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What’s more likely, someone at reddit fucked up an analysis, or these ads are 14x better than Google or 31x better than FB?

What's most likely is that you misread or misinterpreted what was stated. It says the new format outperforms other types of ads by 28%, not that they get 28% CTR.

In 2024, I feel like we should have the power to create images that aren't fuzzy, overcompressed, and hard to see messes, yet here we are.

I know this "seems" correct, but I'm curious if there's actually a strong correlation between prominent adam's apples and deep voices? In my experience, it's not particularly strong. Plenty of guys with big adam's apples don't have deep voices and plenty of deep voiced men don't have prominent adam's apples.

It's true what they say, though. You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg. That's also true when it comes to properly breading chicken in preparation for deep frying, the secret ingredient is dipping the chicken in egg before coating with bread crumbs. And I think if we're all being honest with ourselves, the same can basically be said about relationships.

Ya'll listen up up here's the story about a little guy that lives in the blue world.

The problem I have with the whole "birds aren't real" thing is that bird-drones are expensive, very expensive. Think about all the "birds" you've ever seen over the course of your whole entire life. Think about how much it would cost to build and maintain that. I'd hate to see the bill.

I was in the market for a docking station. There was a particular brand that was showing up in recommendations, was well-rated, and had the specs I was looking for. I found it on Amazon, but I avoid buying from that place as much as possible, so I checked the vendor's website directly.

They had the dock for sale on their own website, so I proceeded to purchase from there. However, when I was almost done with checking out, I saw that they were asking for / suggesting a tip. That's honestly despicable for an online store and way past the line for me. So, I did some more research, found a different brand of dock, and bought that instead.

Looking back, I should have done what you did and notify jsaux of their missed sale, but I honestly just assumed it was a pointless endeavor. Maybe one day I'll go back and see if it's still there on their checkout, and if so, let them know they've missed at least one sale.

Shell shocked, perhaps?

Not me. I'm reading this Lemmy post in browser.

Like that other comment asked: We are you living in Japan in the 90s?

I used to be friends with a guy who was getting a graduate degree from Liberty. He apparently only did it because he was a member of the Falwell family so the courses were free for him.

He was pursuing an "online" degree, which at the time meant that the school sent him DVDs of the lectures and he had to take quizzes and exams online. Neither of us was particularly religious, so he kind of got a kick out of showing me the highlights of the lectures on DVD.

Those lectures were ... something else. It really didn't matter what the subject matter was, biology, statistics, psychology: The first 10 - 20 minutes of all the lectures was basically a church service. There were prayers and Bible stories, things like that. There would be about 10 - 15 minutes of actual course instruction. And they would work in religion as much as possible during that time. All the examples were focused on religion, it was super weird. And then the final 10 - 20 minutes would be wrapping up with more prayers and Bible study.

The quizzes and exams weren't much better. The "problems" were so simple that you mostly didn't even need to read the books or watch the lecture to answer the questions. All the open ended word problem were religion/Bible oriented, very hamfisted. You almost had to make an effort to make anything less than 80% on these things.

So needless to say, I try not to judge too much, but I think about my buddy's educational experience any time I see someone with a degree from that university.

My very first PC was a Compaq. It was not the cheapest low-end piece of shit available in those days, yet it was still an absolute low-end piece of shit. USB ports broke with minimal use. CD-ROM drive broke despite minimal use. The case started falling apart after a year or so. RAM went bad. I could go on, but you get the point. PIECE OF LITERAL FECES.

And then they got bought by HP, which was already on my list of PIECE OF LITERAL FECES companies.

So, that's when I knew I'd never buy anything HP branded. That was 20+ years ago.

And literally (I'm using literally in the literal sense), every single person I know who has bought something (anything) HP branded after I advised them not to has regretted their decision. It's honestly baffling how they are still in business on the consumer end. Their stuff is crap. PIECES OF LITERAL FECES.

Anecdotally speaking, I've been suspecting this was happening already with code related AI as I've been noticing a pretty steep decline in code quality of the code suggestions various AI tools have been providing.

Some of these tools, like GitHub's AI product, are trained on their own code repositories. As more and more developers use AI to help generate code and especially as more novice level developers rely on AI to help learn new technologies, more of that AI generated code is getting added to the repos (in theory) that are used to train the AI. Not that all AI code is garbage, but there's enough that is garbage in my experience, that I suspect it's going to be a garbage in, garbage out affair sans human correction/oversight. Currently, as far as I can tell, these tools aren't really using much in the way of good metrics to rate whether the code they are training on is quality or not, nor whether it actually even works or not.

More and more often I'm getting ungrounded output (the new term for hallucinations) when it comes to code, rather than the actual helpful and relevant stuff that had me so excited when I first started using these products. And I worry that it's going to get worse. I hope not, of course, but it is a little concerning when the AI tools are more consistently providing useless / broken suggestions.

Wendy's was one of my favorite "cheap eats" back in the day. For less than $5, I could get a drink and 2 burgers that would mostly keep me from starving for the day. And they used real, fresh veggies on the burgers -- slices of tomato, sliced onion, real lettuce -- unlike some of their McOmpetitors.

I haven't been in the post-covid era that I can recall, but I'm hoping they haven't gone the route of the other fast food places I have been to post-covid. Seems like they've all gone way down hill on quality, made poor or unnecessary changes to menu items, prices have gotten ridiculous, and the service is -- well the service was usually pretty bad even back in the day so maybe no change there.

You need to take a sensible deduction.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Its a movie franchise about mutant cannibal rednecks who hunt and kill the people who intrude on their territory. Oh, wait, no that's Wrong Turn.

The actual scariest stuff pretty much boils down to aggressive dogs being aggressive dogs.

For example: I saw a woman lose control of her pit-mix. The dog rushed over to one of our neighbors, unprovoked, and immediately latched on to her leg and started thrashing it. The dog's owner was freaking out screeching which seemed to agitate the dog rather than dissuade it from attacking. There was so much blood, but I think the only long term physical damage was scars. However, I only ever saw the victim once or twice after that, she stopped going out on walks after that event.

If you're willing to stretch the definition of scariest and seen:

Deer are super annoying sometimes. One of their behaviors is that they make a super loud snort-whistle noise when alarmed. So if you're outside and unaware of their presence, and especially if you're not expecting a super loud and almost alien-like snort-whistle coming from the woods right next to you, there's a good chance it's going to startle the crap out of you.

Where I live, our winters are typically like this. It's never been particularly stable, often oscillating between spring-like warm weather, standard cold winter weather, and stretches of extreme arctic blasts.

What has been unusual is that we haven't had any snow at all so far, not even an ephemeral flurry. We haven't had any wintry weather (i.e. sleet, snow, freezing rain) this winter. And for that to be the case in mid February is definitely unusual. If we go this entire winter with no wintry weather, it will be the first time in my lifetime that I can recall.

Coincidentally, back in the fall the long term forecasts for this winter were suggesting we would have more wintry weather than normal in this area, since there would be more moisture and more frequently extreme cold events (as well as cooler than normal temps).

Fun fact since you may not be aware, but not all owls are nocturnal. And even those that are considered nocturnal are often active at dusk (after sun set but before the sky has gone dark). So, it could still work.