residentmarchant

@residentmarchant@lemmy.world
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And they're making things worse as we use less and less paper at the same time..... Geniuses

In this rare case, I would totally suggest you read the article. It has the perfect amount of humor mixed with shocking facts (revealed via email evidence from the Google antitrust case) and it wraps it all up in a way that's easy to understand.

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Can't wait to get my $1.53 check in the mail 3 years from now!

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I don't know anything about how it works, but I assumed it was absorbed by the skin on your head not the actual hair.

I still doubt that putting vitamin whatever on your head everyday will actually make a difference

And they only put groceries in the back seat because the truck bed is "too dirty"

But...but...muh "discovery"

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As someone who just built one of these, that is the exact reason we did it.

It would be cool if users just remembered which service they used to sign in, but they often don't, so this is the next best thing. Tell us your email, we look up which service you used, then send you to that service to complete the login.

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The fines are part of their outgoing expenses, though, so at least some of that $99 in your example is going to pay these very fines

And come in on your knees since the cameras only capture people that are standing

Not to come to their defense, I don't like most of what they do, but when you have multiple billion users, every "small change" you make or feature you add is a significant investment in planning, building, and testing.

I know how to read them, but I still always read the top tweet first, then the original tweet, then the top tweet again....

I know, I'm dumb

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it's trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it's totally possible that they determined they'd need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

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And in the days before tracking cookies, doing that didn't ruin all the ads you'll ever see again

It's not, it just blocks others from tracking you, giving Google a stronger monopoly

I was talking to some friends once on a Sunday and they were being a bit quiet so I asked what was up and they said they had the "Sunday Scaries." I had to inquire what the sunday scaries were and bashfully noted that I've never felt that before. Made me realize how much I love doing what I do!

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They put their best high school interns on it! What more could they do!?

You're probably correct now, but back when Captcha's were introduced, machine vision was nowhere near as advanced as it is now

It's funny, but solving Captcha's probably led to the downfall of Captcha's

I completely lost it when he started talking about how he'd bite.

Like he's trying to be a macho man and "do things the manly way" then he comes back with "but I'll bend the rules if it helps me"

What did you prefer? Lenovo?

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One regret of mine was avoiding WeWorks while they were hyped up on VC money because I thought it was a stupid idea. Turns out I should have just drank the free beer and let them implode on their own

I was recently there and our tour guide kept talking about this awful piece of art and how it ruins the old houses, so on and so on, then I went to check it out for myself and found it wonderful.

It's playful and intricate to me, but I guess the locals don't like it!

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Completely agree, I think one great thing that Netflix has done over the other competitors is that they're a tech company at heart, not a content company.

As such, they thought about how to optimize cost and quality of delivery much more than HBO (and others) did/do. This is both a good thing for their bottom line, but also for consumers. I find Netflix loads significantly faster than other competitors, even Prime video which has the backbone of AWS behind it!

Sure, at the end of the day the most compelling content wins, but after that, quality of service is super important.

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Good thing my company just switched from their service! Their customer service was truly awful, too.

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I find if I write one or two tests on my own then tell Copilot to complete the rest of them it's like 90% correct.

Still not great but at least it saves me typing a bunch of otherwise boilerplate unit tests.

This Old Tony! More in the machining space, but he builds things and has a sharp dry wit

Totally agree, news websites have only pushed me away with all the ads and spam

The pay-to-play heated seats always work, though!

/s

They would rather spend a cool Mil or whatever the contractor over-charged for this instead of a few salaries on people who can argue with pharma over prices. It's a sad state of affairs

I think it's because a lot of people though: "hmm, yea, that checks out for a reddit mod"

Gonna be honest, that's pretty much the exact reason I thought.... people are doing dumb shit with it.

No, no, no, Rust is so good it doesn't even let you create race conditions!

Their job is to report what is said exactly, not give their commentary on it (otherwise, you get fox news). Now, good journalists also provide the current news in context of past actions, but they should still let the reader decide if it will happen again.

I was wondering why they weren't just using the brand name "Doritos" and was very surprised when it was Takis

Well played, news people

The theft is a feature, not a bug in my eyes!

Alcohol isn't so bad where I'm at, I just scan it first to give the worker some time to scan their badge and let me continue

I just ordered a report to see what providers I can switch away from or what data I can poison with fake stuff

I'm a huge fan of Adam Ragusea. He takes a science, history, and home-cook approach to everything which makes uniquely tasty yet simple recipes. He optimizes for the fewest dishes and simpler techniques that aren't impossible for a home cook to do.

The "article" is like 100 words and just restates the title in more words.

Maybe the only information it adds is that they won't target passengers under 18

Somebody offered to buy the company I founded....and we sold it!

Was a fun experience to go through and now I have a decent nest egg to fall back on in case something else I do doesn't work out.

It was mostly luck, but the company that bought us still uses the product today, so I guess it was a good deal for all involved.

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Peculiar Grub

Woah, you wanna let a whole day go by?! Every 6 hours I need an email status update. But, if you forget to send an email, I know you're not doing good work. Then, at the end of the day I can ask you in person about the contents of your emails that I didn't read.