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Marcbmann

@ Marcbmann @lemmy.world

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    reinventing cable

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  • Oh fuck off with this. Don't victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.

    Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.

  • "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison over deadly 2021 shooting

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  • So she didn't bring live rounds on set and put those live rounds in a prop gun intended for actors in a movie?

  • United Scams of Assholes

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  • My security deposit was returned to me with interest added.

    I was told not to paint anything because they do that whenever someone leaves as standard practice.

    Sometimes apartments aren't bad.

  • VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits

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  • It's definitely written by someone who's never used a VR headset. It only takes a second to realize that these screens are nowhere near the resolution of your eye. Ya know, cause small text that would be easily read on my phone is blurry as fuck on a VR headset

  • My Git Knowledge

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  • I think HR is just ill equipped for technical interviews, but they try to conduct them regardless.

    Was denied a position because HR felt my experience "lacked depth" which I still can't understand 3 years later.

    Did the same role at a larger company. Had more responsibility than they were giving me. Developed my own tools for job automation. Grew their business from nothing to half a mil a month. Experienced all stages of growth and realized massive success.

    After that interview I kept getting technical interviews and getting passed on because I was too senior for the position

  • OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

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  • Wow didn't see that the first time

  • Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box

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  • I am very well aware of the automated pricing tools in Amazon. The accounts under my management will do over $3.5 million in sales this month. I will also manage almost $1 million in ad spend. I may be the only person in this comment section with a qualified opinion.

    These tools cannot adjust price based on customer data. They can adjust pricing based on competitor prices, and based on how many units you are currently selling. That is all.

  • Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now

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  • An engine increasing in size by 1 liter does not make the vehicle itself larger. These vehicles exist, that is not changing. Manufacturers are working to make these engines more efficient.

  • Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box

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  • The ability to win the buy box is exceptionally predictable.

    It is based on a combination of factors. The price point, fulfillment method, shipping cost, and feedback provided by customers about each individual seller.

    If I am the brand owner, using Fulfillment by Amazon, have the lowest price, and good seller feedback, I will win.

    If you come on the listing a lower price, no shipping cost, and equivalent feedback, but you are shipping the item yourself and have a slightly lower feedback rating, you will not win the buy box.

    The system is not rigged against the customer. Amazon is attempting to improve the customer experience, with price just being part of it

  • Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box

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  • Prices do not vary based on estimated income. Pricing control is not that granular.

  • Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box

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  • There is a new promotion type used by sellers that allow us to target people who have abandoned cart. We can offer exclusive discounts to those people.

  • Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box

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  • Majority of products are not sold by Amazon. Some sellers use price automation software, some use built-in functionality provided by Amazon. Amazons built in functionality allows sellers to set competitive prices relative to other sellers on Amazon.

    It has nothing to do with page views, clicks, or cart adds. Sellers cannot see cart adds in real time.

  • Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now

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  • If you read the article, you would see that larger diesel engines have lower emissions due to reduced compression ratios.

  • Americans are asleep, post European windows

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  • I'm in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They're also not that special. I prefer the regular windows

  • GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

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  • Completely agree. And that should be the focal point of the issue.

    Sam Altman is correctly stating that AI is not possible without using copyrighted materials. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

    His mistake is not redirecting the conversation. He should be talking about the efforts they're making to stop their machine from reproducing copyrighted works. Not whether or not they should be allowed to use it in the first place.

  • GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

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  • I don't agree. The publisher of the material does not get to dictate what it is used for. What are we protecting at the end of the day and why?

    In the case of a textbook, someone worked hard to explain certain materials in a certain way to make the material easily digestible. They produced examples to explain concepts. Reproducing and disseminating that material would be unfair to the author who worked hard to produce it.

    But the author does not have jurisdiction over the knowledge gained. They cannot tell the reader that they are forbidden from using the knowledge gained to tutor another person in calculus. That would be absurd.

    IP law protects the works of the creator. The author of a calculus textbook did not invent calculus. As such, copyright law does not apply.

  • GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

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  • Then every single student graduating college produces derivative work.

    Everything that required the underlying knowledge gained from the textbooks studied, or research papers read, is derivative work.

    At the core of this, what are we saying? Your machine could only explain calculus because it was provided information from multiple calculus textbooks? Well, that applies to literally everyone.

  • GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

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  • While I would like to be in a world where knowledge is free, this is apples and oranges.

    OpenAI can purchase a textbook and read it. If their AI uses the knowledge gained to explain maths to an individual, without reproducing the original material, then there's no issue.

    The difference is the student in your example didn't buy their textbook. Someone else bought it and reproduced the original for others to study from.

    If OpenAI was pirating textbooks, that would be a wholly separate issue.

  • Biden says he'll shut down the border if deal gives him authority

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  • You should look at what the requirements look like for an immigrant Visa. The average person in South America does not have the ability to satisfy those requirements. But that doesn't mean they are unable to become a valuable and contributing member of society.

    I know people in the US that came here illegally and have gone on to become business owners. But only because they were able to meet and marry a US citizen.

    There needs to be a legal path to entry. And we should be stopping the flood of people coming over the border at the same time.