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5bolts··on Ask HN: What is going on with the new YouTube layout?
looks the same as it has for a long time on my end. what platform are you upset about?

(i checked mobile - android, and web)

5bolts··on Show HN: Recall – Your Personal Encyclopedia
needs a browser extension or bookmarklet to let you add external data to your wiki (add to pocket / save to instapaper / add to evernote etc)
5bolts··on Elon Musk is dead wrong about working from home
I like my commute. i think of solutions to problems in that downtime behind the wheel. Plus then i don't view my office at home as "work" and i get to enjoy my time in there too (gaming, 3d printing etc)

One of my coworkers swears he's more productive at home - but when he is doing so he's not helping with the day to day walk up issues, or phone calls (which is also part of his job)

5bolts··on Ask HN: Are there any benefits to cubicles?
when i worked at the Capital One campus i thought they had it figured out. Lots of different environments, no assigned desks.

Some offices you could use for the day, some long conf tables.. some cafe style booths, rooms with projectors, areas with couches and coffee tables, heck even had a tree house you could book meetings in.

Personally i'd like the options. sometimes im heads down on a solo task other times i need 3-5 other people around.

5bolts··on Ask HN: Underground Vacation Destinations?
a few in Canada due to the weather. Toronto has PATH, Montreal RESO and Halifax has its Link. Don't know if you could do an entire vacation underground there though (not that i'd want to - lots of other stuff to do in those towns)

Other than that the only one coming to mind is Coober Pedy - but thats caves - man made though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy

5bolts··on Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
If he's fired now the current board can offer him a severance package that may not be on the table once Elon takes over. Might be a good thing, or strategic?
5bolts··on What are your most used self-hosted applications?
Sonarr+Radarr most likely
5bolts··on My living room still has 3 TVs but I have regrets
you want a cookie?

he's a video game reviewer, It is a slow week for video games but he had to get an article out.

5bolts··on Ask HN: If money were no problem, what chair would you suggest for a programmer?
Assuming you don't want a tacky gaming chair: https://shop.stressless.com/en/c/home%20office take your pick on style

I have one of those and an Embody. i'd spend more time in the stressless if its something im doing thats chill. the embody is more of a get shit done kind of feeling.

5bolts··on Ask HN: How to watch/read YouTube without watching videos?
1150 years watching videos and you haven't figured out how to get what you want out of youtube?

geesh.

but as with any data set the more you put into it the more relevant data you'll get out of it. subscribe, thumbs up or down, don't recommend channels.. eventually you'll get to the point where the system suggests stuff you actually care about.

in your 2nd paragraph it sounds more like you want podcasts not pre filtered clickbaity youtube videos. Especially if you're looking for nuggets of information. It would probably faster to read the transcripts / comments to gain those insightful ideas. Especially if the idea is only 30 seconds out of a 30 min video.

5bolts··on Ask HN: Is YouTube Premium worth it?
depends on how much you use youtube. its my main source of media so totally worth it for me.

music in the background at work / driving. actual videos most of my evenings, even if its just on in the background. If someone's content is exceptional to me i'll subscribe to their patreon for a couple months.

Cable would cost me what about 50 bucks a month depending on channels i wanted... so i figure i have about that to spend on entertainment elsewhere.

5bolts··on Ask HN: Have you bought something expensive on eBay with confidence?
2 vehicles over the years. last one was $16k? But was buying from dealerships that just had what i was after.. not a collectors car or anything. Probably more utilitarian than anything.
5bolts··on A Rails API which renders character data from the hit HBO show, Silicon Valley
not even 1 screenshot of its output?
5bolts··on The Pizza Website
no content on the page no context to the post...

why bother?

5bolts··on It's self-defence – How school teachers should justify the invasion of Ukraine
There's a warning at the very beginning of the story.

while i don't agree with anything posted there its interesting to see the spin that they're giving their own people.

5bolts··on [dead]
Pandemic deaths have made lives more valuable id think...

pessimistic vs optimistic maybe?

it did lessen the shock of Hundreds to Thousands of people died today kind of headlines... But that's just normalization to the news

5bolts··on ASK HN: Can't Russia join NATO and we call it a day?
which is partly why trump adores him... Putin is living the life the donald wants
5bolts··on [dead]
But they'd just get downvoted by the same "fans" that are there (any given subreddit) because they like said thing.

you have basically the same problem with any user driven site, IRC, Forums, Facebook, Reddit... hell even the 'zine culture, most usergroups, clubs.

Its not reddit's problem or fault, we all want to belong to a group where we get excited in the same ways about a thing.

5bolts··on Ask HN: How I buy a TV that don't show porn ads to kids?
used to be pro roku, have several. updated its internal software started forcing ads on me.

in the junk bin they went. I do 99% of my content consuming via xbox apps at this point. Youtube (red subscriber) self hosted Plex, and occasional Amazon TV content (really only for the expanse, but now that thats over... not sure i need it)

5bolts··on Canada's major banks go offline in mysterious hours-long outage
They probably all use the same vendor (FIS) and that vendor had some issues. We had issues with the same vendor yesterday with our mobile deposit sites.

I know CIBC uses FIS products, and i seem to remember some of the other ones being discussed (former FIS employee here)

5bolts··on Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
Deal with to much physical paper (banking and lockbox so have to scan checks, open mail) to be able to work from home. Tried it at the beginning of covid but wasn't productive.

Coworkers (report writers and the like) tried it - loved it - hate the fact that our C levels want them back in the office. But even though they felt like they were more productive at home they didn't do half their work, and they weren't around to fix the easy stuff before it became a ticket... rest of the buiilding resented the fact that they were never around to help

5bolts··on Ask HN: Cheapest way to store a small amount of items
sounds like it would fit in a typical moving box.. have any friends?

super special video cards? just ditch them... upload what you need off the drives to the cloud and ditch them too - or migrate them to an SSD to take with you. Books can be repurchased, or if they are sentimental or valuable.. take them with you if its just a couple.

5bolts··on Why are certain school books being banned in US?
books bad change bad books about change doubly bad, unless its the bible
5bolts··on Ask HN: What kind of impact will 3D printing have on Lego?
for some, but for others the final result is all they care about.
5bolts··on Ready Player Two
his creepiness gets worse in ready player two. the 4? winners split most of the money and it all goes to their heads.. they all end up as an extreme version of their personality from the first book.

overall there were some scenes in ready player 2 i enjoyed, i don't regret reading it.. but i won't ever re-read it. (it is a quick read too, read it in a day, at work... )

5bolts··on Ask HN: Do you still use TIFF image format?
yes, widely used in banking still. i still extract thousands a day.
5bolts··on Saris, Lehengas and Why Carrie Bradshaw Should Know the Difference
true but in this context the writers should have gone a little out of their way to be more accurate in the depection. or come up with a more generic name for the type of establishment.

Could have easily just been Wedding Clothes Store, or "Traditional Indian dress" they got very specific when they probably didn't need to to advance the storyline.

in your example I could have gone to those stores or said walmart/target/shopco/fred meyers and it would have satisified all of your arguments. But i wouldn't go to the Nuts and Bolts store to get hotdogs, or to the butchers for nuts and bolts (nuts maybe... )

Plus isn't she a fashion writer in the show? she could spout off dozens of styles of shoes by their proper names, so it wouldn't be far fetched to know the difference between a couple of styles of dress

5bolts··on I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
logistics.. its amazing that MORE luggage isn't lost on a daily basis. I traveled every week for 10 years, lost my bag maybe 4 times? usually around a holiday where the airports are burdened with extra people (and 75% of those lost bags were out of O'Hare... )

sure it seems simple take a bag put it in a tube, take it off the tube give it back to the person.. but man, probably 30 people touched that bag in that process, countless conveyer belts, several trucks.. add in TSA and it doubles the handling

5bolts··on Ask HN: What Mashups Are Likely with Activision Blizzard Microsoft Merger?
ender dragon in wow?
5bolts··on Why are some people compelled to cheat at games?
i routinely cheat in single player games, i want to experience part of the story without the time investment.

i mean its my money, my time, who cares? I bought the game legit, i subscribe to "cheat" groups.. Does me getting to the last level deprive anyone else of that experience legit or otherwise? It would be different if i was posting spoilers day of release or something.

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