Interesting Links for 07-05-2018

[andrewducker]

"My little Step-Children" - for your child who really wants to be a wicked step-mother

(tags: children funny )

Sometimes people's lack of understanding of difference boggles me

(tags: People wtf )

SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network

(tags: knitting ai )

The UK has fewer beds per head compared to virtually all other EU nations, fewer doctors and nurses, reduced access to investigations such as MRI scans, and is spending less on medications

(tags: nhs UK health money )

What did Marx have to say about "sexual redistribution"?

(tags: sex communism )

Possibly the worst password advice of all time

(tags: passwords OhForFucksSake )

Turns out it mostly isn't automation which is costing Americans their jobs

(tags: usa jobs automation )

Deadlock in a divided country - what the local election results mean for the UK

(tags: uk elections politics )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I have no idea how one would even do that kind of thing!

[skington]

If the link is to andrewducker.tumblr.com, fetch the page and find the first link to a tumblr.com URL inside the div.post-content tag?

[andrewducker]

Might work, but looks like it wouldn't work for all layouts, so it'd be fragile.

Also, I'm not sure what's being gained by this?

[skington]

It doesn't have to work for all layouts, surely? Just the one that you use?

And the benefit is that the link goes to the thing you actually liked, rather than a page on your own tumblr saying “I liked this thing”, which adds an extra level of indirection and indentation; the latter can be significant given how unreadable tumblr can get when there's many comments and the layout indents each level of quoting.