Unlikely as it sounds, being normal is a strategy that works on LinkedIn.
The quality bar is very low. People post so much fluff and AI thought leadership that the algorithm has recently started rejecting it, and LinkedIn essentially ran out of content.
For the past couple of months it's been showing people posts from two or three weeks ago due to the lack of suitable material.
What I've found is that it's surprisingly easy to stand out and build an audience if you just post honestly and thoughtfully about the interesting little puzzles or dilemmas you face during your workday.
Some posts of mine that have hit it off:
> Why is it hard to find clothes for men?
> Why do people think it's weird when I drink milk on Zoom?
> Should I post on X, or do people still frown on it?
Try posting about what you don't know, rather than what you do. People like that more.
Yeah, it's a bit surprising that these bill validators are so robust, given that most security systems are a game of raising the difficulty just high enough to be less attractive than other criminal opportunities. It might be that two detection methods was too easy to subvert, so a third is added, and this makes it excessively secure.
Certainly, the tubular lock on most vending machines is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, so, if a criminal wants a snickers bar and maybe a lockbox of cash, buying a tubular lock pick is far more expedient than trying to counterfeit bills.
I am wondering if the author maybe didn't check whether 2 of 3 factors would be sufficient. It could be that the bill validators allow 1 of 3 factors to be out of spec to increase acceptance rate.
My bet is that there are actual people with enough karma automatically flagging every df post without considering the content for a second.
Would be cool if @dang could check the flagging data in the articles since the massive drop in 2021 and see if there are any patterns (same people doing the flagging for every article).
The main use case in our house for Alexa is sending announcements between rooms. But for a few months now, it hasn’t worked properly.
I will say: “Alexa, send an announcement”. But 50% of the time, instead of prompting me for the announcement, it will play me saying “Send an announcement” around the house.
I wonder if anyone else has had this issue, or if it’s just me?
Same, announcements are kind of flaky. My usual command is "Alexa, announce <whatever to announce>" - half the time she asks what I want to announce, 20% of the time she announces "announce", 30% of the time it works as expected.
If i'm already on my phone sometimes I'll just type the announcement in the Alexa app instead.
I must say, it's strange watching Traitors after watching Beast Games. It feels slow and lazy.
Traitors is one idea padded out with endless cringey "ceremony". (Claudia Winkleman walks down a corridor in a cape! Claudia Winkelman whispers "murder"! People gather and read out names slowly.)
In the Mr Beast version, the entire series would be boiled down to one 8 minute segment – and there would be 15 other original ideas besides it.
British TV shows have long targeted a extremely aged demographic. Most TV seems to operate as if you're a little senile and aren't really following what's going on, or would be too uncertain and scared by quicker edits and more emotional intensity.
That said -- there's little 1.5x doesnt paper over about bad pacing choices.
As well as 1.5x, jumping a couple of minutes after a screen goes dark often jumps the 'now you would've watched some adverts on real TV, here's a recapitulation of what you may have missed in the first part (you forgetful bastard)'
I have a hard time watching anything for too long at 1.5-2x speed. After a while it feels like my internal monologue is running at the same speed and it's incrediblely distracting.
In my experience with different kinds of batteries, from the cheapest to the more expensive ones, the AirTag holds between 3 and 9 months until it starts warning about battery, so what you’ve read does not line up with my experience.
