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I don’t believe this is an actual goal of brand advertising.

Instead it the goal is to bump up the concept of the brand into your short-term memory, and perhaps as a bonus to associate that with positive emotion or at the very least to normalize the brand.

Later when you are making a purchasing decision, the brand is more present in your mind and makes it a more likely outcome.

Of course this is more complicated and nefarious when the brand’s products are addictive or have addictive-like qualities, which arguably includes McDonald’s.

Sure, most all major changes get gradually rolled out.

But you don’t create a broken or confusing experience for the people who haven’t been added to the rollout group yet.

> I think I would push back on the idea that credit and debit cards represent a deadweight loss to the economy

It’s the anticompetitive actions causing the deadweight loss, not the digital nature of transactions.

Meta has a long history of treating their user’s data recklessly. Cambridge Analytica being a prominent example.

They’ve also had a long history of using shady/deceptive practices to gather data, such as Onavo.

Is their internal security up to par with other cloud providers? Maybe. Security from them? Definitely not to be trusted.

(Former employee)

I can guarantee that he has almost zero interest in “karma points”. I worked for FB years ago and that is not how he sees the world or sets direction did the company.

Almost certainly this is part of some grandiose bet which could have a chance to pay off massively in the future (AGI or similar), or a way to prevent an expensive dependency.

I’m sure there are people for whom the main problem is keeping track of N streaming services.

But I’d wager the combined cost of those N services is a much, much bigger factor for most.

Appreciate the clarification.

While it was part of the same overall disaster, Boukreev‘s rescue efforts may not have been specifically towards Green Boots.

From what I understand the final location of Green Boots was along the same route that Boukreev took when attempting to rescue climbers? But now I’m less certain — it seems like the furthest Boukreev in reached in attempted rescue was Fischer’s body which was well below Green Boots.

A climber who was pivotally involved in the failed rescue efforts for the dead person in this article immediately left on a solo climb of a nearby mountain. He died just over a year later in another climbing incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Boukreev

If the renderer completely fails because of a minor issue when parsing the css, that is broken.

Apple has over-promised and under-delivered so many times in this space, going back to the launch of the original Siri.

So while they could win, it’s pretty hard to get hyped about it before we see real-world tests.

We are already at that point.

People using LLMs to send emails for other LLMs to summarize and then the other party responds with their LLMs.

Human communication replaced by wasteful slop of no value.

Everyone says supply and demand and then explains labour supply. Which is an important piece.

But the labour demand half is important too. Bigtech makes so much money (or is so well financed) that competing on top talent is more feasible when compared to the boom/bust nature of the games industry.

It’s not simply difficult, it’s an existential threat to their current business model.

Unless I’m missing something obvious, enforcing regulatory compliance from the army of hustlers that is their vendor market would be expensive or impossible.

By law the US govt is able to compel access to any data controlled by an American company, regardless of where those companies operate. There doesn’t need to be specific evidence of this case, it’s true of all cases.

Some American companies have tried to establish convoluted workarounds in Europe to get around this, but as far as I’m aware it hasn’t been tested in court yet.

It wasn't even a complaint, just a personal anecdote to help share some context as to why the site may have failed to retain consumer interest post-2016.

But yes I'll join you with the liver damage and drink 17 shots.

> I did too much bragging in the media and didn’t anticipate the extent to which public opinion toward FiveThirtyEight would shift once we became a corporate-backed incumbent rather than an eccentric upstart

Can’t speak for everyone else, but it wasn’t this for me. It was about 2016 presidential that lost me.

He tries to justify this later about how theirs was better than other outlets but I don’t care. Call it emotional, naive, unfair or whatever you want, but regardless I had zero interest in reading any of their predictions or analyses after that.

Not even mad, just that to my experience they had one job and they didn’t fulfill it at the most important time. They went from appearing insightful to just one opinion amongst so many others.

> That and also people weren't paying for Netflix, Disney+, PlayStation online, ChatGPT+, etc

Its disingenuous to describe those new expenses without considering those that largely have been replaced.

It used to be normal to pay for cable TV which was outrageously expensive. They used to go to movie theatres on a regular basis, and collect physical media for movies and music and games and tv. Etc.

Allowed? Many if not most of these open source TUI projects were started by individuals or small teams who wanted to solve a problem for themselves.

It’s allowed. You don’t have to use them.

If you don’t disable the glasses they could continue to share content. The article describes the glasses being left on a dresser and then sharing content of people without their consent, which could easily parallel into showing a sexual encounter or other privacy-sensitive scenarios.

This underestimates the will of governments and companies Europe and especially China to reduce their dependency on US-controlled technology.

If i understand the intention of a zfs root combined with an a/b approach — it feels like this btrfs root and immutable gives you the same benefits but with better mainline support.

That actually sounds more interesting than the one Meta created previously.

But still not interesting.

Or just use Zulip?

Yes this is a common release practice.

However this is a different situation as we’re talking about running arbitrarily found third-party scripts. I can’t imagine that was ever intended to be done in production.

Fun story, when I worked at Facebook in the earlier days someone accidentally made a change that effectively set the release flags for every single feature to be live on production. That was a day… we had to completely wipe out memcached to stop the broken features and then the database was hammered to all hell.

Selecting the wrong environment in your test setup by mistake?

I refuse to believe that someone on the security team intentionally tested random user scripts in production on purpose.

And despite their broadly similar performance, the RK3588s have significantly better power draw.

However I’m not sure of any of the rk3588 vendors that support both UEFI and have a full-size PCIe slot like the MS-R1 has.

As does attempting to manipulate election officials to change the vote outcome. If not for one person rejecting this coercion the coup would have been successful.

There are some bash options like cdspell or dirspell that are likely what the blog author is referring to.

Either that or they were using zsh with autocorrect preinstalled or had somehow rigged up the thefuck to execute and run on any error somehow? Either way seems like a terrible default.

This analysis ignores the fact that the user experience has regressed from a previous version which didn’t have these issues.

So it’s not like some longstanding industry-wide UI issues they’ve ignored forever, it’s that Apple has introduced new tradeoffs or lowered their quality standards to the point that some users feel their experience has worsened.

> This would still rely on Visa/MasterCard allowing dual-branded credit cards for overseas transactions, which isn't a very common arrangement

We can and should make this practice illegal, along with several other anticompetitive policies in this space. Oh no they might hit us with tariffs in response?