I once had a "We would like to invite you to a first stage interview" at some company. It was about 6 months after I'd applied. It took me a while to work out who they were. The job I actually took was about 1 week from application to offer.

:) that joke's been doing the rounds for decades :P

I guess it's a bit like "how do you if someone is deathly allergic to peanuts? They'll tell you over and over".

Would be nice if these "ai" tools could optimise software for other outdated hardware.

I remember about a decade ago, my early android phone became unusable as the OS slowed so much.
I had a wild idea... if there was some way a super advanced AI could just rewrite the OS to be so optimised, that it would be fast again.
Maybe we're headed in that direction...

I only buy "sold by" and "delivered by" Amazon products. I'm trying hard to avoid knock-offs. And yes I know about co-mingling.

So Amazon would need some complex selection for this kind of thing.
Eg, "yes I will accept other merchants". But "not above xx.xx price"

I live in Europe. The supermarkets all have them. And often they are out of power or displaying an error message. Usually in forgotten areas, but still not great.
Paper tends to at least display something.

I guess any software is one automatic update away from becoming hostile.
Imagine the fun scenarios in the event of war...

There would still be a record of you viewing the document.

I own a current gen Xbox and the hardware seems ok.
The previous gen was ok too.

In my neck of the woods, you can buy used Lego by the kilo on eBay clones.
So you can definitely find cheap Lego today.

I know a few people who want to move from a PS5 to a PS5 Pro, or have already done so and sold their base PS5.
My gut feeling is that there are a lot more PS5s out there, just offer someone you know $200 and everyone is happy.

2 years ago I paid €12.99 a couple times for ultimate. It seemed like a nice way to access a large library of games - as is their sales pitch.
Eventually I got bored with the few interesting games I saw there. It was cheaper to buy one specific game on sale for €10.

Now the price is €26.99 for gamepass ultimate.... haha. I'll stick with buying a €10 game during a sale.

Even older cars need microchips for repairs and replacement parts. Unless you mean old-old cars, like a model T :p

I worked at a startup a few years ago. They used weasel words in marketing and PR material. The key question is whether these are "unique users". And I guess now with AI agents, whether the user was even human.

It seems the patients were "walked through" the whole process of buying the bitcoin just for this gimmick. So there really should be no buyer's remorse.

Spot on.

I don't know why this censorship card is so popular. Most countries let you say pretty much what you want, only limiting harmful stuff like incitement to violence etc.

I personally liken it to a hypothetical criminal spouting that their rights to crime are being infringed by all this legal nonsense.