valen

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[–] valen@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Something you only know in a parallel dimension.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago
  • Jim's Big Ego
  • Rockapella
[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

We have a code for when we're ready to leave a party. One of us will go to the other and do the finger walking up the other's arm. This means "I want to go home."

[–] valen@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Is it worth the money? You're going to spend something like 1/3 of your time on it. Make it a good one.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh, WordStar. That was a great editor. Keep in mind, at the time the control key on keyboards was where the caps lock key is now, and there weren't arrow keys. So the left hand moved the cursor up/down/left/right by characters, words, or screens very easily. Once you used it for a while, it became second nature.

It was easier to write text in WordStar than in vi. That was a hard transition. But WordPerfect was a truly opaque piece of software until you had the ubiquitous templates for the function keys.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As @Transform2942@lemmy.ml said, use https://alexandrite.app/ . It's a really good desktop interface to lemmy.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, SNW is a worthy spiritual successor to TOS.

[–] valen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
  • Escape pod: SF stories
  • The Drabblecast: more stories
  • Freakonomics
[–] valen@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

This episode exists because of the stupid Starfleet rule of having traumatized veterans of the war have to interact positively with the supposedly bad-to-good turned war crime enemy. That's a classic example of people acting stupid for "plot" (e.g. we couldn't have this episode without the stupid bit).