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Such a good blog post, from start to finish.

There aren’t a lot of expertly-written in-the-weeds-tech blog posts, but this one was crafted so well. I guess that’s why Julia Evans’ name is so recognizable.

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5 years agodiscuss

Parent is insinuating this may be deliberate sabotage on Brother’s end, to convince users to buy a new model after a while

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5 years agodiscuss

Sure, it would be useful… if users used it.

My guess is they don’t. Did you use the like/dislike buttons they tested on Spotify radio? I didn’t, too much effort.

They probably get more signal from the skip button

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5 years agodiscuss

Unless you work for Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Facebook, etc etc ;)

Of course they’d lose their ability to issue public certificates if it became widely known, but they have it within their power.

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5 years agodiscuss

Disagreement with the premise of the law and/or judgement, on the basis of being overwhelmingly unfair to those without capital. And this case is just part of a trend.

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5 years agodiscuss

Then your private shopper gets tracked. It’s just a pointer to your actual self, like how a “ghost account” gets created on Facebook or Google, when you browse in incognito

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5 years agodiscuss

Customer support is a cost center, so it gets less funding than sales/marketing-oriented projects

(route-optimizing here likely has the intention of boosting sales, not necessarily reducing customer shopping time)

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5 years agodiscuss

You could say that about any number of things: global warming in the 2010’s, foreign war involvement, etc.

In this case, OP likely feels it’s morally wrong and unfair that Amazon can do this.

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5 years agodiscuss

Haha, I love your explanation of this! Human communication is difficult, and using syntax incorrectly makes it even moreso

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5 years agodiscuss

I don’t see much of a difference between the two, to be honest. Maybe something isn’t loading?

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5 years agodiscuss

I don’t think it’s fair to frame their intent that way. “Like” does not mean “exactly”. A period of time on the order of years is fine.

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