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What the world needs. Less competition.

human rights and all that rubbish Crazy that you think human rights are rubbish. It clearly paints where china and its population is headed.

I mean, XBOX has been doing replaceable batteries in joysticks since forever.

I have both a PS5 and an XBOX Series X. Whenever I am playing if I get out of battery on the XBOX, I just change them. In the PS5 is not possible.

I don't get what the advantage is.

Thanks AI!

There are artist in 3rd world countries that make that in a month.

You don't know why I went to the place, yet, you still comment instead of asking. An no, my review was not removed.

I sadly did the same as I didn't know best. The Google speakers started to have issues identifying the orders, so we bought some alexas, which we also use as speakers for our tvs.

Do you have a better recommendation of a smart speaker that can play spotify, youtube music, or tidal?

I liked GTK and WIn11.

That is in practice not true. If you leave a fake but glowing 5-star review, no business will challenge it. But if you leave a 1, 2, 3, or even 4-star review, suddenly you're asked to provide proof. Of course, they can legally challenge a 5-star review as well. But in reality they conveniently don't seem to care about those.

Anyway, Germany is probably one of the few places where this happens. The issue isn't necessarily that reviews can be challenged. The issue is that users aren't informed when they leave a review that they may later be required to provide proof of their visit.

I once left a negative review of a very popular touristy business in Germany after a genuinely terrible experience. I included photos and detailed information, yet they still challenged the review, claiming I had never been a customer. Google then required me to provide additional evidence to prove that I had actually visited the place.

What made it even more frustrating is that they challenged the review two years in a row. After the second challenge, I wrote to them that if they continued contesting the review, I would consider it harassment and pursue legal action. After that, they stopped.

What I find pretty shady is that most businesses seem to wait a year or two before contesting reviews. By that point, most people no longer have receipts, invoices, or other documentation. If they challenged reviews immediately, customers would be much more likely to still have that evidence available. In my case, I take photos frequently, so Google accepted my proof and kept the review online.

Ironically, after going through this process myself, I've come to believe that some form of verification should probably be standard worldwide. Requiring reviewers to provide evidence that they were actually customers could help reduce fake reviews. But if that's going to be the standard, it should be clearly communicated upfront, before people submit their reviews.

Another related issue I have with Google Maps is that, at least in my home country, some places have reviews disabled because Google considers them too prone to polarization or controversy. Schools are one example.

Personally, I think that's a terrible idea. I'd rather be able to read the reviews and make up my own mind. Instead, Google, in its infinite wisdom, decides that certain topics are too contentious for users to see feedback at all.

I find that to be one of the worst decisions made by the Google Maps team. Hiding reviews doesn't eliminate disagreement or bias, it just removes information that users could otherwise evaluate for themselves.

Before Meta aquisition, I paid 1 dollar per year for WhatsApp. Now it iwl be 35.88.

The first is our duty to the global poor. There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions.

We already have poors that are really suffering, and the "elite" (or oligarchs depending on your point of view) have done very little to help them.

Why should we trust them they will do anything for us if we are all displaced by AI?

Targeting kids is good. But what about adults?

VISA an MasterCard have Credit Cards. Pix is just a way to transfer money you have in your bank account. In europe we can do that with IBAN. It goes from one account to another. In Argentina we have something similar in all banks. What is unike from VISA and MasteCard, at least untill now, is the Credit part of it.

"AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role."

Terrifying.

Yeah, as a former dev turned into PdM, if you need to do a tour, your are doing the UX wrong.

Never had a problem like you describe.

Porkbum or Gandi or name.com

Lee is one of the most competent IT guys I know.

And yet he uses GoDaddy?

I never understood the appeal of instagram over Flicker.

Why would you out of nowhere spoil a book like that?

I allway say it: it is the defaults, stupid (paraphrasign).

The Defaults have to be the most sensitive ones.

If you are a supposed super secure app, this should be the default.

He is saving 4 keystrokes out of ~400 by typing LNX instead of Linux.

Those super yatchs of larry have to be paid somewhow.

Your company has figured out the perfect arrangement. You’re good at your job, and you don’t cause problems. Your manager knows they can count on you. From the company’s perspective, this is the ideal state. Why would they change anything?

Whish I had knew this earlier in my career. I worked for IBM. I was very good at delivering usable software for internal use. They kept me there forever. They would give me awards and such, but never a change as the author says. If I needed something, I had to do it myself.

And google translate or google maps if you are traveling are very nice to have.

Sure, you can do without them, but it will be much more difficult.

If you mean Delphi Community, it has some restrictions, but probably 99% works?

If you mean Lazarus, it is fully open source. No restrictions but the ones of the software itself.

Delphi or Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org) should solve it.

I find the sidebar very confusing. I can not click on the INBOX folder for example.

I think it's important to start by saying that using Lotus Notes only as an email client misses the bigger picture, as Lotus Notes was was so much much much more than that. IBM had thouthands of custom made apps running on Lotus Notes. I had built about 50 apps.

Also, you didn't mention when you used it. I worked with Lotus Notes from 1995 to 2010, and the experience really depended on the hardware available at the time. Once it was up and running, it performed just fine if you had enough memory. For example, I still have version 8.0.2 (from 2008) on my machine, and it uses roughly 13MB at idle and up to about 50MB depending on installed apps, which isn't much by modern standards. But back in 1995, when 8MB of RAM was common, if Notes took up 6MB, I can see how that would have been a real issue. In my case, my ThinkPad had 32MB, then 64MB, and even 192MB which is the moment I installed Windows 2000.

As for the UI, the email client was highly configurable. Honestly, I don't remember ever thinking that something like Netscape Mail or The Bat looked or any email client that I tried at the time looked better. I didn't use Outlook back then, so I can't compare directly, but if Outlook over the past decade is any indication, Lotus Notes was at least on par, if not better that it.

What's really surprising is that even today, Lotus Notes had features that many modern clients still lack. For example, you could select multiple emails and forward them all together in a single message. Simple, but incredibly useful, and not something you commonly see implemented even now.

For reference, here's what the email client looked like: https://ds-infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocVie...

I still don't see how Outlook is better than that.

You are absolutelly right, it was a NoSQL database with a RAID environment on top.

It was SO fast to write things in Lotus Notes, that is crazy. I did it for 10 years.

It had some limitations, I don't recall them now, but basically you could do almost anything. You had to find a way.

But it was FAST to develop. It was crazy.