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master/slave relationship in tech

Wait, this is a thread about branch names in git. The “master” in question would be more akin to a “master recording” from music, not master/slave software or system architecture.

I doubt it, but ok

I’m not sure I’d count Frankenstein, tbh. I think it’s more horror than sci-fi.

LitRpg

I don’t think this is new; The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg was published in 1983 where players in a tabletop RPG get whooshed into the game world at the beginning of the book. Fun series.

Do you think what is right and what is wrong is universally agreed-upon? I don’t think it’s as clear-cut as you’re trying to make it sound.

I don’t have this issue in any other apps, so yes, def a Teams thing.

What OS are you using? AFAIK there’s no way to pin the separate Teams windows to the Dock in osx.

Yes, it’s a different window.

The issue is that it’s not the first window that Teams selects when I click on it.

Blame it on the macbook if you like, but IMO Teams is at fault.

Wait, have you never heard any of the Boomer jokes about “women drivers”?

I thought their meaning was obvious. In the places you’ve paid any attention to the sex of the taxi drivers, any would-be female taxi drivers have been deterred or driven out of the job by too much harassment.

Current pet peeve: I’m in a meeting, and I click to switch to another app to check something, then I click the Teams icon to switch back to Teams. Clearly, in this case, I want to get back to the meeting.

Instead, it shows me the calendar view. WTF, Microsoft?

New Zealand. Beautiful place, and the coffee, OMFG, they really know their coffee there!

40ies

I can’t help but read this as “forty-ies” instead of “forties” 😂

Rom, apparently. I had to do some searching to figure it out.

Ugh, infuriating. All I can imagine now is that you were mad that he made you what you asked for. Guess I’ll just be clueless 'til I forget about this thread.

it takes labor to collect the carts

It’s not about that. I was making a reference to the Shopping Cart Theory as a way of responding to the post.

potentially reduce price hikes on food

I admire your boundless optimism! I rather think we’d simply see richer grocery store owners if there were a sudden outbreak of common decency and everyone consistently returned the cart.

Well, it IS only midway through season 1, after all.

You get it

no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

This has me envisioning a literature community filled with stories like “Random House and Penguin merging” (I know, old news), “Layoffs at PRH”, etc.

Star Trek for me, I think (though oddly, I’ve played in a Star Wars tabletop RPG but never a Star Trek RPG). My wife and I started watching Deep Space 9 from the beginning about a month ago. I had seen some of it a while back (not everything, busy with school at the time). She had never seen it. We just finished season 1.

I don’t think it qualifies as “old school”, but I do like the Vorkosigan books.

Lately I’ve been on kind of a Scalzi kick. I’m partway through the Interdependency series.