{"id":107629,"date":"2022-12-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=107629"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:22:52","slug":"20221230-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20221230-01\/?p=107629","title":{"rendered":"2022 year-end link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here begins the year-end link clearance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This has always bothered me: Pinocchio is a story by an Italian author set in Italy about a puppet with an Italian name. But the Pinnochio-themed restaurant in Disneyland is named <i>Pinocchio Village Haus<\/i> and has Bavarian architecture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AvnhLUqWmjg\"> Why is Pinocchio&#8217;s Disney Restaurant German?<\/a>. Furthermore, why does it serve American food?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gawker.com\/culture\/six-days-with-a-big-lollipop\"> Six days with a big lollipop: I completed America&#8217;s most disgusting treat<\/a>. Fran Hoepfner undertakes an ill-advised journey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bernadettebanner\"> Bernadette Banner<\/a> creates historical reconstructions of pre-World War I clothing. As an April Fool&#8217;s joke, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fSxQHQ_1gX4\"> created an OnlyFans account for saucy Victorian ankle pics<\/a>. Leaving aside the saucy content, and the stunning amount of talent required for the entire undertaking, my favorite part was her taking a selfie, dressed in Victorian clothes, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fSxQHQ_1gX4?t=571\">with the aid of a drone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/08\/31\/us-open-tennis-ballperson\/\"> Do you have what it takes to be a U.S. Open ball person<\/a>? I had always wondered how you got that job. I had also wondered about how the job is done. I found the answers in <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.usta.com\/assets\/1\/USTA_Import\/USTA\/dps\/doc_13_19883.pdf\"> Ball Persons: A Training Manual<\/a>, which outlines where and how to position yourself, how to deliver a ball to a player, and (my favorite) the protocols for moving balls around the court.<\/li>\n<li>History\/fraud\/self-aggrandizement corner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw\"> The maddening mess of airport codes!<\/a> (16 minute video for process and history nerds). <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qe5WT22-AO8\"> The man who tried to fake an element<\/a> (90 minute video for fraud and history nerds), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI\"> ROBLOX_OOF.mp3: The origin of the Roblox &#8220;OOF&#8221; sound<\/a> (120 minute video for self-aggrandizement nerds), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/the-reporters-63622746\"> How the great online toaster hoax was exposed<\/a> (2000 words for fraud and prankster nerds).<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know much about NASCAR or auto racing, but I was tipped off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K3yNc5EasW8\"> Ross Chastain intentionally sustaining heavy damage to his car by using a video game move on the final turn<\/a> to sneak into fourth place and advance to the next round. (One thing I found interesting was the illuminated pit signs at 1:21, which look like augmented reality just floating out there.) From what I can gather, this took advantage of a slow turn before the finish, and it was a very risky and dangerous move. I also found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LpqxnYdBeXo\"> Dale Jr. and Steve Letarte discussing the incident<\/a>, and I really admire Letarte&#8217;s style: Calm and extremely knowledgeable.<\/li>\n<li>Machine learning models are all the rage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/\"> AI Weirdness<\/a> asks simple questions and gets weird answers. Holiday-themed examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/ai-generated-valentines-cards\/\"> Valentine&#8217;s Cards<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-18-02-09\/\"> Candy heart messages<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/halloween-candy\/\"> Hallowe&#8217;en candy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiweirdness.com\/predicting-the-next-toy-fads-with-ai\/\"> Toy fads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>C++11 introduced <i>uniform initialization<\/i>, but uniform initialization of vectors is subtle. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@barryrevzin\/uniform-initialization-isnt-82533d3b9c11\"> Uniform initialization isn&#8217;t<\/a>. I have been bitten by the <code>w2<\/code> example, and the results were not pretty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This ends the year-end link clearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing the book on another year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-107629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Closing the book on another year.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}