Carighan

Carighan , 1 day ago

That's actually really cool that they do that. Reduces the ability of people to scam because they cannot pick intentionally-similar usernames.

Carighan , 4 days ago

“Natural” has almost no meaning on a package, it is just a hand-waving word

That's partially because it's useless in general, of course it's natural, where else would you get it from? Every atom from a particle accelerator colision?!

Carighan , 11 days ago

That's because from a health perspective, alcohol in particular is an "end state drug". It's what you die with. It ruins you. Not as fast as heroine, but just as thoroughly.

Carighan , 12 days ago

Shouldn't the normal size be 2? Given, well, the name?

Carighan , 12 days ago

To someone from central europe it's always weird how houses get build from wood in the US. 😅 I imagine you can hear ~everything happening ~anywhere in the house?

Carighan , 14 days ago

Why?

Carighan , 13 days ago

Yeah but what about the other 99% of cookie use cases?

Carighan , 21 days ago

This is why AI is not actually a good solution. Perfect example.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Or rather too much access to too many non-credible sources.

Meaning, we need to remove shit like Twitter from the net already.

Carighan , 1 month ago

That would, given most facebook posts, massively improve the quality.

Carighan , 1 month ago

My feed is highly curated

A few years ago I did this, too. By deleting my facebook account. Best curation of it I've ever achieved.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Nevermind how downright bad leather is for most clothing applications. It's high maintenance, stiff, non-breathing, non-padding and cannot be repaired easily. There's a reason it was only used for specific parts of clothing in specific situations once we had figured out stuff like cotton or wool.

Carighan , 1 month ago

It's supremely bad as a product, the origin doesn't actually matter?

Smells, stiff, needs constant care, (comparatively) complex to repair, it just has virtually no upsides. It doesn't even last long unless you're comparing really high-quality leather to really low-quality cotton or something like that.

Carighan , 1 month ago

That's not the same at all. PLA-printed 3D prints don't take 1000s of years to break down, but they're very clearly not something you add to the composter.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I mean you can make leather from all kinds of skins. And there's one... animal... that we have a particularly large amount of on earth and we regularly have to get rid of a significnat number of deceased of without currently re-using their skin. Hrm... cool idea for an industrialist horror movie...

Carighan , 1 month ago

Note to self: Introduce more dragons to Ireland.

Carighan , 1 month ago

The same happens in reverse. It's the natural result of not naming the packages differently as a dev.

Carighan , 1 month ago

The they should rename the package? Either way, F-Droid is the problem here.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Yep, this has been happening for a long long time already. It's due to F-Droid using the same package name but a different signature.

So from the perspective of any other store, it looks like someone tampered with this app.

Carighan , 1 month ago

quiet quitting time

That's just called "doing your job". You're not being paid to break your back for the corporation. If they wanted you to, they'd include it in the contract and pay enough money for it.

Carighan , 2 months ago

In my country not doing both of those in a moving vehicle gets you fined and/or your license suspended.

Welcome to the 20th century I suppose, America. You'll make it to actual modern times eventually!

Carighan , 2 months ago

They're not actually. They just needed to define what e-bikes are as a by-the-by because so far it had not been defined.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Why is this "mildly infuriating"? That they kept her around for so long? 😅

Carighan , 2 months ago

Although depending on the country, the actual price on the low end is comparable or even pricier for the blocks.

However, you get access to tons more really good cheese if you buy in blocks.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Though I bought relatively large paper-based filters before that explicitly said they were fully compostable. And since loose tea beats bagged tea 90% of the time anyways...

Carighan , 2 months ago

now

Now?! That used to be the default until some hipster companies started fucking shit up with their shitty plastic pyramid bags.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Or more specifically, if it's a controlled IT environment and you rely on centrally vetted and controlled software updates (which makes sense in a lot of contexts), then, well, control them centrally.

As in, either they update on their own, or every weekend the devices stay with IT anyways and get updated.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Not in the slightest.

Carighan , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yep, this is the essence of it.

Also keep in mind the quality massively depending on how "close" to the actual amazon delivery you are, company-wise. Is it an amazon driver doing your delivery? A contractor? That contractor's subcontractor? I think DHL once used 5 levels of subcontractors?

At some point, so much money has been skimmed off by so many managers that the driver is losing money by breathing between actions.

Carighan , 2 months ago

I remember when this was a huge thing back when Chrome was really new.

Other browsers always needed admin permissions to be installed and to be updated at the time. Chrome installed by-default in the user context, didn't even ask for an installation location (which sucked 😅) and could also update without adminstrative privileges.

Of course, nowadays this is entirely normal. But while it wasn't the the first software to do it back then, it was the first one where the average user say something being done without a popup about changed system settings.

Carighan , 2 months ago

All examples you mention are just refinements of what others did, proving the point. Except the Vision Pro which is just factually a bad product and rightly getting lambasted by everyone for it. But eh, even Apple has their misses.

Carighan , 2 months ago

No, the G Pay logo and branding is entirely separate. It is and has always been the indication that you can pay with the Wallet app. Which sucks as far as naming goes, but at least it has been quite consistent.

...

Over here. I had no idea that in other countries they did all kinds of fuckery with their branding.

Carighan , 2 months ago

It's almost as if, and bear with me here this is a truly wild concept, letting every manager run their own little show and paying them based on how many new products they introduce isn't actually healthy.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Yeah although not having a tablet or web client is frankly ridiculous. It's not 2000 any more, plus their desktop client is already running in a package Chrome anyways.

Carighan , 3 months ago

Honestly virtually all verification mail lands in spam on most free providers.

And it's no wonder. Try running your own server sending these mails before you judge. My company needs to put a lot of work into this.

Why?

Because spam is rampant. So in return, anti-spam filters are extremely strict. And there's dozens and dozens and dozens of hoops to jump, and holding one leg just a tiny bit wrong immediately gets you spam filtered everywhere.

You might think "This sucks, just don't block as much!", but you're not seeing the thousands of mails that never even reach your spam folder because the server-to-server traffic already blocks them and they don't make it through that. The percentage blocked is crazy. Spam is that bad.

Carighan , 3 months ago

I’m just saying that everything in our lives is trying so hard to turn everything into a recurring fee that my first reaction to every recurring fee is pure hatred.

But OTOH, it has ~always been that everything semi-worthwhile in our loves has been a recurring cost.

Food, sex, children, relationships, even things luxury/benign such as cars which are often mistaken for a one-time payment but really are not.

Carighan , 3 months ago

Not a lot at all, as you can run a spam mail center on a potato. People underestimate how power-/hardware-inefficient crypto really is, and how that alone already makes it unusable for banking at large.

Carighan , 3 months ago

The example videos are both impressive (insofar that they exist) and dreadful. Two-legged horses everywhere, lots of random half-human-half-horse hybrids, walls change materials constantly, etc.

It really feels like all this does is generate 60 DALL-E images per second and little else.

Carighan , 3 months ago

Man, when I worked retail in the 90s, we were TOLD to follow known shoplifters and would-be shoplifters, deter them, and even stop them before leaving.

Yeah but did you work in a country that has sensible gun laws? It sounds like the person you reply to is from the US, and I sure as hell would not try to stop a thief if I have to assume they might as well have a shotgun in their trousers' leg or an assault rifle in their car.

In the US I'd probably help them carry the product out anyways, fuck labor "laws" in the US.

Carighan , 3 months ago

You could argue that if we didn't like mildly interesting or infuriating stories, we should not be in this community, hence could not read this post.

Carighan , 3 months ago

It's also why the target is 410 was of 400 I'd imagine .

Carighan , 3 months ago

After the post the other day , this is the price I have to pay for 2 visits to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, about 10 to 12 X-rays, a CT scan, two nights in hospital (so far) and all the drugs

This references another thread from recently where someone listed the costs of absolutely basic cancer checkups. This person here is showing how they don't have to pay anything for emergency care. Which is pretty normal in most western countries other than the US, granted.

Carighan , 3 months ago

Yeah luckily that is free over here. Every few years, and always if a doc orders it.

Carighan , 3 months ago

Turned into?! I can't recall a time when they were good.

And I'm quite old. They bought a bunch of really good teams like Blue Byte, and immediately made them produce crap.

Carighan , 3 months ago

It feels like they're using the Lego sorting robots to assemble the kit for a plane...

Carighan , 3 months ago

Excuse me, don't you mean dark orange?

Carighan , 4 months ago

Honestly while Google is far ahead of Amazon here, they still recognize like 9 out of 10 voices as the "owner". Just not 10 out of 10 like Alexa does, which is utterly useless and will happily recognize a cat meowing as its trigger and allow it to unlock the front door. >.>

Carighan , 4 months ago

My point was more that the products aren't ruined from the perspective of their intended design. They're not meant as products to be of maximum usefulness to the customer, rather to capture and control the largest share of the market.