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by blamazon 5y ago
My general rule of travel photos is each one must have a person I know in it, unless there's a good reason otherwise.
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by blamazon 5y ago
Turning off comments as an independent YouTube creator is these days potential career suicide, as ‘engagement’ is a huge part of the algorithm. What you’re “supposed” to do these days, is engage with comments (literally like and reply!) ear
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by blamazon 5y ago
A parable on Stalinist management technique: "'What kind of stars should be put on the mass-produced aircraft – white American stars or red Soviet ones? If you put white stars, you risked being shot as an enemy of the people. If y
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by blamazon 5y ago
Things like this I reckon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tangled_Web
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by blamazon 5y ago
From the linked set of proverbs: [1] "81-82. (cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 225) The dog understands "Take it!", but it does not understand Put it down!" This is ancient form of the modern "No take, only throw" meme!
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by blamazon 5y ago
In this 2 minute video demonstrating a Gogoro swap the rider goes from opening their seat to having a fresh battery and ready to ride in about 50 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34k0nrrDQA
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by blamazon 5y ago
No, the original text says: ur-gir15-re eš2-dam-še in-kur9-ma Alternatively notated as: /urgir-e ešdam-še i.n-kur-ma/
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by blamazon 5y ago
Here's a Sumerian 'drinking song' about a drinking place, the female proprietor, and the process she performs to make beer. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-sip-from-an-an...
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by blamazon 5y ago
I got the same results. (Not logged in) I'd guess that these things are "trending" in "engagement" today because they are controversial and antagonistic. My thinking is it is a problem of misaligned incentives. Twit
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by blamazon 5y ago
Because it starts with "A dog walks into a bar"
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by blamazon 5y ago
Copy pasting the completed translation: "A friendly dog walks into a bar. His eyes do not see anything. He should open them."
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by blamazon 5y ago
I've always been impressed by sprite's work. A good example of their skill is contained: "Now obviously, the fact that this gives us only 12 of the 16 pads is a bit of a shame. The only way to get those extra pads is to use a
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by blamazon 5y ago
I’m surprised more YouTube channels haven’t capitalized on twin presenters. Twice as much content per filming hour.
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by blamazon 5y ago
I’m not interested enough to read the article, but I really appreciate the headline.
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by blamazon 5y ago
On the YouTube iOS app, where I consume most of my YouTube content, you can tap on the right side of the video for 10 second skips - 6 taps, 60seconds of skip. Or something like that anyway, I just tap until I see/hear what I want. Thi
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by blamazon 5y ago
At the rate my time and aggravation is worth, I would be spending way more than 12 dollars a month watching the proverbial "same 3 ads" over and over.
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by blamazon 5y ago
YouTube premium is 12 dollars a month. For me, this is worth it to remove ads and add background play and picture-in-picture.
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by blamazon 5y ago
Google hangouts is going away because Google is making yet another chat product. There are Easter eggs in Google hangouts. You can find them by looking at JavaScript.
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by blamazon 5y ago
Note: YouGov is a platform where internet users are paid small amounts to complete surveys. Their primary product is market research and focus group stuff. These type of posts seem to me like (advanced!) marketing content to drive clicks&#x
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by blamazon 5y ago
I dunno why NPR makes it hard to find these, but here's a transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/901110994
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by blamazon 5y ago
Having worked in this space, it has been drilled into my head a zillion times that making a willful error like this puts you in big trouble with all kinds of powerful regulatory groups, even if there is no accident. I can only imagine the c
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by blamazon 5y ago
Can we just admire for a moment that the person who made Wordle is named Josh Wardle. That's amazing. (That a side project punnily named after his last name became such a phenomenon)
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by blamazon 5y ago
The person you’re replying to didn’t say there isn’t a labor shortage. Only that the cause of the labor shortage is oft incorrectly identified as solely due to demand.
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by blamazon 5y ago
If this is anything like the “trucker shortage” in the USA, it’s not just because of the demand, but also because the jobs suck and are underpaid relative to the amount of skill/commitment required to be good at it. And yet, executives
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by blamazon 5y ago
The attorney discipline records were not supposed to be public, but, inadvertently were accessible in this one public database of hundreds indexed by Judyrecords. No one noticed until it became easily searchable. Once notified all parties,
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by blamazon 5y ago
I'd bet this was discovered after attorneys plugged their names into this judyrecords website after it was publicized on HN: "Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases" | 20 days ago | 269 comments https://n
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by blamazon 5y ago
I inadvertently left my water bottle at a ticket machine somewhere in the Tokyo rail apparatus and then traveled 4-6 stations away and reported it to an info booth there. An attendant brought it to me on the next train less than ten minutes
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by blamazon 5y ago
As a cultural layperson but occasional items-losing tourist in this region I was confused reading this as my experience was quite the opposite. But on recollection every lost-items interaction I've had as a foreign tourist in Japan was
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by blamazon 5y ago
Bonus: the poster that said they did that has pictures of their truck on their profile with their business name emblazoned on the side.
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by blamazon 5y ago
"RAM Rebel General Discussion: How to disable the [Ram 1500] speed limiter?" https://www.ramrebel.org/threads/how-to-disable-the-speed-li...

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