coryfklein
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Comment · 8 months ago
Yes, but it's the overgeneralization to "women have hybristophilia" that is the problem.
Comment · 9 months ago
What the heck is a spatial file manager
Comment · 9 months ago
> I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
> I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
But they aren’t even for sale in the US!
Comment · 9 months ago
This has been called out by the Moody's Analytics economists in their podcast [0] for a while. The generally accepted explanation is that online job postings no longer map 1:1 to actual open positions at companies, ie many companies are not actually hiring despite having a listing for an open role.
This has become common enough that it has gained it's own term: "ghost" postings/listings.
[0] https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/podcasts/inside-ec...
Comment · 10 months ago
Hah! Wow I thought this was https://slackmojis.com/ I didn't realize there was a different app with nearly the same name.
Comment · 10 months ago
EDIT: Ignore this comment, I thought this was https://slackmojis.com/
I'm super bummed about this. I absolutely loved slackmojis, it made it possible to find and add new emojis to Slack in sub 10 seconds.
Slack re-doing their UX back in 202X was the moment I realized they were past their peak. Virtually no one liked the new UI but they were too tone deaf to listen to users.
Really hoping some startup builds a spiritual successor and knocks them down a notch, because this cease and desist attacking their very own community to me reads as them being in the "milk the business for all it is worth" stage.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is there anywhere you can watch these old flash creations like Xiao Xiao and Homestar Runner with the original vector graphics? The reproductions I’ve seen on YouTube are terrible, in part because of the obvious video artifacts that don’t preserve the edges, but also because it loses all interactivity.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd heard that Amazon is getting around price trackers like this using the coupons.
1. List item for $100 with a $20 off coupon
2. On Prime Day, drop the price to $80 and remove the coupon
When you look at said item in CamelCamelCamel, I'm pretty sure it shows the price dropping from $100 -> $80.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's good reason to believe that OpenAI's success (or failure) and the success of many other firms are correlated. If OpenAI's bubble bursts, then that is likely to spread to other close firms and – depending on severity – any other firms that are merely associated.
NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, META, and GOOG are all heavily investing in AI right now, and together make up 28% of the money tied up in S&P 500 indices. Simply investing in the S&P 500, which many people do, exposes you to meaningful downside risk of an AI bubble pop.
Comment · 1 year ago
People move and addresses change.
Comment · 1 year ago
Fraudsters almost certainly gain access to old accounts specifically to "buy" that trust and then farm it for their own uses.
I wonder how much a 20-yr old Amazon account is worth on the grey market. Mine is about that old, and I have – legimately – returned thousands of dollars worth of goods (that were faulty or just didn't work the way I liked) and it is probably very difficult for Amazon to distinguish between my legitimate returns and a hypothetical alternative where I'm a fraudster that just purchased this old account and am laundering broken electronics through the returns system.
Comment · 1 year ago
The following is a transcript recording of two agents that will remain anonymous:
Agent X: The Unicode standard committee is now considering the addition of a seahorse emoji
Agent Y: Okay.
Agent X: ...
Agent Y: What?
Agent X: Don't you see, this only furthers my argument that [redacted] has escaped containment
Agent Y: Look, [name redacted], we've been over this. No matter how many more containment verification protocols we introduce, they always come up negative. There is no possible way [redacted] has escaped containment. And now you think this seahorse emoji... ahem, excuse me, now you think SCP-314 is incontrovertible proof?
Agent X: Did you look at the proposal?
Agent Y: sigh, yes I have it right here.
Agent X: The name at the top of the submission?
Agent Y: [pause] No. This can't be. But, how did it... how would it even know to use that name?
[transcription abruptly ends]