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by delfinom 3y ago
"High ratings" means you don't reject offers from Door Dash. Meaning if you get a $2 untipped order to deliver 10 miles away, you accept it. Each rejection hits your "Acceptance rating". It was a marketing ploy to t
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by delfinom 3y ago
Everytime I get one of those uber eats coupons for 25% or even 50% off a order, it's rigged. Open two windows, apply the coupon in one. Watch as the order totals are not 50% apart. They instantly jack the service fees on the 50% coupon
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by delfinom 3y ago
During COVID, software companies massively overhired, because the executives in charge went all "hurr durr, digital is the future boys! Nobody is going outside anymore!". Not to mention the government was handing out money like ca
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by delfinom 3y ago
My condolences for when you try to cancel SiriusXM one day.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Yes, but there are also "fake legitimate business" spam and phishing emails. If you hit unsubscribe on that, you will absolutely be marked as a hot email to target.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Life expectancy decreasing to the younger of society offing themselves with drug overdoses....
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by delfinom 3y ago
Cheap money and incompetent executives that were able to survive using that cheap money. A lot of "business type" individuals were truly kept afloat by just being to finance their dumb ideas on cheap money instead of actually bein
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by delfinom 3y ago
The rumor was GS was trying to sell the contract to AMEX. There was no indication that AMEX was biting.
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by delfinom 3y ago
>Unless Apple discontinues the card completely, they will choose a new bank That's the problem. All other banks turned Apple away because Apple was demanding some significant concessions. Goldman agreed to them because at the same t
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by delfinom 3y ago
Probably to cut what overhead there was in servicing users directly. Google is still operating TLDs as "Google Registry" since they can just easy mode that part as a backend service, they just push you now to go to a domain resell
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by delfinom 3y ago
Aka, all TLDS become worthless and the guy with the most money wins?
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by delfinom 3y ago
Another piece of software goes to rot under the Eclipse Foundation, woo A foundation so bureaucratic that there is OSS that new people can't take over because it requires years of bureaucratic process.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Those nukes were in definite Ukrainian possession. Also, Ukraine was a significant engineering powerhouse while part of the Soviet Union, they had the people to both build and maintain nukes.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Or counterpoint, Brother is a Japanese company instead of an degenerate American company. That is worlds apart in terms of business strategies.
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by delfinom 3y ago
>PHP got shamed for these things because people built complex, and over time unmaintainable, systems in it. Because it was very accessible for people to get into it without being you know, a 10 year programming veteran at least. Now all
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by delfinom 3y ago
The FTC isn't the org with much power over employee rights. That's the DoL.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Lol, amazing to see history repeat itself over and over again
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by delfinom 3y ago
Depending on the area, construction can pay really well and be a stable form of long term employment. Usually the trades part of construction is best rather than being a general laborer. In my area of NY suburbs, there's such a shortfa
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by delfinom 3y ago
Android phones ask if you want to allow the Bluetooth device to access SMS and call logs. Simple enough to say no.
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by delfinom 3y ago
Don't forget the ads
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by delfinom 3y ago
Well, part of it is really Python's age and legacy. We are talking about going back to 1996. So much of python's development was ducktape through history in response to the changing world and whims of the contributors. I'm no
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by delfinom 3y ago
Ugh, the Vizio I have became cancer after awhile. Even with it offline, it will automatically change the input to their spyware entertainment app after 10 seconds of no input. No ability to disable this malicious automatic switch.
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by delfinom 3y ago
"O no, the mail fell behind the shelf and we couldn't find it, we'll try again tomorrow and hopefully it doesn't fall behind the shelf again" The benefit of a union, is nobody will say otherwise ;)
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by delfinom 3y ago
>They never technically allowed it in the first place. You own the device, they can fuck off with "allowed".
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by delfinom 3y ago
>It all comes down to truth in advertising Understatement. Tutanota published a ranty blog post accusing Microsoft of suppressing competition in the email space. Because they didn't understand how fucking Azure works or even how cor
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by delfinom 3y ago
Microsoft isn't in charge of this though. It's the wifi card vendors. I wouldn't be surprised if this is Intel shenanigans because they have always segmented their OS driver support dating back to Windows 7. Anything from lap
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by delfinom 3y ago
>I see cryptocurrencies as inevitable. Eventually cash will be eliminated, and this will only leave cryptocurrencies. Except, unless cryptocurrencies are tied to some brain implant so you cant lose the keys. There will be a need for a cu
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by delfinom 3y ago
Dunno man, to me VSCode feels sluggish. It takes a significant amount of clicks debugging C++. I can't just have the file and debug views present at the same time, I have to keep jumping back and forth. The launch json config system al
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by delfinom 3y ago
> I suppose the problem is that, if you're not a car enthusiast, a $30k Toyota hybrid is still a better deal, even if it drives like shit. Modern Hybrids (not Priuses) drive like normal cars. >than the miserable turbocharged 4-cy
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by delfinom 3y ago
It's intentional. Apple is going down the path of SKUs to segment their price points. It may also be they have chips that have bad display controllers and they are using this as one way of offloading those chips with the bad controller

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