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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by WhompingWindows »

zdragnar wrote: post #85
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #40

Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (X) D̵o̵g̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ Pony Show approach to fixing email.

At least it's not a goat rodeo

Shoutout 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

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by deltarholamda »

WhompingWindows wrote: post #101
zdragnar wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least it's not a goat rodeo

Shoutout 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

Man, 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.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

#105

Post by CobrastanJorji »

ethbr0 wrote: post #4

In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)

Thanks! My first thought was, y'know, funny video, but "how did they build a working keyboard that a 600 pound animal could stand on on a tourism video budget" was second.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by nwiswell »

ethbr0 wrote: post #4

In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)

> In case you thought they took the easy way

Alright, fine, but where's the API?

Re: Outhorse Your Email

#107

Post by Ancapistani »

Hamuko wrote: post #12
shmageggy wrote: post #9

I 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…

> 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-grad…

> 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?

Well...

A horse is a horse - of course, of course - and no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by WorldMaker »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #46
whalesalad wrote: post #45

Surprised these horses prefer QWERTY and not BOVINE layout

Horses are equine, cattle are bovine.

An 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.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by mxuribe »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #75
q-base wrote: post #7

Every 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!

Their previous spoof of Zuckerberg's Metaverse video was also great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI

This is hilarious; bravo!
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