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Besides the default/obvious channels, we generally seem to have a channel per "team", a channel per "division" (group of teams), and then some channels for "division collaborations" e.g. data science + engineering. Then we also often set up a channel for big new features/projects and invite stakeholders to them.

EDIT: I guess the last type could be what you mean by "topic" - we are a startup so perhaps the number of feature/project type channels will balloon out over time, but doubt we would end up with "zillions" haha. And loads of them would be old and essentially archived.

A lot of the channels become somewhat bloated over time, with people joining because they are interested in keeping up with stuff in a broad context, but have no need to click into each thread and read over everything.

I would choose threaded discussions over PM groups or short-lived channels any day tbh.

Thanks for the link. I love how Gott started with simple everyday objects.

IMO Slack threads are quite good.

I'm sure it depends on your use case etc., but in my work context I find they function really well.

I did try test some concepts around Slack/Discord threads serving as entire "discussions" for a literary community (so you e.g. post a topic and discuss it in the thread under the topic), and in the end there were a bunch of small pain points that all added up and made it unfeasible.

At work though I find Slack threads to be a good middle ground for having discussions in a medium-large channel with interested parties - everyone can see the main channel message, and those who choose to engage further can post in the thread or opt to receive thread updates if they just want to "listen in"... then if some important conclusion is reached you can opt to send that thread message out to the main channel as well to catch other people up on what was discussed.

IMO if you want a personal pic on your blog it could make sense to move it to your About page.

For actual blog posts/other content that contains pictures, it makes sense that those take up more space than 14kb - probably nothing to worry about there.

If you can, it might be good to try ensure you load the images after other aspects (CSS, HTML text content) are loaded, per the blog post. But all in all it likely isn't a big issue.

Agreed, IMO it's silly and almost feels like a dark pattern for an innocuous seeming link like that to require an extension installed. For those who already have the extension, see [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/NfOYhDu.png

No mention of Black Mirror in the comments yet - I'm surprised!

A lot of the other theorising here runs right alongside the premise of one of the stories told in the White Christmas episode[1].

IIRC the episode was very well done, as most of them are.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOHy4Ca9bkw

If I leave this apartment in a worse state (besides fair wear and tear) than it was when I started renting it, the cost of repair will be on me via a portion of my rental deposit that I won't get back.

Sure fair wear and tear does cost something to service/repair over time, but generally things seem to last.

Yeah this probably is the best bet. Will be keeping in mind as I save up money and figure out where I want to settle down.

Currently I'm unsure where I will/want to settle down.

I also manage to save some money monthly, which I invest in diverse markets. So my thinking is that at there isn't (or "shouldn't be") any rush for me to buy property.

But news like this obviously goes against that and will have me revisit the idea.

Hilarious sure, but also sad and concerning. I'm tentatively alright with the idea of renting forever and never owning property... but with rent increasing and investors buying up more and more property, it looks like things will get uglier and uglier.

I am not alright with paying absurdly high rent.

MS Access has awful UX. I've used it on and off over the years and can never find my 'flow state' as nothing in that program seems to flow at all.

If MS prioritised working on it it may have helped lift some people out of Excel and into DBA-lite territory but not in its current state.

Thanks, took a while to find but seems the version to go for is their Community Edition[1].

Had a look at a recent tutorial and it looks great!

[1] https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/soli...

Sweet, will look into those, thanks.

I just spent a while in wonder at a node-based parametric design tool for Blender called Sverchok[1] - looks super powerful but wayyyy too much for my 3D printing toothbrush holders and phone stands haha.

CAD Sketcher looks much more like what I'm used to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_31Cigflc

Thanks for the link - that's crazy. And awful.

Wonder how true it is that you only get a couple of weeks in jail for stealing a car (in Milwaukee at least)...

I'm guessing/hoping you're able to click on those comments once you make an account and login... either way though I agree it's a silly restriction.

I'm late to this thread but wanted to ask in case anyone sees this and has a specific recommendation:

Is there a good free/cheap alternative to F360 for me?

I use Fusion 360 to model simple things for 3d printing. I've gotten used to it and think it's great when things work, but have been weary of their cloud and buggy "free personal use" licensing stuff since the start.

I'll check out some of the other programs mentioned in this thread -- SolveSpace, FreeCAD etc. -- but from a first glance it seems they will all take ages to get used to.

Maybe I should try become a Blender god even though IIRC that isn't really set up to do parametric modelling (I have a passing interest in game design etc. so the skill could be useful)?

Because it's been in the news I consume, I guess. I saw a diagram like this [1] somewhere, perhaps a John Oliver video. It seems Texas is on their own grid and I think wherever I learned that mentioned that Texas has not been maintaining/upgrading the grid to the degree that they should.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-North-America...

I am South African and absolutely hate load shedding. 2 or 4 hours without electricity every day (when LS is active), often over dinnertime and other times you'd like to use electricity.

Makes life much more meh.

FWIW I think Texas had rolling blackouts in winter last year, similar to ZA load shedding. Will likely happen again this winter unless they manage to link into other states' grids (IIRC). Would be interesting to see some kind of comparison between the Texas and ZA electricity problems. Undoubtedly also a lot of corruption involved there.

Fun read with some things I'll keep in mind. I'm sure if I had been subjected to many of the "suggestions" given in the first half of the blogpost I would think it less fun aha.

There has been some discussion on the post on Reddit [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/wiih3x

I'm still trying to get back into reading again, but once at a second-hand bookstore my SO and I overheard the owner talk to another client about a specific series of books and my SO ended up joining the conversation asking about recommendations. IIRC it was a nice chat and she got a couple of good recommendations out of it.

I think as with everything... it depends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the person behind the counter is just an employee who has zero or a passing interest in reading, they won't be able to help much.

If the person behind the counter loves reading but doesn't share your interests they may also not be of much help.

Perhaps it's worth asking for a recommendation in a more open-ended way, so that you don't feel awkward not buying it if the book sounds uninteresting.

EDIT: if you're ever in that same bookstore again and see the same employee, you could remind her of the recommendation and mention how you felt about the book. She may have a different book to recommend in that case. Or I guess you could ask someone else - in the end you've learned that this book/type of book is not for you which is just as good to take into account when looking for recommendations ("I liked X, Y and Z but then didn't feel compelled to finish 'The Orphan Master's Son', do you know of a book that I might like?").

Ah shit. Thanks for the link - good to know.

Cheeky buggers indeed haha

GORE-TEX materials had a PFAS problem but have been PFAS-free since 2012 or 2014 or so, if I recall correctly.

Yep good point. RAW is amazing in that regard.

Thanks for the term! That's a rabbit hole we'll venture down next time I see my dad.

I initially had a paragraph half written out in the comment you replied to detailing how my dad's new cameras perform extremely well at absurd (12800???) ISOs, which "iso invariance" would definitely explain.

My camera is an older Canon 5D MK1 which shoots mostly fine at 200 ISO and lower, and gets grainy quite fast at 400 ISO and above. If and when the photography bug bites me harder I'll probably upgrade to a slightly newer body aha.

I loved this[1] recent video by DIY Perks and think you would enjoy it too. He essentially builds a housing for a lens with a massive aperture.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cT0jXI7l4E

My dad's a hobbyist photographer and through him I've learned to generally shoot in aperture priority mode. For my intents it generally feels 'manual enough'.

Then you leave ISO on auto if it makes sense for the lighting conditions, or manually set it if needed.

FWIW AFAIK Matthias is an engineer who used to work at RIM (BlackBerry). His videos about woodworking and everything else are great yeah.

It may just be down temporarily.

I used to use this Google Search timer extensively until there was a period of time (years ago) where it didn't work reliably for me - I think it counted down fine but then played no sound. Unsure if this affected others but I had to abandon it.

Funnily enough, the Google Clock timer on my phone (which I set via Google Assistant) has had a similar intermittent issue lately. It would count down to 0 properly, and then just continue past that to -1, -2, -3 seconds, on and on, and end up playing the alert audio like 2 minutes late. Weirdly, it knows that this is happening as there is no normal 'dismiss' option until the sound actually starts playing.

Not the biggest deal when it's my coffee timer being a bit late, but if it's for something more time-sensitive in the oven it does actually matter.

Ah you can use pop with other stashes too, thanks for the tip... though that feels a bit like a semantic misnomer (? unsure what term would be best to describe what I'm thinking - but 'pop' kind of feels like it should always be applicable only to the top element in a stack. I'd be scared that popping stash@{5} would apply all of stashes 1 to 5 at once lol).

I've been using `git stash apply stash@{n}`, which works just fine, but the stash is then not removed from your list and results in clutter.

I don't know how JetBrains IDEs do 'local histories' but FWIW VSCode recently also implemented "local file history"[1]. I have not had to use it to salvage anything yet, but I'm sure that day will come.

[1] https://twitter.com/code/status/1511463379210317824