Bought a Technics M12 at a garage sale. When I plugged it in, it had an horrible hiss when playing, even with no tape in it.

Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, play, record, play short chunks of tape in order to clean the record/play connections in the mechanism. Problem solved.

Oftentimes it's just a dirty head, careful cleaning with isopropyl alcohol fixes it.

Is it only for public posts, or also private ones ?

I wouldn't post private information in a public area, but I happen to exchange adresses or account numbers in private messages, as I would do in emails. Not on X since I'm not on the platform, but any other one will do the same if not already done (e.g. Reddit).

I use private Twitter posts as a password manager, so this new development is very concerning to me.

... just kidding. There needs to be xkcd about something like this.

Yep... https://xkcd.com/2169/

Good bye Ublock Origin... oh wait, pardon the typo. Good bye, Chrome.

Chrome?

I switched to Firefox a few years ago, when Chrome would only play Youtube with 480p resolution. Too bad, the Youtube/tv interface was slick.

Then Google went on killing the Youtube experience on firefox

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1cjbsmj/youtube_on...

Yes I noticed. Thanks for the link, there's a great post from eitland (first answer : reporting a bug to get unassigned from A/B testing experiments), I will try today.

HN and Toot look robust, considering all the comments with separator examples. Perhaps some comments were detected and rejected.

Nice tool! I like the human like handwriting, but I'd prefer a more adult one.

Writing the denominator first looks weird to me, same as writing the square root symbol after what's under it.

Looks like my 5 year old's handwriting. Sometimes I actually have no idea what it was writing. Plus the text was overlapping at times

It looks like the handwriting of a 5 year old or a software engineer

Writing the radical sign last is a sign of sophistication of maturity.

Agreed the ordering is a bit weird. Working on figuring out a way to adjust that. Thanks for the feedback!

Also I would expect that the letters are consistent. Not necessarily legible, but always quite the same.

agreed. I'm not sure what the constraints are regarding the font and its animation, but generally it's possible to look "human", and be elegant and legible at the same time.

Yeah https://i.imgur.com/DvcFRe7.jpeg

You can use this sim to subscribe to Youtube, they will ask 14.99 zl instead of $4.99, that converts to $3.85 ;-)

I don't subscribe to YouTube Premium, but here it's £12.99.

Is it seriously $4.99 in the US?

I was writing about subs to channels. I'm from France btw, but I made the math with dollars. Actually it's the exact same figure in Euros, yet $1 = 0,9€

Eh, for a big portion of the past few years the USD-EUR rate has been very close to 1.

Not really. There have been few weeks in 2022, where it was close to 1, but otherwise, 0,9 for the last few years is much closer to reality.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EUR=X/

Does this still work? At least for me, YouTube now insists on a local payment method when changing countries, even on a foreign IP.

I heard if you change your linkedin location to Lebanon and then signup for a years premium it costs about $2 instead of several hundred.

And the "checking you're human" popup with the three dancing dots

I remember playing Sokoban on Mac around 1994. This version had something I never saw since then: when you clicked on a square, your character would move automatically to that square, provided there existed a path. This was VERY convenient and I miss it.

I'm guessing this only applied to open spaces? Seems like applying that to spaces occupied by blocks would often imply ambiguous push direction.

The algorithm wouldn't push any blocks, but just walk along the way to your destination, way faster than doing it by hand

Looks interesting. When will the article be peer reviewed ?