sheridan

joined 2 years ago
 

Like, if you accidentally cut someone off, and they get mad and honk, how do you apologize?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

If this is a prequel like IT: Welcome to Derry, a major subplot will have the US military trying to recruit Leatherface to use as a super weapon against the soviets.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never had a therapist provide a chaise lounge. Is that not a thing anymore?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

where grammar?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

TIL Jon Arbuckle is the head of antifa.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

It was the scariest shit I ever saw at age 5. Watched it several times as a kid. I would hide under the pillows during the clown scene. The AC blowing up at the beginning also freaked me out.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I actually like the ribbon UI compared to what came before. Jensen Harris from the office design team way back in 2008 gave this talk about how they invented the ribbon:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4

 
[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How many Knoxville Sunspheres is that?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I know that workflow style is good for like dissertations and academic journal articles, but the sort of templates I have to design and work in are more splashy and dramatic. The look and structure is more akin to what you see in artsy magazines and books—pages with dark background colors, decorative stock images, vector shapes, etc. Can Latex be used for that?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago (16 children)

I consider myself a Word power user. I've spent 1000s of hours in it and I know just about every obscure feature and quirk. I've designed professional corporate template suites in it.

I hate it so much. It is so fucking archaic and janky. It has so many modal dialogs. There are features I need to get to regularly that are like 6 modal dialogs deep, and I have to close them all to see if the change I made was good; if not I have to go through them all over again.

It has a sort of stylesheet, but it has built in styles that you can't delete if you don't need, and the inheritance hierarchy among them is a mess. Then there are "font themes" which are conceptually separate from the styles but can impact them.

I could go on. All the Word alternatives aren't much better because they imitate Word too closely in my opinion. I think the approach to word processors needs to be rethought at fundamentally level.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'm out of the loop. What's wrong with PeerTube?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Before I installed blockers, I only remember one time ever clicking a targeted advertisement and making a purchase (it was for a 'What We Do in the Shadows' t-shirt). That was after browsing the web everyday with no blockers for like 15 years.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not a Firefox user but I use split tabs often in Vivaldi when I need to manually enter data from one system into another system. Splitting the tabs instead of dragging one into a separate window keeps all the tabs contained in the same tab workspace. I have several workspaces and I don't want to accidentally lose an important tab because I dragged it out into its own window and forgot to drag it back.

edit: typo

 
 
 

I know people out there who have invested a lot in gold under the belief that in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.

I have the hunch it's a scam, but I haven't learned enough monetary theory, business, or economics to understand why.

 

To be clear, I'm not advocating for online age verification. I'm very much against it in any form. I'm just curious from a technical standpoint if it's possible somehow to construct an accurate age verification system that doesn't compromise a user's privacy? i.e., it doesn't expose the person's identity to anyone nor leaves behind a paper trail that can be traced to that person?

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