Peter Janes

Me 8 hours ago: why does this not have a hundred quote-posts punning on different professions?

Me now, having failed to create a good one in 8 hours: Ah, that's why.

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world Where Is Bed: Lou Wall's Facebook Marketplace musical | Melbourne International Comedy Festival

To be marginally helpful, my sister attempted to sell some antiques and electronics equipment on Marketplace and got next to no response.

I'm really just replying to share Lou Wall's amazing musical about their FBM experience, though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXF...

Every once in a while there's a minor outburst about renaming the London Majors. There's literally an osprey nesting platform on one of the outfield light standards... the London Osprey should be a no-brainer!

Someone has probably had an LLM choose it, which means it most likely won't exist in any sense.

And isn't it ironic, don't you think?

Crypto lender Abra pauses withdrawals for international customers The Abra cryptocurrency lender sent an email to customers announcing that "Abra Earn international services are currently paused, effective immediately", attributing the decision to "broader risk management efforts" and saying it was "influenced by external circumstances outside of our control". This has raised concern among Abra customers, and carries troubling echoes of the wave of crypto lenders pausing withdrawals before they collapsed during the 2022 "crypto winter".This isn't the first sign of shakiness at Abra, which was alleged to be insolvent by the Texas state securities regulator in 2023. The company wound down its US operations in mid-2023 and refunded $82 million to US customers, after reaching a settlement with 25 state regulators. Abra also faced a lawsuit from the US federal securities regulator in 2024, which they settled in August of that year.

There's a reason Molly White calls her site/newsletter, which has "a particular emphasis on cryptocurrency", "[citation needed]".

Also worth noting, as you did elsewhere, that China banned crypto activities on the mainland in 2021. The single search result for "China ban" on another of her sites:

Has anyone written a better version called b5? (Ooh, them's fightin' words!)

If Star Trek: Strange New Worlds can do a Muppet episode...

I walked past the street corner in the photo only a few hours ago. Sorry some of our yahoos found their way out west.

Provided to YouTube by VolcanoI Want a New Duck · "Weird Al" YankovicDare To Be Stupid℗ 1985 Volcano Entertainment, III, L.L.C.Released on: 1985-06-18Produce... I Want a New Duck

This guy* seems to have regretted his, but not enough to not replace it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kvg...

*the subject of the song; I most certainly know who Al is!

Sorry, brain misfire... think he's also mixed up though, because that's pretty much the B plot to Goncharov.

That's pretty much how I remember it... can't forget that soundtrack by Queen!

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Klarna! at the Gift Shop

(Are we still doing that gag?)

Sorry for the reply threads. I'm sure this is *riveting* stuff. 🙂

(Or so I presume based on that being the case at almost every tech job I've had, the exceptions —guessably — being the stone knives and bearskins that run government and education.)
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Their streaming folks definitely know how much (i.e. little) of their content goes out to 4K boxes because they have to tune their codecs, algorithms, and bandwidth for it. Front-end, though? They all run top-of-the-line hardware, including their phones, and anyone who doesn't "should" be.
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Believe me, not being kind. *Their* "standard" screen size is probably 4K based solely on the facts that a) that's the resolution their developers use, and b) that's what their high-end boxes support. Everything else is a secondary platform, including the screen size that ~90% of USians use.
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(I used to work as a developer in the cable TV settop world, then for an in-restaurant advertising company, then for an automotive company; never for Netflix, but in another life said dev might well have been yours truly. I'm not bitter at all. 🙃)

Fair point. I'll wager that this was a redesign to optimize development, making one UI model apply across any resolution in any orientation, and it looks great on whatever the reference (i.e. demoed) platform was. (And any devs or QAs who did notice it had their bug reports deferred into infinity.)

That said, agreed with your larger point of it being a less useful design in general.
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The right-side tile being cropped is most likely for increased usability, as it suggests there's more content there. (If it's cropped at the end of the list, though, then it's a bug.) The lower row may have been meant to convey the same, but the purpose got lost in the implementation.
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Good name, and not the craziest idea. What was on the menu?

Twune, starring Peter Cook as Baron The Impressive Clergyman.
Thrune, featuring Billy Connolly as Padishah Emperor Dain Ironfoot.

"...a picker and a grinner. You're a lover; you're a sinner. A joker, a smoker, a midnight toker..."

Happy (real) Fringe!

Somewhat related: there's a blog post out there with a quote from a company spokesperson defending the deliberate misspelling of "Unstopables", and their sigh is almost audible.

Tiny if true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_h...

Haven't seen it, but it's within half a star (IMDb reviews) of both "Swiss Army Man" and "Weird", so you have my axe!

I mostly/initially see the ring on a vertical post; on closer inspection the bottom is very t with that short crossbar.