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Outhorse Your Email
- q-base 4y agoEvery once in a while I must succumb my natural aversion towards marketers and give a tip of the hat. This is definitely one of them. Absolutely brilliant and creative thinking!
- slowmovintarget 4y agoTheir previous spoof of Zuckerberg's Metaverse video was also great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI
- aasasd 4y agoOnly now learned that FB has videos about the ‘metaverse’. I'm five minutes into FB's video, and it feels like a recreation of both late-80s' explainer infomercials and early-90s' pop hallucinations about the computerized future. I bet FB regret that they can't sell awkwardness directly, because they have tons of it. I'll have to take breaks to watch the Icelandverse vid every ten minutes, to get through 1h17m of Zuck and kitsch 3D. “You can bring things from the physical world: photos, videos, art, music, movies, books, games” ooof man.
- q-base 4y agoHahaha I had not seen that one either. Thanks a lot for sharing. That really made me laugh as well :)
- shakezula 4y agothe part of that where he gives up on opening the door had me cackle laughing. Thanks for sharing this, it’s absolutely perfect.
- mxuribe 4y agoThis is hilarious; bravo!
- Yhippa 4y agoThe video is funny-ish but it doesn't do justice to how cool Iceland is. I really enjoyed my time there. Would highly recommend. Felt like you could aim your camera in a random direction outdoors and it would take a beautiful photo.
- grammers 4y agoThis is hilarious, thanks for sharing! :)
- lala26in 4y agolawl
- amelius 4y ago
- bee_rider 4y ago> wFwhxsqjnzgmsrqaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Wow, I never knew Icelandic was such a beautiful language.
- SahAssar 4y agoThe aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is silent and usually written as áá.
- thorum 4y agoIcelandic horses shows zero-shot task generalization on Icelandic natural language prompts, outperforming GPT-3 on many tasks, while being 16x faster on land and having beautiful manes. Very impressive work!
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- DonHopkins 4y agoIt's all those hidden layers of horse hair.
- maxbaines 4y agoMade me chuckle this morning.
- icecreamrodeo 4y agoi created an account just to upvote
- Aachen 4y agoThat's how it starts. Before you know it, you'll need noprocrast!
- ethbr0 4y agoIn case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)
- phillipseamore 4y agoI can confirm that the keyboard was fully functional except for keys not producing character output. RaspberryPi with short-to-ground sensor under each key (so the keyboard would work as a mat with the keys removed if the horses didn't like them [as referenced in the BTS video]), running on batteries, making this the world's largest wireless keyboard. Measured 5 by 1.8m with the smallest keys being a beefy 29 x 28cm. Source: Wife's uncle did the electronics and software for it.
- Hamuko 4y agoIs the audio beyond fucked or is it just my machine?
- memorable 4y agoIt's probably just your machine. Mine seems fine.
- Hamuko 4y agoI think it may have been a player bug. I heard everything echoed, but after closing the tab and reopening the link, it plays just fine.
- alxlaz 4y agoThat's what most people say the first time they hear it but if you give it time, Icelandic metal will grow on you, I promise :-D.
- dredmorbius 4y agoIcelandic audio always Bjorked.
- Adlopa 4y agoCould be worse for the horses, I guess... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/iceland-urged-to-ban-blood-farms-that-extract-hormone-from-pregnant-horses https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/iceland-...
- wfme 4y agoLove this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha
- Aachen 4y agoGo in summer if you want to ride, though. Ask me how I know that October will freeze your fingers off I'd 100% recommend visiting Iceland in October in general. It's a lot less busy around attractions and the sea climate makes it not that cold (the main challenge usually is breaking the wind). Walking/driving around is absolutely no problem, and outdoors swimming is also fine because the pools are heated geothermally. Heck, glacier hiking wasn't a cold experience at all with fairly regular winter clothing (keep an optional rain layer in your backpack for the unpredictable weather though). There has been only one activity where the icey wind got the better of me despite adequate clothing (I don't know what more I could have put on, the only solution I see is electric heating or walking parts of the way to warm up). If you go, take at least a full week excluding travel days and 'cheap campervans' was by far the best deal that I found for a vehicle (seemed almost too good to be true but everything was as advertised and the people super friendly). The experience taught me a thing or two about weather at home as well. I don't like raincoat material so I never had rainproof clothes. Now it was kind of essential to prepare for that and I found there are more plasticy pants and jackets as well that are no problem. Layering and wind breaking is how one stays warm beyond staying dry. In the future I'm going to be enjoying the outdoors more during winters at home :)
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- jonathanlydall 4y agoAlthough the article's content is way more fun, when I initially saw the title I thought the article was going to be about a phishing email somebody had received with bad spelling/grammar.
- shmageggy 4y agoI have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.
- tux3 4y agoYour solution sounds good, but at which point do I integrate it with my FTP account? I have it mounted locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
- kator 4y agoUse SCCS it's way more fun!
- Hamuko 4y ago>it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses. And you apparently need to train every horse to actually write emails, so it also requires humans to train the horses. How many horses can an Icelandic horse trainer train in a month? And do we know if all horses can even learn to write emails? What if it requires very smart horses? How many horses are there in Iceland and how many of them are email-grade horses?
- moron4hire 4y agoThat should be easy for me. My horses are terrible at email.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoNo one can talk to a horse, of course, unless... https://youtu.be/91LRPk8x14s https://youtu.be/91LRPk8x14s
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- johnchristopher 4y agoJeez, I loved working in the tourism industry. One day I'll get back into it :). It's incredible how visiteiceland/norway/etc have refined and eliminated a lot of cruft in their website while still keeping up the appearance of professionalism and non-corp design. There are a lot subtleties in this website s design.
- moffkalast 4y agoYeah that's gonna be a neigh for me dawg
- reaperducer 4y agoI have some time off coming up soon... And HR is forever telling us we should "engage" with one another more. This counts as engagement, right?
- maxwelldone 4y agoWhile technically true, I'm afraid HR might consider it as horsin' around.
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- bryanrasmussen 4y agoYour post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (X) D̵o̵g̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ Pony Show approach to fixing email.
- zdragnar 4y agoAt least it's not a goat rodeo
- runlevel1 4y agoFor that, you can look to Goat-2-Meeting: https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting
- WhompingWindows 4y agoShoutout to the greatest album released in the 2010's, Yo Yo Ma and Chris Thile's Goat Rodeo Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw
- deltarholamda 4y agoMan, Yo Yo Ma's post-classical career is killer. Obrigado Brazil gets a lot of airtime in my playlist, now I have a new one to add.
- Tao332 4y agoThis isn't the Goat Internet. https://obviousplant.com/products/a-3-5-inch-floppy-disk-that-unlocks-the-goat-internet https://obviousplant.com/products/a-3-5-inch-floppy-disk-tha...
- chronolitus 4y agoTypical. Here we are trying to outsource our work to foreign horses. It's all fun and games until the wheel stops spinning and we realize there are no typing jobs left for honest American horses, leaving our own ponies penniless.
- whalesalad 4y agoSurprised these horses prefer QWERTY and not BOVINE layout
- eurasiantiger 4y agoHorses are equine, cattle are bovine.
- dredmorbius 4y agoSpeaking truth to horses.
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- WorldMaker 4y agoAn EQUINE layout sounds like taking Dvorak to an extreme. E is the most common letter in English? Let's give the keyboard two of them! I'm half-tempted to mock up up such a layout just for giggles. It'd be a handy layout for dolphin.town, especially.
- Tao332 4y agoI'm running this to its ridiculous extreme. I'm imagining a keyboard layout that has duplicate keys matching letter frequency. The keyboard has to have 56 Es just to be allowed a Q. About 35 or so Ts. Etc. The odds favor you getting the key you want, so it's best to not even look.
- WorldMaker 4y agoThat could certainly put a Quine in EQUINE. Mash the keyboard all at once to get a frequency chart that resembles the keyboard. That's your new keyboard.
- manholio 4y agoI would go for the same idea, but with cats in a shelter. Every time an email arrives, a treat is delivered to the cat horde and the resulting commotion is filmed and a linked delivered to the sender, with a caption like: "We want MOAR!!" etc. With a few hundred dollars on hardware you can generate thousand of hours of quality video content, much more entertaining than a random keyboard press. No offense, but horses are clearly less, shall we say, intellectually gifted to handle the subtleties of digital social interaction in the cat age. Horses are plain boring, yesteryear's thing, wouldn't want one in the apartment of my owner.
- keraf 4y agoHorse as a Service (HaaS), sign me up!
- dredmorbius 4y agoy u no call "Pony Expressed"?
- cryptonector 4y agoBecause those aren't ponies and they didn't have any around? Also, they sized the keyboards for horses, not ponies.
- petecooper 4y ago[Generic question asking if the service is stable.]
- keitmo 4y agoNeigh.
- Symbiote 4y agoOnly if you pony up for the premium plan. It costs a reinsom, but it would be a bit foalish not to.
- mxuribe 4y agoI'm laughing so much on these, that my voice is getting...hor...well you get what i mean. ;-)
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoAre you actually a user, as well as an amateur comedian?
- troymc 4y agoA much better solution would be to buy your own horse, although personally I think I'd upgrade to an elephant.
- mxuribe 4y agoI think in the tech world that is referred to as self-horsing! /s
- lobocinza 4y agoWhy outhorse if I already have a in-house cat?
- cardiffspaceman 4y agoI think you're better off with the cat, they seem to be lighter on the keys, while you can see in the video that the horses, small as they are, are doing a number on they keys.
- codegladiator 4y agoFor scale and cheaper cloud costs in iceland
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoWeirdly I remember too many horse memes from old internet communities. uk.misc had a years-long habit of shouting "HORSE" after someone turned up trying to trace some Canadians who "moved to Burton-on-Trent and stole my HORSE". uk.music.folk would shout "HORSE" too, but for a different reason: whenever the old "ah but is this really folk music" argument was trotted out. It was a reference to Louis Armstrong's "all music is folk music - I ain't never heard no horse sing" (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/all-music-is-folk-music-2580774/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/all-music-is-fol...). And back in the early days of OpenStreetMap we had a running gag about horse=yes, after early finding-our-way attempts at the tagging folksonomy resulted in 70mph highways in Britain being tagged with "horse=yes" because, yes, legally you were allowed to ride a horse on them.
- tialaramex 4y ago> 70mph highways in Britain being tagged with "horse=yes" because, yes, legally you were allowed to ride a horse on them. To clarify: You aren't allowed to ride a horse on Britain's motorways (fast multi-lane roads mostly built in the latter half of the 20th century) but you would legally be allowed to ride a horse (and indeed to walk along as a pedestrian, although it's probably unwise) on the fastest possible non-motorways. Most of Britains other roads are limited to 60mph or less. But a "dual carriageway" in which vehicles travelling in the opposite direction are separated from you by something rather more substantial than a line of paint (e.g. barriers or even a strip of ground with barriers either side) lifts that to 70mph the same as a motorway.
- charles_f 4y agoI wish my country would build outhorsing centers, but horses are confined to their stables. Bunch of social safety-net cheque grabbing lazy asses
- Msw242 4y agoWhooooah there! Ass is a slur that is offensive to many horses' donkey partners and mule children. Let's be respectful, not negative neigh-sayers
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y agoIt would be really cool if they also add a poop emoji if the horse takes a poop while replying to the email
- dten 4y agoMissed opportunity to use email.horse
- hestefisk 4y agoIceland - simply the HEST!
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoIs this real, or an April Fools Day joke that just got left online?
- zamalek 4y agoI would pay for this if I could use it on LinkedIn.
- bradgessler 4y agoPretty sure this is how most Zendesk responses are generated anytime I email tech support.
- rhplus 4y agoThis is a good option for Icelandic horses to connect with overseas cultures, given that foreign horses can’t visit and locals aren’t allowed to (return if they) travel overseas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_horse