- TRiG_IrelandIt's certainly possible that some of the underlings are deliberately sabotaging orders from above. It's also possible that they're incompetent, as so many of the Trump team are. How would we know which it is?
- The blog post about adding colour gradients to Typst dives into some of the weirdness of the format. https://typst.app/blog/2023/color-gradients
- And yet he owned a motor car, and enjoyed fast driving. Humans are complex.
- The link goes to a conversation on Mastodon.social, and one of the first commenters is called Christophe Henry.
- Yes. I cannot work out who the intended audience for this feature is supposed to be.
- As Tom Scott has said, people telling you what AI told them is worse than people describing their dreams. It definitely does not usefully contribute to the conversation.
Small exception if the user is actually talking about AI, and quoting some AI output to illustrate their point, in which case the AI output should be a very small section of the post as a whole.
- There absolutely can be "customer service" in OSS. You can usually find someone to pay for it.
- A friend, and fellow volunteer committee member of a local community group, uses ChatGPT to write his messages in the committee WhatsApp channel. I just don't read them.
- Last night, I came across a video with a title in English and an "Autodubbed" tag. I assumed it would be dubbed into English (my language) from some other language. But it wasn't. It was in French, and clearly the creator's original voice. The automatic subtitles were also in French. I don't know what the "Autodubbed" tag meant, but clearly something wasn't working.
I am by no means fluent in French, but I speak it well enough to get by with the aid of the subtitles, so that was fine. In an ideal world, I'd have the original French audio with English subtitles, but that did not appear to be an option.
- What on earth are people buying that's delivered so frequently? I find the whole concept of frequent deliveries confusing.
- At what point did you decide that I have employees?
I find that I work better in an office, depending on the office. I'm in no position to enforce that position on anyone. (I'm currently unemployed and looking for work, in fact.) I find that I dislike giving up room in my small house for work. And I dislike having no separation between work and home.
These are all personal preferences. Nothing is being enforced on anyone. Your reaction is overblown.
- That is a very strange (and very emotional) take. I find it easier to focus with some other people around me, so long as they're being quiet. An office (or a library) is easier to work in than my house. I also really like the idea of separation between my home and my workplace. If I was rich and had room in my house for a separate office I could close the door on when the workday was over, perhaps I'd feel differently.
So I'd prefer to work in an office, so long as it was nearby and the commute was short and my officemates were fairly quiet. This does not mean that I'm "advocating for serfdom". Working for an employer is no more (and no less) serfdom in an office than it is at home.
- And ostentatiously not naming them has a similar effect. You could have just said "people".
- Except that it's called the Isis at that point, not the Thames.
- I think you're working too hard to be pithy and are therefore forgetting to actually communicate.
- I'm now feeling slightly odd that I read all three posts without even noticing the capitalisation.
- I'm not aware of any limitations in the Tinymist plugin.
And you can just write it in the plain text editor of your choice, and keep an eye on the PDF with typst watch.
- The first four paragraphs of the judgment lay out most of it. Matthew Garrett's summary at https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115581959497817474 is as follows:
> In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online harassment. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London. In turn, they countersued me for harassment. The case was heard last month and I'm pleased to say that the counterclaim was dismissed and I prevailed in my case. The court awarded me £70,000 in damages.
I've never heard of any of these people before, so for now I'm taking that as true at face value, given that he won.
- What happens when my email address contains the letter q?