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nostupidquestions·No Stupid QuestionsbyTheV2

How do you search for "amateurish" song covers?

Sometimes I want to listen to raw song covers that are ideally just video recordings without digital alterations. I used to be able to just look up *song name* acoustic/unplugged cover on Youtube and I'd already get what I want.

These days sometimes covers labeled as such aren't acoustic in the first place. Or even if they are, they have an overly clean or a synthetic "overproduced" sound, which is not what I'm looking for. I want a white noise in the background or little nuisances. I want the artist in the foreground and not the assembly, production quality or the mixing. Therefore I'd have to filter for older videos, look for 'amateurish'/unprompted settings in the thumbnails or check out every video in the search results one by one.

For reference, this is an example for what I want: Creep (Radiohead) - Cover by Connie Park - Youtube.

As beautiful as it is, this is an example for what I want filtered out: Never gonna give you up (Rick Astley) - Cover by Callum J Wright.

Am I missing a trick to find what I'm looking for?

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giftofgaming·Gift of GamingbyTheV2

(Complete) WB Play the Legends Encore Leftovers

I have Humbe Bundle gift keys for these games that were part of the WB Play the Legends Encore bundle. I couldn’t get rid of them, so hopefully I’ll find a recipient here.

  • Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate Edition
  • FEAR: Ultimate Shooter Edition
  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
  • MORTAL KOMBAT XL
  • Injustice Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition

If you are interested in any of these games, please let me know and I’ll share the key with you. The redemption deadline for all of them is 2026/06/18.

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fullmoviesonyoutube·Full movies on YouTubebyTheV2

The 9th Movie (2024)

Joel gathers his friends at a remote cabin to celebrate the completion of his latest feature film in his 12 features project.

This movie is part of Joel Haver's challenge to create 12 feature films in 12 months. I just watched it now and I think it's the most relatable, yet insane and perhaps one of my favorite movies of all time. So even if I might not feel the same way tomorrow, I have the urge to share it now.

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shell·Shell ScriptingbyTheV2

Productivity vs muscle memory/knowledge

After a long time I'm in a situation where I sometimes work on a temporary system without my individual setup. Now whenever I might add a new custom (nushell) command that abstracts the usage of CLI tools, I think about the loss of muscle memory/knowledge for these tools and how much time I waste looking them up without my individual setup. No, that's not a huge amount of time, but just out of curiosity I'd like to know how I can minimize this problem as much as possible.

Do you have some tips and solutions to handle this dilemma? I try to shadow and wrap existing commands, whenever it's possible, but that's often not the case. Abbreviations in fish are optimal for this problem in some cases, but I don't think going back to fish as my main shell for this single reason would be worth it.

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nostupidquestions·No Stupid QuestionsbyTheV2

Terms for intentional anti-extensibility

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23442993

Sometimes I create a solution to a simple problem. However instead of making use of the solution, I keep extending it unnecessarily. This is why for this kind of project, I want to systematically restrain my future self from adding new features beyond the initial vision e.g. by actively refusing generic and re-usable code.

What is the search engine friendly term for this approach or at least for this situation? "Ad-hoc programming" may be literally what I'm talking about, but in practice it's associated with unplanned happenings.

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programming·ProgrammingbyTheV2

Terms for intentional anti-extensibility

Sometimes I create a solution to a simple problem. However instead of making use of the solution, I keep extending it unnecessarily. This is why for this kind of project, I want to systematically restrain my future self from adding new features beyond the initial vision e.g. by actively refusing generic and re-usable code.

What is the search engine friendly term for this approach or at least for this situation? "Ad-hoc programming" may be literally what I'm talking about, but in practice it's associated with unplanned happenings.

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