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| Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on February 27, 2022, 07:48:18 am ---I have also dropped the amount of sugar I put in coffee from ridiculous 4 teaspoons(!) per cup* to maybe a half teaspoon. --- End quote --- None for me, but with milk, please. With tea, I like some liquid honey. (The crystallized stuff is often sugary; that is, is not actually honey, but a mix of sugar and honey. Crystallized honey is okay, though. Never plain sugar; don't like the taste.) --- Quote from: Siwastaja on February 27, 2022, 07:48:18 am ---Inside that range, it's only a personal preference which is not much more than what you are used to. From purely physiological/psychovisual viewpoint, I think anything between 2-10 does the job. --- End quote --- I agree. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on February 27, 2022, 12:48:33 am --- --- Quote from: Nominal Animal on February 26, 2022, 05:56:11 am ---As to tabs/spaces, I don't have any trouble using whatever the project I'm working on. I do have a personal preference, but it's about as strong as my preference for ice cream flavours, or pizza. (I don't get fazed by pineapple on pizza, either.) --- End quote --- See, I'm from New Jersey, and if you even mention "pineapple on pizza" in New Jersey, you'll be met with an armed response, and not just from the made guys sitting in the back of the pizza shop with their little notebooks counting out cash. --- End quote --- OK, that actually gives me one positive thing to say about New Jersey! ;D (I joke about New Jersey, but mostly because my friends from New Jersey have encouraged it! :P ) |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on February 27, 2022, 12:47:23 am --- --- Quote from: eugene on February 26, 2022, 06:54:39 pm ---I'm not so sure that Apple is as socially progressive as they would have you think. --- End quote --- Ya nah. They're "woke" in ads, it's performative. See also all the companies that change their logos to rainbows in Oct. But who also sell products in Russia, Arabia, various parts of Asia, etc. And who, suspiciously, for some reason, don't also change their logos in those locations... I mean look at their revenues, they're as hardcore a neoliberal company as you can get. They have to be, almost by law; they're publicly traded. Well, maybe that still counts as "liberal" to someone that's fallen off the deep (right) end in the US, but it's at best a very centrist position in the broader scheme of things. Where it really matters is this: how much of their money do they give to support progressive organizations? Lobbying for progressive causes? Giving to charities helping the poor, homeless, etc.? Supporting unionization within their organization, or elsewhere? (Not much of an issue for the most part, with the freedom of movement enjoyed by most in the tech industry, but video games have seen some organization in recent years, and also, the inequality between C-suite and the worker has still only continued to rise, regardless of whether those workers are doing shop work or engineering.) The same happened to Google, what used to be a fair and open minded company ("Do no evil!"), quietly dropped its tagline a long time ago and joined the behemoths in being, about par for the course as far as megacorps go. That said... (continued below) --- End quote --- FWIW, I worked at the fruit stand (Apple retail) many years ago, and while it had its issues (like any workplace), they honestly treated their retail workers way, way better than average. I certainly don’t believe it’s “all performative” — my experience with the company is that, for the most part, they really did believe in the things they said they do. And yes, the secrecy within Apple runs through and through. I worked the launch of the original iPhone, which was the biggest product launch in the company’s history. The Sunday night before launch, we had an all-hands meeting (in our case, amusingly held outside the store by moonlight on the fiberglass dinosaurs in the mall playground because there was a power outage!). The inventory for launch day arrived in advance, kept in lockers, without anyone in the store except the inventory specialist knowing about it. On launch day, we had to close the store at 4pm, then had two hours to redecorate the entire store (something normally done over 4-6h as an overnight shift) and get our only hands-on experience before opening at 6pm to let the crowds in. Biggest launch in company history and we got to see it a whopping two hours before selling it. I also worked the launch of the MacBook Air at the Macworld expo in 2008. Even as someone who’d be working the Apple booth, literally demoing the thing to both media and the public, we didn’t get any advance notice of the products being launched, we watched the keynote just like everyone else, then went across the street to the booth and got to work. As an Apple employee, I was able to get my own badge to enter the Apple headquarters unescorted, but obviously everything interesting requires special access permissions. |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: alexanderbrevig on February 25, 2022, 07:25:05 am --- --- Quote from: Someone on February 25, 2022, 12:33:31 am --- --- Quote from: alexanderbrevig on February 24, 2022, 11:31:06 pm ---vim is the only editor, vim is the best editor, if you disagree you've not really tried it (or using emacs which is fine) <vim makes me forget tabs vs spaces is a thing> --- End quote --- Citation needed ;) [...] --- End quote --- I've had a hard time finding research on the subject, but every poll I looked at, vim is on top :) --- End quote --- But you said it made you forget tabs vs spaces. Another poster thought their choice of editor magically fixed it, how does vim make the problem easier? |
| m k:
My text has many indents, couple nested cases and it's over 10. Then if innermost has a Widows API call its parameters are far far away right. I'm also from Pascal land and can't stand end of line begins. But what kind of a professional offers totally unneeded functions eating time of possibly millions of unneeded calls. One must also wonder what makes a know-it-all, self-righteousness, religiousness or something else. |
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