - everything is out of focus until the images are aligned and then the 3D picture pops into focus.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Horror in impossible places: liminal spaces and the backrooms in ~games

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    We’ll now I’m good and uncomfortable. That was fuckin creepy just reading about it.

    We’ll now I’m good and uncomfortable. That was fuckin creepy just reading about it.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Greece to ban thousands of Airbnb accommodations with new regulations in ~society

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    Isn’t that just the definition of “primary residence”? It’s where the owner lives most of the time / considers their home, in contrast to a secondary / vacation / holiday home. It’s been a common...

    Isn’t that just the definition of “primary residence”? It’s where the owner lives most of the time / considers their home, in contrast to a secondary / vacation / holiday home. It’s been a common term with tax implications in both countries where I’ve lived and bought a house over the years. So this legislation makes it ok to rent out your own place where you live, but not buy up second or third or etc houses or apartments just to rent on Airbnb.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Is it just me or has advertising lost the plot entirely? in ~life

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    I assume this is the point

    it just makes it harder to compare rolls count and length

    I assume this is the point

    3 votes

  20. Comment on You make friends *HERE*?! in ~tildes

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    You, my friend, are correct.

    You, my friend, are correct.

    10 votes