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This is a shame, for me, as I really enjoyed Weird City[0] and was very hopeful of it getting more episodes made.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_City_(TV_series)


I think I developed that from too many stand-ups. :v


Correct, he is the brother of Bob Einstein that played Super Dave Osborne.


Like how people used to arrange a taxi \ cab to chauffeur them somewhere? Seems regressive.


It was a simple (to implement) system that worked for decades. Not everyone wants to run uber spyware on their phones.


From what I can glean of this Verge article [0], it seems two cameras is the maximum possible at this time.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21083583/filmic-doubletak...


I take no ownership of this but found it an insanely cool free app that shoots a single video with multiple cameras.


Easy to see the connection for this word when learning that the German word for "window" is "Fenster."


The French word for window is "fenêtre". And in French, the circumflex accent usually denotes a deletion of an 's', as in words such as "forêt", "hôpital", "île", "conquête".


Something I learned here - the English word window comes from an old Germanic word vendauga meaning "wind eye". German started using something like fenster vendauga (I don't know the actual phrase) to mean "a window with glass in it", from the Latin word fenestra. It later dropped the vendauga bit entirely.

English has now borrowed the word fenster from German, to mean the erosion of a new bit of rock exposing an older bit.


Yes, it all comes from the Latin "fenestram".


And it is quite cute how civilised throwing someone out of a window sounds once there is a sophisticated word for it :D


My fave word for something that sounds innocuous but is actually severe is: vivisection.

If you didn't look up, it almost sounds like something you might casually get at a spa.


"My friends spent the summer waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay."


Knowing more than one language can be really helpful to just grok these words quickly, even if you've never seen them before.

alive is vivente, viviente, vivant and vida in italian, spanish, french and portuguese

If you know what a dissection is, you can then connect the dots.


Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.


My favorite:

Et situs vi late in isset ab ernit

("dialect" form of "Es sieht aus wie Latein, ist es aber nicht", "It looks like latin, but it isn't")


Huh, you just enlightened me, I knew a guy named Fenstermacher and now I think I understand his name..


Also, it's fenêtre in French and finestra in Italian and Catalan.


While Portuguese and Spanish have completely different words. Somewhere the chain was broken.


Ventana and Window are root aligned (ventus, wind), fenestra in latin is "light opening", no idea how Portugal ended up with "door" for windows (Janus, janua, janela) ..

More impacts of "climate change" : )


Welp. Time to flush the logs.


When rotating the logs, do they go down clockwise, or counterclockwise?


Depending on what side of the planet you’re on.


Scrolled down someone's random page with this extension and the browser tab froze and stopped accepting input (mouse & keyboard). Without any technical explanation I would say this is just removing the overlay and does not accomplish what it states.


I tried to locate the issue and think I found it. I updated the extension to version 0.0.2. Could you please check if the new version helps with the issue you had?


Interesting, does it happen every time you try it or just sometimes?


Love these end-of-year recaps because I find the split between podcasts \ music is getting much better recognition in the past few years. 51 days (~74,000min) of total listening this year, wow.


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