Thanatosian posted:
haha I've 100% encountered this
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:07 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 09:45 |
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I'll sometimes leave periods out of IMs or Text messages, unless I'm actually using two sentences. Exclamation points or question marks get used unless it's very very obvious I'm asking a question.
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:13 |
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Thanatosian posted:I discovered the other day that you can edit your most recent Teams/Discord message by hitting the up arrow, and that has been life-changing for me. You can also just type s/find/replace and hit enter without going into edit mode, and it'll find-replace your previous message! Software dev field anecdote: When I'm on chime or slack or whatever I have to hard-remember to use punctuation when interacting with the older people because they seem to like it (I had one middle-management type complain that "this isn't texting" too ????). I'm not used to using punctuation in this context and most of the others I interact with also do not, and I've found that doing so causes anxiety with the interns/new grads because they think they've hosed up and you're about to question them aggressively over code review, like a "wow you're doing great." vs "wow youre doing great" have to entirely different meanings, one taken to be said sarcastically while eye rolling
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:15 |
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Biowarfare posted:You can also just type s/find/replace and hit enter without going into edit mode, and it'll find-replace your previous message!
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:31 |
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Thanatosian posted:In my younger days, I definitely used to judge people for not typing properly/using punctuation, but I've come around to the "prescriptivism is stupid" school of thought; can I read it without having to think about it too hard? Great, no problem, doesn't really matter if it's a work IM or a text message or whatever. I have a thing about standardization, though, and while I definitely change the tone of the things I say depending on context, the way I type words, punctuate, and capitalize is gonna be the same every time. Using Oxford commas and semicolons in everyday text messages will be my old-person "not gonna change" hill to die on. as long as i can pick up what's being put down i don't really care but as soon as you get more than one sentence in a message/line, you really gotta put a full stop in there. if you don't, poo poo gets confusing. also, apostrophes and commas are always required! "youre" just looks lazy; commas are the difference between "let's eat grandma" and "let's eat, grandma"
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:43 |
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just use "your" anywhere you would use "youre"
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:46 |
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Do you still have you're game's for sell?
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:49 |
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I also use the Swype-style texting (Googling seems to say maybe "slide-to-text" is the technical term), where you don't lift up your fingers to type on the phone, and I don't know if it does this for everyone, but at least for me it automatically capitalizes and uses apostrophes; I know GBoard eventually learns your style (I've been using it for long enough that it even lets me curse, finally), so it's possible it's just the keyboard adapting to my particular neurosis.
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:52 |
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Biowarfare posted:just use "your" anywhere you would use "youre"
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 20:02 |
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"ur" vs "u'r"
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 20:51 |
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Biowarfare posted:just use "your" anywhere you would use "youre" God drat it.
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 21:48 |
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Thanatosian posted:I also use the Swype-style texting (Googling seems to say maybe "slide-to-text" is the technical term), where you don't lift up your fingers to type on the phone, and I don't know if it does this for everyone, but at least for me it automatically capitalizes and uses apostrophes; I know GBoard eventually learns your style (I've been using it for long enough that it even lets me curse, finally), so it's possible it's just the keyboard adapting to my particular neurosis. I've used SwiftKey (even before Microsoft bought it) and it's been fantastic above default mobile keyboard programs. Even supports input via swiping, if you're so inclined.
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 22:00 |
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DelphiAegis posted:I've used SwiftKey (even before Microsoft bought it) and it's been fantastic above default mobile keyboard programs. Even supports input via swiping, if you're so inclined. Yeah, I've used Swype, Swiftkey, and GBoard, Gboard was the one I wound up settling on.
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# ? Feb 10, 2021 22:30 |
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Biowarfare posted:You can also just type s/find/replace and hit enter without going into edit mode, and it'll find-replace your previous message!
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 03:35 |
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Thanatosian posted:I discovered the other day that you can edit your most recent Teams/Discord message by hitting the up arrow, and that has been life-changing for me. I missed this, amazing, thank you. When I typo it’s almost never a mispel. It’s just the wrong ducking word I type like muscle memory is doing autocorrect. So I’ve been clicking that stupid edit button a lot.
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 03:39 |
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Biowarfare posted:just use "your" anywhere you would use "youre" Use you"re instead of you're
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 04:06 |
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Shugojin posted:Use you"re instead of you're You're a monster.
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 06:25 |
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Canuck-Errant posted:You're a monster. You are to.
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 06:32 |
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Arquinsiel posted:I figured this out by accident and was annoyed because it stopped me making s/find/replace jokes about the previous poster's message. It's like the Discord devs had literally never used a chat program before designing one. s\/find\/replace Escaping the forward slashes lets you make the jokes still
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 06:38 |
Just replace "your" "you're" etc. with "youse". It's universal.
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# ? Feb 11, 2021 21:56 |
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y'all and y'alls
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 00:12 |
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Yinz
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 00:31 |
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:y'all and y'alls
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 00:46 |
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:y'all and y'alls What about the polite formal "all y'alls"?
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 13:29 |
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Thanatosian posted:I discovered the other day that you can edit your most recent Teams/Discord message by hitting the up arrow, and that has been life-changing for me. Skype, too! I use it a lot. Also I've long ago stopped using capitals when typing almost anything. If I'm using them correctly, it's only because I'm on mobile and GBoard puts them there automatically.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 14:19 |
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You can also press Up to edit your last message in Slack, once you enable it via Preferences > Accessibility
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 16:16 |
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Is it possible to have our laptops that staff use on all the units to not have access to netflix etc.?
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 17:22 |
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Bob Morales posted:Is it possible to have our laptops that staff use on all the units to not have access to netflix etc.? We got a request like this from some higher-up in Sales at an old job and the official stance from the tech side was "Yes, we can block that easily but this is a management issue, not a technical one."
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 17:41 |
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It amazes me sometimes how well stuff can compress... I had a request to transfer 11GB worth of various CAD files from the computer of someone that was retiring to their replacement (who is in a different branch). It would have taken hours due to terrible upload speeds. So I ran 7zip at Normal against the entire folder. It compressed to 413MB. Was not expecting that. Edit: For comparison, the built in Windows ZIP handling compressed it to 3GB.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 20:26 |
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dragonshardz posted:I have and it's exactly as annoying to read as it is to hear. Most people do uptyping as "...", too. There's a section lead I work with who ends all of her messages in IMs with ... "Hey OJ... Can you look at this for me... someone from your team sent it over to us, and it needs to be reviewed again... thanks..." It's pretty annoying.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 01:02 |
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I have a co-worker who does that. It feels like he's being passive aggressive all the time. It's really exhausting.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 01:30 |
The one that gets me is when managers as you to something by using the word "if". "If you could help promote the following code fix to UAT." "If you could submit this report by end of day." "If you could help X get access to Y." Dude just please use the question mark and the phrasing that supports it, I mean "if you could use a question mark"
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 03:21 |
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Had a coworker in a previous job that used two periods.. Almost exclusively.. I could never figure out what that was about..
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 05:42 |
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My boss is notorious for creating tickets that just seem like they're mental notes for him, and are supposed to be typed out in full at a later point. Just 10-20 words without interpunction or caps and usually without a screenshot of the actual problem. We always have to coax it out of him.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 07:51 |
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stevewm posted:It amazes me sometimes how well stuff can compress... The main thing I take away from this post is that (presumably important) CAD files aren't on the network?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 09:41 |
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Merijn posted:My boss is notorious for creating tickets that just seem like they're mental notes for him, and are supposed to be typed out in full at a later point. Just 10-20 words without interpunction or caps and usually without a screenshot of the actual problem. We always have to coax it out of him. Sounds like tickets that need to be escalated. To your boss. Maybe copy/paste into a new ticket without their name on it and ask for help
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 17:57 |
RFC2324 posted:Sounds like tickets that need to be escalated. Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:14 |
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i am a moron posted:Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:30 |
Thanks Ants posted:I get annoyed if people put a question in a chat without putting a question mark but then send a message afterwards with just the'?' in - it reads as if they are trying to hurry you up for an answer
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 21:40 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 09:45 |
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u brexit ukip it posted:The main thing I take away from this post is that (presumably important) CAD files aren't on the network? There is normally no need to exchange data across branches in this manner. A one off thing.
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# ? Feb 14, 2021 00:24 |