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'Our new video ad campaign has our product's name shouted in the first 500 milliseconds, so we can reach the people in adjacent rooms while the viewer is still turning down the volume.'
Читать полностью…'Someday, some big historical event will happen during the DST changeover, and all the tick-tock articles chronicling how it unfolded will have to include a really annoying explanation next to their timelines.'
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TL;DR: I broke things, then I fixed things. Sorry!
'What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.'
Читать полностью…'The joke will be on him in a few weeks when animal control shows up and takes custody of his Roomba.'
Читать полностью…'I watched from a beautiful nature reserve in central Missouri, and it was--without exaggeration--the coolest thing I've ever seen.'
Читать полностью…''Hey! Put her down!' 'No, it's ok! The next chance for me to be carried to a blood cauldron isn't until 2024!''
Читать полностью…'You shouldn't look directly at a partial eclipse because of the damage that can be caused by improperly aligning the solar-lunar orbital plane with the orbital bones around your eye.'
Читать полностью…'I was thinking of observing stars to verify Einstein's theory of relativity again, but I gotta say, that thing is looking pretty solid at this point.'
Читать полностью…'There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was *before* we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.'
Читать полностью…'It's hard to train deep learning algorithms when most of the positive feedback they get is sarcastic.'
Читать полностью…'I live on a torn-bag-of-potato-chips-where-the-tear-is-rapidly-growing fault, which is terrifying.'
Читать полностью…'I would be honored, but I know I don't belong in your network. The person you invited was someone who had not yet inflicted this two-year ordeal upon you. I'm no longer that person.'
Читать полностью…'If it falls below 20% full, my bag turns red and I start to panic.'
Читать полностью…'Since buns range from crepuscular to nocturnal, it's recommended that you enable the scheduled "Do Not Disturb" mode on your phone to avoid being woken by alerts about Night Buns.'
Читать полностью…'There's this idea that emoji are bad for communication because they replace ambiguity and nuance with a limited set of preselected emotions, but it doesn't really survive a collision with real-world usage of the thinking face or upside-down smiley.'
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