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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I wonder if there's a marketing reason for not shrinking the lenses. A big lens screams "better" more than a smaller lens at a casual glance for the uninitiated user.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> They are far more aware of the limitations than we… Every individual only cares about their paycheck and promotion. They will happily ignore their knowledge of the limitations if it means squeezing out an extra resume bulletpoint, payc
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I bet some people got offended by the techbro moniker, but it seems pretty warranted considering the underhanded tactics of these companies and their employees.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The majority of accounts out there don't have anything of value. If it gets pwned the person just resets their password and calls it a day (in fact due to the lack of password manager their usual workflow is to reset the password anywa
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> You can buy a better one that does not have malware installed. You can buy a better one if you have the technical know-how. But if you did you'd probably be running the *arr stack anyway and not need such a box. But these boxes do
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Nowadays yes, since they need to justify the jobs of hundreds of Javascript developers. But there was a time when their app was native and was actually quite good.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> Who is left to profit from? That's already the case where most of the economy is AI-related stock market speculation rather than being based on actual investment fundamentals.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Technology moved from being a tool to an ad delivery vehicle. Tools' success metric is how much they make your task easier/faster. Ad delivery machines' success metric is how much of your time they waste. Shitty UI making you
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Hertz says "hold my beer": https://www.henricodolfing.ch/case-study-8-how-hertz-paid-ac...
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
If money wasn't an issue both of you can replace whatever polluting heating solution you have with a more environmentally-friendly one.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
In my case it was less about the discussion of the tinkering and more the tinkering itself. I'd spend all my blogging time tinkering with the site, to the point where it's never ready and never actually deployed. As of right now i
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Only problem I find with self-hosted blogs and certain personalities like mine is that I spend more time tinkering with the blog engine than actually blogging. I ended up migrating back to a hosted solution explicitly because it doesn&#x2
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> to relay malicious and abusive Internet traffic — such as ad fraud , account takeover attempts and mass content scraping Oh no, let me get my tiny violin! Really hard to feel bad here. For most home users (that don’t expose anything
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Same experience here, both with Deliveroo and Uber Eats. I'm surprised this doesn't get them in trouble on libel/defamation bases.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Both can be true - in periods of high contention the priority delivery works as you'd expect, but in periods of low contention (where orders are not bundled anyway) the priority delivery option is still there, still costs the same, but
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> certain friends who used uber more had to pay higher for the same rides That's why you always pit the techbros against each other and have at least 2 competing apps that you distribute your rides across.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
You're not thinking like a techbro: there's nothing unscrupulous about A/B testing or "revenue optimization".
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Why would an AG care? This is a huge company stealing from poor people. The system is working as designed. They would not be so brazen in doing this (in relative openness with every developer being in on it) if they thought an AG would actu
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Another food delivery app anecdote: they will always blame the restaurant for their lack of driver supply. I've had orders stuck on "preparing your food" for an hour but when I called the restaurant they said it's been r
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
It doesn't matter if 10% of users quit using it if the stolen tips from the other 90% more than cover it. And where are you going to run? The competition isn't any better.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Knowing the tech industry it sounds entirely plausible. I'm surprised people think this is news.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I'm sure this isn't limited to any single company. It's just typical VC/techbro company playbook.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I adjust my morals to match those of the entity I'm dealing with. I have no problems "stealing" from a company who is trying to steal money from me by sneaking in unexpected charges.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
No but it significantly raises the effort for collecting said money. The company would need to have a strong case (that they need to be able to defend in court if necessary) to do it. No scummy company relying on dark patterns/etc to c
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Is that actually a moat? Seems like all model providers managed to scrape the entire textual internet just fine. If video is the next big thing I don’t see why they won’t scrape that too.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Free software can still benefit from a stable ABI. If I want to run the software, it's better to download it in a format my CPU can understand, rather than download source, figure out the dependencies, wait for compiling (let's
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
There are plenty of services that will accept a PDF and turn it into a letter. There's other services that can do the reverse. Those combined means you can interact with entities expecting physical documents without ever having to actu
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's a year of roaming of bottom-of-the-barrel backhaul, whose speeds and latency could make a 56k modem jealous. It is down to pure luck whether you get a route that works well enough to be usable. You are always better off buying a l
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Do you have any more details on this? I always thought that once the PDP context is established (which is based on the phone providing an APN and optional credentials, not the SIM), the "tunneling" (if any - local breakout is a th
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Depending on carrier-specific configuration and firmware phones may be configured to prefer NITZ (time transmitted by the cellular network) instead of NTP. That time is probably what’s off and would explain your observation.

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