>Failure to collect trash under certain conditions is not a failure of a trash collecting system.
Of course it is. If your phone fails to make calls under certain conditions, that is a failure of the system, and we try to fix it (for example by deploying more antennas, or by fixing software bugs in it).
If workers refuse to pick up trash, we can also fix that (ask Ronald Reagan).
There's no expectation of continuous (24/7) trash pickup, unlike your phone where (these days) you expect it to work all the time.
If the regular collection schedule is every 7 days, and it turns into 14 or even 21, for the most part your trash is still being collected within the bounds of "yeah, my trash gets collected".
Paying does not guarantee anything. It does not guarantee a more reliable service, it does not guarantee that they will hear you out when they change a feature or the design, ruining it, and it does not guarantee it won't shut down tomorrow. They will refund you, and you will have your money back, but you will have no service, and you will be back in square one.
I mean... sure. Even paid services eventually shut down.
But I have far more confidence in something at least making sense for the company to keep running if it is something I pay for vs something that is just given away for free.
If I am relying on an online service, while paying for it doesn't guarantee it being up it's a safer bet than a free one.
>I may be misremembering but didn't Feedly step up very quickly? Even offering the ability to easily migrate everything over.
Other rss readers were either much different (think cards design, or too much whitespace everywhere, or whatever), or they had premium plans they were telling you about all the time, or they had premium plans and a low limit of rss feeds you could add, or they had no mobile apps, or the mobile apps required premium, or whatever.
Nothing was like google reader: free, information-dense, and reliable. When google reader was killed, rss died for me.
Right, I think you've hit the essence of the issue here.
Those alternatives were definitely there, but there's an order of magnitude difference between them and Google in terms of what they did for the normalization of RSS as a way of consuming content.
Saying Google stopped supporting RSS but at least there's a boutique alternative, I think is kind of saying well Coca-Cola shut down but at least there's Soda Stream. Not wrong, but it misses the point that there's a global embeddedness that was left behind.
Is that the general feeling in South America or just where you're at? In the US, depending on who you ask he's the next Pinochet, general ignorance here of South American history notwithstanding.
I think El Salvador has a very well run media-and-public relations department that creates media and guidelines for publications in different markets (countries). It relies on social media, instead of relying on traditional public broadcasting like German's Deutsche Welle, British BBC or U.S Voice of America.
This has given El Salvador lots of "soft-power". What I've seen is that it will talk about (well researched) the target audience's pain points and show how El Salvador solves them.
Not sure I follow. You're saying El Salvador has an extensive and apparently successful propaganda apparatus that uses social media instead of state-controlled broadcasting. And thus the perspective of El Salvador held by those who do not live there is wrong? Not clear what you're suggesting.
I assume GP is referring to Javier Milei who wishes to assert top down culture change in the government. Though given he's equivocating now that he actually has to execute on his lofty reform agenda of the (near) abolition of government, it seems unlikely it's going to play out as he's imagined/portrayed. If he does succeed in the execution, it will be an interesting experiment in anarcho-capitalism, and the whole world is watching and waiting to make it an example either against or for the ideology
In Prague or Budapest about '88 - hazy now as we were moving about a
lot - before the wall came down, but the "thaw" had started. McDonalds
just opened a restaurant, first in the city. Anyway there we were
looking at this enormous queue... the biggest damn queue I ever saw,
It went round the block, and the next block... like how people camp
out for black Friday but thousands and thousands of people. Each
burger was the equivalent of a few weeks wages. But nothing could stop
them, all hungry for a bite of "freedom".
Meantime porn producers and other creeps were swarming Prague and Budapest to "taste the Communism". Hard to find a woman who was in her teens or twenties at that time who wasn't curious if free market penis is as hard as post-Communist one.
> porn producers and other creeps were swarming Prague and Budapest to "taste the Communism"
A significant majority of white sex workers in Western Europe and porn actresses still tend to be from Eastern Europe—Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia.
This scam was popular in post-soviet too. Basically a very annoying salesman who reiterates on all sorts of reality bending pushes once you let them in. You may think it shouldn’t work but it does, on people whom you wouldn’t call idiots. As I understand it, it leverages the tendency to respect authority and avoid conflict, among other sales tricks.
There’s an old joke about it:
Salesman: (enters the room and dumps trash on the floor) If our vacuum cleaner can’t clean this, I will eat this trash!
Dwellers: You can start eating cause electricity is off for three days.
At the end, Lucy tries to make her money back by using the same sales techniques used on her. The vacuum cleaner doesn't work because electricity is turned off because the resident hadn't paid the power bill.
Colleagues in workplace started buying and were receiving commission by referencing next client. Trained salesman visited home and used all dirty sales tricks and pitches. Until now I remember "don't say this vacuum is expensive, this is Mercedes of vacuum cleaners, everyone desires even a substitute of Mercedes", or "a salesman enters someone's home with an attitude that they own him the commission money". You grew up in Communism with an absolute shortage of everything and are unable to evaluate good value in market economy. Fuck this manipulative psychopats.
In novel free market and democratic ways. That was extremely bitter realization. The reward for hardships so far was a new wave of MLMs, cults, sects, scams, and whatnot.
We do still have them right here in the US-of-A but they tend to be more clever in packaging... Mary Kay, Amway [0], people working IT at state colleges known for IT but paid for a weird 'stock tip' ponzi email thing, heck I know between 2007ish-2013ish a couple close friends bought into this weird "I'm a cellular reseller" MLM thing...
[0] - Still remember when some otherwise very bright folks got wrapped up in 'Team of Destiny' which was basically Amway over the internet back in 2001-2002ish times.
I have a 13900K. The default BIOS settings set a maximum wattage of 4096W (!!!) that makes Prime95 fail. If I change the settings back to 253W, what Intel says is the maximum wattage, Prime95 stops failing.
Still, I don't know if I should RMA. I got the K version because I intended to overclock in the future. And all of this sounds like I won't be able to. I think increasing the voltage a little bit makes the system more stable. I have to play with it. (Really, if someone can say whether I should RMA or not, I would appreciate some input)
Edit: decided to RMA. I have no patience for a CPU that cost me +600€
I have a 13900K and I am affected. Out of the box BIOS settings cause my CPU to fail Prime95, and it's always the same CPU cores failing. Lowering the power limit slightly will make it stable. I intended to better refrigerate the CPU and change the power limit back to the default and if the problems continued I would RMA the CPU, but now I'm not so sure that the BIOS is not pushing it beyond the operating limits.
Can I ask what mobo vendor? Do you know what power limits the BIOS was targeting that caused the error?
On my Asus/14900k, it was uncapping PL1/2 and I saw absurd temps and power every time anything even touched the CPU. I programmed PL1/2 to 125/253w per Intel ARK and everything normalized.
I did not do Prime95 at the insane default power limits but I suspect similar.
They are using a service that allows them to make their opinion public and publicised and to know other people's opinions. Or does that have no value now?
Of course it is. If your phone fails to make calls under certain conditions, that is a failure of the system, and we try to fix it (for example by deploying more antennas, or by fixing software bugs in it).
If workers refuse to pick up trash, we can also fix that (ask Ronald Reagan).