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by tonymet 2mo ago
I include the kiosk on the wall of shame . Just aweful.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
We could all be a bit more humble about the onerous “tools” we’ve built . I have a lot of sympathy for the elderly, and the ridiculous rituals they go through just to book an appointment, fill a subscription, buy tickets to a concert, orde
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Kudos to them for their longevity, integrity, high quality journalism, and the ability to continue to self publish. Most other journalists are depending on publishing apps (e.g. Medium / YouTube/ Social Media /etc) that are
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by tonymet 2mo ago
so a pantomime of an actual wedding? what was her take on that? transient vows, transient friends , transient rings, a parody minister? Quite possibly the most Reddit experience I've ever heard of.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I wouldn't say no impact, but a trailing impact. They understood the cultural changes demanding new ways for people to status signal and maintain connections with friends & family. That's what I mean about reversing cause and
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by tonymet 2mo ago
TV was one factor, along with migration/ commuting, two-income households (and now divided households), and more generally that boomers were more individualistic, though he didn't explain why really. Those , and other factors are
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Cause and effect is reversed here. The trends leading to collapse of the family , neighborhoods and friendships predate facebook by at least 40 years. Bowling Alone describes the collapse covering the 80s & 90s, and the trends were 20
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I Agree. LLMs chat assistant UI is more usable for this case. “My buddy Chris from fremont just got a promotion. Remember his new title and today’s date” is way easier than tapping a search query, filling forms, tabs and submit buttons. F
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by tonymet 2mo ago
what is the benefit of this over a text file / apple notes? And especially now, with LLMs , a form interface (with screens, tabs, submit buttons) is even more clumsy? Their best bet would be to train a model and provide an enhanced no
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Cynicism is an attitude, and a choice. And comments like these are so cliche. AI is an amazing tool, and you have a volunteer helping to create the next best edition of a charity project.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I tried to gracefully port scan some likely IPs, based on their other conventions, and none were listening on 22. Quite a few listening on 443.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Amazon replied : Hello, Thank you for your request to see more customer reviews. Your request has been approved, and you should now see more customer reviews. Thanks for choosing Amazon. ©2026 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon and
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by tonymet 2mo ago
there’s a general dismissive attitude with these bugs. When you report them, customer service responds with incredulity, and continues to explain that’s how the software is supposed to work. CS has been trained to close conversations, not t
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Apparently so
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by tonymet 2mo ago
they broke a lot with the reviews for this experiment. e.g. filter by stars no longer works, but the link to it is active.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
same experience here. I clicked "send email" and no action was taken. then contacted CS text chat support and they didn't seem to have much insights. they "opened a ticket"
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Reddit is the worst. Their app-transition code is 10+ years old and still full of recursive loops. 30% of the time i drop into the App Store even when i have the app installed. 75% of the time I lose navigation. And there’s no “remember t
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I agree reviews aren’t perfect. and I’ve had many good products with poor reviews, and vice-versa
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by tonymet 2mo ago
i don’t follow.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
It’s an example on X of a UI experiment that I’m in
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Only if you have loads of capital
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Maybe it’s German?
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I’m guessing it’s an experiment, since some customers still see the old behavior . I’m in the no-reviews experiment, and so is the twitter post.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I see it while signed in on all devices (web desktop, iOS, iPad web)
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Sometimes that’s not an option, e.g. buying snow chains before a ski trip. Often the reviews reveal product limitations that aren’t specified in the listing.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
It’s active on my account, and on the X example. It’s likely an experiment. I contacted CS and they need 5 days to respond.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Likely to prevent google from collecting shopping habit signals to sell ads targeting to.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Am I the only one who thinks that read() and write () (block based api) would be a poorer experience for managing key/value dns records?
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by tonymet 2mo ago
Good find , and also disappointing .
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Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
86 points by tonymet 2mo ago|52 comments

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