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- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 1 week ago:
Oh interesting-- Yeah gaming the recommendation/search algorithms is another, related explanation. Like I know someone with an Etsy store who says that various things, like running out of stock or putting your store in “vacation mode” will hurt your store’s visibility, so people find ways to game it. Totally makes sense that the same kind of thing would be going on on Amazon.
Weird that they’d allocate ad spend at the same time that they were out of stock, but like I said, the algorithms are pretty coarse and probably just not that coordinated.
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 1 week ago:
Lots of vendors set their prices algorithmically… So like when competitors raise their prices or demand seems high for some reason or something, the price will auto-adjust to theoretically maximize profits. The algorithms are often pretty dumb.
So sometimes when you see something like this, you’re witnessing a dynamic pricing algorithm spiraling out of control because it wasn’t implemented very well, and nobody’s paying attention.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.
So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 4 weeks ago:
Nice! Hope it works out. For sharing publicly, you might look at something like Immich Public Proxy, if it seems like you need it.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 4 weeks ago:
Does Immich meet your needs?
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 4 weeks ago:
PSA: Inkscape is good now!
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
No, no, you’re thinking of a manifold. A manosphere is an orb that keeps track of how much spellcasting energy you have left, next to your healthsphere.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Art 👌
- Comment on It was rigged? 5 weeks ago:
Also MMA doesn’t have anything to do with being staged.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 weeks ago:
Sounds normal to me, but I think you’re right that it depends on what they mean by “hike.” Around here, a casual trail walk in an area that’s likely to have other people around would not be beyond the pale… But like a back country slog where you park on the shoulder of a secondary highway 45 minutes out of town would.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 5 weeks ago:
It’s an algorithm that records its progress and any errors to a text file.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 5 weeks ago:
It’s getting so hard to find outrelevant results these days.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 5 weeks ago:
It’s just any time there’s that much excitement, it must be no good, you know?
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Mostly stuff with beans.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Ahh, hence why there are no negative Unix timestamps.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Hence the first and only commandment of Last Thursdayism: Don’t Panic.
- Comment on Get good. 1 month ago:
At least the toddler has an excuse for parroting an idea that has virtually no semantic meaning to them-- That’s what toddlers do. The venture capitalists though…
- Comment on Worst amusement park ever. 2 months ago:
And if you don’t like one color, there’s a wide palette to choose from.
- Comment on Damn right I'm a silly goose 2 months ago:
Just generally not being a jerk, in a situation where people are often jerks.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 2 months ago:
Becoming a programmer isn’t the gold rush free money wild ride it used to be, but programming skills are 100% still in demand. Lots of companies are pretending that they don’t need juniors because something something AI, but that’s transient-- Either a) the AI bubble is going to collapse, or b) roles and skillsets are going to shift around until they settle into a new paradigm.
That paradigm might have juniors just like before, or it might look like hybrid “people who code” roles that aren’t like traditional full-time developers.
In any case, there’s still tons of value in learning to code, and I think it’s worth sticking to if you like it.
If you don’t particularly like it though, then yeah just bail. The skillset will still be handy, but the career path might be a little unstable for a few years.
- Comment on [Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? 2 months ago:
That looks really cool. It will help me live out my fantasy of having a handful of ants in my pocket that I can deploy at any moment.
- Comment on Very thankful 2 months ago:
Paywall :(
- Comment on Very thankful 2 months ago:
Poor server-side error handling is a big turnoff for me, unsubbed.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
evrytiem
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
Can we go on land yet?
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
Look, they only had $70m to work with, okay? You gotta make some compromises when you’re on such a shoestring budget.
- Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History 3 months ago:
Let us not forget the revolutionary idea to-- now pay attention cause this is BIG-- to prioritize player experience! Can’t believe nobody has thought of that before.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Why do you have all of these screenshots of this thong witch squeezing some NPC’s head with her thighs?”
Oh uh it was for a joke post I made just as a joke. I can probably just delete them now, I just forgot.
Well I wasn’t gonna post all 82 but I just wanted to make sure I got the best by which I mean funniest angles. For the joke, you see.
- Comment on Thank you! 3 months ago:
Leaf broth
- Comment on stop 3 months ago:
Of course, they are very important!
