Comment by grishka
2 days ago
Remembering things reliably must be the most unsolvable problem in computer science.
Unless it's related to advertising. Then it works flawlessly and sometimes survives device transfers and factory resets.
2 days ago
Remembering things reliably must be the most unsolvable problem in computer science.
Unless it's related to advertising. Then it works flawlessly and sometimes survives device transfers and factory resets.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
-Jeff Hammerbacher
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
How is that supposed to make anyone click on an ad?
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I feel like advertising relies on getting it right "enough" not for everyone and ... they don't care.
Auth and settings people will tell you when it is wrong and that is generally thought of as a problem. Yet advertising doesn't care.
For years Amazon kept showing me women's products. I never once bought any or looked them up but man they were sure I wanted to buy some.
Google thought I was a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan but really I'm a fan of a rival, that's why I had to google a few things about them, but my old google news feed was sure I was a fan... even when they gave me a chance to say "no news about this team" they kept doing it ...
I hate how in macOS, I can double click a window's title bar to maximize it, and five minutes later the original window size will be forgotten so you can't restore it.
Windows 95 had this shit figured out on systems running a 486 and 6MB of RAM.
Not just the window size, but if you have more than one monitor, it won't always remember the screen.
Oh, you double clicked to make it bigger? How about making it postage stamp sized in the bottom left of a different monitor...