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the first result it gave to me:
Version=1&entries=0&linkCode=sl1&tag=worst-products-ever-20&linkId=2d5358b3a0b0a4495730121a2cc06819
indeed, weird AND confusing
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@Jarry's link without the cruft at the end:
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@Zecc Thanks! I've always wanted to buy a head dildo for my cat!
I don't actually have a cat: my rental agreement states 'No pets'.
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@PleegWat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@bb36e Why would you do that?
Actually, KMail does something like this to HTML emails when I view them with HTML disabled. It's... kinda useful.
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Made a thread. New threads were on sale.
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@Onyx Are you sure? Typically if you select viewing as plain text, a mail user agent will use the plain text alternative, which may contain such a semi-formatted mail or may contain a text like "Your email client does not support HTML. Go to this link to hit all our tracking pixels."
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Apple user decides to give Surface tablet a chance for a month.
https://medium.com/@searls/warm-takes-on-microsofts-surface-pro-4-580f77634d2c#.etwt5ja7h
It goes as well as can be expected.
I know I'm late but...
I'm trying to read this article. I genuinely am. But after wasting a good couple of minutes of my life reading about "buying experience" (ok, someone helping you with the specs is fine, but this was all about how the store "feels" or whatever?) I have reached the section named "The Unboxing Experience".
The Unboxing Experience
This doesn't fit on my 1080p screen at default zoom level.
There's more than a screen's worth of text about opening the fucking box and taking a piece of consumer electronics out of it.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? IT'S A BOX. IT KEEPS STUFF INSIDE! OPEN IT AND GET THE FUCK ON WITH YOUR LIFE!
I am now going to write a 47 paragraph article about the experience of taking an onion out of a bag before putting it on my belt. Fuck this shit, I'm done.
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@PleegWat well, something might be using markdown-like syntax for generated emails then? I'm pretty sure I saw a few of them where it didn't seem to be the case... I'll try to find some examples tomorrow.
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@Onyx said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I am now going to write a 47 paragraph article about the experience of taking an onion out of a bag before putting it on my belt. Fuck this shit, I'm done.
I'd read that.
Don't forget to take a lot of selfies with the onion afterwards.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
afterwards
also before and during. We want to see that bag. Know that bag. Be that bag.
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@Onyx bold and /italic/ and the like predate markdown. Possibly by decades.
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@PleegWat I know, but this was Markdown-style
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syntax, and, I'm pretty sure,[text](url)
style links
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@PleegWat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
*bold* and /italic/ and the like predate markdown. Possibly by decades.
Quite so. Which is why it shits me to tears that Markdown uses stars for italics.
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@flabdablet You don't know the half of it. Whichever flavour of Markdown Slack uses has
*bold*
and_italic_
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@Onyx */_twitch_/*
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@Onyx
This causes me so much trouble
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From the department of "10 years of experience in ${JAVASCRIPT_HOTNESS}":
Apparently in the world of
hard disk survivabilityArs Technica clickbait, the first year of experience 45 times is just as meaningful as 45 years of experience.Edit: Also, because Ars Math: 45 x 3 = 145.
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Time to stock up.
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@Karla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Time to stock up.
Maybe someone should ask the President to tell Americans to eat less bacon for the duration of the crisis.
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@dkf just until officials can figure out what the hell is going on
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@dkf it's not a bacon ban!
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Maybe someone should ask the President to tell Americans to eat less bacon for the duration of the crisis.
I would like to have bacon before I die.
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
rasher-ioning
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@Onyx said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I am now going to write a 47 paragraph article about the experience of taking an onion out of a bag before putting it on my belt. Fuck this shit, I'm done
I'd read that.
Edit: thanks @cartman82
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
it's not a bacon ban!
Not a ban. Bacon rasher-ioning…
Didn't fancy rasher-ning?
Unless you actually meant...
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I'm more of a :grillstare: guy myself when it comes to bacon, but frying isn't bad.
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@loopback0 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
it's not a bacon ban!
Not a ban. Bacon rasher-ioning…
Didn't fancy rasher-ning?
Unless you actually meant...
When I was in Uni halls I wasn't meant to cook in my room but I had a sandwich toaster. I used to cook bacon on it like a poor man's George Foreman grill
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I'm more of a :grillstare: guy myself when it comes to bacon
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TDWTF is a crowd well known for its compassionate and spiritual nature, so I wanted to see what people thought of this: https://dzone.com/articles/16-donts-of-career-growth?oid=twitter&utm_content=bufferc7daa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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@tharpa Is it the 1st of April yet or is the author mistaken?
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Playing GTA 'til 3 a.m. is not what successful and happy software architects do. Instead, here is your short list of activities: sports, tourism, and night clubs. Be a normal person — that's the point.
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I was introduced to this obnoxiously disparaging term by this Stack Exchange discussion in which the term was being used to criticize people who leave work everyday at consistently precise times. This blunt insinuation that leaving exactly one minute after 5 should be regarded as a sign of laziness, disloyalty, or disinterest in work, is a stupid mis-guided generalization and a grave insult to those of us who have families or other personal obligations for which precision and timeliness is an absolute necessity.
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By using the language of ‘5:01er’, you are subjecting all of us to an arms-race where the only way we can prove our enthusiasm is by being in the office 16 hours a day. That’s ludicrous. It’s equally ludicrous to suggest that just because someone needs to leave work at precise times everyday, that automatically makes them suspect.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Playing GTA 'til 3 a.m. is not what successful and happy software architects do. Instead, here is your short list of activities: sports, tourism, and night clubs. Be a normal person — that's the point.
I know that's the goal of my life - to be a normal person.
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@bb36e If someone (me!) leaves at exactly the same time each day, it's because I take the train. Contrary to my belief, I'm not important enough for the train to wait for me.
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Moneyball for murder:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-08/serial-killers-should-fear-this-algorithm
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The robots have decided how to serve us (and it is delicious):
https://twitter.com/jamieabrew/status/695060640931549184
in an opportunity thick enough to taste pour custard over each person who cannot drink your refrigerator
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Risk management and why you better get your conditionals right when you assess probabilities.
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@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I searched for fucks, but found there were apparently no fucks in space.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I searched for fucks, but found there were apparently no fucks in space.
Space: the Final Frontier!
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An interesting quote from 1984:
Bushnell had a prescient appreciation for where consumer technology might eventually go. "Let's say you're in your car, and you want to go to dinner," he said in an interview for a 1984 Inc. magazine feature. "You've got this box on the dash. You punch in 'Japanese,' then 'cheap,' then 'good sushi.' The box takes over and guides you to a place."
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You punch in 'Japanese,' then 'cheap,' then 'good sushi.' The box takes over and guides you to a place.
I'd rather type it in: punching might break the device.
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@RaceProUK said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
You punch in 'Japanese,' then 'cheap,' then 'good sushi.' The box takes over and guides you to a place.
I'd rather type it in: punching might break the device.
Typing doesn't work very well with lunch cards.
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Warning: link to TVTropes
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TwistedTropes