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by jmkd 4y ago
This is a fantastic article that makes a sterling attempt to get to the bottom of why TikTok feels different to other platforms. If you're someone who doesn't get it yet, consider it a sign that it's worth your investment in
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For me the biggest breakthrough was understanding that this is not primarily a visual or audio medium, but an idea medium. This is why objectively poor video or scrappy / copied audio makes no difference to success, instead something d
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Great metaphor
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This is what humans in groups do, have always done, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's like a group sitting around a campfire each taking their turn to make joke, sing a song, do a dance, be profound and have others try out t
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by jmkd 4y ago
You may be thinking of Psion's Flight Simulation game [0] on the ZX Spectrum 48K [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Simulation_(Psion_softw...
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Astonishing and compelling in equal measure. Sadly audio doesn't channel through headphones on mobile: Pixel 6, Android 12, Pixel Buds A-series.
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Would love to see an analysis on mobile. Android clipboard is broken. I paste out of date content into WhatsApp all the time (while other apps receive the updated 'copy' perfectly fine).
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This is a majestic video. The elegant elocution of these ladies helps reveal much about the parallels between then and now. Theirs was a time of enormous change in society, morality, identity, gender, poverty, industry, technology, religion
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> Ah, the things we are convinced to do from a social expectation standpoint. Shopping for new clothes for hours because our perfectly serviceable old ones are less fashionable. Cleaning sneakers for hours to ensure our streetwear look i
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From the video (01:40) when the headmistress of the school in Wales calls the girl "indolent and feckless" it is a rich and meaningful accusation (rightly or wrongly) that today would more likely be dumbed down into "stupid&q
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You can replace the wheels, bearings and even deck on a skateboard with fairly manageable consequences. But new trucks are a disaster you wouldn't wish on anyone. No one wants traditional truck designs to change because that would be l
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You're quite right about my wording. Agree it's unanswerable but I was also implying the answer would be no. Serial opened a door - for further investigation into the case, and for using a podcast to explore it - that may have rem
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I don't have real insight but I have real hope that your sentiment comes true at least in part, and that Adnan is both exonerated and compensated appropriately. Listening to Serial from episode 1 you cannot ignore the fact that it woul
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Would Undisclosed have even covered the case were it not for Serial?
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Ultra frustrating, impossible learning curve. Tried twice several hours apart, no progress. Congratulations if that's what you wanted.
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Nighty Night [0] is the peak of this wonderful (to me) subgenre. Top question on Google search "Is Nighty Night funny?" Couple of great quotes from the Wikipedia page [1] "The Guardian called it "an exquisitely vile comi
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by jmkd 4y ago
We might ask what is the opposite of spreadsheet mentality, because while tracking data is important so is acting on difficult-to-explain intuition.
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Dog turns on touch-activated stove and starts house fire(bbc.com)
35 points by jmkd 4y ago|31 comments
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I had writer's block for quite some time. I spent two decades thinking it didn't really exist and was just an excuse, but sure enough it came to bite. Harmon's advice is excellent.
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Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine(theguardian.com)
10 points by jmkd 5y ago|3 comments
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I genuinely love that today I can see every single order I've made since 1998, with links to the same product pages. This feels really unusual. I'm sure countless internal systems and storage changed since then but all the orders
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Looking good. You got me with the Goldeneye references in the Feature Overview. Am now culturally obliged to try and make this work for me :)
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You know when you read an article in a newspaper written by a generalist journalist about a specialist topic in which you are an expert? This. It's the same as Matthias Wandel on YouTube. Ignores decades of knowledge and tomes of wisdo
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Online grocer Farmdrop cancels Christmas deliveries – falls into administration(thegrocer.co.uk)
2 points by jmkd 5y ago|0 comments
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Having worked with countless museums the opportunity of a private viewing - especially with a knowledgable curator - is never to be passed up.
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For a while I worked at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London. Home of Vermeer's The Guitar Player. As you may know, Vermeers are so few and far between that it's entirely possible to see every one (~36) if you're able to travel
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For years this has been a personal joy of cycling to work...arriving at work with a thousand ideas of how to solve various challenges, and returning home scrambling for a notebook to capture the wild thoughts that emerged on the last half o
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You even improved the homepage of Wikipedia! The original version has got to be one of the most dreadful pages on the internet, designed by committee and looks like it...
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Issue: Forward and back buttons allow the note to persist (at least visually). Impact: Someone reads a private note on a shared computer, how long will it remain visible in history? Browser: Chrome 95
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We are born into a system we didn't choose. We can however choose to embrace it, to reject it or to manipulate it to our own ends if we spot inefficiencies to exploit. This may not seem fair to those who embrace it, but Gavin's po

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