estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Editing an ebook written by a programmer whose response to “explain this code in detail” is “it’s self explanatory.”
Reader, it is not.
His destination was set to arrive in “Australia,” even though the driver dropped him at the expected place. Therefore, it’s unclear what happened, but it seems like an issue in the back end rather than a user error.
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2022/10/man-wakes-up-with-35000-uber-ride-bill/
Can you spot a deepfake? https://moondisaster.org/film
TIL the Chinese 地方支援中央 - A humorous term for when a balding man uses surrounding hair to cover up his bald spot
At the end of the evening I had a better understanding of the fediverse (though I suspect my understanding is only 1% complete), a much busier Mastodon instance, and a big pile of resources which I’m going to share with you here, writes @researchbuzz https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/05/a-big-list-of-mastodon-resources/
"Being good at telling your manager the right information at the right time and asking for what you need is a superpower."
It's not among my superpowers.
....yet?
Although COVID-19 has meant challenges for the industry, recent industry figures indicate a marked increase in appetite for books and reading. Despite bricks-and-mortar bookshops being closed for much of 2020, over 200 million print books were sold in that year – the highest number since 2012. https://theconversation.com/book-sales-have-soared-since-the-pandemic-but-the-industry-must-adapt-to-engage-with-new-readers-169583
"People always threaten to leave Twitter and then often fail to follow through—but new data suggests that a significant number of users really are abandoning the platform this time." https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-may-have-lost-more-than-a-million-users-since-elon-musk-took-over/
I don’t have a Bloomberg account so I can’t read this either. But honestly the headline is all we need, right?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-12/retro-myspace-clone-spacehey-blows-up-with-200-000-signups
A vast majority of people in the US and Canada suspect their smart speakers can eavesdrop on their conversations, and just over two-thirds think they’ve gotten ads based on that snooping.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/people-still-think-their-smart-speakers-are-eavesdropping-on-conversations
The neighborhood took up a collection to buy him out. Grandpa, who had never intended to move in, told my mother that he made $6,000 on the deal. (Imagine what that amount meant in 1935 dollars!)
"If they're going to be bigots," he told my mother, "I'm going to make them pay for it." /fin
A family story.
In the 1930s, there was a ritzy town near Atlantic City, that had "no Jews allowed" in its bylaws. (Alas I don't recall the name.)
My grandfather, who was quite well off, decided to buy a house there anyway.
Grandpa worked through an intermediary to buy the house. After the sale closed, he loudly announced that the Silvermans were excited about moving in.
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I had a beer at lunchtime and then edited a colleague's blog post. That included an essay about how he had written a sales brochure instead of a blog post.
I hope the beer did not influence my ability to be diplomatic.
A key reason we’re so often surprised by emergency problems is that we expect the tools we use successfully today to continue to work tomorrow. This is a fundamental mistake. https://textslashplain.com/2021/10/01/practical-time-machines/
Some streaming platforms have also begun looking into mood-based music classification as a modern alternative. So this begs the question: Should genres go the way of the dodo? https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/time-to-give-up-on-genres
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estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017