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Fucking duh...

1 it seems like every successful company is headed by self centered assholes 2 enshittification

That's the rub, numerous times you can't cancel until the x is done (for gym memberships it used to be a whole year). Or alternatively look at prime cancelling is made difficult.

Another issue is they tend to get more unnoticed as time goes on and little additional fees start creating in.

Just avoid subscriptions when possible has served me well

Why shouldn't they get an explanation?

Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a tech stack?

[Vinge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge) was a professor of mathematics and computer science. I'd expect him to get things right. Funny enough I don't remember that bit at all from fire upon the deep.

Excellent automatic metadata determination. Dead easy to run/setup

for example, almost all of their predictions weren’t just wrong… in hindsight, given how the future played out, they were asking the wrong question

Do you have an example of this? My (poor) memory remembers "it's going to change how people buy things", was the big deal at the time, and it seems like it was a great prediction.

seriously. I don't see how CS is low effort either, maybe they mean physically low effort.

You should listen to your mother.

edit: lol, i assumed you were the OP. ignore me

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapo...

Yeah! No USA involvement there... take a second and imagine it was you and your family getting bombed and starved. stop being such a horrible person.

George Carlin also said: "'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it" (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason...).

I think there's a power dynamic that it seems like you are ignoring, that big companies take advantage of. Amazon gets cheap goods to your doorstep, and removes all competition while doing it. You think those goods are going to stay cheap,i don't. This is a playbook that wallmarts followed for years. Amazon also gets sellers, by selling amazon versions of their products. Google makes billions by showing you ads, they got you there with free services, but now they enshittify.

There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing

I think my concern is not going back to the bad old gilded age days, where wealth inequality lead to most humans having a terrible life while a few had a great life.

This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.

privacy/security fragmentation

giant big tech data leak:https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-billion-passwords-apple-facebo... yesterday?

It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.

I'm a huge roger waters fan, in particular the album named after this book (not to mention huxley). I was excited to finally get to read what had inspired him. I found it dated (obviously I'd read it nearly 40 years after it was published), commentary on the evils of tv.

Maybe too far fetched? Company sells/loses data, insurance companies use data to deny coverage, or deem claims as pre-existing.

In the west there have been environmental commitments since the at least 1990s. The governments just seem to mostly ignore those commitments. So it's pretty easy for westerners to not believe commitments made by other governments.

I would also like the ability to start from a bar of my choice and maybe even evaluate a one or two bar section at a time rather than having to play the whole piece

^ IMO this should be among your top priority.

Anecdotal, but maybe it'll help

I had a goal of introducing my kids to piano, and also wanted to pick it back up myself (I'd been forced to as a kid and hated it, never progressed beyond beginner).

I got myself a casio privia (it's a costco special 88 weighted keys, was the reddit recommendation for beginners at the time). Then paid for lessons with a teacher for my family which by far outweighed the cost of the keyboard.

About 10 years later: rest of family have given up piano, they didn't progress far, and i didn't do any forcing; but it was nice to hear them play when they did. I've kept it up although progress is very slow.

I think my feelings are: - I could have spent more on the piano (my dad got a significantly more expensive piano, and it is more pleasurable to play): quieter keys, better action on the keys. - I feel pretty good about how far my the rest of my family progressed, and am happy that i didn't push - I feel like a teacher somewhat forces you to keep practising even when you don't want, and maintains some progress, I don't think I'd get this from an app.

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

I was attempting to use it as "denies" (even though in reply i said "prove").

You seem to me to be taking the meanings of words so seriously that you've lost the value those words provide.

You are saying he doesn't prove it false?

First thought was of John McWhorter's book [The Language Hoax](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18579574), where he refutes Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think in that book he talks about this phenomenon too.

Great movie, based on one of Ted Chaing's short stories -- highly recommended.

we went in the opposite direction, not because haproxy was bad, just because nginx had a simpler config, and i think we were paying for haproxy but don't pay for nginx.

all that said, neither drops existing connections on reload

You have: you've got clearly labelled workloads you can decide which ones are important and not, and easily turn down the ones that aren't important.

Based on 2160p movies i've seen around the very largest max out at around 100, and 40 is more common, so this seems wrong.

Oh cool, I find cilantro to taste bad! Stevia less so, but I don't like it. Is Aspartame the same (I also find it to have an aftertaste)?

My understanding is that regular human speech is generally this way.

Totally anecdotal, just tonight i saw a video my child was watching with generated images. At first i thought, I've seen that face in generated images, i think, then we looked a little closer, and noticed obvious mistakes (extra or weird fingers, weird body positions, cross eyes where you wouldn't expect them).

Of course it's the first time I've spotted it in the wild where it wasn't explicitly marked as generated content, so maybe i've missed a bunch.