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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Possibly post-Musk Twitter. I don't have an active twitter account, so one of the things I like from post-Musk Twitter is that it no longer requires me to login for reading tweets or for searching.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Sometimes I miss my quirky candid real life photography app. I miss the same too. BeReal is has the closest experience for candid photography. Unfortunately is not that widely used in my group
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Instagram has added a word list feature that allows you to hide posts by keyword. This has been very useful to hide politics and topics I find negative. It's also much better without following influencers.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
The Facebook experience seems to depends a lot on the age group. For the older than 1970s age group, Facebook experience is very similar to what early Facebook was for high school and universities in the 2000s. With lots of photo updates fr
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Is this phenomenon also happening in the markets were Google is not dominant? Like Yandex, Baidu or Naver?
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Their Street View product is also very good, however their coverage is mostly for ex Soviet Union countries
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> How about just NULL? Off topic, but this reminded me of: Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/amp
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Probably something like us.lax, fr.cdg, ko.inc, or a combination of country + number HK02, GB231 etc. This naming system has been for such a long time that I woud'nt be surprised if any minor change breaks something somewhere. Pro
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> I sort of liked old times when you had to interact with locals, nowadays you can just stare at mobile Disconnecting from home is something harder to do now. Back when I travelled in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I'd usually just do
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
There's the term romanization which is the word used when another writing system is converted to roman/latin letters
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Outrunning English has not been a problem elsewhere, but losing the ability to read was hard Losing the ability to read is really a hard but also interesting experience. It really felt like losing one sense. While main tourist spots ha
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> The easiest way to identify a Chinese seller is by the name (it will be in all caps) Is this the reason why so many Amazon brands are six letters long and all caps?
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
I’ve been wanting to play my grand mother’s vynil collection for some time. Are modern turntables reliable? Or is a vintage one preferred?
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
I’d give the first price for worse DVD UX to the original Harry Potter 1 DVD menu. In order to see the deleted scenes you had to race a broom through a maze in the forbidden forest selecting the correct way each time.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Also may the product people who decided on "unskippable scenes" go to a purgatory where they're surrounded by nothing but copyright notices for eternity. The first time I used Netflix about a decade ago I was surprised h
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
I had an issue with an old Access Point whose DHCP server set up the local domain suffix as accespointbrand.com, with no way to change it from GUI nor config file. Unfortunately the AP manufacturer didn’t renew the domain and it was squatte
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
That Balance Sheet is so unbelievably wrong. I would have gotten an F if I had done that in my first Accounting 101 quiz. Just to see it describing the financial situation of a company holding millions is just unbelievable.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Canon is another one that has their own gtld https://global.canon/en/
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
I'm not sure about best buy, but I've seen companies that use a TLD for their internal dns. Like: server.nyc.company Maybe they want to make sure the domain is under their control, and it may be cheaper just to buy the entire gtld
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
For a $185,000 application fee https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
I’ve had this happen in places were multiple languages are spoken. Hearing something in Language B, but not realizing, so the brain processes it in Language A. Then not being able to understand for a few seconds until the brain realizes tha
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Or those with bad credit. I have had two coworkers that couldn't deposit anything to their accounts because the banks would automatically charge their pending loans. One of them was a victim of identity theft in which a five figure loa
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Some restaurants link to their non-optimized printing quality PDF. A few restaurants have made me download a 20 MB PDF, sometimes, while consuming my small and expensive roaming package.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> In addition it discriminates against anyone who finds themselves even temporarily without power for their payment device whether they are a customer or a seller. And makes it more difficult to anyone who is outside their country of or
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Something I've noticed is that entry level designer items have large and prominent logos, while more expensive ones have smaller logos. The brands being recognizable only by their patterns or colors but not a big logo.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Sure enough, we couldn't watch them. The netflix app needed to phone home before it would allow us to see them. I had this happen before. I was able to work around it by switching the phone to Airplane Mode. Then it allowed me to
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
As someone who wears mostly unbranded clothes, I'm just wondering what income bracket does designer clothing target? I mean, after checking their prices, I could buy some of their products but I'd rather spend it travelling, or
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Tibco is that British supermarket? I'm not British, so it also took me a while to realize that Tibco wasn't Tesco.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
Some years ago I was asked to record interviews with older family members for a class in collage. The result was something similar to this interview, those college interviews have become family memories.
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by ncpa-cpl 4y ago
My friends from the German School here write a very distinct cursive too. They didn’t know it either until I told them.

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