redballooon

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That’s the spirit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Doesn’t sound appetizing enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s frustrating how many of these systems rely on hard coded word or even substring matching, and that in a world of large language models that can evaluate semantics.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Or maybe it was the fuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thinking itself is not easy for many, and that doesn’t even include the critical .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they have a foreigner ms armee? They should enlist him immediately.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you’re in your 20s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think that's two different things. Billionaires can and do get continuously richer also when there are napkins in a restaurant to satisfy customers.

Actually, satisfied customers are return customers, which every businessman knows are the best customers. Amazon certainly knows that. The reason why Amazon is so succesful is because they focus intensely on customer satisfaction. They're fucking their employers, yes, but they wouldn't need to. They just do because the regulations allow for it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Guess you’re one of today’s lucky 10000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

According to your statement there must be someone getting fucked. An trade where all parties are satisfied does not seem possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Disruptive technology doesn’t follow cost covering logic though. Covering costs is hardly interesting for investors. Netflix ran at loss to grow quickly and cement the market share.

Recent enshittification occurs because the market came to an understanding that the fight for the market share is over and now it’s time to satisfy investors.

But several things can be true at the same thing time. Infrastructure is expensive and investors want to maximize return of investment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People always underestimate the work power needed to keep automated things running. And even more to set them up in the first place.

Many things that look like fully automated still have people in the loop.

 

In the early 2000s, everyone in my bubble knew that PHP was a security nightmare, only seconded by Flash. In the meantime, Adobe gave up on Flash, but PHP is still alive and rocking.

How did that happen? Did PHP get some serious makeover? Do developers just not care?

 

Back in the old times, on the sites I log in regularly, my browser filled in both username and password. I clicked "Log in" once, and I was set to go.

But no more. Now it's all first a username, then a password. From what I saw, Apple started this many years ago, but now this bother really spread. And it's not like I can just double-click on the same screen area, oh no. Animations make sure that I have to wait several hundred milliseconds before the password field is there, and depending on the site, I even have to select from my browser, which login I want to use, twice!

Why, oh why?

All my screens are really big enough to display 2 text fields. What are arguments for this behavior? I don't see any.

 

And how long have you been a non-smoker?

For me, at the time it was the realization that I cannot continue to smoke and continue to play the trumpet. My lung volume and strength really suffered. But instead of stopping to smoke, for many months I played less and less trumpet.

What put me through the phase of actually smoking the last cigarette and becoming a non-smoker again, was one of the books of Allen Carr, I don't remember the exact title. Looking back, it was awfully written, and I had to will my way through believing the narrative, but it worked. That was 27 years ago, and I didn't have one cigarette since, no cravings and no replacement either.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Das teuerste Auto, das ich je hatte war, passend zum Artikel, ein E-Auto (Renault Zoe). Hab ich als Vorführwagen für 16.000 EUR gekauft und ein paar Jahre später für knapp 10.000 EUR wieder verkauft.

Aber 40k für ein gebrauchtes Auto, oder 30k bei Verbrennern im Schnitt! Für einen Verbrauchsgegenstand! Wie sieht denn eine Budgetplanung für Haushalte aus, die so viel Geld nur für ein Auto ausgeben?

 

Movies are great, but now on to the real deal. Honestly? Who has time to rewatch a series??

For me that’s Buffy and Babylon 5, both three times. I think Queen’s Gambit may beat them, but I’m not there yet.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.

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