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Comment Perfect example of sunk cost fallacy... (Score 1) 78

This is a perfect example of sunk cost fallacy... they continue to throw endless good money after bad.

With SpaceX dragon flying flawlessly (and to think Boeing thought they would beat SpaceX with Starliner lol), and NASA now having the Orion space capsule, there is just no place for starliner.

Just cancel this turd and move on. It simply has no reason to exist anymore, and they continue to throw good money after bad.

Comment In short, yes. (Score 1) 95

I think Samsung's had the 100x space zoom since the S20 Ultra? I had the S21 Ultra and now I have the S23 Ultra. It's very cool, I love the zoom (its useable up to 30x, which is 3x digital zoom on the 10x optical zoom camera) but starts to get very pixelated above that. 100x is not very useable.

But I feel it's been pretty obvious to everyone that Samsung is basically faking the moon photo by overlaying it.

Not sure why this is suddenly news now?
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Quibi Cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Streaming Service's Rough Start (nytimes.com) 72

Posted by msmash from the when-in-doubt,-point-at-coronavirus dept.
Quibi, the streaming app veteran executive Jeffrey Katzenberg started with Meg Whitman a little more than a month ago -- and for which it raised $1.8 billion -- is off to a rough start. From a report: Downloads have been anemic, despite a lineup that includes producers and stars like Jennifer Lopez, LeBron James, Idris Elba, Steven Spielberg and Chrissy Teigen. The service, which offers entertainment and news programs in five- to 10-minute chunks, was designed to be watched on the go by people who are too busy to sit down and stream TV shows or movies. It came out when millions of people were not going anywhere because of stay-at-home orders across the country. "I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus," Mr. Katzenberg said in a video interview. "Everything. But we own it."

Quibi fell out of the list of the 50 most downloaded free iPhone apps in the United States a week after it went live on April 6. It is now ranked No. 125, behind the game app Knock'em All and the language-learning app Duolingo, according to the analytics firm Sensor Tower. Even with a free 90-day trial, the app has been installed by only 2.9 million customers, according to Sensor Tower. Quibi says the figure is more like 3.5 million. Of those who have installed the app, the company says 1.3 million are active users. Mr. Katzenberg expressed disappointment with those numbers. "Is it the avalanche of people that we wanted and were going for out of launch?" he said. "The answer is no. It's not up to what we wanted. It's not close to what we wanted." So nobody wants to use a short-form video app right now, except an increasingly growing number of people who are hooked to TikTok. Nobody wants to spend money on a service, but Quibi is free for first three months. Yeah, it's the coronavirus.

Comment I don't see the problem (Score 1) 362

I think ads, and worse yet, auto play video are malware. In fact, auto play video with sound is the worst abomination on earth.

Crypto mining in the background is a lesser evil in my eyes. Annoying, sure, but less annoying than auto play video by orders of magnitude that wastes tons of cpu cycles and sometimes very expensive bandwidth.

Comment Re:Going in seems so pointless (Score 5, Interesting) 226

by DiSKiLLeR (#54549935) Attached to: WSJ: There's An 'Inexorable' Trend Towards Working Remotely

I really like coming in to the office.

I like the social aspect. I like the morning coffee on the roof terrace, I like the free breakfast, free lunch, just the amazing food, and seeing the people you work with face to face.

But am I more productive in the office? FUCK NO.

All the distractions and annoying people, I am 100% more productive when I work from home. But it' just more lonely, and I miss out on the free food. So I choose to go in. It's also good exercise walking to the office.

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