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The gap between something totally new existing, and someone taking it for granted and saying it totally sucks, is still so short. I'm reminded of Louis CK's bi

The gap between something totally new existing, and someone taking it for granted and saying it totally sucks, is still so short. I'm reminded of Louis CK's bit about wifi on planes: "And it's fast, and I'm watching YouTube clips. It's amaz--I'm on an airplane! And then it breaks down. And they apologize, the Internet's not working. And the guy next to me goes, 'This is bullshit.' I mean, how quickly does the world owe him something that he knew existed only 10 seconds ago?"

esprehn 4y ago
To be fair in the case of airplane wifi this is compounded by the exorbitant pricing. If you pay a premium price you expect premium service. There's no competition for airplane wifi though, you either use it or you don't. It's not like you choose between two different vendors... So they're competing against no wifi at all which allows for pretty mediocre and unreliable service as that's "better than nothing". These free ML models exist in a slightly different world.
- guiambros 4y ago
  > To be fair in the case of airplane wifi this is compounded by the exorbitant pricing. Is this still true, though? I regularly pay $8 for wifi on a 6h flight coast-to-coast with United. And also paid $15 for a 10h transatlantic flight last week, which seems pretty fair to me. Oh, and messaging and chat apps are free, so you don't really need to pay if you only want to keep in touch with folks on the ground. Sure, quality is sometimes spotty, but seems to have improved over the last couple of years.
  - agolio 4y ago
    I don't know what it is, but somehow paying even a penny for wi-fi hotspots is incomprehensible by my brain. It could be a 16-hour flight to Australia, and still my brain would be saying no. Then I would order a $10 coffee and tell myself I deserve to treat myself.
    - iab 4y ago
      I also suffer-from/actively-encourage this mentality
- totoglazer 4y ago
  On my last flight it was $39.
- coldtea 4y ago
  >If you pay a premium price you expect premium service. Only the point of the Louis CK joke is that mere flying in the air, and getting to 1000s of miles away in a couple of hours, is a beyond premium service, when thought of in historical perspective... closer to a miracle. It's this "taking for granted" that makes us consider it a standard thing in mere 100 years after its invention, and when it was not just a thing for rich people, but a totally unimaginable dream for millenia...
Choco31415 4y ago
I almost feel like that’s more of a reflection of someone’s attitude or even their mental health. Negativity can be nice, but insulting something for being what it is is not exactly intelligent.
joe_the_user 4y ago
The gap between something totally new existing, and someone taking it for granted and saying it totally sucks, is still so short. I think it's the opposite. With any complex and challenging task, the gap between "mostly done in a mediocre way" and "finished and acceptable" tends to be huge. Lost of "mostly done in a mediocre way" Hollywood films never see the light of day 'cause there's no reason for them to. Lots of writers throw their "mostly done in a mediocre way" novels away and start again. If this tool gets you to a place that seems "90% done" but you find you have do as much work for the remaining "10%" as if you would if you started from scratch, frustration seems reasonable.
- ShamelessC 4y ago
  It's satire - Just because you are now "justified" in getting frustrated, does not make it any less ironic.

esprehn 4y ago

To be fair in the case of airplane wifi this is compounded by the exorbitant pricing. If you pay a premium price you expect premium service. There's no competition for airplane wifi though, you either use it or you don't. It's not like you choose between two different vendors... So they're competing against no wifi at all which allows for pretty mediocre and unreliable service as that's "better than nothing". These free ML models exist in a slightly different world.

guiambros 4y ago
> To be fair in the case of airplane wifi this is compounded by the exorbitant pricing. Is this still true, though? I regularly pay $8 for wifi on a 6h flight coast-to-coast with United. And also paid $15 for a 10h transatlantic flight last week, which seems pretty fair to me. Oh, and messaging and chat apps are free, so you don't really need to pay if you only want to keep in touch with folks on the ground. Sure, quality is sometimes spotty, but seems to have improved over the last couple of years.
- agolio 4y ago
  I don't know what it is, but somehow paying even a penny for wi-fi hotspots is incomprehensible by my brain. It could be a 16-hour flight to Australia, and still my brain would be saying no. Then I would order a $10 coffee and tell myself I deserve to treat myself.
  - iab 4y ago
    I also suffer-from/actively-encourage this mentality
totoglazer 4y ago
On my last flight it was $39.
coldtea 4y ago
>If you pay a premium price you expect premium service. Only the point of the Louis CK joke is that mere flying in the air, and getting to 1000s of miles away in a couple of hours, is a beyond premium service, when thought of in historical perspective... closer to a miracle. It's this "taking for granted" that makes us consider it a standard thing in mere 100 years after its invention, and when it was not just a thing for rich people, but a totally unimaginable dream for millenia...

Choco31415 4y ago

I almost feel like that’s more of a reflection of someone’s attitude or even their mental health. Negativity can be nice, but insulting something for being what it is is not exactly intelligent.

joe_the_user 4y ago

The gap between something totally new existing, and someone taking it for granted and saying it totally sucks, is still so short. I think it's the opposite. With any complex and challenging task, the gap between "mostly done in a mediocre way" and "finished and acceptable" tends to be huge. Lost of "mostly done in a mediocre way" Hollywood films never see the light of day 'cause there's no reason for them to. Lots of writers throw their "mostly done in a mediocre way" novels away and start again. If this tool gets you to a place that seems "90% done" but you find you have do as much work for the remaining "10%" as if you would if you started from scratch, frustration seems reasonable.

ShamelessC 4y ago
It's satire - Just because you are now "justified" in getting frustrated, does not make it any less ironic.