As part of the re-training and re-exposure to several technologies and concepts and also because it’s the only justification for building (and allowing) a Windows machine on my network: Half Life: Alyx.
Also, I’ll need to select a suitable, mid-grade (read: inexpensive) VR headset.
I can’t help but wonder, just how long might it take? Is there any sort of debug information available? Something indicating that it’s doing something apart from the little spinner?
I mean, at least it’s not the Spinning Beachball of Doom.
I’ve been waiting about two hours for it to do its thing. I wonder if I should simply halt the iCloud sync for my documents and let everything else complete for a day or two.
After an absolutely abysmal effort at an assessment of an older skill, it occurs to me that either I was over-interpreting the questions or that it’s definitely time to clear out the proverbial skills fridge and delete the much older skills from it.
Nah, I’m not going to delete bash from the Skills list. In retrospect, I’m quite certain that I was overanalyzing it.
Also, bash isn’t dead yet and there aren’t many left who can use it.
**Sigh**
I can see that somebody might set an alert for five or ten minutes before some planned event.
But 75 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes before?! And another only on the 12th of August of 2019?! How is that even plausible?
Uh…
You know, let’s just delete every future version, then create a new one with no alerts.
This is a PSA.
Okay, not true.
More of an annoyance.
When somebody says “those three dots” or “the little dots” some variation to describe a button that provides extended or additional information, there’s an actual effing name for it, and it’s not “the three dots”.
It’s called an ellipsis.
Used appropriately, the ellipsis in text indicates that a thought has trailed off or that it represents other, related ideas or thoughts. It could also be used to represent “more”.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop referring to it as “the three dots”.
It’s singular. It could be “an ellipsis” or sometimes “the ellipsis”. There’s even a unicode version:
What does it look like? Well…
You could even simplify it from three syllables down to one: call it “more”.
But it’s most certainly not called “those three little dots”.
the rest of me 