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New comment by OPBoot in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

OPBoot — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:44:16 +0000

Some ideas, all with three objects:

- Throw one over your shoulder/under your leg/around your back/

- catch each ball with your palm facing down instead of up

- Out->in cascade (throw from outside, catch from inside) instead of the traditional in->out

- 3 columns

- over the top (tennis)

- Any "mess"

- Any "box"

Then all of the above, but with

- 3 clubs

- 3 cigar boxes

- 3 clubs on fire

- while riding a unicycle

That should keep you going for a while

https://libraryofjuggling.com/

New comment by OPBoot in "The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide"

OPBoot — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:51:14 +0000

Very nice!

I wonder if the author can do a Parker Football?

https://www.mathsballs.com/

New comment by OPBoot in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

OPBoot — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:18:23 +0000

I think

> I thought ... people would appreciate this,

gets translated into "I'm only doing this so that people will star/upvote/'like and subscribe' "

"likes" -> the universal currency of internet fame

New comment by OPBoot in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

OPBoot — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:17:16 +0000

A lot of people in the comments are saying he did it for "likes" - that's a pretty harsh reading of the article.

What I think a lot of people are missing is that the difference between supporting corporates who spend up to millions per year on your product and supporting end-users who are literlly counting every cent they spend is a huge gulf in terms of expectations, technical ability, professionalism.... the list goes on. It's a completely different game.

I thought the article was a brilliant summary of why you simply can't help all the users all the time. It's a hard lesson to learn in the world of Tech Support. We all want to be the knight is shining armour solving customer problems, but the skill to be able to say "no" in the right way is not universal.

To those ragging on the author - there are huge numbers of people who, even if you paid them to use your software, they would still complain and swear at you. It's just life. And dealing with the competing interests of customers, time pressures, personal sanity and many more is almost exactly the job description of Tech Support.

New comment by OPBoot in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

OPBoot — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:41:07 +0000

And yet for me Northern was the only one I hit the answer on way before the clip had finished - instant recognition

New comment by OPBoot in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

OPBoot — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:21:29 +0000

Enjoyed that. Not lived in London for 30 years, but some sounds never leave you...

I got 5/9 on the Tube Sound Quiz!

(better than random!)

New comment by OPBoot in "Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?"

OPBoot — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:20:40 +0000

Or you can support current artists in the same genre such as David Bull at Mokuhankan, who is working hard to keep the art of traditional Japanese woodblock printing alive.

Yes - you can also buy a copy of the Great Wave, and it's beautiful.

https://mokuhankan.com/index.html

New comment by OPBoot in "Human"

OPBoot — Thu, 15 May 2025 06:05:29 +0000

New comment by OPBoot in "Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service"

OPBoot — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:47:54 +0000

Oh, sorry - I'm going to be that person....

Your step 2 is wrong :-) > Step 2: We convert them into a high-quality physical coloring book with OpenAI’s brand-new Sora model, then send it out for printing.

You don't convert it into a physical book /before/ sending it for printing.