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jdeath ,

Ads are built. what do they need engineers for?

jdeath ,

Nooooooooooo! NO! No! Nooooooooo

jdeath ,

Windows updates used to be seen as upgrades. I remember getting Win95 to run on my 386 with 8MB of RAM (which my buddy said wouldn't be able to handle it). I was so stoked to have it working because 95 had so many improvements over 3.1. Of course each release had its issues but after some service packs they were usually pretty good.

Maybe it started with Windows ME, but it definitely was in full effect by Vista, where new releases became downgrades. XP was the last great version, when I had to move on from that everything started getting much worse UX-wise.

jdeath ,

yeah i hated that move. XP was so much better than 7. they went really bland, moved all the most useful quick controls, started the process of destroying the control panel... ugh

jdeath ,

no, it was XP

jdeath ,

what babies crave!

seriously, are you gonna baptize that baby in _toilet water?!_

jdeath ,

now your bill will increase to make up for it

jdeath ,

APAB. Fucking bullshit!

jdeath ,

isn't that the award winning actress?

jdeath ,

why would someone go out of their way to use closed source lemmy clients?

jdeath ,

god damn i love relevant xkcds

jdeath ,

what are they tho?

Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)

Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

jdeath ,

the two ways to increase profitability: bundling and unbundling

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    jdeath ,

    this should be the top child comment to the original comment

    jdeath ,

    i'll vote for nobody. nobody cares! nobody is honest! nobody for prez

    jdeath ,

    today's response to my comment is brought to you by somebody who doesn't understand how jokes work

    jdeath ,

    that is what i've done. you can even disconnect one from the internet and plug in a box any time

    jdeath ,

    yeah if anything a subsidy for safer tires and doing proper maintenance on brakes and other safety system would be what you want.

    what is subsidized, there is more of than there otherwise would be

    and the opposite is true for what is taxed.

    jdeath ,

    most of the self checkouts i have used in the past 5 years or so have not even included the "scale" as part of the process. i do remember maybe once or twice that being an issue but it almost never happens any more. 10 years ago they were all "scale stupid" but it seems like that died off at least here in the eastern US

    Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand (edition.cnn.com)

    Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand::The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

    jdeath ,

    machine buzzes you are a bad mother

    jdeath ,

    spoiler warning: it won’t

    jdeath ,

    the first time someone not expecting this surge pricing finds out they have to pay more because it's lunch time, they will not be coming back to wendys ever again

    Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers (www.tomshardware.com)

    Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor's regular 9am reggaeton music.

    jdeath ,

    haha, somebody made this exact same comment on hacker news!

    jdeath ,

    awesome. google ruined the internet, would be great for them to face an existential threat

    jdeath ,

    yeah to buy apps on their app store you make an account. maybe you could side load without it but haven't tried

    jdeath ,

    i don’t think that is what they meant. is that a strawman you’re slaying?

    jdeath ,

    still way too much hype over ripoffs and projects that go nowhere. same with ai, its just the buzzword du jour that slick talkers sprinkle in to sound smart

    jdeath ,

    that's... not how that works. all you can do with 51% is possibly double-spend whatever coins you already have. or undo some transactions.

    so you submit a transaction, then use your extra 1% of hash power to mine a new block that says you didn't actually spend it. at the same time you need to trick somebody else into believing you actually did send the coins, and take their stuff you "paid for." then after you have the stuff, you can submit the block that doesn't have your transaction in it. Voila, free stuff and you didn't spend your coins.

    it does not enable you to mess with other's balances. other than possibly reversing some transactions. you would need the private keys to their wallets to take their money. and if you have those, you don’t need 51% of the hash power, you can just take the coins with 0% hash power.

    jdeath ,

    Y'all prefer to have the government and banks in charge of money instead? seriously?

    jdeath ,

    the shadowy cabal of a few rich people is called the Fed, it's privately owned by all the banks. there is no democracy in the existing system

    jdeath ,

    yeah they've done great with inflation so far! lol

    jdeath ,

    is there a non-shitty alternative to use that anyone could recommend? would be really interested.

    jdeath ,

    I'm not sure if people here realize this, but the interest from $10m is approximately four to eight hundred thousand dollars per year.

    So, with ten million, one could instantly retire and never ever have to work again.

    That's priceless freedom to me, and it wouldn't require deleting almost all of my friends, relationships, experiences, and who I am.

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