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I'd be interested in seeing an example of a well-composed 9:16 portrait photo. All the ones I have found look awkward.

Yeah, portrait photos aren't as narrow as that. I just measured some of mine, and they're 5x7, 8x10, and 11x16. By comparison, 9x16 feels claustrophobic.

I suspect that a still image is also different from video because, without motion, there's no feeling that if the person might move a few inches to one side and go out of frame.



I gotta say, I don't have the right personality traits to enjoy this kind of personal attention a lot of the time.

I've had experiences where the counter staff at my daily breakfast place started to recognize me and know what "usual" my order was going to be without my having to say it... and it really weirded me out more than anything else.

Sometimes I just want to be a faceless nobody, forgotten day after day by the businesses I visit and the public spaces I navigate.


> I don't have the right personality traits to enjoy this kind of personal attention a lot of the time

Have friends who work at the Four Seasons. This—low service interaction—is a common type of personalised attention patrons want.

I don’t think there is a social media cue for it. But even as someone who’s fairly extroverted, I got a note indicating I should be left alone if dining alone and reading.


Yeah I get what you mean. I think I'd be a lot more weirded out than delighted if a restaurant I was going to stalked my social media (such as it exists at all), attempted to deduce things I would like from it, and presented me those things at a meal.


Yeah I’m heavily introverted and feel the same way. It establishes a kind of social pressure that if I fail to hold up my side of the relationship I just get anxious


If you go so often that people remember you, I mean, what do you expect, that they somehow block the memory of you from their mind?


Percy Livermore: We must rid our speech of slang. Now, besides "OK", I want you all to promise me that there are two words that you will never use. One of these is "swell" and the other one is "lousy".

Lucy Ricardo: OK, what are they?

Percy Livermore: [with emphasis] One of them is "swell" and the other one is "lousy".

Fred Mertz: Well, give us the lousy one first.


Never realized the "chunky" in my chunky peanut butter was so profane. /s


Good for occasional use. Feed it a big playlist and you might find yourself IP-banned for a week.


haha, yes can confirm.


Some call this phenomenon the Goomba fallacy.


After about 5 minutes of reading, I'm proclaiming that its proper name shall be the "hivemind fallacy".


I'm just glad it has a funny name instead of something arrogant-sounding like "Dunning-Kruger effect." That was ok in a research setting but got turned into an insult.


I really respect Jim Davis, believe it or not. Draw the cat, collect the money, keep mouth shut.


I have been nerd-sniped into conjuring up a less-traveled-path technique:

Portable Python on the Windows computer. `python -m http.server`. On the Linux computer, something like `wget -mkp` followed by `find … -delete` to get rid of the index files.

(Lots of disks are soldered in nowadays, or the procedure might require multiple M2 slots that the destination mobo might not have. Is your company IT department happy to know their hardware is being disassembled?)

I have not benchmarked to see if this would sustain the 120 Mbps the original scenario would require.


Or set up SFTP on the Linux machine, and find whatever Windows crapware that's able to connect to it... Filezilla, maybe?


Windows has had OpenSSH's ssh/sftp/scp client binaries built in by default for ~7 years now. You can also do this in reverse by enabling OpenSSH Server on Windows (included feature but not installed or enabled on boot by default) and having the sftp client be the Linux box, which can be easier depending which you have more control of.


Or just... put in a usb thumb drive, move the 50gb on it and call it a day?


If you don't have a thumb drive handy you could probably transfer it to your phone and use that instead

I think many (most?) modern phones have that much storage


I was gonna say nginx, lol. It's smaller and more portable than python afaik


Or just use PowerShell! It can run HTTP server too.


I've done this exact approach and it worked well, it was on LAN so plenty of throughput. I would definitely try this before tearing apart the hardware.


The thing I found interesting in trying to type out a single test sentence is how many of the letters were reachable with just a tap. It wasn’t until I really studied the layout closely that I noticed that it wasn’t in true alphabetical order. Oddly intuitive, although I would probably despise using it long-term.


Right, I noticed that too! (especially typing in english, might be different in other languages)

That's why it's totally different to learn about an UX and actually experiment it, we can notice these things.

But, all in all, I think you would probably get used to it long term!

The QWERTY layout was just a fluke, not the super optimized layout we retcon it to be.

Even its designer later designed different layouts! But the particular typewriter it was designed for had a big commercial success, so there was marketing convergence. It's of course wholly unadapted to typing on glass!


The most common English letters are found at the top of the triad, and some only have punctuation as the other option -that makes for easy navigation


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