From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-04-11, D  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> All that got me thinking how difficult having been a   
   >>> developer makes living with those who haven't. I'm talking   
   >>> mainly in the sense of (for me, anyway), perpetually   
   >>> looking to improve, simplify, and possibly automate things.   
   >>   
   >> It's a very powerful skill, use it wisely. ;)   
   >   
   > Solve a single simple remains a joy. No interest in writing   
   > an application.  But noting how a certain textural   
   > periodicity invites a Lua massage that regularly saves me   
   > repeated vim keystrokes? Yum!   
      
   Amen!   
      
   > I think it was about a year ago I felt it necessary to be   
   > pushing thoughts to Gemini, Gopher, and Web spaces. What   
   > a joy to be able to source it all from Gemini markdown,   
   > automating the sftp'ing for extra credit, as it were!   
      
   You are strong with the force!   
      
   >> I never soak, I do the dishes immediately after dinner. But   
   >> I do have a quite compact movement pattern, and my   
   >> competition with myself is to do the dishes faster than   
   >> my wife can dry them. ;)   
   >   
   > Well, I rarely soak either, so I think I mis-spoke. It's   
   > more like "not let dry out". I tend to get busy with such   
   > pretty near immediately after a meal too. I just don't   
   > like having things having over my head. I like being   
   > ready.   
      
   Ahh, got it. Yes, I have the same philosophy. Letting dry out is the small   
   death! See... isn't _this_ what alt.philosophy should be about? Someone   
   thinking hard and deep about dishes?   
      
   > I do all the dishes because my wife does all the cooking,   
      
   This should not come as a surprise by now... but singing to the choire! ;)   
   I do cook on special occasions or if she had a rough day. She then has a   
   free choice of: 1. General Tsos chicken, 2. apple pie or 3. bread. ;)   
   That's my repertoire!   
      
   > and we've just happened to not have a dishwasher for   
   > several years now. But we'll have one at a new place in   
   > roughly May, or whenever in-progress upgrades are complete.   
      
   We have one, but unless we're having a bigger family get together, it is   
   never used.   
      
   >> You must train her. I'd suggest some classic Skinnerian   
   >> training. If she does it wrong, you hit her in the bottom,   
   >> if she does it right, you provide her with a carrot. ;)   
   >   
   > You'd be wasting your time writing about Christianity   
   > given your obvious practical wisdom prowess! ;-)   
      
   I should write a book! ;)   
      
   >> I tried to train my wife on using her computer in a   
   >> more efficient way and I was the one who was hit in the   
   >> bottom. For me, it is very painful to watch mouse-people   
   >> use their point and click applications in the office.   
   >> It is physically painful for me! It is just so slow, and   
   >> when I do something, they marvel at the speed. When I try   
   >> to teach them, they do not listen (or in the case of my   
   >> wife, hit me).   
   >   
   > The mouse and trackpad are abominations!   
      
   Amen!   
      
   > Ever try the "Vimium" extension in a browser? (FWIW,   
   > the Lagrange browser I mentioned in a previous post has   
   > something akin to it built in)   
      
   I have, but for some reason it didn't stick, so I'm using the regular key   
   bindings while browsing. Strange how such obvious things sometimes don't   
   stick, so I should probably give it another go and make it stick this   
   time.   
      
   >> You should start a management consulting company! You   
   >> would earn a fortune doing what you do anyway! =)   
   >   
   > I suspect I could excel in some kind of consulting. But I'm   
   > retired, you see. But I'd love throwing nuggets others'   
   > ways for dinner/drink money. But I loathe the idea of   
   > promoting/selling myself.   
      
   Yes, this is a very common yin and yang thing with brilliant   
   technologists. My small company is based on the fact that I help with the   
   selling, and the brilliant guys do the doing, and I take a percentage to   
   fund the selling. Everyone is happy and everyone wins! =)   
      
   > We get that kind of money sitting a grandchild a couple   
   > times a week (six hour stints) during the school year,   
   > and then performing out as a duo. I'm getting tired of   
   > lugging equipment around, but probably have a couple years   
   > of that left in me. When that wraps, we'll likely go back   
   > to some recording and/or podcasting.   
      
   You should get a roadie! Isn't that what they do? Lug your things around,   
   find you women and groupies and sort out your M&M so only color X are in   
   your changing room?   
      
   >> True. That is one of the joys of IT. Seeing that script you   
   >> made save you hours and hours and hours of work. Vim for   
   >> instance, I don't know how many hours of text processing   
   >> it has saved me. Amazing tool!   
   >   
   > Can't imagine life without it. Typing in it this very   
   > moment. 'Tis the ASCII air current - yea, jetstream -   
   > beneath my wings, as it were.   
      
   Very poetic! I'm suring on a jetstream of ASCII! I like the ring of that.   
   )   
      
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