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If the lowest prices cause insolvency for the company, then let your competitors go bankrupt to win in the long run?

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How was your elementary school experience?

For some definition of OK. It would be a big negative change to their lifestyles even if they're still alive. Also, it assumes they can get to those locations in time from wherever…

Maybe works for the US, but eBay shipping to Canada tend to ridiculously overpriced...

Why does your grocery store require a login?

Used by malware mostly, I think.

Don't supermarkets go through their produce really quickly so multi-day storage isn't what they're optimizing for?

People can absolutely get promoted for improving products, even if those products don't make the company money. The problem is more likely a lack of prioritization at the leadershi…

Why are randos allowed to bill you directly if you didn't sign a contract with them? Shouldn't anyone working at the hospital be under contract with that hospital? Why did the hosp…

If it's to dispute small charges, the company doesn't need to show up and just accept the loss.

> People write docs about stuff they care about but nobody writes docs about the weird error they got once that they needed a workaround for Google has an internal stackoverflow-st…

The main downside is now you're making the bytecode an API which means all future changes need to be backwards compatible.

Except then there's no parallelism since you're only building one file. Ideally you'd split it into N files to take advantage of multiple cores, but then you have to decide how to …

This just sounds like an inefficiency in Google Docs. Native software can also be inefficient, even if it's written in C or asm, if the data structures or algorithms used can't han…

Got more details about what you're referring to? For example, I know they have auto-subtitle stuff, but it's pretty ancient tech and I haven't seen it improve much since it was lau…

Did IDEs in 1995 actually support renaming variables? I thought that was a more modern thing like 2000s.

Well, test files shouldn't be affecting the actual production binary. But in practice that's not something that can be enforced for arbitrary projects without those projects having…

How would that even work? Are distros expected to code their own alternative versions of open source libraries where they can't get the maintainers to send their IDs? Or what stops…

Shouldn't whatever is depending on xz supporting landlock be verifying that it's the case through blackbox tests or something? Otherwise a check like this even without the bug coul…

And how long would that take to happen?

The plastic wrap on the cucumbers makes them last longer. You can argue whether it's worth it, but there is a reason.

I don't see that happening except at very big businesses like chains. Most locally owned restaurants have trouble maintaining a working website let alone something so complicated.

Theoretically, incompetence can be unevenly deployed if you assign incompetent people more predominantly to specific regions or cases.

Well, it doesn't make sense that this still happens. You'd think there would be policies and training to prevent this sort of thing nowadays...