ALostInquirer

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I had been publishing articles on my own website since 2003, but I did that mostly manually by writing whole HTML pages.

Huh, so literally raw html? I know it's not too difficult, but I have wondered occasionally how many small websites may have been written that way.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the reply! It's a cool way to view it in individual terms. I was thinking in more social terms, however, which I've been a little fascinated to find seems to be a little atypical from the replies so far.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

This does seem to come closer to what I was wondering about when I originally posted, good eye!

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

OP asks the real life equivalent of being AFK which, assuming you’re normally regularly online, only really corresponds to being high or sleeping.

The funny thing is, it didn't occur to me how vague my question was until after I posted and started seeing the replies. That's made it more fun tbh, and interesting as in this context (online vs. in real life) I've not really thought of being online in such individualistic terms as this and some other replies suggest.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If shareholders and executives are demanding so much money, shouldn't they be the optimal target for cuts to maximize profitability of the business? 🤔

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does ffmpeg work best standing? Or is it better spread out? Did it work properly if it finished fast?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Does it sometimes seem like commenting in high traffic online spaces feels this way too, not just Reddit?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Only an existential crisis? What about existential crises?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While Lemmy doesn't have enough people for each product category yet, have you checked out the community !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net?

There's also !recommendations@lemmy.world for broader discussion, but it's not gained much traction yet.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Anyways. I know you probably wanted a story that was more interesting than depressing, but that’s just one that really stuck with me from that point in my life there. I don’t think that’s a normal experience for a Night Auditor to have, so I wouldn’t take my experience as a reason to dissuade anyone from taking the position, but you asked for a story, and so you got one.

Even a depressing story is interesting in its own way, so I appreciate it all the same! I can see why the experience stuck with you, it's a rough situation to find oneself in for almost all involved

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For those interested in discussing their job searches, did you know there's a !jobs@lemmy.world community? Not terribly active at the moment, but given the discussion here there seems to be some potential interest

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Any odd stories from that job?

 

Creatives of whichever fields, whether writers, artists, musicians, meme-makers, developers, film makers, and the like and/or communities, I'm curious to know about some of the people around the fediverse creating some original stuff.

I know of a few over on the Mastodon side, and some communities forming here, but I imagine there are way more I'm unaware of.

 

Emphasis on the some, as I know all too well the old tale of no one not enjoying [subject] more than fans of [subject]. Also to be really clear, this isn't intended as a dig at those that don't become jaded, so much as genuine curiosity.

I've had the misfortune of really enjoying some genre stories only to find it harder to maintain interest in others I come across due to overfamiliarity making what might otherwise be interesting twists or turns feel a little...Predictable. It's a bummer that even taking breaks from some genres doesn't seem to assuage.

 

Was a lot of it classic word of mouth, email, etc.?

I imagine something like that, but I'm wondering as I feel like there may be some useful pieces of knowledge that may be worth recalling as people gradually start to move back out of the more centralized sites/services.

 

Of the senses we're familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.

 

This question always comes to mind whenever I see people jogging along sidewalks, and wonder. Sidewalks are generally concrete or cement or something, which is definitely harder than dirt, so...

 

It seems like it'd get increasingly impractical as the years go on to hundreds of thousands and millions of years to write them out that way, but then...I guess technically one may already do this with the preceding years, so future's fair game for it?

 

So I know some hair may be donated for the making of hairpieces or the like, but...I don't imagine the same can be done for shavings/trimmings, nor do I imagine most cut hair is donated...

Is there like a massive hairball section of waste treatment facilities for shaved/trimmed hair?

 

Other creative toys/products that come to mind would be, say, Play-Doh as a sort of children's intro to...Clay, I suppose? But in this vein without being exclusively directed towards children (albeit I imagine many may be).

Always enjoyed a creative kind of toy to mess around with.

 

Wrestle wrestle till wrestle doesn't wrestle right, wrestle?

 

I have some decent ideas as to why, I'm asking mainly as a hopefully fun contribution here, and to maybe learn some interesting plumbing info!

 

By this I mean, organize around some single person for leadership, or in other contexts focus on a popular figure. Even societies that tend to be described as more collectively-organized/oriented tend to do this.

People are people and are as flawed as one another, so this pervasive tendency to elevate others is odd to me. It can be fun and goofy as a game, but as a more serious organizing or focal principle, it just seems extremely fragile and prone to failure (e.g. numerous groups falling into disarray at the loss of a leader/leader & their family, corruption via nepotism and the like, etc.).

 

Not that I'm complaining, I just find it kinda interesting given how so much stuff demands you sign up & register to do much of anything on a service or site.

Is it simply a cool cultural element that's persisted since IRC's been around? Also shoutout to all the old hat IRC folks out there maintaining their servers and enabling drop-in questions this way, much appreciated!

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