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by 6chars 4y ago
(In my experience at least. I'm open to recommendations!)
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by 6chars 4y ago
Google is the worst search engine besides every other one
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by 6chars 4y ago
Maybe an enhancement would be to have it look at the edit history and use the most recent URL that has remained on the page for at least X hours/days
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by 6chars 4y ago
The old Jawbone Up fit the bill somewhat, but I don't remember exactly what features it had. I thought it was a great product and hoped to see more like it.
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by 6chars 4y ago
*President Garfield
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by 6chars 5y ago
Yep, and I'll admit I love being this guy!
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by 6chars 5y ago
I suspect you don't hate to be that guy all that much
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by 6chars 5y ago
So true Discounting the fact that humans aren't coldly rational is irrational. People love to hide behind "logic", but poking a bear and expecting it not to attack you because that would be an "irrational" emotional
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by 6chars 5y ago
No question, but I just want to sympathize with your distress over receiving the original email. It's impossible to say for sure because I didn't receive one, but I think I would have reacted the same way. I am also very frustrate
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by 6chars 5y ago
Thank you! So many hindsight fortune tellers here.
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by 6chars 5y ago
> If I keep guessing coinflips, I don't have knowledge of the answer 50% of the time even though I can predict them that often. Sorry to get off topic, but I think this is an interesting way of thinking about this. I wonder if it re
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by 6chars 5y ago
I could use a new technical book to read. Is this the one you're referring to? https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471197130/thean04c-...
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by 6chars 5y ago
I wonder how much this has to do with their being a Norwegian company. I have no idea what the expectations of customer service are over there. I'm just going on my experience working at a Scandinavian company and the incredulity I&#x2
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by 6chars 5y ago
Seems like it. I imagine there were a lot of people at Paramount who were unhappy with this, but who weren't empowered to stop it from happening. I want to believe that Paramount is a good steward of the franchise, so I'm hoping w
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by 6chars 5y ago
Wow, that's a really crappy experience. Personally, I had a pretty good experience with their customer service. My stylus broke after a few weeks (just stopped working for writing entirely). They sent me a new one right away and didn&#
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by 6chars 5y ago
To clarify for anyone in the US, this applies to everyone _outside_ the US. Previously, Paramount released Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ in the US and Netflix everywhere else. Now it's Paramount+ everywhere, only that doesn't
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by 6chars 5y ago
Ok fine, let me choose a different example. Has someone who became a millionaire daytrading crypto contributed more to society than almost* every nurse? * there are probably a handful of millionaire nurses out there Edit: to be clear, I&#x2
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by 6chars 5y ago
> If you're rich, it means you have provided a decent amount of value to society somehow. Yep, a toddler who was born into an aristocratic family has provided more value to society than any public school teacher ever has.
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by 6chars 5y ago
> E.g., no one needs more than ±10 million dollars. I don't know about you, but I need more than -10 million dollars.
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by 6chars 6y ago
I'm not saying they aren't. What I'm trying to get across is that people are more used to and, therefore, inured to their dark patterns. There's a learning curve for navigating any website's dark patterns, so I&#x27
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by 6chars 6y ago
I don't have any evidence to back this up, but in my recollection, that is the case. But it's hard to even compare e-commerce now to back before Amazon, when the web was much more niche and a lot of dark patterns weren't even
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by 6chars 6y ago
I believe this kind of thing is a big contributor to Amazon's hegemony in online shopping. I'm reluctant to order from other sites because there's a whole new set of dark patterns I may fall victim to. At least I'm famil
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by 6chars 6y ago
That I can see. Or he would fixate on the fact that someone else does know how to use them and get competitive about it, trying and failing hard to show that he's also worldly.
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by 6chars 6y ago
I don't think the author really understands the characterization of Michael Scott. I can't imagine the hypothetical scene of Michael Scott taking pride in knowing how to use chopsticks. That sounds way more out of character to me
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by 6chars 6y ago
> I don't even remember what Google is If DDG has such severe memory-related side effects, I'm not sure I want to switch.
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by 6chars 6y ago
It would have been a courtesy to Teams users too, not just MS. I don't see the downside of going through the proper channels before disclosing this publicly unless the goal is some kind of "revenge" for the bug.
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by 6chars 6y ago
20 years is quite the tenure for a president
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by 6chars 6y ago
I've lived by this rule too ever since I got a bottle of "One A Day" multivitamins that invariably made me vomit 10 minutes after taking one. (Embarrassingly, I didn't give up on them until maybe the fifth time it happen
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by 6chars 7y ago
I'm uncomfortable with this rehearsal analogy. I'd rather have a company pay me to learn new things than spend my free time coding when I could be seeing my family, pursuing a hobby, or vegging out. From my employer's perspec
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by 6chars 11y ago
"oftentimes they're contractually forbidden from disclosing it" Is that true? That sounds illegal.

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