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However, I would also venture that prioritizing "power-user" requests may end up helping your enterprise product, given the overlap between IT teams and power users. There is a lot of functionality that was lost in the interests of simplification. Even some of the appearance - such as the awful "let's add bouncy curves to every UI element" in your latest rollout - can have a very solid impact on how people perceive your product. Enterprise is a different sensibility than average user.

Comment · 1 month ago

> It is insane how much George Lucas has edited the original Star Wars trilogy. I think no movies have had more edits over time than Star Wars.

To such a sentiment, I can only say ... maclunkey.

Comment · 1 month ago

I know I'm coming to this post rather late, but there's actually a legal consequence to this as well. So many attorneys and law firms rely upon reference to the Wayback Machine as legal proof of a website's state as of a certain date. If more and more companies begin to opt out, or if that becomes less and less reliable, there may literally be changes in lawsuit outcomes based on the sudden unavailability of evidence. IANAL, but I am a litigation legal assistant. (Out of work and Chicago-based, if anyone knows of someone looking for a tech-aware assistant.)

Comment · 1 month ago

As a side note, there is an Android app called StreetComplete [1] which creates 'quests' for you that let you contribute to OSM in a fun way.

[1] - https://streetcomplete.app/

Comment · 2 months ago

Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Comment · 2 months ago

It looks to eventually charge, and my one attempt didn't seem to be able to choose the language.

Comment · 2 months ago

is there onetwothreeFOURfivesixseveneightNINEteneleventwelvemusic.in [1]?

[1] - https://youtu.be/rqSq3qTjFd8

Comment · 2 months ago

I scanned my grandmother's books - mainly autobiographical, she was a medical missionary in China and India, and children's - for this very reason. She had five children, who all had families, grandfamilies, and in some cases great-grandfamilies, meaning that copies of her books became rare.

As silly as it sounded, as a child who grew up with Trek and TNG, I wanted some far-flung descendant to be able to generate her in a hologram, and to read her words.

As such, I made the decision to destroy my own copies of her books so that they could be scanned for this purpose and stored on the Internet Archive. It was the only practical method at that time. But it would be wonderful if somehow technology advanced quickly in this area so that it was easier to scan books non-destructively.

(The one issue I find dissatisfying about the process is that I could not substitute my own OCR of her work (some done, more planned) for the Archive's often substandard automated OCR. No disrespect to the Archive by this, and hopefully at some point they will re-scan with better software..)

In case anyone would like to check them out: https://archive.org/details/@mollyrealized/uploads

(A warning for those who do: my grandmother describes people as small - her Chinese cook and her Indian patients (she was a nurse), yes, but also her own daughter, her husband, and an upstate New York appliance salesman who calls her a pretty little woman. Applied to an elderly Chinese woman it carries a weight it doesn't carry applied to an American one. She also uses "coolie," ordinary in the 1930s and not now. Overall her writing, and the work it records, shows an ongoing desire to be warm to, to respect, and to understand people who weren't American. She and my grandfather went out to build and upgrade hospitals. They helped first and preached to those who wanted to hear it. As her grandchild, I believe I can accurately say that love and respect were what was in her heart.)

My grandparents were Americans in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. My grandfather was shot at by an inebriated Japanese soldier. If the gun hadn't jammed twice in a row, you wouldn't be speaking to me.

Comment · 2 months ago

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format json2 "[1]"

[TedTalk] Extracting URL: [1]

[TedTalk] luvvie_ajayi_jones_how_to_be_a_professional_troublemaker: Downloading webpage

ERROR: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not NoneType

exit 1

[1] - full URL is: https://www.ted.com/talks/luvvie_ajayi_jones_how_to_be_a_pro...

Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?

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