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There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/zuckerberg_invested_billions_in_new_tech
by pera 1y ago
There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck:
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/zuckerberg_invested_billions_in_new_tech_to_watch/ https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...
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- fluoridation 1y agoGod, that's actually painful to watch. I can't believe I lasted two minutes.
- sebgan 1y agoI was going to say that’s two minutes I won’t get back (and I won’t) but, ya know, schadenfreude.
- fluoridation 1y agoIt's kind of like Peep Show, where the writers tried to engineer the most awkward social situations, only without the jokes.
- chrisweekly 1y agoTangent: if you like cringey social awkwardness comedy (not my usual cup of tea, but in this case it's extraordinary, and hilarious), try "I Think You Should Leave". "Brian's Hat" is the 1st one I saw and maybe the best: https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK- https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK- Also "Hot Dog Car" https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau
- pixelpoet 1y agoNathan for You is almost physically painful to watch, the cringe is so intense I can only take a few seconds at a time.
- twoodfin 1y agoNathan Fielder is a genius. The Rehearsal is less in-the-moment cringe and more soul-soaking cringe. Amazing stuff.
- ojbyrne 1y agoCanadians do it best. https://youtu.be/tXgfzxXUVsc?si=vBXu20TewUldSBJB https://youtu.be/tXgfzxXUVsc?si=vBXu20TewUldSBJB
- ChoGGi 1y agoThat he certainly is good at, but I loved his interview with Fabio, also that Monica Lewinsky one.
- trevithick 1y agoAlso a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
- fzzzy 1y agoDevelopers developers developers developers!
- all2 1y agoOne of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE Enjoy. :)
- dreamcompiler 1y agoOh my god. How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows? I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?
- Ancapistani 1y agoIt was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra.
- Anamon 1y agoYeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.
- rkagerer 1y agoHere's one of my favorites, of Lars doing the Wave dance on stage to ad-lib over connectivity hiccups. For some reason it evoked a lot more empathy from me... https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=19m35s https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=19m35s
- pamelafox 1y agoI was on the Wave team! Our servers didn't have enough capacity, we launched too soon. I was managing the developer-facing server for API testing, and I had to slowly let developers in to avoid overwhelming it.
- rkagerer 1y ago<Waves to you> Neat, thanks for sharing this tidbit of history. Hey, what did the team think of the decision to build it on GWT at the time? (From the outside, seemed like an enabling approach but a bit like building an engine and airframe all at once).
- pamelafox 1y agoHm, I didn't work on the frontend but I don't particularly remember griping..GWT had been around for ~5 years at that point, so it wasn't super new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit I always personally found it a bit odd, as I preferred straight JS myself, but large companies have to pick some sort of framework for websites, and Google already used Java a fair bit.
- floren 1y agoWave was extremely cool and I wish it had stuck around. Hope it was as fun for you to work on as it was for us to use.
- pamelafox 1y agoIt was fun! Now we still see Wave-iness in other products: Google Docs uses the Operational Transforms (OT) algorithm for collab editing (or at least it did, last I knew), and non-Google products like Notion, Quip, Slack, Loop from Microsoft, all have some overlap. We struggled with having too many audiences for Wave - were we targeting consumer or enterprise? email or docs replacement? Too much at once. The APIs were so dang fun though.
- twothreeone 1y agoMark's definitely mastered optimizing for peak cringe factor while at 1.95T valuation.
- jncfhnb 1y agoObligatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxTEoseZak https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxTEoseZak
- fluoridation 1y agoGood god...
- zelphirkalt 1y agoThey just need an emotionless android without conscience, who does whatever is in the best interest of raking in money. They don't need technological excellence. Whether people at his company technologically succeed or fail, what matters is, that the company processes all the PII and feeds the algorithms. The rest is just for show.
- blibble 1y agothey have one in the already in the CEO position
- throwawayoldie 1y agoNot to put words in the OP's mouth, but I think that was the joke.
- barnabyjones 1y agoI think such an emotionless android would have diligently prepared numerous backup scripts, sets of lenses, actors, demonstrations etc. to cover any failure contingency, since the cost of that is infinitesimal compared to even a slight change in their brand value.
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- blibble 1y agorobozuck was also having wifi problems
- tdeck 1y agoThere are such long gaps after each question too. Apparently the sci-fi future will be laggier than expected.
- jijijijij 1y agoThis will also not change much, since they want you to use their centralized services for data collection, not local or onsite processing. So you will always have roundtrips and shared resources. For IO this is pretty unacceptable, people get annoyed by millisecond delays.
- OJFord 1y agoWould be good to change the OP link to this - it's the same clip but plus a bit more.
- I_am_tiberius 1y agoI really missed seeing Zuck sweat.
- anonymousiam 1y agoBig tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/02/big-tech-ai-spending https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/02/big-tech-...
- Lu2025 1y agoThey classify a lot of it as R&D and write it off taxes. Taxpayers foot the bill.
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago"That's not a write off!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCP27_vquxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCP27_vquxQ
- anonymars 1y agoObligatory -- "You don't even know what a write-off is. Do you?" https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoSomething I like about that scene is Seinfeld (the actor) clearly struggles not to smile at Kramer's delivery of the punch line despite that he (the character) was supposed to be irate with Kramer.
- anonymars 1y agoHeh. Well, Kramer himself...was often less amused... Thread/video: https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/7lvvg5/michael_richards_getting_constantly_pissed_at_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/7lvvg5/michael_... Probably that's why it feels like half the actual episode takes were like that, because they couldn't keep from breaking!
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- pseudosavant 1y agoAs bad as I thought that was going to be, it was worse. And I set the bar very low for anything involving Zuck. #MustWatch
- jonplackett 1y agoThis is the best thing I’ve seen ever. It makes me so happy I can’t even tell you.
- EFreethought 1y agoOT, but thanks for linking to old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. The new interface is an abomination.
- arduanika 1y ago"A man's reach should exceed his grasp."
- nabla9 1y agoThis is like "The Office" (Original UK version with Ricky Gervais as David Brent) with $2T market cap company.
- mrbonner 1y agoThere is already Hooli!
- theideaofcoffee 1y agoEvery added drop of his flop sweat during this disaster just gives me that much more life. Amazing.
- gonyanghn 1y agoThis is what it has come to? This is artificial intelligence? Billions and billions of dollars spent to narrate a recipe? Something that can be written down on a piece of paper?
- throwawayoldie 1y agoI have a copy of the classic "Joy Of Cooking" in the kitchen. It was a lot cheaper, works perfectly every time, and doesn't get ruined if (when) I spill foodstuffs on it.
- johnnienaked 1y agoThe more you spill, the more the book starts to look delicious
- throwawayoldie 1y agoBRB got a book I have to lick real quick.
- gooob 1y agoi always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?
- kolinko 1y agoThey don’t want to spend 30 min explaining domain knowledge required to understand a certain super specific case. Instead they show tech’s quality on a basic highest common denominator use case and allow people to extrapolate to their cases. Similarly car ads show people going from home to a store (or to mountains). You’re not asking there “but what if I want to go to a cinema with the car”. If it can go to a store, it can go to a cinema, or any other obscure place, as long as there is a similar road getting there.
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- gonyanghn 1y agoReminds me of Jin Yang and his 8 ways to cook an octopus, on silicon valley: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFB4WBdDg4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFB4WBdDg4
- uncircle 1y agoFunny how VR was the hyped thing when the show was filmed, and today the hype has been replaced wholesale by AI. Also funny how Meta has been trying to capitalise on both things.
- jimmydoe 1y agoIf not for these epic failures, I won’t even know they had a demo. Guess neg marketing is still marketing, it worked.
- rapind 1y agoIn fairness to Zuck, he spends most of his time hunting with his crossbow these days.
- Anamon 1y agoWhat brand of gear does he use?