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I'm not sure where to add this comment, but I just wanted to briefly say that I appreciate your contributions to this topic. Both in terms of content and tone/delivery. These seem like constructive and valuable comments to me, so thanks!

Wasn't 'kek' just a riff off of 'lel' which itself was a riff off of 'lol'?

I figured someone just off-by-one'd 'lel' and thought it sounded funny. top kek

<comment reiterating that word usage changes and being a stickler for "right" definitions is a waste of time>

just because you think a term should be used one way or another doesn't mean your opinion is at all valuable. it's more useful to go with the wave of society rather than trying to imbue change on an obscure web forum.

A little randomness is what made StumbleUpon so enjoyable, too. But, like the link you've shared, it too is defunct.

I spent an afternoon writing a python script that picks a random word, searches sites where weird/creative folks gather (instructables? tumblr? hacker news? are.na? i need more ideas!), and opens a random link from the search results. The word list it draws from needs some pruning, but it was a decent way to return to the feeling that SU used to give me. I was thinking of turning it into a single serving site, but my dev skills really aren't up to par yet. I don't know where I'd even start to get a basic page up and running.

It's nifty to read about a collection of services from people who had similar feelings!

Hey, uh. So, I'm going to be graduating with a B.Eng soon. Any tips on how to realize my own worth? I have a tendency to let myself be taken advantage of... I mean, I'm currently doing a research internship at a computer vision lab at my uni for very little compensation (grant + departmental top-up). I told myself I was doing it "for the experience." I... I feel like I might be a candidate for the behavior you describe, so I'd like to snap myself out of that if possible. Any resources you could point me to would be stellar, please and thank you.

I remember reading about this and liked what I saw, so believe me when I say this is coming from a supporter, but...

Why? Why here? Stop that! You could have made your point without the plug and humblebrag.

Hey! I'm working on exactly this same problem for an undergraduate Computer Vision course right now. It's not going well! Chess piece recognition is hard. I definitely think the electronics approach described in the other comment is a much more reliable way to go.

Which is a line that changes over time, I might add! It's interesting to think about how each movie on that list got there in a way that's relative to the era it was produced in.

You could choose a cutoff, sort by date, and have a pretty neat timeline of what's considered "safe".

Thank you for sharing this. As someone with ASD who feels disadvantaged by traditional interviewing, it's comforting to see more examples of companies expanding their approach.

I live in Canada, so this doesn't seem to be available to me. But, I still have a year or so until I graduate, so I think I still have time to sort out my plans.