My cat refused to use the automated one.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

The actual reason was when they pushed Google+ and tried to make that the centre of Google. Everything else that had a social element had to be killed. Anything that breathed the same oxygen as plus got the boot.

Including the inanity of the + operator being a "this word unchanged must appear in results" modifier. So when they hot patched search, it broke, as +aliens looked for the plus name aliens only.

Then some bonkers spokesperson for google said "oh just use quotes", which at the time did nothing even remotely the same. I loath this person for eternity, her lies, and her waving off of reporters concerns.

Thus verbatim was introduced, validating quotes weren't the same, yet which wouldn't work with date ranges, and is lame.

So goes the "professionalisn" of Google, or "screw around like uncoordinated idiots".

To say Plus was inane and destructive to Google is vastly understating. And everyone involved in Plus were buffoons.

You know, I wish could speak freely on this topic, but as a public forum, I have held back some vitriol.

Im glad someone else still remembers the plus operator. I miss it.

...and them pushing Google+ despite their users best interests was the first signal the good years were finished.

So they turned a couple of millisecond operation to a 30 second operation?

30 seconds is the complete user flow to open the app, select a drink, approve payment with face id, and dispense the drink. Maybe a few seconds longer in the end than paying with Suica, but pretty negligible.

And a lot of coke machines in train stations, service areas, etc also accept Suica if you prefer (but then you don't get the stamps).

Typically the machines I see which only accept the Coke ON app are in more rural areas that traditionally would have only accepted cash. And I much prefer the app to cash.

I think Stripe is looking at companies using their services and identifying companies to acquire. This reminds me of Facebook looking at data from pixel data to identify apps with heavy usage they could acquire.

Microsoft is using AI generated code in their OS, so does that mean they lose copyright protection in Europe?

Once it becomes too substantial and there is not enough human oversight in process.

Say I would prompt Unix like system in few prompts or started agent chain to make it. That OS wouldn't have a protection.

This reminds me of https://renameforce.com/ which tracks all the name changes for salesforce products

Do you ask for height as a manual input?

That's the one measurement I always need. We support three modes: - full manual, where the client enters their own measurements; - semi-automatic, where the client fills out a short form and we estimate measurements from anthropometric statistics; - full automatic, where the client takes two guided photos in specific poses with their phone, and we derive the measurements using a BMNet-based model

Okay that makes sense

Why do you buy used books? You sound like the person who would prefer new books.

I answered this several times in the thread: almost every book is out of print, including some of my favorites. I would be much more stupid and boring if I only read new books. And of course indicates why scribbling in a book is so terrible: if it's Tolkein or Susan Rice or Chem 101 7th edition then sure, whatever. But a lot of the worst scribbling comes from graduate students who don't value the text they're bloodlessly working through.

Some books and some editions in particular can be hard to find new.

Restaurants used to have stock images everywhere from menus, to flyers, and posters. I don't remember much talk about it to the extent we have with AI generated images. I prefer to judge restaurants on the quality and taste of food, unless they're charging me a fine-dining rate for it.

It was a good UX in FriendFeed as it was still a chronological feed. However once it was mixed with algorithmic feed it shifted from better UX to keep em' hooked.