wasteduniverse

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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Ah yes, ground to stand on for when you continue to not sell these products that people are emulating. Marketing has determined that our public image is too positive, deploy the lawyers.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower and blame Kia for this, blame the NHTSA for making it legal to skimp out on immobilizers in the first place. Regulations matter!
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Presuming that the price fixing mentioned in this article is also applied to hotel prices (which the FTC and DOJ are also looking into right now). I really hate this anti-skeptic rhetoric that's becoming so popular on HN right now. I
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
I used that chat bot to try and find the dimensions of a product and it couldn't even fetch them from the information table that was right above it in the page. What's the point of working your developers to the bone (as Amazon is
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Being forced to use Edge on my work laptop is how I found out about vertical tabs, they're so much easier to use for me. Why is having a vertical option for the taskbar not on Win11? That sounds like one of the easiest features to port
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Feels like people are starting to realize just how inflated the whole US/China rivalry is: it doesn't really work if you already know how co-dependent and intertwined our economies are. Yeah, I know these types of articles are jus
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
If I hated crypto companies, why would I help find bugs for them?
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
But those people don't really care about how the internet works, they just use the big mainstream sites and go on with their lives. Everyone else only dislikes them because they're the ones being tailored to. Everything is going t
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
> all is well and will be well, for AI shall be unto us a confort (comfort?) in loneliness Uh, I don't want all of my online social connections being replaced with robots, thanks.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
That sounds like their error. If the ticket said Saturday 2am, you wouldn't show up at Sunday 2am, right?
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Yes.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
From the zdnet interview with Johnathan Nightingale someone else linked: "All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we'd say 'hey what gives?' And every
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Ask to use Alice's likeness in my product, get declined. Ask again. Debut product, users say "this sounds a lot like Alice". The day my product releases, I make a public statement referencing a movie Alice starred in. When Al
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Wow, that's awesome. This is the closest I've been to someone directly exploiting my privacy for financial gain. Thank you for linking that article.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
The telltale sign that I'm wasting my time trying to fix a problem is whenever someone tells me "I hear you" or "I understand".
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Having the like button do an animation when your video mentions that liking it would be helpful is the only good UX choice I have seen on YouTube since... playlists?
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
I think the clunkyness of getting into torrenting media is a necessary evil to keep it from getting cracked down on. It's like antibiotics: the more people use them, the less effective they become.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
Can anyone here explain why YouTube (namely the mobile interface) goes through a total redesign every 1-2 years? Is it just to earn some unknown manager another promotion? I'm getting really sick of it at this point.
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by wasteduniverse 2y ago
What does the "They(TM)" mean?