Yeah but then they might pull a Reddit and make their mobile web experience shittier and shittier in hopes of sheepdogging people into the app.

If customers are telling a business what they want, and that business sabotages it to force customers to begrudgingly accept what the business wants, that’s not a customer problem, that’s a dumbass corporate idea

We’ve been on a carousel for decades now where some behemoth platform is stable and good and uncontested, then some braindead visionary gets on board and tries to leave their mark, and the entire base leaves like rats on a sinking ship. And the new thing we all run to eventually gets huge and some braindead visionary tries to fix what isn’t broken. Endlessly

True but it’s not canon and all in good fun like Super Smash. I think Ariel is funnier because she has all sorts of reasons to want to kill her dickhole of a dad

I watched that movie when I was 9 and feel out of the loop. Was there a Jerry Springer moment I totally whooshed?

Using Reddit as a platform to protest Reddit is even more idiotic than staging a sit in at Disneyworld to protest against Disney.

“Hey we’re getting revenue and media is gonna give us a bajillion clickthroughs from rubbernecking, please, if you can still protest in any capacity on our site please do, make it a huge spectacle”

You can point out outliers but statistically most CEOs have been selected to some extent for reasons that don’t involve KSAs. Only one such example: average height of a CEO in an S&P 500 company is a standard deviation higher than the average male. Average height of a founder of a top 10 S&P company in terms of market cap is a standard deviation lower (Bezos, Zuck, Huang all 5’7", Brin 5’8", Gates is a relative Goliath at 5’10").

I’ll let you ruminate on the disparity in height between moderately successful promoted CEOs and unimaginably successful founders and why that is such in a culture that views height positively.

Most executives are hard working sure, but also pageant winners. If you want to learn how to claw at colleagues you’ll learn a lot from a random CEO.

There are very few CEOs you should actually take advice from. The most successful businesspeople were never promoted and are an entirely different species from those that were. They share practically nothing with those that were, and if they were an internal hire and not a founder they’d be passed over in the blink of an eye in favor of someone with far more charm than ingenuity and work ethic

Dude is missing a 3 on the left. No dice

AI prompt: Imagine a world in which Steve Jobs was alive through the acquisition of Beats

AI: say no more fam

I’m not into swords at all but I imagine it’s a lot easier to rake the edge of the blade across a surface if it’s angled away like a scimitar and more likely to just thwap something perpendicularly with a straight blade. ‘Papercut theory’ of sorts

Yay more projection

Trump asked FCC to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license due to his so-called ‘mistreatment’ at the debate and he was soundly rebuked

So do they think attempting to censor media outlets good or bad? Beats the hell out of me

Nowadays 2 seconds is an eternity considering M.2 drive speed and DDR4 bandwidth. Baldur’s Gate 1 for example, nothing is compressed and load times are in single digit milliseconds. Sure BG1 is loading like 1/8th the stuff but load times are 1/300th

There’s actually a program people use for D2R to unpack textures and it cuts load time significantly, but the install and the uncompressed files have a massive footprint

Most games, most textures are compressed, which leads to something like Diablo 2’s remake having ridiculous load times considering it’s a simple reskin of a 20 year old game. That 30GB footprint probably gets unpacked to something twice the size, and if you’re caching literally every single thing for the sake of smoothness (flight sims rarely have loading screens when you enter another country’s airspace or a different biome), and a little bit of overhead for OS etc, gonna need heaps of RAM

I heard they’re drafting a resolution to sheepishly ask the US ‘why the big cars?’

I’ve never been rear ended but then I bought my G37 and it was suddenly happening on a yearly basis. In the span of one year, I had a truck back into it when it was parked in our parking lot, got rear ended in traffic, then had a car reverse into me at a stop sign (driver pulled forward to make a turn but decided they couldn’t make it so threw it in reverse and gunned it). I may have been rear ended a second time that year but it’s hard to keep track of how many people drove into this car. After a while I quit making claims because that was a pain in the ass, bumpers look like I use it to nudge cars around a junkyard.

Edit: and the thing that makes the frequency really wild is that I used it mainly to commute ~2 miles to work, so I was in that thing less than 30 minutes a day

The day of a new patch in WoW I said in general chat “wow, they finally put a confirmation when you type /gquit , crazy how long it took” and sit in town and watch peoples guild names disappear

I think the way to win is to understand the algorithm and juke it for good stuff. I saw an ad for THC gummies a while back, free sample, so I started reading the comments, clicked through to the site, backed out, read the comments again, then clicked back in and got a free sample. I spent so much time messing around with this random ad that the next thing I knew, every ad was for free THC gummies (just pay shipping but cheaper than actually buying from Cycling Frog or wherever). Eventually it reverts back towards a mean but if you see something cool you can def trick the whole algorithm to only hand you that cool stuff

Facebook still has that but they obscured it in favor of their dumb algorithm whipping up totally random things and ads.

To get to it click the 3 lines or ‘more’, then find ‘feeds’ and select that, then choose groups or friends or whatnot, and it’ll show you those posts sorted by most recent. No way to make this default.

But the algorithm is so dumb because it takes into account how long you pause on a post and seems to weigh that higher than other things - for example if you see an ad you hate, for like a slot machine game app, and you click ‘see less ads like this’, the amount of time you spend clicking through menu options while on that ad will make the algorithm give you more ads tangentially related to slot machine apps, despite you basically saying “I hate these kind of ads”. Really dumb algorithm. Even reporting some fly-by-night obvious scam ad impersonating a brand will lead you to see only those type of scam ads. Really really dumb.

Even you pausing over the post you did in order to take a screenshot, that’ll make you see more of those types of things

No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner’s discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it’s usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.

Google isn’t exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don’t pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they’ll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides. Anything on Google is on Google with consent.

No, the issue is that anything AI creates is by definition derivative. Google doesn’t whip up generative content, it points you to content.

OpenAI is claiming that they can’t do shit without scraping copyrighted works and we all know that’s a load of BS because we’re adrift in a sea of royalty-free text. Critical mass happened well over a decade ago. The amount of new random crap hosted on the internet in the past 30 days would probably take 500 years for one person to digest. Bear at a stream watching an impossibly large amount of salmon jumping

The Nvidia 7800GT Dual is an oddball card from that era. Nvidia made a dual chip card back in 2004-2005 and they deemed it so power hungry that it had supplementary power routed to the rear, and an external power supply brick was packaged alongside it. It was a monster of a card, measuring nearly 10 inches long, and could make a 350W PSU beg for mercy. How the times have changed