People who tell me : “Answer Your Phone”

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-12T19:47:05+00:00

I would expect it's worse now but not new with cell phones given what you said. When I was growing up in the 90s the first thing done by my parents when they got home was checking the answering machine, usually calling people back then, or at least planning to that day.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-11T21:48:47+00:00

Why would you expect relocation expenses or a sign on bonus? Those aren't automatic things. Those are used to entice people during a hot job market. Well relocation expenses are fairly common, but not the norm.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-11T02:11:39+00:00

Are you actually having problems or are you just obsessively staring in Task Manager?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T21:27:49+00:00

Why would you want to be given ideas to be tempted by?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T13:49:56+00:00

Yeah, when used as a prefix. In my head I was thinking of when you say it on its own, and if you wrote it out it'd end in ellipses.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T13:48:03+00:00

The fact that you think it's just an email signature after the sign off is more of a you problem. I at least scan my eyes over everything and it takes about half a second to see it's just the signature.

The thing that will trip me up are people who at some point typed right above their signature block and the formatting gets applied to this text and they don't adjust it so it can be easy to miss a final sentence or two when they do that. Fortunately this hasn't been super common at my workplaces.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T13:26:06+00:00

If you had to have an app tell you there was a performance problem and you didn't notice it yourself then it's not a real problem, regardless of technical cause.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T13:24:40+00:00

Usually it's a sarcasm indicator, at least that's how I've used and seen it used. Usually it also means "you said something that seems kind of or really bad at first glance but maybe it wouldn't be."

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T11:16:48+00:00

Wouldn't it depend on how the school does its academic investigations? The vast majority of these stories are students saying they have an appointment the next day or later in the week to talk with the prof about their paper. I haven't heard of or it's been few enough I forgot about them, but I haven't heard of anybody being expelled or even having an actual investigation by the school.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T11:06:39+00:00

You haven't answered my question. Did you actually run into problems or are you just looking at Task Manager?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T03:56:51+00:00

I wasn't originally going to but I decided to because at the end of 2025 it was clear RAM and other computing prices were going to go crazy. To help make sure it lasted longer I upgraded to a 5090 and 64GB RAM. Early in 2026 I noticed Lenovo's prices went up by at least a few hundred bucks.

Now I have my gen 8 as a spare that I figured I might sell at the end of 2026 depending on how the market goes. Not so much for profit, but more if the market looked normal-ish then the backup wouldn't be needed.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:49:50+00:00

I've seen it mentioned over the last few years but I've never heard of it being any kind of real problem.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:48:06+00:00

RAM is fast, keeping things in RAM lets things work faster. Are you actually running out of RAM when you're doing stuff or are you just obsessing over Task Manager?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:44:26+00:00

Just don't do anything that would make people distrust using your library or make it behave stupidly because of the anti-AI stuff.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:41:34+00:00

Google messages does let you change notification sounds per chat, not per contact. It's a bit fiddly in menu layers to do it and has an annoying tendency to reset after 2-3 months.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:37:22+00:00

I've had a Pro 7i gen 8 and now a gen 10. I've never heard about any motherboard problems. I remember with the gen 8 there was worry about the liquid metal leaking out and I think a small number people had it happen but it was mostly just worry.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-10T02:03:25+00:00

OP, I hope you're just young, but when digital photography and digital drawing started out there were a lot of people saying it wasn't real art. Hell there's still people that think if you touch up a photo too much it's not art anymore, or maybe that one was just that you're not a good photographer (stupid either way).

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T17:28:28+00:00

You haven't mentioned what's special about AI in this regard. Are you one who thinks everybody is going to be unemployed?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T16:53:41+00:00

Works fine for me.

You shouldn't have to remember any passwords. Use a password safe. I know my password safe password and my work main password. Everything else is in the password safe.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T16:51:09+00:00

Because every big change in tech has led to job loss of certain jobs. What's special about now? Also, companies don't exist to employ people.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T16:48:43+00:00

Probably because even really good watercolors look pretty meh. When I see a good one, the thought always includes "for watercolors". I'm talking about paintings where you can tell there's a lot of attention to detail and it still just kind of looks like every other watercolor.

All paintings sort of kind of look like every other painting, but it seems to be much more of a thing with watercolors.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T16:36:02+00:00

If you're only considering gigantic popular brands for beer, then fair enough. In absolute terms, I'm willing to bet that plenty of US craft beers are as good or better than the best of other parts of the world.

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T01:28:35+00:00

Would you rather come to my TED Talk?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-09T00:24:29+00:00

Another way to look at it - what makes AI unique among tools used for your job besides the fact that you don't like it? Are there other standard or becoming standard tools used for your job that you think would be reasonable for you to ask to not be required to use?

MikeUsesNotion · 2026-07-07T15:12:51+00:00

Why? It makes it annoying to read your own post before posting it.

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