- rightbyteIt is unsettling how frank and clear your post is. However, at the time, the algorithms were way "nicer", right? Or was it that people were nicer and or people on social media were nicer?
- You can be in "moral panic" without instigating what you think is government overreach.
People and especially kids drink too much soda but I don't think bans are appropriate.
- Maybe. But the thing is that I think there is a legitimate cultural need to minimize mass exposure to these centralized social media platforms. And I think people realised this about now.
I don't advocate legal bans. And people need to stop using it. The risk is great that there will be legal overreach ...
- Yeah and like coupon codes for discounts etc.
- I'm quite sure only "we" care about esoteric browser features.
"Does it have tabs? OK. Fine."
Firefox losing market share were probably more due to Google nagging desktop users than features.
What did Chrome have that Firefox didn't?
- I am not a maoist.
I meant that this is reductionist:
> definitional difference between a government, a corporation and a mafia that stands up to any objective measure and isn't based entirely on social cues and special pleading
Thinking about it. Your post now is also reductionist. Maybe that is your thing?
- Sadly not. Context based ads is a thing.
- That seems rather reductionist.
- Your identity can't be stolen. That is something banks have made up to pretend the they aren't at fault.
- > But the default position of the UK government has always been secrecy and the right to do what they want to protect the country.
Usually those types are the prime threat to the country.
- I have this fear autosave might corrupt the file by trying to save while the program has hung or whatever.
I don't remember which app made me think that. Maybe some old version of Matlab cleared unsaved files when hung and with autosave enabled.
- Glad to hear you figured it out. I somewhat identify eventhough I didn't go as deep.
> if I did my homework before they got home they wouldn't believe me and would make me do some kind of schoolwork so they could see it happening, so basically for 4 years the majority of my free time was spent playing WoW and posting on 4chan.
Oh I hate this. Busywork. Also I think you and I got incentivized to play as much computer games as possible due to the arbitrary limitations of it and constant fear of being pulled off to some busywork. It was like a never ending battle ...
I think many parents don't realize that "doing the laundry" on command is like 10x the work of doing it when you please. You can't relax after school.
- > vague description (interesting role at a sector), no mention of rate, names or anything else.
Consultancies does that when they recruit for likely or ongoing leads too, though. To not leak the lead.
- > One time fee software ment that once your growth slows down you no longer make money and have plenty of customers to support for free.
What do you mean. Support contracts were not included by default. Consumers had some initial support to fight off instant reclamations.
- Yeah at some point it wasn't possible. I think Mozilla did some workaround by having a bunch of wetted extensions?
- > I don't want to be that contrarian guy, but I find it energizing to go faster.
Is that contrarian though? Seems like pretty normal corparate setting bragging to me. (Note: I am not accusing you of it since your boss or collegues does not read this).
On the variant of "I am bad at not working too hard".
- KPI hunting? Toxic/fake positivity?
- To be pedantic, a theory that has been proven correct is still a theory, right?
- It is an irritating realisation that the ones I though were naive, weren't, but I was for thinking they were naive.
- Yeah I agree obviously spyware in cars is way greater threat than one in a TV.