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1693

dirty dealing

Whatever the mark(et) will bear.

1694

You making deals with this guy again? :laughing:

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1695

Nah, I’m more like these guys:

…than Shoeless Joe. :slight_smile:

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1696

I’ll tell you what’s distinctive about these. Procreative potential. Loaded pistols.
It’s staggering. :slight_smile:

1697

# and re-#

Describing and explaining things well is something but in the end it’s futile. If you have a hypothesis that hasn’t been proven wrong, stick with it, keep testing it – instead of jonesing for another hypothesis to replace it because you and your ‘audience’ are bored.

1698

That one took me a few moments to decipher. That’s good. It makes my real human

work.

When I was getting ready to move on from a position years ago and wanted to do some training with someone whom I expected to take over the public-facing Web site, I was trying to explain how I used raw HTML (instead of always relying on the WYSIWYG-ish editor) to create a link to an anchor within a particular page as a way to navigate to specific content rather than directing the user to the top of the page itself. I tried do describe using the “number sign” or “pound sign” in doing this, and pointed to it on her keyboard. She said something like, “Oh, you mean the hashtag?” Maybe I should’ve said “splat” or “crunch”.

:exploding_head:

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1699

Interesting links! :+1:

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1700

Thanks. :grin:

I started using Internet Archive Wayback Machine links whenever I cite The Jargon File just to avoid browser hiccups, because the main site at catb.org apparently doesn’t support HTTPS.

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1701

:index_pointing_at_the_viewer: :hash: :plus:

:wink:

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1702

spin_span_spun

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1704

shock of hair

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1705

A bomb drops on the courtyard.

Time to get up? says one. Relax, sleep in, says the other. I can’t, the smell, says one.

Try the other side.

1706

Enshittification

Is it happening to Wyze?

1707

The pan V4 is probably the worst Wyze product introduction; so far.

1708

What is “good,” after all?   :slight_smile:

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1709

WYZE in action

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1710

:laughing:

1711

That’s a fun graph. The contrast between UK and US participants, particularly with respect to certain words/phrases, certain modifiers, and certain graph segments is something I probably wouldn’t have predicted.

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1712

It’s also interesting that the RANGE extreme is greater in both directions for the UK. They see the uttermost negative words as much more negative and the far end positive words as more positive.

It looks like the US didn’t rate “Mediocre” for some reason? If it’s the exact same score, I would think it they should’ve made that a bit more obvious.

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