Man if anyone else did any of this there would be guys with guns kicking down doors. I don't understand why these companies automatically get a pass.
I, for one, trust neither the psychopaths running these companies or the psychopaths we'd give any regulatory authority to. All of them have reasons to want broad control of an extraordinary technology, and none of…
The margin on tvs is slim. Companies like Vizio make vastly more on the ads and data than they do on the tvs. Some quarters they even take a loss. They took a $7m bath on hardware while booking about $120m on ads and…
I did know Liberty Mutual. I had business with them. Now I know them and I’m fucking annoyed that they exist. My “propensity to buy” has not improved. You can save yourself the trouble of repeating more century old…
Well… I’ll remember that I never want to give Liberty Mutual a single dollar. I was never going to give any of the woo-woo secret health nonsense hucksters any money, though.
YouTube’s enshittification is shamelessly out of control. If you really want it, you can vpn through certain countries they don’t show ads at all.
My Reddit Ads sold app purchases. It’s especially hard for me since my app is “pay once and it’s yours” with no bs sibscriptions, instead of a trialware “free” app. My bigger problem is, no matter what I did with…
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Well I’ve certainly been wrong before, and hope I am about this, but it all looks very fuzzy to me right now.
Maybe there’s a narrow window to make hay right now, but that has to be closing fast for the same reasons.
Or entire tv series of weeping monologues over stuff nobody gives the slightest shit about. Or trying to make a 90 year old man pretend he’s an action hero. And the egregious memberberries. Or literally everything about…
It’s been thousands of years and there’s still no firm definition of “species”.
I wouldn’t read too far into that. Claude has busted me down to Haiku multiple times for asking middle school level genetics and biology questions. It’s silly fast about deciding you might be al quaeda. I’m a thoroughly…
Yeah, I’ve always thought that looking at the field of glorified prototypes and turning them into things real people actually love to use is, in fact, innovation. I don’t think the Duo is a great example of that. Maybe…
> a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea. Hi. That’s me… not-great mobile app maker. And yes, I’m grateful that RN exists. Mostly what it does is make sure that an Android version of things exist at all.
Most of us are amateurs, doing our best on solo projects, leveraging some preexisting js/react familiarity. We often just don’t know what we don’t know. I don’t know what Amazon (and others) excuse is. Their stuff is…
> They could be spending eight hours a day in the Kindle app reading classics Spoiler alert… they’re not.
More like “our product is so powerful it should almost be illegal… can any other budget line item at your business say that?”
The people who originally hired them most certainly did. It just didn’t work out that way, and they’re gone now. Quite a few people were lost in between, though.
I can’t speak to the wisdom of it, but it sure reeks of what I would have done, trying to be edgy in the early 2000s. Kinda like the old “cyber”-everything.
Yep. Some years ago I spent too much time on Reddit. A shockingly large number of subs were like 50% or more just screenshots of tweets. And I’m not even talking about the twitter themed subs. You could scroll through…
There are so, so many. You just generally won’t hear about it here. Where I work, I have chores than a claude subscription would knock out in minutes instead of months. But I don’t have permission to run something like…
No. It’s just a bunch of jokes rolled up into a big exaggeration. It’s funny because there are elements of truth in each bit of it, though.
Weirdly, I think I had stronger opinions before social media existed. Just… few people had to hear them or [c|w]ould challenge them. Maybe it was more a function of age. When you’re younger you’re so naturally sure that…
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season is taken. It’ll have to be Good Will Hunting 3.
Man if anyone else did any of this there would be guys with guns kicking down doors. I don't understand why these companies automatically get a pass.
I, for one, trust neither the psychopaths running these companies or the psychopaths we'd give any regulatory authority to. All of them have reasons to want broad control of an extraordinary technology, and none of…
The margin on tvs is slim. Companies like Vizio make vastly more on the ads and data than they do on the tvs. Some quarters they even take a loss. They took a $7m bath on hardware while booking about $120m on ads and…
I did know Liberty Mutual. I had business with them. Now I know them and I’m fucking annoyed that they exist. My “propensity to buy” has not improved. You can save yourself the trouble of repeating more century old…
Well… I’ll remember that I never want to give Liberty Mutual a single dollar. I was never going to give any of the woo-woo secret health nonsense hucksters any money, though.
YouTube’s enshittification is shamelessly out of control. If you really want it, you can vpn through certain countries they don’t show ads at all.
My Reddit Ads sold app purchases. It’s especially hard for me since my app is “pay once and it’s yours” with no bs sibscriptions, instead of a trialware “free” app. My bigger problem is, no matter what I did with…
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Well I’ve certainly been wrong before, and hope I am about this, but it all looks very fuzzy to me right now.
Maybe there’s a narrow window to make hay right now, but that has to be closing fast for the same reasons.
Or entire tv series of weeping monologues over stuff nobody gives the slightest shit about. Or trying to make a 90 year old man pretend he’s an action hero. And the egregious memberberries. Or literally everything about…
It’s been thousands of years and there’s still no firm definition of “species”.
I wouldn’t read too far into that. Claude has busted me down to Haiku multiple times for asking middle school level genetics and biology questions. It’s silly fast about deciding you might be al quaeda. I’m a thoroughly…
Yeah, I’ve always thought that looking at the field of glorified prototypes and turning them into things real people actually love to use is, in fact, innovation. I don’t think the Duo is a great example of that. Maybe…
> a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea. Hi. That’s me… not-great mobile app maker. And yes, I’m grateful that RN exists. Mostly what it does is make sure that an Android version of things exist at all.
Most of us are amateurs, doing our best on solo projects, leveraging some preexisting js/react familiarity. We often just don’t know what we don’t know. I don’t know what Amazon (and others) excuse is. Their stuff is…
> They could be spending eight hours a day in the Kindle app reading classics Spoiler alert… they’re not.
More like “our product is so powerful it should almost be illegal… can any other budget line item at your business say that?”
The people who originally hired them most certainly did. It just didn’t work out that way, and they’re gone now. Quite a few people were lost in between, though.
I can’t speak to the wisdom of it, but it sure reeks of what I would have done, trying to be edgy in the early 2000s. Kinda like the old “cyber”-everything.
Yep. Some years ago I spent too much time on Reddit. A shockingly large number of subs were like 50% or more just screenshots of tweets. And I’m not even talking about the twitter themed subs. You could scroll through…
There are so, so many. You just generally won’t hear about it here. Where I work, I have chores than a claude subscription would knock out in minutes instead of months. But I don’t have permission to run something like…
No. It’s just a bunch of jokes rolled up into a big exaggeration. It’s funny because there are elements of truth in each bit of it, though.
Weirdly, I think I had stronger opinions before social media existed. Just… few people had to hear them or [c|w]ould challenge them. Maybe it was more a function of age. When you’re younger you’re so naturally sure that…
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season is taken. It’ll have to be Good Will Hunting 3.