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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by ew6082 » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #316

leipert wrote: post #247

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Ha. The traffic curb example is actually a good one. I don’t think it’s an excuse to build a potentially dangerous ramp because you aren’t a cyclist yourself. People who design ramps should be capable to do it properly. Imagine it were a ramp for wheelchairs and they would have decided that a 20 degree slope is doable.

This may be intentional. Road to sidewalk is a speed transition point. The transition from street to sidewalk via a tight turn here is an effective traffic-calming component to slow down bikes from road speed to walking speed. That's done on freeway off-ramps, where there's a curved section or two of decreasing radii to force vehicle speeds down before they reach a stop sign or traffic light. Same problem.

This is the most likely reason. They should have put a sign, but the ramp looks right to me if you want them to match pedestrian speed when merging into a pedestrian space.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by brianbest101 » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

BhavdeepSethi wrote: post #309

sureglymop wrote: post #253

> We have examples like Elon who, through sheer force of will, defeats armies of people who don't care. For his many faults, you can't say the man doesn't care. I fully expected that bit. Can't say I would agree in any way though. If anything, a perfect example of a person with way too much agency and executive power and way too little restraint and rationality. The perfect anti social candidate to not care but to wa…

What do you not agree with? That he doesn't care? I would assume scaling Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity are net positive for the world (as it stands). Can you achieve those ambitious things if the leader/ceo of the company doesn't care?

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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dgfitz » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

roland35 wrote: post #289

dgfitz wrote: post #232

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My spouse bought us kindles recently, and it popped in my head today that at some point e-books are going to have ads interspersed…

Kindles already can have ads on the sleep screen! Unless you paid for the ad free version.

Oh my…I’ll have to ask, I bet they did. Unreal.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by wantoncl » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

spc476 wrote: post #310

dgfitz wrote: post #232

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My spouse bought us kindles recently, and it popped in my head today that at some point e-books are going to have ads interspersed…

I've found books that had ads inserted into them [1]. It seemed to be a thing from maybe the 1960/1970s. The ad page was a different type of paper, and no text from the book was on it (that is---the ad wasn't on one side and book text on the other). [1] One example: https://boston.conman.org/2002/12/31.1

https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by amatecha » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #287

azeirah wrote: post #210

> The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care. I was working in this space! And I got fired for refusing to work on more upsell features for clients like Coca Cola and such. I don't want to work on adding fucking ADS into c…

Lately, the number of times (across different businesses/industries) where I've found myself thinking "Will you please just fucking take my money and stop bothering me?" is too damn high.

Yup, it's not good enough that you're already a paying customer- they have to try their best to manipulate and coerce you into spending even more. It's insulting, abusive and honestly pathetic. These thirsty lamers have to try every trick in the book to eke a few more cents out of me? Embarrassing. Modern tech/business does not have a shred of pride or dignity, as per TFA.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by _cenw » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

frotty wrote: post #200

100% of the people around me at work care. I wish they didn't, because they're bad at their job and "them caring" puts them as a peer for experts and people who both care AND are competent/experienced via design by committee and inclusion. Their incompetency is explained away as "unique point of view." So perhaps the entire piece is an exercise in overgeneralization, where you assume that everyone has a baseline amou…

As the software archeologist on call for literally anything going wrong with anything IT operations related for a large publishing house that unfortunately had an IT department since the 80s and a web presence since the 90s, I'd like to extend a generous "fuck you" to all the people who have not cared to document a single thing in the past 30 years.

Point being, this isn't new.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by anarticle » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

frotty wrote: post #200

100% of the people around me at work care. I wish they didn't, because they're bad at their job and "them caring" puts them as a peer for experts and people who both care AND are competent/experienced via design by committee and inclusion. Their incompetency is explained away as "unique point of view." So perhaps the entire piece is an exercise in overgeneralization, where you assume that everyone has a baseline amou…

Not really sure why you brought your job into this, other than to inject corporatism into social problems.

Good enough = human shit in the street in USA.

This reads more like a death by a thousand tiny cuts, much like people that do not return their shopping carts.

As for solutions, it won't happen in our life time in USA.

Shame has a function in society, USA as a whole is shameless, that's all there is to it.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by donatj » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:28 AM UTC

I set up a weekly auto-buy for a stock about a year ago with Cashapp.

I noticed the stock was way up today so I logged in to sell. Well, turns out the auto-buy has just... Not been firing... For a solid year. I have two purchases and then it stopped. It still says I have a weekly auto-buy set up, but I have not been charged.

In a just society, I would be owed my potential winnings for these unprocessed purchases, but having dealt with Cashapp support in the past I know damn well there's no way they're going to agree to that. I would be lucky to even catch the ear of a human being. It's sure as hell not worth taking them to court over a loss of maybe a couple hundred dollars at most.

The opaque and useless support of modern companies is literally in my eyes the worst part about the modern world. They quite literally do not care.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by numpad0 » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:29 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #45

> In Japan, you get the impression that everyone takes their job and role in society seriously. The median Japanese 7-11 clerk takes their job more seriously than the median US city bureaucrat. My favorite example of this is how, if you visit 7-11 in Japan and an employee isn’t busy, or is busy but with an unimportant task, they will jump to open a cash register and check people out the second a queue forms. They wil…

One thing that rarely mentioned in Japanese 7-11 efficiency is the "employment ice age" problem that contributed to it: there was a massive job crisis around 1993-2005 and major STEM university graduates were dime a dozen. A McDonald's but with only clones of Gordon Freeman as employees tends to become a bit different place than a regular hamburger shop.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by tdeck » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 2:31 AM UTC

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #176

M95D wrote: post #155

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Faxing... So very convenient! We have to personally take the paper orginals to various offices around the city, wait hours in a queue, get another paper document, go make copies, assemble another folder and go to yet another office/institution.

Don't forget when your coworker prints out a memo, asks you for edits on the paper, then you go in and edit the virtual document.

A couple of jobs ago one of my colleagues went to work with a Japanese partner for a few days to do an integration. Apparently they had to import a bunch of data and one of the Japanese employees, who seemed to have an axe to grind, printed out pages and pages of a spreadsheet and handed it to my colleague. Whenever my colleague asked him to just send the file, he pretended to not understand. In the end they had to OCR it but at least it was a story.