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tawaywayon 'Check Your Backups Work' Day

I didn't mean as a slight against him, just kidding :)

tawaywayon 'Check Your Backups Work' Day

> Imagine if you're the CEO of Gitlab and seeing this right now

I kind of hope the CEO of Gitlab isn't reading HN right now

tawaywayon Is atomic theory the most important idea in human history?

A billion people are without them right now.

tawaywayon 32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic

Desoldering is all much faster if you have hot air and some tweezers.

tawaywayon Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative

>The social skills learned in such an artificial environment are highly unlikely to transfer to the real world.

That's an odd argument, do you think there is little socializing benefit from any kind of schooling then?

A 12 month range of age is not unusual for a circle of peers/friends throughout life, especially if you normalise for age.

A narrow age band means that children are likely to be at similar stages of emotional & mental development as their classmates, so they can learn from each other. It's important not to forget that children are children and not adults. School shouldn't necessarily directly model the rest of their lives.

tawaywayon Ask HN: How do I learn to use Powerpoint well?

I know how to use it in the sense that everyone knows how, the basic usage is drag-and-drop. I just have no interest in spending a large chunk of my day dragging-and-dropping if it can be avoided (through automation, templating, shortcuts etc).

When you prepare slides several times a year you can get by with the usual method, when it's weekly I would rather spend a couple of hours upfront learning the software inside out. I thought this would be apparent to HN users from the OP.

tawaywayon Ask HN: How do I learn to use Powerpoint well?

I may not have been clear enough in the OP. Yes, I want to learn the software and not general presentation skills.

I usually know what I need in a document, I just want to spend less time putting it together.

To edit text files quickly I learnt vim commands, I'd like to find something similar to take the sting out of working with PP. Keyboard driven workflows, advanced features etc.

Right now I am doing a lot of clicking, a lot of inserting textboxes, changing text formats and dragging things around on slides. I would like to type and hit a few shortcuts as I go to arrange things.

I appreciate people suggesting rules for numbers of slides and tips for preparing to speak but that isn't what the problem is.