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Post by jstarfish »

andrenotgiant wrote: post #611
ljm wrote: post #599

I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. Easiest boycott of my life to stop buying tripe from them. They’ve successfully pivoted from customer obsession to obsessed customers.

Everything on Amazon is shady knock-off garbage. I made the mistake of buying bandaids from there, they looked like a brand name but slightly off, they gave my kids rashes. I made the mistake of buying LED light bulbs from there, the brand name was reputable but who knows if what I actually got was the same brand or a copy, they started flickering and randomly going out within a year. I made the mistake of buying an…

Back in 2010, in the insurance industry we were warned that imported electrical products were found forging the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) labels. Surge protectors and electrical strips were cited as prone to meltdown at the time.

I don't know if this was ever made public knowledge, but I'm wondering if this is now coming to fruition a decade later with all these e-bike fires.

I figure if I ever need to commit arson I'm just going to charge a Chinese e-bike on a Chinese power strip and feign ignorance.

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Post by thirdsun »

papichulo4 wrote: post #625
ljm wrote: post #599

I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. Easiest boycott of my life to stop buying tripe from them. They’ve successfully pivoted from customer obsession to obsessed customers.

I tried to quit shopping from Amazon, and I did find alternatives. But, where do you buy your electronics from? a TV, a GPU, a monitor? What's their return policy? Amazon is 12 month 0% APR installments on anything >$50, 5% cash back on everything else, no questions asked drop-off at Whole Foods/UPS returns/pickups. Your money is back in your pocket that day. I tried Best Buy, NewEgg, and eBay. NewEgg, you'd think, w…

> But, where do you buy your electronics from? a TV, a GPU, a monitor? What's their return policy?

That seems so strange to me. Here in Germany we have countless electronics shops that have better (as in cleaner, well categorized) inventory as well as better prices than Amazon. Amazon can work quite well for these devices but it's just one of many options. Not using something like Geizhals to compare prices very likely results in overpaying.

And of course, a minimum return policy of 14 days is set via european legislation for all shops.

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #138
mstolpm wrote: post #110

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Why is it that LLMs are so often compared to employees and their responsibilities? In my opinion, it is an employee that actively USES the LLM as a tool and this employee (or his/her employer) is responsible for the results.

It's a dumb/lazy/specious talking point. You can kill someone with a pencil just like you can kill someone with a gun, but the gun scales up the danger so we treat it and regulate it differently. You can kill someone with a bike, a car, or an airplane, but the risks go up at each step so we treat and regulate the respective drivers differently. If AI gives every individual the power to suddenly scale up the bullshit…

well said

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Post by joquarky »

chmod600 wrote: post #680
chasebank wrote: post #667

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Costco? Essentially lifetime return policy except 3 months on electronics.

I wonder how long before "Electronics" is no longer a useful categorization because everything other than food is electronic.

It used to include electronics until people were returning TVs that they had for over a year "not satisfied with the product", then turning around and buying an upgrade with the refund.

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Post by joegahona »

wand3r wrote: post #376
joegahona wrote: post #286

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This is definitely the worst thing about Amazon. I pay them $120/year or whatever, and I search a specific product by a specific brand, and the entire browser screen shows me brands and even products I didn't even search for. I should not get ads in a store that I pay to use, especially in search.

I definitely agree that they don't return brand results. I don't use Amazon enough to remember the example(s) that were the final straw for me. Do you have any examples/remember which brand search you did? I am curious if some categories are "better" than others.

It was Anker or Bose — just now I searched “Bose noise-cancelling headphones,” and on the results screen there’s first a carousel of a bunch of JBL headphones, followed by two results that are some brands called Raycon and Tozo.

If I squint I can sort of understand sponsored products on actual product-detail pages or on the homepage, but in search on a shopping site it feels really user-hostile — you’re searching because you’re looking for something specific, not browsing.

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Post by wegfawefgawefg »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #741
wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #720

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Norway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_attack The way it hit headlines in the USA was somewhat misleading. Look for American news posts if you want to feel out the weird position. You can see the video of him just going about it in a store, and in the entrance.

Five people were killed by stabbing, none by bow and arrow. While it may have been the biggest recent mass killing in that country, it's still small compared to what can be achieved with greater weapons, which was the point.

most of the mass shootings are 3-10 people. and not by "assault" weapons. The banning is all silly.

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Post by daniel_reetz »

pierat wrote: post #450
redcobra762 wrote: post #164

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That's some hateful, xenophobic shit my dude.

I think the point is so much of this is automated, that there really is nobody at the helm. Its not hateful to say a LLM and pile-o-scripts is not human. And piles of scripts definitely don't "think".

Yeah, I was referring to machines/software.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

basil-rash wrote: post #516
kjkjadksj wrote: post #477

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Just the other day I dealt with this issue looking for usb 3.2 hubs, specifically powered hubs, which I kept in quotes that evidently were not respected. I was getting mostly usb 3.0 even some usb 2.0. A few usb 3.2 but not all like you’d think a quote should work for search. Also all over the place powered vs unpowered hub

I searched “powered usb 3.2 hub” (no quote) and got this as the #1 result, also labeled the “Overall Pick” and “Amazons Choice”: https://www.amazon.com/Rosonway-Individual-Switches-Aluminum... Following that, in order, were the following: https://www.amazon.com/Powered-LEINSIS-Individual-Switches-A... https://www.amazon.com/RSHTECH-Individual-Switches-Splitter-... https://www.amazon.com/ikuai-Charging-Aluminum-Splitt…

Well, they give different results for different users at different times. For me performing it just now on mobile, of the first 10 results, only 4 were usb 3.2. Most of the less relevant results were the sponsored results amazon inserts all over the place these days.
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