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Is anyone surprised? Brilliant engineers going to work at Google expecting to work on world changing software and instead work on selling more ads.

How miserable.

1. too early optimization
2. optimization once performance bottlenecks are found
3. TBD
4. TBD

All jokes aside, I like the way this article breaks down types of optimizations. Especially the forth, as that tends to be the answer on occasion.

Same. I recently built a new machine and considered putting win10 on it instead of 11 due to all the complaints I’ve read. Instead, I just went with 11 to give it a try. After install it took me about an hour, but I had all recommendations, ads, and other annoyances turned off. After that setup, I’ve really liked the OS. Everything just works. Plug in new hardware and it just works. Download some random new software and it just works.

I say this as a software engineer that works with Linux systems daily.

For my personal use, I want my pc to just work. I spend enough time configuring and making things work at my job, I want my home pc to be no hassle and to work with everything I throw at it.

For this, windows is, by far, the best.

No it wasn’t. At all. Like Occupy Wallstreet, it was co-opted by people that had no interest in reality.

I was there at the beginning when kotakuinaction sprung up, when the accusations of pay for reviews was levied, and then consequently when the right wing found it and co-opted it.

You can try to revise history all you’d like, but that’s not what happened. It did not start as a hate campaign just as OWS did not start as a bunch of hippies and drug users asking for free money.

I don’t want to get involved with this discussion so I only have 1 point to make.

Using r/gamerghazi as a source on the reality of what happened is like asking Trump to defend Bernie Sanders position on an issue. That subreddit is the complete opposite side of the coin and they paint a very different picture from reality.

I disagree. More people need the education around weight loss. Too many people think you can outwork a bad diet in the gym and it is simply and entirely untrue.

You lose weight in the kitchen and you tone your body/build muscle in the gym.

It is worth repeating because many people honestly do not understand it.

Eat less food to lose weight. Go to the gym to get stronger.

Exactly. It’s like if your good friend came to you and told you they have cancer then you respond by saying, “oh that’s nice, I sat wrong and my leg fell asleep, shouldn’t you be caring about my leg????”

Even that claim I find dubious. Yes, your data won’t inform targeted ads on Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be used for targeted ads elsewhere on the internet.

Even comparing the two issues that you brought up is ridiculous to me. Issue 1, women make slightly less in some situations for some jobs. Issue 2, men die earlier than women. These two issues are not even in the same realm of seriousness and urgency to solve.

I’d stop worrying about misogyny and start with some reflection on your own misandrist values.

Fucking hell, this pisses me off.

Celebrities. CrossFit. Comics. Crypto.

Israel, continuing to demolish its own international reputation while ensuring a whole new generation is even more angry and more willing to fight.

I hate all advertising companies and Google is the biggest.

I might disagree with you. Check the date on this wonderful article: https://jezebel.com/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-cause-uh-we-have-294383

Same. All I remember of that site were man hating sexist articles.

Good riddance.

I understand it is a YouTubers shop but it is still an ad.

An ad is an ad. If YouTube premium’s point is to remove ads then this should be included. Otherwise what’s the point? We should all just go back to using ad blockers.

We should not pay for content twice. Viewing ads is paying for content. Paying for premium is paying for content.

As someone with my watch history off, it’ll be interesting if this button even shows.

I have no subscriptions, no history, and no tracking of any kind enabled. If this shows a recommendation related to my watch history, that’d shine a light on what those privacy controls really do.

If your perspective is that of an advertising company, then I can agree.

If your perspective that of a user, then no fucking way.

Advertisers and those that use them are trying to suck every penny from every corner of the web using psychological manipulation to get you to buy things you don’t need with ever increasing precision.

The internet of today is a shell of what it used to be. Either you are too young to have experienced the good internet, or you work in advertising.

This article.

Well today I learned something.

Thank you!