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The concept that's MAGICAL in Reveal.js is vertical slides.

e.g. https://revealjs.com/#/2/1 <-- from here you can go up or down, then go right to continue the presentation.

You just make one slide deck with lightweight high-abstraction slides and depending on the audience you just... hit the down arrow. bam. now you're inside the tech slides. no nerdy tech guys? sweet, don't hit down on slide 3. Instead you're with the marketing guys, so hit down on slide 5.

Anyway - looks like you got rid of that in order to mimic Powerpoint, but... don't forget it's there. it's my favorite part of using Reveal.js!

Oof. Pain may well be the "seasoning of life" but work is not pain.

Work is the thing that helps one lift society up.

We're all connected beings and one's occupation is how we each contribute to that society. The idea that it's something we suffer through in order to eat is a crummy reversal of the idea of having purpose.

It doesn't matter if one is selling toilets or scrubbing them, each of us is still keeping civilization in motion; giving it life.

Don't enjoy your occupation? Go back to school. Can't afford school? Hunt down people you respect and figure out how to work with or for them.

"we're training the public that they're 'buying' a revokable license, not the song" ~MPAA ;)

it's a frustrating pattern for sure. makes it so you can't reward good companies with return business. instead, we get the amazon-seller-experience: an ever-churning alphabet soup of fly-by-night companies hocking low-quality stuff.

if you wear yourself out mentally all day as part of your occupation, digging into a "good" book is often too much work.

As anecdata: My wife has a "brainy" occupation and her brilliant sister does not. Correspondingly, my wife has no interest in "brainy" books in her free time whilst her sister is always recommending new 900 page tomes.

I lived several decades knowing only the standard set of knots (square, granny) that every six-year-old knows.

Recently, due to Scouts, learned more and I can't believe how often I use them.

    "Dryer's busted! My DIY laundry line sags! What to do?!"

    "If only I could make a loop that won't move in the middle of this rope!"

Or maybe use a friend! "Hey joe, please proofread literally everything I post on the internet! It's your job after all!" ;-)

I interpreted GP's message as "We used to lean-on and learn-from our friends, families, and coworkers, and insodoing we ourselves improved in a symbiotic way".

The "job" in the speech example would be "hey Joe, can I run this speech by you?"

In that scenario, the friend would:

  * feel valued, 
  * connect with you, 
  * have something to do socially instead of "sooo uh whatcha been up to... uh... nice weather...", and
  * get to hone their own speech skills by critiquing in a safe environment.

Did you keep your high school yearbooks?

Neighbors of owned-properties:

  - care about the long-term effects of their actions
  - care about the plan of their surroundings
  - plan to stick around

Notably this is equally applicable to any occupant-owned property (e.g. condos > apartments).

Nothing charitable or uncharitable in the sentiment. Just interpretation.

Keeping context confined to the 1999 and 1992 films... What meaning do you infer?

I still can't find an alternative.

I don't think it's "uncharitable"? Seems perfectly reasonable to not like a remake.

He says:

... this corporate remake is a worse creative "theft" than ...

Context is that "this" is the 1999 film.

A sibling comment makes a separate point that even the 1992 film is not original content but nowhere in falcor84's comment does he refer to the franchise as a whole being "theft".

Regardless, it's clear from the post that the context is the 1999 film being `creative "theft"` which I inferred meant they changed the story in ways he didn't like but... he can weigh in if he feels like it.

I assume he's saying Disney owns the 1992 film so the 1999 film is not theft, but he wants it to be because he doesn't like the 1999 film. Thus the quotes.

What's this have to do with the thread you replied to?

And... anyway... Google just changed its homepage to make "AI Mode" / LLM responses the norm. LLM usage is just going to be the norm for the foreseeable future. Doesn't matter if a wary set of "laypeople" are reticent. They're still going to ask Google questions and be affected by it in their digital lives.

As you say - "good enough" is always the normal.

I like the idea of not naming it.

I treat it like housekeeping and treat features like hosting a party. Guests/stakeholders are people who want what you can make. The party is the feature they want.

They don't care whether it was difficult or easy for you to clean the house. They just assume keep your own house tidy ... and they know you don't when you only host once a quarter instead of once a month.

They assume you're a functional adult who manages his own space.

Tech debt is like that.

Thus - the business folk don't get a say in whether it's in the sprint - cuz it's not "the party". Instead it's your Scrum Master or whatever saying "hey kids - clean the mirrors and Jane this time you're sanitizing the toilet."

I'm 100% with the GP - I've avoided reading the book due to the manipulative sound to the title... Ironically I have read The 48 Laws of Power, hah.

I read it though thinking "I'll bulwark myself against manipulators by understanding their tactics" whilst the "Influencing People" book just sounded like manipulative self-interest.

You've changed my mind; I'm going to read it right away.

Notably a bigger problem for women who must put their phones in their back pockets due to having no/small pockets in front.

The tradeoff was discussed in a sibling thread: it's heavier by 58 grams and thicker by 2mm. That's it. That's the tradeoff. Why go crazy on the guy?

Don't imagine a grid.

Instead imagine that "GO EAST" takes you onto a winding road.

The road arcs southward and to go back you'd have to "GO NORTH".

Further... some travels in Zork even drop you through a hole (though I forget if it tells you so).

So going East might put you in the basement and there's no way to climb back up.

So long as my format is the standard one, that all newcomers an unopinionateds see by default and thus my opinions rule forever... yeah! great idea! otherwise... oh hayol no.

And for clarity to @lukasgelbmann - I answered the questioner that clearly didn't know the term. I wasn't referring to your usage of it.

Context and tone tell the reader whether it's used "normally", tongue-in-cheek, or neutrally. ~\_O_/~

To ESL folk out there - the "F" definitely never means "fine". It's a cute and crass ... just like America. ;^)

Nope, one simply says "the article".

Yes and to be clear, one uses "TFA" to imply annoyance that TFA hasn't been read.

e.g. "TFA covers this already."

Nonsense, that's your seat height. Lower your seat and magically the monitor is the right height.

Your keyboard may be chin-height but hey, your monitor height is no longer a problem. ;)

"I don't care I just silently judge you" ... kinda sounds like you care. ;)

Law suits / claims, I'd expect, as tall is unstable.

If I sell a Monitor With Really Tall Monitor Stand and then you lightly bump your desk and break your monitor, you might want a replacement and call my stand "an unstable PoS".

If I sell you a Monitor and you stack books under it and your monitor falls... well... dummy, tall stuff falls over. Time to buy a new monitor.

I don't get why anyone downvoted you but maybe we can "all get along" by saying:

   "the meaning of life is to continue living."

Well. My assumptions are based on the that the alternative would never matter. He'd simply stop existing (in HN-space), and that's an overtly less-fun universe to live in.

We certainly do suddenly live in "interesting times".

Ok but if you're a person that likes HN discourse but thinks "eternal september" has happened ... what's your plan?

You'll still come here, read the comments, see something engaging and want to reply and... feel sad because shakes fist at [datacenter] clouds it's all just bots talking to each other anyway.

Seems lame. Keep talking anyway.