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I wish HN had a convention of identifying links as video in the title, the way it does with years for older articles. On my RSS reader, I can't see the domain before clicking. It's no fun to unwittingly wake up my wife with a sudden loud shouted epithet on a Saturday morning.
Have fun.
What’s everyone’s favorite way to fake a connectivity issue?
For 4 of these calls, my home Internet has dropped randomly. It's kind of nice when that happens.
This guy is gold! I just went down his YouTube rabbit hole and have tears in my eyes.
--Masood Boomgaard
I wish HN had a convention of identifying links as video in the title, the way it does with years for older articles. On my RSS reader, I can't see the domain before clicking. It's no fun to unwittingly wake up my wife with a sudden loud shouted epithet on a Saturday morning.
This guy is gold! I just went down his YouTube rabbit hole and have tears in my eyes.
"Stop worrying. Your worries are like the safety instructions that flight attendants give before take off. One day when you are about to die you will not remember them and they will not matter. So don't worry." --Masood Boomgaard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XhrbcXEd0
Also ChatGPT is insanely useful for turning fragmented YT transcripts with timestamps into actual paragraphs of text.
"Fuck your deadline. They call it a deadline but nobody actually fucking dies if you miss one. So just fucking chill."
"PowerPoint - there is no power in those points and no point in those presentations. We have been brainwashed into believing that PowerPoint gives us the power to express ourselves creatively, but the only power it has is to kill our souls. Powerpoint and your Excel spreadsheet too - those columns and rows represent the metal bars of the prison cell of your brain. Free yourself from the soul-killing software of exile and PowerPoint and live a more meaningful existence. "
I work on trucks for a living so i mostly just cosplay a programmer in my spare time, but I had a single teams meeting with our wellness/HR rep at the shop last year about an accident i had and that took almost an hour, had to be restarted three times, and ended with one last awkward silence as the call dropped and we texted eachother a goodbye. I think we both just sort of agreed to be more careful? idk...she transf…
It's not perfect, there are occasional connection problems, but dropouts are pretty rare.
What’s everyone’s favorite way to fake a connectivity issue?
I wish HN had a convention of identifying links as video in the title, the way it does with years for older articles. On my RSS reader, I can't see the domain before clicking. It's no fun to unwittingly wake up my wife with a sudden loud shouted epithet on a Saturday morning.
The guidelines state "If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.", which this post hasn't done
I wish HN had a convention of identifying links as video in the title, the way it does with years for older articles. On my RSS reader, I can't see the domain before clicking. It's no fun to unwittingly wake up my wife with a sudden loud shouted epithet on a Saturday morning.