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Comment A question worth answering (Score 1) 14

After 40 years... is GNU finished? I mean, has GNU achieved feature completeness with Unix? If so, why do you continue to ask for more money? If not, why should anyone continue to give you money? This is one of those questions that would be easy to answer if GNU had a roadmap, a timeline, a formal specification... it has none of those things. It does, however, have an insistence on people donating time and money despite plenty of both having been given over the past 40 years despite glacial progress... why is that?

Comment Re:Where? (Score 2) 46

The east side of the county. This is the same pack of pants-on-head retards who unilaterally declared they were going to build a new city on the east side of the county without bothering to stop and consider pesky things like, you know, whether or not the county zoning plan would let them do that. It went over like a lead balloon and went precisely nowhere. This is their Plan B.

It wouldn't be such a terrible idea if they accounted for the fact that being in eastern Solano County is effectively like being on the dark side of the moon. To be accessible they'd really need a bridge across the bay, but that's not going to happen.

The whole thing has about as much probability of happening as bubblegum being discovered as the secret to nuclear fusion.

Comment Re:Little dictators owning their subreddits (Score 1) 44

Based on the text of the complaint, no, they're not claiming that. Rather, they're claiming that pursuant to their terms of service Anthropic didn't have the right to scrape that data. If they were claiming they owned the data they'd be adding copyright infringement claims to their complaint, but they didn't. Their claims are Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment, Trespass to Chattels (read: your bots damaged us), Tortious Intereference (read: Reddit has an obligation to respect the privacy of its users, Anthropic knows that, and this interferes with that contractual obligation), and Unfair Competition.

Much like Apple v. Epic I consider both parties to be assholes and hope that both of them lose.

Comment Re:Amazon vs UPS et al (Score 2) 62

If they're sitting there looking at their phone, it's one of two things: Either they're goofing off, or they're in a neighborhood with next to no reception and hence when they hit "I've arrived" on their app it pauses and churns endlessly while trying to communicate this fact, blocking them from moving on to the next screen where they can see and scan what packages they need.

When they're rummaging about that can be one of two things: Either they're grossly overloaded with packages so everything is out of order (which happens a lot during peak season, i.e. Oct/Nov/Dec), or they left everything in the totes rather than spreading them out on their shelves for easy retrieval. Note that these two possibilities are not mutually exclusive. Actually, now that I think about it, it's also possible these are the same drivers fiddling with their phones, and hence they can't see which packages they need by the sort number, so they're rummaging around looking for anything for that address while waiting for the app to load. By contrast, drivers who use the electric vans generally don't have this problem because they've got three levels of shelving so there's plenty of room to get organized. Amazon Flex drivers (the guys who use their own vehicles) may or may not have this problem depending on how big the flex route is.

These are problems that have relatively straightforward solutions, but that would involve hiring more drivers, and software engineers who didn't get their degree out of a box of crackerjacks. While that may result in a better customer experience, it would impose greater shipping costs on amazon, so naturally they won't do that.

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