Jadon Naas

A humble opinion Merchant. Naas as in Naas-as-a-Service. Cold Takes and Must Misses.

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@IanColdwater @CubicleApril 💯 show me the battery life and performance at 1 Chrome tab, 10 Chrome tabs, and 100 Chrome tabs.

(We can also count Electron desktop apps as tabs since they're running Chromium under the hood)

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@MikeIsaac Phew, and to think of all those times cryptocurrency fans accused cryptocurrency critics of being on somebody's payroll as a way to wave off the critics' concerns or criticisms

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@AdamRackis I'm waiting for enough time to have passed that WordPress and PHP become the "in", "popular", "trendy" thing again - like how all the hit fashion styles of whatever given decade become popular again after twenty or thirty years

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I wonder if folks treat SBF like some naive kid in over his head because they can't reconcile that this grown adult man might have stolen billions of dollars from everyday people like themselves, more-or-less admitted it, and has not gone straight to jail for the rest of eternity

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@freezydorito Do you all not drink your Aqua Libra out of an ancient Greek amphora (that is, a vessel) like this?

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@PavelASamsonov I'm going to start setting my birthday entry fields to today - 100 years, so instead of folks feeling bad about how old they are relative to today, they can feel good about how far away they are from 100 years old

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@sophiaaar 💯I can also recommend the fan stories folks have written about some of the wilder Dwarf Fortress games out there.

Some of the best I saw were the stories of Boatmurdered (yeah that's the procedurally generated name) and Syrupleaf. Boatmurdered is in the Let's Play archive

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@freezydorito Not gonna lie, this whole time I thought you've been talking about NFS as in the Network File System, and I was excited there were groundbreaking things coming out in NFS.

I see now that I was mistaken 🤣

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@BriannaWu Why not monkey pirate?

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@amandanat @JasonRBradwell Yes! They played really well in the United States, but the time I tried giving them out at a trade show in Europe I found I had to explain to every single person what they were.

And yeah, they were actually Tide-to-go pens with a sticker of the company logo, but still nice 👌

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@amandanat @JasonRBradwell One company I used to work for gave out branded stain remover pens (i.e. Tide pins).

I'm not as comfortable about t-shirts as swag after I learned how environmentally intensive producing a t-shirt is. Growing/processing the cotton consumes a huge amount of water, for example

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@AmaliaEFowler Would it be better, then, to tell people to "rage up" instead? Or "anxious up", maybe depending on the mood 🙃

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I'm waiting for Twitter to unknowingly fire the people in charge of handling when people have been fired, and then they can't fire people anymore because that team has itself been fired

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I wonder if the methods used to capture dying languages and other endangered culture/knowledge would help with preserving the tribal knowledge tech organizations grow over time.

Like, let's make an oral history of outages and other wild things the team has experienced

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@epatt6 It's incredibly bad already:

https://t.co/4bLYvxXI4p

The tl;dr is that children's hospitals in the US are as of a few weeks ago filling up with flu, RSV, adenoviruses, enteroviruses, and other respiratory virus cases at much higher rates than in previous years

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@a_h_reaume That look works for the Colosseum, Acropolis, and several other things that people classify as "Wonders of the World", right?

People clearly like majestic crumbling ruins, I think

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@heyJTK So yeah talking over them is probably the right thing to do since that's the cultural norm the person may be accustomed to.

There's a whole interesting subfield of Linguistics that focuses on the dynamics of conversations and how they differ between different cultures

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@heyJTK It's not necessarily what's at play, but in some cultures they don't take formal turns in conversations. Speakers just start talking when they want to talk and either multiple speakers talk together or other speakers stop talking. Other cultures take turns with full stops.

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@edpfahl @codeOfRobin @heyJTK Yeah, Archer would also be my recommendation. I watched it first and then watched Bob's Burgers after. I think it could be a good fit!

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@Carnage4Life I shouldn't act like this was a virtue on its own, though.

Finely detailed note-taking was something I started doing as a defense/survival mechanism to protect myself from dysfunctional and harmful team dynamics.

The notes help to protect me in a low-trust environment

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@Carnage4Life For my part, taking detailed notes means I'm also the one who has the answers to tons of questions that the team asks.

Sure, people remember that I take really good notes, but I help the team avoid rework or relitigating past decisions. Plus, I control the narrative, too