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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
  • Yeah, I agree. I think that this argument that is made there is a false. The logic error imo is claiming this statement is true: things get cheaper as they get used more, therefore if we make it used more, it will get cheaper.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
  • Second observation is that when a thing gets cheaper it's used more, i.e. they'll be pushing even harded to shove it into everything.

    Are they trying to imply that when they will make it cheaper by shoving it everywhere? I honestly can't see how that logic is holding together

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024
  • If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

    Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 11 August 2024
  • I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I'm astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

    The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

    In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There's even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024
  • Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

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