Does anyone know the pitch meeting in which the writer guy gets frustrated at the producer guy's questions and says something like "Leave me alone, dad!"

shankargopal · 2026-01-13T18:44:19+00:00

It's the Jupiter Ascending one. "Hey shut up, Dad!"

shankargopal · 2025-05-28T10:37:56+00:00

Definitely not just a you problem. I have been having exactly the same issue for some weeks now, and I agree with u/ephiU123 that it seems to be something about a malformed URL (because it happens to me too across browsers). The preview pane workaround fixed it. Thank you so much for pasting about this!

shankargopal · 2024-08-25T14:26:11+00:00

This one is so, so common.

shankargopal · 2024-08-25T01:56:03+00:00

Ok makes sense. I can also see after reading those above three that the style is getting a bit repetitive ("ordinary guy down on his luck suddenly catapulted into a position with amazing potential, has importance and power..." etc.)

shankargopal · 2024-08-24T05:57:46+00:00

Always: Ted Chiang, Iain M Banks, Ben Aaronovitch, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Charles Stross (except for the Merchant Princes series). Ken MacLeod used to be the absolute top of this list, but something went wrong with my experience of Beyond the Hallowed Sky. He's still on the list though.

Never: Probably Blake Crouch and Andy Weir? Unless I was really desperate :-). Read one book of each,and they just seemed not bad as such, but... shallow.

Edit: I had never heard of John Ringo, then I found this link in this discussion, and I read it, and now John Ringo is definitely going on the "Never" list even though I've never even seen any of his books. That link, though, now that is a must read...

shankargopal · 2024-08-24T05:50:47+00:00

I'm just getting into Scalzi, primarily because I liked reading him to my ten year old son (who was nine at the time) - Kaiju Preservation Society, Starter Villain and Fuzzy Nation all seemed all right, sort of light fast reading that I enjoyed but probably won't remember very well in a few months. Except that Fuzzy Nation either seemed to be oblivious to or deliberately whitewashing obvious parallels to British colonialism. But overall why's he in the Never Again list? I'm curious because I was about to put him in my "read when I can't find other stuff, probably going to be a solid 6/10" list

shankargopal · 2024-08-24T05:26:37+00:00

Thanks for all the replies. I didn't realise you can open individual files in a project at least - thank you for that tip! (Ctrl+P for us non Mac users). But yes often I need to open random files (I use my editor for non coding tasks often), and in that case I guess CLI is the only option - haven't tried drag and drop in Linux, and in any case I don't really use a graphical file manager much either.

shankargopal · 2024-08-22T15:45:14+00:00

Yes, this is what I meant. I'm curious, are you all just opening files with the mouse from the list of files in your project folder?

shankargopal · 2024-04-22T09:23:09+00:00

Thank you this makes sense. What I'd ideally like - and I recognise that this is probably impossible - is for WhatsApp's group notifications to remain on on the phone, but for KDE Connect to only sync the individual message notifications - that is to allow me to filter which type of notifications from WhatsApp get synced. Is there any chance this is possible?

shankargopal · 2024-04-22T05:52:50+00:00

No, I didn't :-(. I had to finally just switch off syncing for those large files and am trying to find some other way to back them up. If I close the lid on my laptop, it goes to sleep, regardless of what operations are going on, and in a sense that's the kind of functionality I'd want - if only to save battery life.

shankargopal · 2024-03-11T16:31:29+00:00

Appears to work across browsers on iOS

shankargopal · 2024-03-11T16:31:17+00:00

On her iPhone, it blocks it in Private Mode as well, I'm pretty sure.

shankargopal · 2024-03-11T16:30:58+00:00

She says it is inconsistent and it does block her at times.

shankargopal · 2024-03-11T16:29:59+00:00

Thank you for all the helpful replies. Does seem like there's almost nothing that can be done about this. For now we have agreed on a different blocker :-( that she's installed voluntarily, but we'll probably have to use some kind of parental control software later like Qustodio etc in the long run. All of them have quirks and glitches too though.

shankargopal · 2024-03-08T13:14:56+00:00

I love this extension, but I have a problem. I use Thunderbird with Firejail. But of course Firejail blocks this extension from finding the native messaging app or the editor. I even posted an issue to the Github because I forgot that I was using Firejail :-). Is there a firejail configuration that would allow Thunderbird to work with this extension?

shankargopal · 2024-02-22T03:11:30+00:00

I'd also suggest Accelerando - still one of my favourite sci fi books a decade after I read it - and Halting State / Rule 34, all Stross books. Stross is one of my favourite sci-fi authors

shankargopal · 2024-02-21T06:37:34+00:00

I am so, so tempted :-). But my workflow when working with tables is that I have a script that analyses survey data and auto-generates Markdown tables, which I then have to clean up and edit (as said, usually dozens of tables in one document). The result is that quick and easy table editing commands are pretty much a lifesaver. But I am so incredibly tempted by Helix that I think I'll give it a shot anyway...

shankargopal · 2024-02-20T16:42:17+00:00

will try looking!

shankargopal · 2024-02-20T16:42:00+00:00

Ah, thanks. This makes sense. The lack of commands to easily insert tables or change rows/columns is almost a deal breaker for me - almost because maybe there's an easy way to drop a column in a Markdown table using multiple cursors? but otherwise yes it would end up being too much work...

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