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by megadal 2y ago
> This isn't that far outside the norm This is pretty far out of my norm. Where I'm from email auth is referred to as OTP, as we all always assume an OTP is sent to the users email. The only time I've seen links for confir
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by megadal 2y ago
Not sure about everyone else but where I'm from customer service is intentionally horrible everywhere within a 10 mile radius. To be fair I live in an affordable housing project from the 1900s but yeah. AI would definitely beat shoutin
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by megadal 2y ago
Yeah I let out a nice belly laugh as soon as I saw that. I may actually give this a read later though as a chronically single dev.
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by megadal 2y ago
I can't see that actually working for YouTube in the end though. You can just download content and not play it, but in some background thread complete all the challenges. You would need a way to prove audio/video on the end devic
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by megadal 2y ago
I still think you're adding some nuance that isn't in the article. The article is about how politicking is a requirement of success in academia. Schmoozing isn't social grace. It's closer to social engineering. Social gr
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by megadal 2y ago
From the article: > There is a strong anti-correlation between these interests ( that of course does not mean there is no one who is good at both. )
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by megadal 2y ago
That's not the suggestion though. It's that a lot of high performers in STEM tend to be "Weird Nerds" and by selecting against that type, you alienate a large number of potentially great researchers. Not selecting agains
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by megadal 2y ago
> That is a common misconception that only occurs in software and is exceptionally common to JS. If you want to avoid foot guns set validation criteria: lint, test automation, strong types, and so forth. The thing is, a developer can do
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by megadal 2y ago
> Worse than that people who do that work also bitch about how shitty the results are too, but then continue writing garbage because that’s the best they can do. True, but the only solution to this is "get good". Because using
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by megadal 2y ago
This sounds a lot like gatekeeping to me. It's not that you can't build a website without a framework, its that at the end of the day, no one cares what tools you use (in front end), it's how fast you get the job done, does i
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by megadal 2y ago
> From my experience, anytime you try to turn human interaction into a mass market app that can appeal to all users, it inevitably turns to shit over time as it keeps getting gamed by all parties involved till it implodes from the shitty
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by megadal 2y ago
My suggestion wasn't to improve the bottom line of dating apps, by the way. Dating apps are already incredibly profitable with all the value being provided by users. And pretty much every initiative to make them more profitable amounts
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by megadal 2y ago
That's why dating apps should focus on lifestyle and romance as well as matching. Couples still could use apps to help coordinate their dates, etc. find suggestions of places to go, meet other couples for double dates, find couples eve
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by megadal 2y ago
Feels click baity. AI overview is still enabled for an overwhelming majority of searches (if you are logged into your Google Account) I'm only here because I thought it was turned off completely.
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by megadal 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I've never used Odoo or OpenKoda, just read a lot about both and was impressed. Sad to hear about Odoo's disjointed approach to enterprise monetization. Hopefully OpenKoda takes note.
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by megadal 2y ago
Assuming you are apart of the team, I'm sure you know Odoo is 20 years old. So, I can't see why in time there couldn't be real competition. OpenKoda and Odoo actually have sparked interesting questions for me about what an Op
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by megadal 2y ago
Well, there is Odoo. Which is pretty much exactly what OpenKoda is (FOSS ERP). Odoo is doing quite well. It made Fabien Panckaers the youngest billionaire in Belgium.
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by megadal 2y ago
Was the inverse take studied? (Again, to clarify, my opinion is that the ratio of good/bad interactions on dating apps in a binary ranking system is roughly the same; that means if a man and a woman get 100 matches and the woman only f
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by megadal 2y ago
I'm actually focusing on the context of the thread. Your entire presence here is in response to the statement "Women are the big winners of dating apps" You disagree with this and your analogy was your way of explaining your
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by megadal 2y ago
You're goalpost shifting in quite a major way. Your argument is that women are not the big winners on dating apps because the outcomes for both men and women are equally bad. That is false. Language is imperfect but that's not the
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by megadal 2y ago
It doesn't mean that but your analogy implies that what's important is the outcome being death either way. That the paths may seem less or more preferable isn't actually the point of your analogy, it's that either way
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by megadal 2y ago
> It's always possible to gravely misinterpret anything anyone says, no matter how carefully they say it. > So you're giving a really unfair interpretation because no one is saying they're equally bad. They're (I&#
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by megadal 2y ago
But this doesn't answer the question asked, which is why there's an assumption that women are superior dating prospects on these apps. You actually made the same implication again just now: > Men typically have a hard time matc
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by megadal 2y ago
Because the analogy you provided implies that the outcome in either end is inevitably death, and that there are no other options. That doesn't accurately reflect the reality though. You can adjust your standards to find a mate if you h
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by megadal 2y ago
The thing is, in the scenario you described, I am pretty sure the person getting no job offers would trade places with the person getting offers, but the reverse is obviously not true.
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by megadal 2y ago
Presumably this is versus a chronically unemployed mathematician that gets the occasional job offer to work as a coal miner.
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by megadal 2y ago
I think generally the quality of interactions both sexes have with the opposite sex on these apps is roughly equal. That said, even by this analogy, that would imply the 1% of the time the first person gets an interview, it is also likely a
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by megadal 2y ago
Based on what evidence are you drawing this conclusion from, because I've used discord for years and literally never once video chatted (I didn't even know it had video chat until now) I have never once been sent a Discord confere
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by megadal 2y ago
The podcaster is effectively asking if the AI Overview about Chromebooks coming up first on the screen above the actual answer the user is looking for is the intended direction of Google Search UX with it's new AI "improvements&qu
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by megadal 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that every decentralized network will effectively become centralized because of Metcalfe's law. But I also don't believe the real value in decentralized systems comes from strictly preventing such patterns

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