Data entry operator?
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I wore out my percent key typing in the url.
Somebody correct me, but I remember a url (or any long piece of text) can contain a small image. I think it was hexadecimal code. I was looking for the words "base16=" or "base32=".
You are correct those are called "data urls", they're intended to embed files in text.
This is not a data url tho, it's an ugly link
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You know what? I forgive url shorteners, sometimes they truly are necessary
Why has nobody invented a URL longener?
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What would be funnier is if instead of an address, it was a hyperlink embedded text that says : Click Here.
Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
Do they still charge by the word? Character? Whatever? Because that's funny lol. If papers still mattered that would have cost them a fortune.
Nah, now they charge you if your listing is too short. It's tough to fill out the sections of a newspaper
I'm pretty sure 90% of that is just a tracking link, you could probably ignore everything after and including the question mark
It would need the job Id parameter, but the rest looks like unnecessary filters
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Sadly they've already deleted that page because the URL has "trans" in it. >.>
I mean if you type up to the jobid=xyz it'll work fine :p
Maybe they're looking for someone who's good at OCR
Google Lens can probably get it in seconds.
That’s some column inches.
Someone felt like making a point.
Obviously this is a silly example, but I really do remember when they would write out full urls with paths like 3 directories deep in magazines and newspapers expecting you to manually enter those urls and visit whatever site. I hated that shit in the early days of the internet in grade school. "http://www.theentireforty-ninecharacterlongnameofthecompany.com/marketingadvertisements/newspapertimes/landingpage79fad5c21e.html" (don't click that link... i just made it up. It doesn't go anywhere.) I could barely type but now I have to get every character correct or I might accidentally end up on a black market website or porn somehow (where my fellow Whitehouse dot com victims at?). QR codes and smartphones really are godsend for print media internet ads.
P.S. I told you it didn't go anywhere. You feel better now?
P.P.S. Apparently Whitehouse dot com still functions but is no longer porn. It's some election betting thing now? Idk.
I clicked that link
The one in the newspaper? Me too
My first memory of being told to go to a web address was in 4th grade. My teacher wrote a fairly long URL on the board as something those of us who had internet at home could go look at about the lesson she was talking about. So we were expected to write this URL down on paper, and then later type it into a computer. This very slightly predates AOL keywords.
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It took awhile before engineers also became UX people and were like “ok, but let’s start the project from an end user’s point of view.”
Unfortunately soon after that, marketers took over as the bosses of the UX people and were like “ok, let’s start this from a ‘how do we get more people clicking the buy now button’ point of view.”
You could use ` to make that URL an inline code block and thus not clickable. `like this` to look like this
Seemed more fun this way
we have a truly marvelous application process, which this margin is too small to contain
Sick reference, bro.
You open it up and it's a PDF.
The pdf contains a address you have to go to.
At the address is a single desk, with a woman who tells you that you can only apply online.
Sounds like how digitalisation works in Germany. Put the form online as PDF, then either require the other side to print and send in or recive via email then print it yourself and file it into a cabinet...
And she’s eating from a Costco sized tub of plain Greek yogurt
The friseur that told me on telephone they don't do reservations and once i got there, i waited a whole hour.
damn i missed the deadline by 12 years...
Somebody got paid by the character