Skip Navigation
Jump
How do you unhear accents?
  • Lol true

    To OP's point, my friends say I don't have an accent, but the number of people who ask me where I'm from says otherwise.

    1
  • Jump
    How do you unhear accents?
  • As someone with a slight accent: good. I want you to hear what I'm saying, not my accent.

    Regardless, active listening is the way to go. Learn what to listen for and maybe try to actively place the accent once you recognize the markers.

    Just please listen to the words first.

    4
  • Jump
    how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do?
  • Check with your employer if they will help with your continued education somehow. My employer, for example, will reimburse some tuition costs if you get a degree while working there.

    As a nurse you can continue up to and including a PhD. Or you can go to medical school and become an MD. There are many options. Try to find a few that sound interesting and learn more about them.

    If you feel you have unused potential, maybe making a change in your career is just what you need. Even if you just look into what it would take, it could put things in perspective for you.

    5
  • Jump
    If you had to access an unfamiliar flash drive (or other data storage), what safety precautions would you take?
  • I don't. I don't work for a library, but judging from my local library branch, they don't have the funding to retain competent IT staff. This isn't about what they could or should do. It's about not being an asshole to people that are already barely hanging on with what they have.

    17
  • Jump
    People are paying out of pocket or using their own PC for work
  • Everywhere I've worked it didn't matter if I used my equipment or theirs. All IP I created while employed there was the property of my employer. If you're in the USA, check your contracts.

    6
  • Jump
    Are there any uses for an old iPad 4th generation for programming?
  • You don't say what type of programming you do, or if you're just learning or developing professionally, but maybe something fully online would work? For example repl.it, stackblitz, or Visual Studio Code for the Web.

    I second the suggestion for getting a Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad.

    4
  • Jump
    Should one say "too many refried beans", or "too much refried beans"?
  • Since refried beans is not countable, I vote for "too much".

    Example:

    • I'm gassy because I had too much refried beans
    • I am gassy because I had too many burritos

    Or like someone else suggested, make the noun singular and call them "refried bean paste". This will probably raise more eyebrows than much/many confusion, though.

    5
  • Jump
    Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?
  • I don't mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji we're looking at when the text is small.

    To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.

    TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.

    6
  • Jump
    How to quit VIM?
  • Excellent point. I had forgotten about this. I work for a non profit so I'm ok, but yes you should absolutely check the terms of the license before using. On the upside, almost everything is markdown files in regular folders, so you can fall back to vim anytime.

    1
  • Jump
    How to quit VIM?
  • I don't know if this will work for you, and I'm not sure if you're only looking for TUI editors, but Obsidian has vi key bindings and a lot of plugins.

    Disclaimer: I have not tried the vi key bindings in Obsidian.

    Another one I use is vscode. It has a ton of markdown plugins and vi key bindings. It also has a nice preview window.

    1
  • Jump
    How do you get a guest to leave when they won't take the hint you want them to leave?
  • When I was younger, Norwegians would often travel to Denmark and bring back bright red meat, which was not approved for sale in Norway. Now I finally realize they were just trying to make us leave.

    12
  • Jump
    GitHub is down
  • Git is a distributed VCS just like fossil. GitHub never has been an integral part of it; it's just the most popular hosting option. This is like saying you're glad you're using Firefox because everyone complaining that Twitter is down is using Chrome.

    Even if you do just GitHub for hosting you can, on account of it being distributed, still work and commit code.

    What is more disruptive is that so much code is hosted on GitHub that even if you're not yourself hosting anything there, you risk almost all your dependencies being unavailable to your build pipelines. If you didn't have a cache set up, you're gonna have a bad time.

    Too much of their process it's tied in with GitHub. That's what people are complaining about.

    18
  • Jump
    What's the oldest technology you continue using?
  • If we're talking about technology that is no longer widely used, it's probably my old HP48SX from the early 90s. Still use it sometimes as a desk calculator, though I have an HP48GX emulator app on my phone as well. Gotta have my RPN.

    1