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boner confessor posted:and this is a good thing, but on the flip side, i'm sure you've encountered some people who google every trivial problem and just root around on stackexchange until they find a solution that they can paste in. learning is good, but just being a conduit by which information flows in and out of you without leaving much impact is not I don't disagree with what you're saying here, but do you think those people would have become competent if they didn't have the access they do today? Personally, I expect they would be just as useless and even more ineffective.
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wateroverfire posted:
There is an app that tracks buses, sort of like this, where I live. There is no capacity indicator, but all of the buses have GPS and are tracked on something that looks like Google maps. As far as I can tell, it has done absolutely nothing to make them more timely, except let me know how late they will be, or occasionally how inexplicably early they left.
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fishmech posted:But also the idea of "some education experts warned that company incentives might influence teachers to adopt promoted digital tools over rival products or even traditional approaches, like textbooks." right there - that is very much the point of why these things happen. But why should we care that the school is choosing to use that one particular digital tool in the first place as an inherent thing? Are those tools being promoted actually inferior to other digital tools? Hell the "traditional textbook" that might get replaced was usually chosen in the first place because that textbook publisher pulled the same sort of trick a while back. The article is trying to draw a connection between this and doctors prescribing particular medications because they have gotten perks from pharmaceutical companies, which is idiotic for exactly this reason. Doctors preferentially prescribing certain drugs which may not be ideal is an actual issue—teachers using a google product instead of one from Microsoft is not. If we start funding education to such an extent that educators have access to any tools they want and they start choosing inferior products due to (essentially) being bribed, maybe this becomes a legitimate concern, but in many districts the alternative to free tech right now is no tech.
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Klyith posted:not like that doesn't happen already, just over scraps of money too small for a tech company to ever bother fighting over. True, though I think textbook decisions are usually made by people higher-up the totem pole until post-secondary education.
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A Man With A Plan posted:Sell "experience packages" to techies where they get to operate a jackhammer and skid loader Someone (probably multiple someones) already does this for construction equipment, though I don't remember the name of the company. I want to say they were on Shark Tank at some point.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:e: Kodak just announced KODAKcoin. Shares are up. I get why someone would want a "digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive [sic] work that they can then license within the platform" (which is probably why many such platforms already exist), but I have no idea what a blockchain and a coin offering are supposed to add to this process other than making it more onerous to pay people for using their photographs. Oddly, the person who wrote the press release doesn't seem to know either. This, however, is peak unicorn: quote:“For many in the tech industry, ‘blockchain’ and ‘cryptocurrency’ are hot buzzwords, but for photographers who’ve long struggled to assert control over their work and how it’s used, these buzzwords are the keys to solving what felt like an unsolvable problem,” said Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke. Wallet fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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fishmech posted:Beginner YouTube people aren't being shut out though. They're just not picking up the maybe $60, more likely $20 or less, across a year in advertising that they might have gotten if they were real lucky with their level of viewership. My impression was that the issue isn't the pittance that small viewership channels will be losing out on now that they don't qualify for advertising, but rather that Youtube (understandably) prioritizes monetized content when making recommendations.
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Jan 21, 2018 20:06
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fishmech posted:YouTube also prioritizes a bewildering variety of other factors in its search algorithms. Ultimately though, a very small viewership channel whether monetized or not is likely to have their recommendation rankings stay low, unless/until something unusual happens where they're the only one covering a specific topic, or a particular video gets a lot of views from outside sources, etc. And when that happens then they can become a monetized channel and they can have that in the rankings - it builds on itself. I don't disagree, that just seems to be the primary point of contention. People seem to be missing that YouTube's willingness to host videos that no one is watching is hugely reducing the barrier to entry for new/small content producers that want to do video. Producers without a sufficient audience for YouTube to care about them aren't large enough for advertisers to want to deal with them directly; the only way that someone like Amazon can fix that is by acting in the same intermediary capacity that YouTube already does, at which point they would get the same pressure to moderate the content they are serving adds for that YouTube has received. The basic, and presently unsolved, issue is that it isn't worth the time/money for anyone involved to vet or moderate content with minimal reach.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Absolutely. They've gotten me to stop going to any wikia page because now they have some script set up to block you if you use an ad-blocker. Influence accomplished! Most people believe that advertising, and other mass-media, has less of an influence on them than on other people. A lot of web advertising is poo poo, but assuming that you're immune to it is silly.
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It sure is exciting watching tech companies change the world with novel inventions like company scrip and pitting workers against each-other.
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Paradoxish posted:This is legitimately a huge problem for highways in the northeast. Like, forget 10mph over, there are highways in CT where traveling only 10mph over is a harrowing experience because you're practically an unmoving obstacle. Back when I had to commute on 15, it was rare for the average speed of traffic to be less than 15-20mph over the limit. In Massachusetts people seem a little more restrained but, yeah, in CT 20 over the speed limit is the norm for some reason and the occasional person who doesn't know this turns into a moving roadblock that cars are constantly dangerously blasting across lanes to get around.
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Cheesus posted:Wow. It's worse in terms of speed definitely, though MA has its own issues. Usually the crazy speed limit poo poo is because of graft and related nonsense, as far as I know, where a bunch of different municipalities all put in to get route whatever to go through their territory so not only does it wind all over the place for no real reason, the speed limit changes every 50 feet. The rule is the same basically everywhere, though. Pay attention to how fast everyone else is driving and try not to be a dangerous piece of poo poo by going way faster or way slower.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It wouldn't be nearly as disturbing if they weren't both enthusiastic and clearly so goddamn bad at it. The mind-melting part of this is how poo poo they are at it. Cheesus posted:Couldn't the simpler explanation just be that working at Amazon warehouses makes you younger? The simpler explanation is that this isn't actually from Amazon because while they do abuse their warehouse workers I can't imagine that a tech company their size that deals with the number of product reviews that go through their servers is this bad at astroturfing.
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Aug 16, 2019 21:17
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Platystemon posted:The site is dismally cluttered with duplicate and counterfeit listings, but as many of those are “sold by Amazon” as not, so screwing the marketplace isn’t going to help. Amazon's "sell literally everything" approach seems to have slowly made the actual quality of the site get worse and worse. More specialized sites are often a much better shopping experience but Amazon seems to be incredibly competitive on price almost across the board—often I'll "shop" for an item elsewhere and ultimately buy it on Amazon because it's 15% cheaper. The kind of search ranking fuckery they are engaging in seems like it could really gently caress up the only part of the buying experience they do well on (price) if the plan is to bump items based on margin.
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Given the level of grift it's sort of incredible that they were willing to disclose all of this poo poo for an IPO. It makes me think Neumann totally bought into his own bullshit.
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asdf32 posted:I saw a man at Wendies stand in front of a rebooting touch screen drink machine for a full 5 minutes today before getting a drink. The drink machines seem okay, but I've been seeing more touch screens for ordering in fast food places that seem to have been designed by aliens. I was at a McDonalds™ a couple of months ago (I was hungry and it was the only option nearby okay  ) that had a long rear end line of cars outside, so I went inside where maybe 8 people were waiting in line to order. There was a massive touchscreen kiosk for ordering at the entrance to the line. It seemed weird that none of the people waiting would attempt to use a machine half of them were nearly touching but people are loving stupid and I like to pretend I'm not so I felt like I could handle it. It took me a long time poking through its many many layers of complex, nested interfaces before I realized that while this system supported placing McDonalds™ orders with a frightful precision, whoever designed it literally couldn't imagine that someone might just want to press a button to order a #10. Luckily by then I was at the front of the line so I just asked the lady instead. So ends my McDonalds™ touch screen story.
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luxury handset posted:i'd say most people who use a transit system or travel on foot use it frequently enough to not need cues as to when to embark/disembark or which path to take. the majority of daily trips tend to be repetitive, especially commutes as the largest individual component of trip category. again, this is just my anecdotal observations, each individual has their own perspective Travel is often repetitive, but I still use Google Maps when I'm driving home from work because it's a relatively long commute, traffic is volatile, and there are a bunch of available routes that are of a similar duration in good traffic conditions. Going the wrong way on a particular day can easily mean that I get home 30 minutes later than I normally would. If you're using public transit and conditions make you miss a connection or something you could easily be waiting that long, and you now need to make sure that the rest of your journey is workable. There's not a lot of reason to deal with all of that when an app will handle it for you.
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luxury handset posted:like in your cited use case on route switching away from traffic... most transit systems don't really have that kind of coverage. you're kind of stuck using your route or route segments to get from origin to destination My cited case for public transit wasn't route switching, it was having to change connections because of traffic. It's exactly because coverage sucks that that's an issue; at least around here there are a lot of places where you can't safely assume that if your first leg is 15 minutes late you'll be fine because another bus is going to show up 15 minutes after the one you intended to catch anyway.
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Barudak posted:Also that article posits this as something groundbreaking when almost every business Ive ever seen does baseline testing on media efficiency. Like poo poo 4 years ago the company I was at was panicking it was behind the times of a paid advertisingless future and ran massive testing regime to identify that no, sales did demonstrably decline when they turned off various media. Yeah, there is certainly plenty of money being wasted but, having worked on this stuff, if your business is spending a significant amount (to it, not to Google) on media/ads they are likely to be pretty interested in trying to identify the ROI (with varying degrees of competence). The tools available for tracking this stuff are pretty mature.
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Steve French posted:The #1 thing I like blue apron for is just being given some options of meals to have for the week, selecting the ones I want, without having to piece together mains and sides and all that poo poo. I don't mind the grocery shopping, it's literally just deciding what to eat without ending up in a rut cooking the same poo poo every week most days. A recipe only service sounds fantastic, but I haven't seen any that looked promising (though I haven't looked for a while), I figured because there's less perceived value there and maybe companies figure people will just re-share them online or something? Can you share what recipe only services you're thinking of? I have no idea if it's any good, but I think these guys give you a shopping list for the week and then use all of the poo poo they had you buy across the week's recipes. Seems like a clever way to offer most of the value of Blue Apron without the massive overhead of sending people individually packaged ingredients.
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adoration for none posted:I'm really amazed at how much money investors are willing to blow on vaporware products. Their thought process is literally "does this sound cool?" "Do these dudes with fake glasses look smart?" Hell yeah here's 10 million!! If you wait until there's an MVP and everyone else knows that it works (or doesn't work, more likely) how are you going to make boatloads of money?
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Zachack posted:No, that's mind control porn. Hypno-porn is where someone gets hosed while thinking they are a chicken. I thought hypno porn was where a guy in a yellow fursuit with a big nose swings a pendulum in front of you and says his name over and over again?
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Neo_Crimson posted:They do, but nobody uses them if they're driving an automatic. Using a parking brake is not emphasized in Driver's Ed, and I think most modern cars engage the rear brakes in Park like a parking brake anyway. Parking on a hill was part of the road test when I took it in MA 15 years ago. Is that not normal?
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OctaMurk posted:Yeah it was for me too, 10 years ago also in MA. But everyone I know just puts the car in Park and thats that. I dont know anyone who drives in auto and actually uses the parking brake, dont think Ive seen someone actually engage it in real life. Thats having been in MA and LA each for a long time. I use it when I park on hills and when I'm changing a tire and that's about it. It's not hilly around here. Sundae posted:Seriously depends on where/when you did your road test. Mine in KS (23 yrs ago to be fair) was to drive the instructor 45min into town so that he could do his monthly grocery run, then drive him back. I guess so—my entire test was maybe ten minutes. We basically went around the block to a road with a hill, parked, went to the bottom of the street where there wasn't a hill, parked, reversed 60 feet alongside the curb, and then drove back to the DMV. Wallet fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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devmd01 posted:I personally don’t even see the point of home automation, at least for me. I read all of these use cases that people have set up and yeah, it’s cool and all, but I just don’t care. One less goddamn tech thing to janitor in my life. I have three little automated plugs to turn my plant lights on and off on a timer. That's about it. They don't appear to touch the network except when you're configuring them based on my poking. None of the rest of it really makes any sense to me.
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Motronic posted:Automation can be useful particularly when you get shades, HVAC, etc involved. These aren't necessary or reasonable solutions for an 800 sq foot apartment, so a lot of people just don't have any use cases that make sense. Yeah, it's a 1200 sq ft. condo which is basically half of a house build in ~1900. It's all mini-splits but they don't have any networking stuff despite being new. Based on my conversations with energy auditors most performant way to use them in test houses was basically to set a reasonable temperature and leave them the gently caress alone. 
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Laserface posted:excluding human error at the other end of the drive thru where the food is bagged/handed over 85% seems to be pretty fuckin bad when you are limited to a specific menu of items. It is limited but I imagine a fuckload of the things it needs to understand are extremely similar, nevermind all of the poo poo people order by the wrong name.
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no hay camino posted:This is going to hurt sex workers for sure, but it seems like Onlyfans itself is to blame as well for poorly handling sexual content such that it started to spook financial institutions. If the government wants to have oversight over the content platforms are allowing and how that content is being moderated it should do that (and I think it should), but SESTA/FOSTA has placed a bunch of private companies in that role. Google and Apple and Facebook are now the sex police; they control a massive amount of what people have access to and they don't answer to anyone. The potential collateral damage extends beyond sexworkers. They don't seem to give a poo poo if you're making them enough money, but even stuff like grindr is well outside of what's ostensibly allowed on both Google Play and the App Store. Wallet fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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knox_harrington posted:I've only had 2 cars with it, but both have a pretty obvious key in the dongle and there's a keyhole in the door. The Tesla door handle design fuckups are completely egregious. The key in the doohickey on mine is not obvious but you'd probably find it eventually. That said I can't imagine how you would purchase a car and never ask yourself where the actual physical key to unlock it is. Volmarias posted:Can the trunk be opened without power though? Pretty sure they all can be by law as long as you're willing to crawl in through the back seat which you can't fold down because the release lever is in the trunk that you can't unlock without power.
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withak posted:What do you do with the the power pack if you can’t pop the hood? My car is from the 2000s, do they put some kind of emergency terminals in the cabin or trunk now? My last car (an 05) and my current car both have the battery in the trunk and remote terminals under the hood. Never heard of the reverse though.
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OctaMurk posted:Having worked on manufacturing of washing machines, even today's machines are serviceable if you know what you're doing. If something goes wrong, you can get the parts at a reasonable price and repair it yourself. I was just inside my combo washer/dryer earlier this week because it stopped draining water and it seemed very likely it was the drain pump. I was expecting it to be a rats nest nightmare to do anything with because it's a combo unit but it was actually real straightforward to take apart and put back together (except for the loving spring clamp for the door gasket thing which was a nightmare without the right tool on hand). I suppose it's probably one of the most common parts to fail and so is designed to be relatively easy to swap out, but For the record I have no idea what I'm doing but it works now.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(A) because federal law (they have to have hands on the piece of paper) and hobbesmaster posted:In the US they can do that for everything except schedule 2. Most effective ADHD medicine (stimulants) are schedule 2 and for some reason paper prescriptions are the standard for the “highest risk” drugs. They can use e-fax poo poo now, the services they use to do that (based on talking to some doctors) cost $$$, though, so doctors operating on their own and smaller offices often don't want to pay for it. My doctor started sending scripts electronically about a year ago which allows them to send multiple prescriptions that are post-dated after each appointment so they're waiting at the pharmacy when I need to fill them which has made my life less of a pain in the rear end. They still can't be transferred between pharmacies, but if one pharmacy has a stocking issue I can just call the doctor's office and have them send a new one to a different pharmacy instead of having to pick up a paper one. Could be worth trying to find a doctor that can do this if you're having issues with it.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:they exist in the US and i hardly ever see anyone using them, granted i don't spend much time hanging around in fast food lobbies. but usually the preference is for people to talk to another person, local levels of social anxiety and avoidance may vary. i can see why brits would want to have as little contact with each other as possible I don't see them super often but the last time I was in a McDonalds (pre-pandemic) I attempted to use one and found it surprisingly inconvenient. I just wanted to press the #3 button (or whatever) and hit submit but I literally couldn't find a way to order a meal instead of individually selecting a burger, a drink, and some fries.
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:By selling premium adspace to company’s. Free ads might just be “eat at dicks, 5mi” while premiums could have a video, interactive content, etc I'm not sure if Waze does it as well because I haven't used it in a while, but Google Maps will use certain restaurants and poo poo as navigational aids, which I assume someone is paying for. (One route I take three or four times a year always tells me to take a right after the Subway™.)
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KozmoNaut posted:You can even see in that video that the inside glass is still there. I'm sure the constant heat generated by the massive screen makes no difference whatsoever.
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Quorum posted:Fundamentally it's just a nervous system response that a percentage of people have to certain kinds of stimulus, something like how some percentage of people taste soap when they eat cilantro. I've had it since I was a kid, but the creepy whispering in your ear stuff it seems to have become synonymous with doesn't trigger it. Seems like a sex thing.
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sebmojo posted:The procgen art thread makes a solid argument for ai/ml taking work away from artists. It's getting p spooky, in amongst all the melting dog lols Sorry to be a dipshit but where it is? I'm interested in where that stuff is getting these days but I couldn't find it.
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Blut posted:Investing in a $200 "dumb" laser printer is something I recommend to everyone. Its just so much easier in the long run than dealing with crappy HP or whatever inkjets. I paid 50$ for mine at Staples during a sale like five years ago and it works great. I guess now the ones they deep discount are probably full of ink DRM bullshit now, though.
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eXXon posted:By what, promotional videos? I clicked on a CNN article from last November and it has the same 5 second clip of a guy stopping and climbing stairs. All of the other footage is walking forwards and provided by the company. Their own FAQ says this about how to stop: They're way too expensive but it's sort of an interesting idea. They seem to be sending out review prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oC-YQs2JiA
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Shrecknet posted:the only thing to do with a Google nest is cast it into the ocean! If you say "repeat after me 'fart fart fart fart fart'" to it it'll say fart really fast twenty times or so. We like it.
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