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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by barnabee »

whycome wrote: post #336
dgfitz wrote: post #323

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

So far, Kobos are the way better option in my opinion. No ads, and it's much easier to add your own books. It's (currently) a much more open system. But, not without fault. They've shut down some older readers for no good reason.

The Onyx Boox readers have a feature called BooxDrop which runs a web server on the device when you enable it that provides file management and upload. It simple, wireless, and works great.

The readers work perfectly fine without an account and the Poke 5 I have is a fair bit smaller than the last Kindle I had with the same size screen.

It runs Android and I also use Termux plus a bluetooth keyboard with it for a rather nice minimal writing experience.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by xigency »

azeirah wrote: post #257
culi wrote: post #237

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if you don't, someone else will. Maybe you could've introduced a "bug" that makes it so it usually doesn't work except when a member of the QA team is looking at it :P

Well.. I did implement most of the framework. The good thing is that I'm waaaayyyyy detail oriented, and I made an extremely sophisticated system for it. Maybe a little bit TOO sophisticated Not my proudest _engineering_ achievement, but as an R&D project? I consider it a success. Ethical outcome? Success.

Good on you for sticking to your guns. I hope karma rewards it somehow.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by mrweasel »

jl2718 wrote: post #427
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…

I have an interesting anecdote about that. I was consulting for a very large tech company on their advertising product. They essentially wanted an upsell product to sell to advertisers, like a premium offering to increase their reach. My first step is always to establish a baseline by backtesting their algorithm against simple zeroth and first-order estimators. Measuring this is a little bit complicated, but it seeme…

Effectively the advertisers could buy less ad space and get the same or better conversion? That is somewhat hilarious because that means that not only are the end-users "the product" the advertisers are as well. There's only cows for the milking, on either side... and shareholders.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by i_am_proteus »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #455
easygenes wrote: post #441

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It’s possible to install warm colored LEDs with very little blue light output though. You get all those benefits without giving up the more-suitable-for-night sodium light spectral benefits.

Here in Baltimore the city seems to have purchased a huge batch of defective LEDs that are actually purple. It’s disturbing when you encounter one.

It happened in NC, too: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/10/duke-universit...

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by egorfine »

ragazzina wrote: post #562

>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. The author could stop eating at McDonald's and send a message to the company with his behaviour. But he does not care. >The guy on the hiking trail is playing his shitty EDM on…

> The author could ask the guy to turn off the music

People who tend to blast their music on a loudspeaker are not exactly the kind of people who are going to accept the message.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by helboi4 »

I really do not care but that is because the economy has incentivised me to get into work I don't care about. It is completely unprofitable to do things I do care about. So I don't do them. So everything I do do, I don't care about. Of course, I would hope if I was a doctor or sth where I really affected people's lives, I would care just for their sake if nothing else. But I'm a developer. It's really not that deep. Let me be an artist without me and my sick mother going homeless and I would actually care.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by xigency »

least wrote: post #486
parpfish wrote: post #438

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in situations like that, i like to think about Berkson's paradox [0]. In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated. But the individuals that fall into the quadrant of bad bedside manner AND low medical aptitude will be filtered out of the profession. That means that in the remaining population, you have an externally-induced negative correlation between bedside manner and med…

There are plenty of professions where it makes sense someone unpleasant still has a job because they're actually hyper competent (like software development) but why would physicians be filtered out of the profession for poor bedside manner? In what part of the world is there a surplus of supply of doctors that would allow for that?

I think you missed a bit of nuance. Psychologically, people are more likely to pursue a malpractice case against an incompetent physician who has poor bedside manner rather than an incompetent physician who has excellent bedside manner. So that specific quadrant would be penalized the most.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by teslabox »

rob74 wrote: post #514
teslabox wrote: post #462

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Blue-white LEDs have become the replacement for High Pressure Sodium [HPS] traffic lights because that's what the LED light companies have to sell. In the early years of the transition to LED streetlights they had to sell blue-white LED streetlights because warmer LEDs were not competitive with HPS on the basis of lumens-per-watt. Most of the people who understood the advantages of blue-free amber HPS light over whit…

My impression was that HPS lighting became so widespread not because of the supposed advantages of its light spectrum, but because it was simply the most light-efficient technology available at that time. Here in Germany, only main/multilane streets requiring more lighting were using HPS, residential streets mostly had lamps with white fluorescent lights, so switching those to LEDs wasn't as much of a change. But sti…

Low pressure sodium lights were more efficient, but they emit a single wavelength of orange light. These lights were strongly disliked by people who liked to admire their car in the streetlights (I suppose).

> residential streets mostly had lamps with white fluorescent lights,

… they used CFLs? The spiral fluorescents were invented in the 1980’s, I guess. I speculate the residential street lights used mercury vapor bulbs, which had a longer expected lifespan than fluorescents.

> But still, I'm wondering: what about curtains, window blinds etc.?

You need a good blackout curtain to deal with light pollution through your window.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by codeulike »

Seems to me that bike-lane-onto-pavement transition is designed to be deliberately awkward so that the cyclists have to SLOW DOWN before they join the pavement and share the space with pedestrians

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by boredumb »

Animats wrote: post #306
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…

I recently went to a gas station where the pump worked right! No affinity cards. No car wash offer. No asking for a ZIP code, since I'd been there before. No screen with ads. Press card against RFID reader, select octane, pump gas. I went inside and complemented the worker on their pumps being so easy to use. I go back there occasionally, even though the station with the ad screen is cheaper.

I went inside and complemented the worker on their pumps being so easy to use, He. Did. Not. Care.
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