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by xp84 6mo ago
At my college you rented the gowns, or at least that was the default, but I think the cap was bought and yours to keep. Also, as a souvenir, the tassel, which is decorated with a charm showing the year graduated, is also always (obviously)
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by xp84 6mo ago
High school lets you (makes you?) buy them. My HS and college had almost the exact same color, so I probably could have gotten away with reusing mine!
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by xp84 6mo ago
They nearly all did that because the average person never figured out how the DNS hierarchy worked, and many of them never even got comfortable with the idea of having more than one dot in a domain (with the exception of a “www.” prefix). S
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by xp84 6mo ago
Please read my comment again - I mentioned RatGDO and literally own one. My point was that there's no possibility Chamberlain would ever give you any of these things in the built-in Wi-Fi-connected hardware you've already paid t
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by xp84 6mo ago
I actually worked in ecommerce, including clothing brands. In one company, we built our own bespoke ecommerce website, using third party software only for the fulfillment part. In another, we used Shopify. Building your own is expensive, wh
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by xp84 6mo ago
If such an AI shopping thing existed, I wouldn’t trust it to do a good job. We consumers probably wouldn’t pay enough for it in enough volume to be the customers (Are you a Stitch Fix subscriber? Why not?). The fashion brands would be the c
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by xp84 6mo ago
Shouldn't it be vague? When nobody is or can do double-blind randomized trials, none of this is proven, it's just various strengths of correlation.
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by xp84 6mo ago
I've seen a lot of headaches caused by that trailing dot in the past! IIRC Caddy specifically said they wouldn't support that, leading to a medium-sized flamewar in an issue or PR. Clearly the trailing dot is theoretically highly
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by xp84 6mo ago
Here are a few that I'm most familiar with. - Seniors are sold various quackish financial products like annuities which are a terrible deal for them. - Timeshares, which nearly never work out in the favor of the consumer (and whose val
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by xp84 6mo ago
It's like a compromise was made at some point where they decided that in order to get what they predicted would be slightly higher adoption, it's okay to usher in a world where most consumer-facing software is essentially impossi
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by xp84 6mo ago
Arguably the trend to touchscreens could have given a lot of help to the novice user by having labeled buttons - onscreen FKeys if you will. But we seem to have used touchscreens to show pictures fullscreen, with controls that disappear unt
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by xp84 6mo ago
That's what those huge ~10% final value fees they charge are for. And other revenue such as sponsored listings (pay to boost your item in search results). As long as they keep the fraud volume below like 5% of sales, I feel like it&#x2
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by xp84 6mo ago
Yeah. On the individual level you can plan to sell immediately, but it sure wouldn't be pretty if a lot of the shareholders decided to do the same!
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by xp84 6mo ago
Sears and Kmart both did so much diversification in the ~1980s! Discover, Allstate insurance, Dean Witter, Coldwell Banker for Sears (and Kmart had bought Borders, Builders Square, PACE, OfficeMax). If you trace the total return to a holder
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by xp84 6mo ago
Oh, I use use AirDrop to myself for this. Yes, given my photo library syncs to iCloud, just opening Photos seems like it makes sense on a fast WAN which I sort-of do have, but of course, iCloud syncs only happen when the device decides the
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by xp84 6mo ago
This is actually a thought-provoking perspective! I have to admit you're right in your conclusions, though the issues are: 1. The waste is still a tremendous shame, both in the materials that will realistically never be recovered in &#
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by xp84 6mo ago
> Looks and feels premium, but ultimately fundamentally disposable. I'd add that experiences like GP help expose that the main difference in most products between 'premium' and 'disposable' is in the branding and
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by xp84 6mo ago
> being cloud-first. The reality is that 99% of their users set up the printer and app using the cloud service Part of me thinks that the particular kind of enshittification we've come to see with devices, where something that certa
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by xp84 6mo ago
Though I'm not OP, I will say that it seems like there are two brands that mostly have the market cornered. Chamberlain/Liftmaster/MyQ is all the same company; they are a gross company that hates the idea of giving you contro
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by xp84 6mo ago
Same! I was burned by Chamberlain, twice. In my case I had bought a $40 retrofit device (it connected to the MyQ cloud and simply used RF to emulate a remote to open any brand of opener). First, there was their debacle where they broke HA c
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by xp84 6mo ago
> could’ve been spent on testing To me, this argument sounds similar to “making salads to eat reduces health because they waste time that could’ve been spent on working out” - it assumes the time savings will be spent on working out and
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by xp84 6mo ago
Is this really a big problem for buyers now? Asking genuinely, not rhetorically. In my experience with eBay (my account is 25 years old), the one thing you could count on is that buyers who receive nothing, or get a box of bricks, or broken
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by xp84 6mo ago
I think you’re right about Kmart/Sears, though the interesting thing was that Lampert was correct that Sears had a great deal of real estate which had tremendous value. If someone skilled at retail had bought it, they could have used t
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by xp84 6mo ago
^This. The crazy part is that in today’s PE-style system of things, the incentives… - GameStop shareholders - GameStop the company - e.g. employees - eBay shareholders - eBay the company - for example its employees …aren’t necessarily align
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by xp84 6mo ago
But if we didn’t use ••• menus everywhere then some parts of the UI might be cLuTtErEd!!! The worst sin of computing. To think that we used to trust mere mortals - without even a signing certificate or developer membership - with the power
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by xp84 6mo ago
You are so very spot on with this. All of it. Literally nothing is better in the UI world in the past 20 years. Zero. We already had multitouch scrolling on laptops back then. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most of the problem can
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by xp84 6mo ago
I don't think courts basically ever settle narrow technical questions like that. Any court decision would carry with it particular baggage based on the rest of the specifics, so I don't think it would have established a clear prec
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by xp84 6mo ago
I want to steal your idea, but then felt bad for stealing, but also I decided why can’t I steal this idea too, since you didn’t invent MySpace :D Nice execution btw.
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by xp84 6mo ago
It's the European Way
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by xp84 6mo ago
Hadn’t seen that xkcd. Thanks for linking it!

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