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by brimble 5y ago
"Pathetic" is saying that my handing one guy money then some other guy down the block handing me crack was two totally unrelated events. I'm quite frankly astonished that you're being serious. Google sells top result pla
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by brimble 5y ago
You had to install the JVM. It often broke or bugged you to update. UI usually felt off or janky, and unresponsive. At the time, Java applets were huge compared to typical web pages, and had crap performance. By the time hardware and conn
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by brimble 5y ago
Did the link change? Half the posts in this thread seem like they're about a whole different thing. [EDIT] All I have to go on is the current link with a tweet with an image with highlighted text about how Google doesn't sell resu
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by brimble 5y ago
> Wouldn't be great to have a notification once the new Wordle of the day arrives? Nitpick, but for that specific example, not really, since it's always at local midnight according to your device's time setting (for certai
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by brimble 5y ago
100% of "use" of it I've seen on the desktop has been spammy sites no sane person would ever want to receive notifications from bugging me to enable them because I made the mistake of clicking them in search results, and my w
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by brimble 5y ago
Calling google's inline ads "not part of the search results" is the equivocation that's going on here. They absolutely sell top positions in results.
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by brimble 5y ago
... and this is true for basically every vendor, once you have any amount of scale. Including credit card processors. Yes, even that one with the really nice API. CDNs. Supposedly big cloud providers, but I've not used them at a scal
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by brimble 5y ago
I don't mean re-host, which is obviously trivial for this site, given how it works. I mean integrating with any kind of broader site ecosystem (styling, may need some kind of embedding or nesting, re-sizing to fit with other content, e
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by brimble 5y ago
It's newish (yes, 6 years is newish for projects that don't have a lot more hours, direction, and dedicated drive behind them than git-lfs seems to) and janky or unintuitive in some cases and adds another obtuse nerdy thing for e.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's my opinion that interview anxiety is almost entirely unrelated to: how well someone works with a team; how well someone handles an emergency; and how well someone can related to and work with clients. Source: I've been repeat
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by brimble 5y ago
I guess this is like when companies try to use correctness and formatting of a resume for proof of attention to detail or communication skills or something like that—but people just pay for professional proofreading and formatting instead.
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by brimble 5y ago
Sure, I'm not saying it was a dumb move at that price. Depends on how much staying-power the fad has, I guess. Though when I first tried to find it a couple weeks ago, Wordle was not the top result for "Wordle". Result 3 or
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by brimble 5y ago
One of the little absurdities of our modern world is having to watch an ad before you are allowed to watch an ad that you requested (movie trailers, superbowl ads that people sometimes share, that kind of thing)
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by brimble 5y ago
My circle's all over it now but I'm with you. Doubt it lasts a year among most of us.
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They'll have to re-work it so much if they put it somewhere else that I expect the integration work would approach the cost of just re-implementing it.
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by brimble 5y ago
They could already have cloned the game—even if the mechanics were novel, which they are not. The thing isn't even at a relevant domain name. I don't see how they bought anything but the name "Wordle" here—and, hell, may
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by brimble 5y ago
I just looked at it and your post doesn't seem related at all. The post is pointing out that Google says they don't sell search result positioning, which is equivocation because if you watch any normal person use Google or just l
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by brimble 5y ago
So much of it's making companies pay to be at the actual-top, when they're already result 1 or 2 in the natural results and are obviously what the searcher wanted. I go out of my way not to click these but most people I observe do
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by brimble 5y ago
> I think price-fixing works in, for example healthcare, because then you also have a single payer system. So there is one entity that buys almost all service capacity and thus gets a lot of say in the price. That'd be the monopsony
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by brimble 5y ago
Lots of countries came under severe pressure in that crisis, and I can't even find evidence that HK was among those worst-affected. I'm saying I'd need to see a lot more than pointing out that late 1997 was a shit year for
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by brimble 5y ago
That date rings a bell... Wikipedias Yeah, that was the so-called "Asian Contagion" financial crisis. IIRC the US dumped a shitload of money into Mexico and maybe some other countries to stop the dominoes falling. Lots of countr
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by brimble 5y ago
Price fixing is, as far as I can tell, the single common element that every developed-state health care system other than the US employs, whatever their differences. It certainly appears to work. Anywhere from setting prices in an actual pr
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by brimble 5y ago
Right, we're gonna get a lot of "my manager did them and they were great, so I think they're great" and (probably a lot more of) "mine did them and they sucked, so I think they suck" and "I did them and my
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Fair.
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by brimble 5y ago
> Grandparent post is nuts. Youtube comments are mostly full of repetitive jokes in the current meme formats. Sometimes there is a quality contribution, but it probably won't be near the top. I have noticed that they've impro
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by brimble 5y ago
That justifies the article, but I can guarantee this discussion is going to be 99% "nuh uh" and "yeah huh" and both will be right, mostly because of the effect in my post. I'm either a mystic who can predict the fut
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by brimble 5y ago
In this thread, we explore more ways in which almost any practice or system works great when someone competent and well-meaning does it, and almost none do when someone incompetent or malicious is involved, which is most of the time. See al
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by brimble 5y ago
My first step to trying to understand an unfamiliar equation or proof is, if I am to have any hope of figuring it out, always breaking it down by term and operation and figuring out WTF each one means in context. Usually on paper. In normal
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First one probably took hundreds of hours or practice and a ton of exposure, to be fair.
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by brimble 5y ago
You will find that people who grew up on farms or just in the country have a very different definition of "cruelty to animals". Shooting a pest animal is just a Tuesday. Not worth mentioning or remembering. Doing it with the pelle

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