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JawnV6 posted:I need that article on lovely laggy iot lights, anyone know the one I mean http://fusion.net/story/55026/this-guys-light-bulb-ddosed-his-entire-smart-house/ ?
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Chris Knight posted:http://fusion.net/story/55026/this-guys-light-bulb-ddosed-his-entire-smart-house/ ? i'm the digipen guy with a fedora for his profile pic telling the author to call it a ddos even though it wasn't distributed, because otherwise everybody will think the light bulb was ms-dosing the house.
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no, had a bunch of animated gifs of tapping his phone then waiting around for the message to get to his light bulb e: this one http://gizmodo.com/why-is-my-smart-home-so-loving-dumb-1684949715 JawnV6 fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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I can't wait until it's possible to brick actual bricks
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 20:18 |
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The Russians just used a pencil!
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let the free market destroy the country? the Russians just used economic shock therapy!
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JawnV6 posted:no, had a bunch of animated gifs of tapping his phone then waiting around for the message to get to his light bulb lol why would anyone want a smart home, i have literally never heard anyone have anything positive to say about them after setting them up
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i've been keeping an eye on an uberforums poster for a couple of weeks. he's a new uber driver that had a ton of hope and belief in uber and the money he'd make and the nice people he'd drive his progression as an uber driver is pretty entertaining early february posted:I'm new here and have not started driving yet. I'm still thinking about it. If one were to judge from the comments here, nobody is happy or making decent money. Are there happy drivers? If there are, I get the feeling they are out driving and not trolling a forum looking for a place to gripe. Is it really that bad? 1 week in posted:Yes, it's maddening when you do extra nice things for riders and still no tip. This morning I picked a guy up at 4:45 a.m. to take him to the airport. I pulled in front of his house, and when I saw him step out of his front door with three large cases, I walked up the hill of his front yard to help him haul those cases down to my car. Turns out he is a contractor for a video company. I helped him get all of that situated into my car, drove him all the way to the airport, and then helped him get the cases out onto the sidewalk, even pulling up the handles on his rolling luggage for him. week 2 posted:If we really are partners, why didn't Uber split the rate cut with the drivers? Why make the drivers take 100% of the haircut? week 3 posted:Some of you tried to tell me this. I believe it now. This rear end in a top hat got in my lovely little car and opened up a stinky bag of goddamn Funyons! I asked him not to eat in my car, please, and then he opened up a big rear end bottle of red fruity drink! I asked him to get out. This is my car. I love it. It's not a greasy yellow cab. p sure he's gonna go from fanboy to fired in 3 weeks straight lol
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Condiv posted:If I arrive and the people are carrying takeout boxes or standing there juggling a plate of greasy french fries, I will cancel. I don't want that in my car. Plus, asking them not to eat before letting them in my car will lead to a lower rating. I don't want the lower rating. i love it when focus on a specific metric results in perverse incentives (i think that's the right term)
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Condiv posted:I'm starting to see a pattern here with certain names that seem to be made up to sound unique.
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maintain your perfect driver score by never picking anyone up ever
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prefect posted:i love it when focus on a specific metric results in perverse incentives (i think that's the right term) cancelation rate is another metric that can get uber to drop him, though. and this guy either never worked a real job in his life or bought hard into the "be your own boss" crap if he thinks he's getting away with that stuff for any length of time
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:57 |
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the whole "pax" thing really bugs me
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Condiv posted:This is impossible. There is a floor. If drivers cannot afford to drive, they will drop out, and rates must go back up. Supply and demand will seek a balance. the "i'm here to learn everything you guys have to tell me and then subsequently fight everything i'm told" is the most frustrating god damned thing in the world
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:58 |
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I just started watching parks & rec and everyone is jon-ralphio
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:58 |
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bright-eyed bushy-tailed new uber drivers are the best. driving a taxi is a famously awful, dangerous, disrespected, and low-paying gig that traditionally is reduced to hiring newly-arrived immigrants and recent parolees and other people with absolutely no job skills or prospects but its somehow transformed into a desirable and solidly middle class career because youre working for uber and not checker or yellow cab
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qirex posted:maintain your perfect driver score by never picking anyone up ever if you have an average rating of NaN does that put you at the top of the driver listings or the bottom
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Subjunctive posted:I wouldn't have called the shrinking of the real-estate search company a bubble flop. I think they're selling shovels to a market that needs it -- finding commercial space is an rear end in a top hat process, even worse than residential in my experience -- and they shut down an extension of their business before it hurt their core, which AFAICT is still doing fine. streeteasy and 42floors are doing god's work real estate brokerage is a dirty business run by and for parasites, but that's unfixable real estate listings used to be just lies and postage stamps for photos, since they were run by realtors, who had no real interest in cobroking poo poo. public listing cites create much better incentives
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Condiv posted:
holy poo poo lol Jonny 290 posted:the whole "pax" thing really bugs me bugs the hell otu of me
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bobbilljim posted:holy poo poo lol i put my car out there for people to pay to use and they just feel like they have a right to use it, like theyre paying for it or something! this guy is too much
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ugh this is not some gross taxi, this is just a nice car that i drive you around in for money, dispatched by a taxi service it's completely different!!!!! someone should teach you how to ride-share correctly!! there is a map!!!!!
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FUNYUNS!!! IN MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CAR!!!!!!! gently caress YOU "WATERMELONDRA" *speeds off*
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i really like the first batch of posts where he talks back to the experienced uber drivers. well maybe you guys wouldnt be so broke and whiny if you showed a little ingenuity and had a cheerful disposition like me!
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Condiv posted:i've been keeping an eye on an uberforums poster for a couple of weeks. he's a new uber driver that had a ton of hope and belief in uber and the money he'd make and the nice people he'd drive Oh, hell yes. ... Every time a pax tells me my car smells nice or that it smells new or asks me how long I've had it, I say that I keep it clean and that I'm very careful about who I allow into it. That leads to a conversation about ratings and how they are a two-way street. Then I show them their rating. ... I'm not even going to bother with any pax below 4.8 anymore. I just accepted a 4.7, and she was a complete bitch. As soon as I accepted the ping, she sent a text saying "Call me when you get here." I replied, "No. You should watch the app and be ready when your car arrives. I'm canceling. You should call another car." [/quote] Thanks for the email, but that's not usually why I cancel. Sometimes a ping comes in and tells me a pick-up is a certain number of minutes away, but once I accept the trip, that number increases. I'm not going to drive out of my way for an unprofitable fare. Something is wrong with the app in that regard. I also cancel if I get a call or text from the rider and it is in any way negative. If the vibe is negative, I'll cancel because it leads to a less than 5-star rating. I want to drive for nice people, not for bossy, condescending people. If I arrive and see the rider putting out a cigarette and standing there in a big cloud of nasty cigarette smoke, I will cancel. I don't want that stench brought into my car. I love my car. If I arrive, as I did yesterday, and there are more people than will fit in my car, I will cancel. If I arrive and the people are carrying takeout boxes or standing there juggling a plate of greasy french fries, I will cancel. I don't want that in my car. Plus, asking them not to eat before letting them in my car will lead to a lower rating. I don't want the lower rating. If I arrive at a location when traffic is busy, I'll wait as long as I can without getting honked at or waved away by parking police, but sometimes it is not practical to wait too long. In those cases, I cancel. Uber must do a better job of teaching riders to be ready when the car arrives. Waiting costs money. If they want traditional taxi service, that's what they should call. Uber is different and better. They shouldn't summon a car until they are ready to hop in it. They can literally watch me arrive on the map on their phones, leaving no excuse at all not to be ready. If I'm travelling in one direction, accept a ping, and quickly get directed to go in the opposite direction, especially when traffic is heavy or u-turns are impractical or dangerous, I'll cancel. Again, the app could be smarter about that. That could be a preference that I set. I would love to be part of making your app and the whole experience better and more transparent for drivers and riders. I provide a quality experience in my car, and my ratings reflect that. Speaking of cancellations, what about when riders cancel on us? It is very aggravating to accept a ping, start travelling toward it, and then get a cancel notice with no payment whatsover. It's also very frustrating to have to wait a full five minutes for a rider before I can collect a no-show fee. How about making it three minutes like Lyft? Again, thanks for the email. I'll try to do better. Threatening me with deactivation without offering helpful feedback is not helpful, but deactivate me if you feel you must. That's fine. If all Ubers were as nice as my car and the experience I provide, we'd all be better off. I hear more and more from riders how the whole experience has been degraded. That's a shame. [/quote] p sure he's gonna go from fanboy to fired in 3 weeks straight lol [/quote] this is a thing of beauty and I want a cross stitch of it
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i'm just saying people with certain ratings, from certain areas, with certain classifiable names might not be the type of fare i want to pick up. how is that racist.
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ultramiraculous posted:i'm just saying people with certain ratings, from certain areas, with certain classifiable names might not be the type of fare i want to pick up. how is that racist. really it is you who are the racist for bringing up race in the first place
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:43 |
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what the gently caress is a pax
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triple sulk posted:what the gently caress is a pax peace alternately some nonsensical slang for passengers
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:58 |
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it's from airline use, possibly marine before that?
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triple sulk posted:what the gently caress is a pax uber people use it as slang for passengers for some reason. no idea why and don't care enough to google it
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triple sulk posted:what the gently caress is a pax come on man, context clues
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Main Paineframe posted:uber people use it as slang for passengers for some reason. no idea why and don't care enough to google it they're Too Busy To Pronounce The Whole World Because They're Entrepreneurs Who Are Soon Going To Be Captains Of Industry. god. you proles
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 00:03 |
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one cool way to sniff out if a movement is bullshit or not is if they force creation/use of jargon before the culture's naturally grown it
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pax is standard jargon in transportation for passengers y'all trying too hard
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Luigi Thirty posted:pax is standard jargon in transportation for passengers y'all trying too hard check out thomas the tank engine over here
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we've got a foamer!
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Jonny 290 posted:one cool way to sniff out if a movement is bullshit or not is if they force creation/use of jargon before the culture's naturally grown it also signs of a cult!
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Jonny 290 posted:check out thomas the tank engine over here oh boy here comes train chat
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ultramiraculous posted:oh boy here comes train chat sorry, i won't derail
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