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I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.
I absolutely despise how online retailers have always allowed sellers to use the most nonsensical classifications for certain item categories, to the point most categories' filters are fucking useless
"User experience? Lol fuck that, browse endlessly you fucking peon!"
Everyone has their own way of doing things. In order to integrate them, you have to create your own way of doing things. Later, other people have to integrate your new schema with their own. It's just the nature of working with many different companies
Okay, but what company measures hard drives in chickens?
Impossible to say how the screenshot came about. At some point, the semantics of someone's data was misinterpreted. Something was called a hard drive when it isn't, something was treated as a capacity when it isn't
Just as a matter of interest, at the time of the screenshot I opened one of the "chickens" results and combed the page but failed to find any instance of the word (singular or otherwise). Today and yesterday, several people have asked me for the "chickens" results, which are sadly fewer now; however, one still exists within the constraints of the filters I applied. I still can find no instance of the word on the product page.
I'm sure the word "chicken" appears somewhere in the metadata, but it's still a failure of the system and the UX.
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Strangely (to me), most of the comments I've seen have been focused on the chickens, which are pretty funny; however, I don't think I've seen anyone comment on the "1 person," which - to me - is more concerning. Though if "Dennis" is a person (rather than a menace), perhaps that mitigates my concerns.
I was actually citing Homestar Runner with Dennis.
"Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. Ye see a FLASK. Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS."
Also, Extra Extra Medium.
Automation has truly ruined online shopping. These days you can order from a respectable brandname on a big company website and find out later the seller is actually nanchangshishengyuedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi and they sent you a completely different product than advertised.
I remember back in 2013 I built a PC for my wife, and in 2014 one for myself. At that point, buying something online still felt a bit odd. It was reserved for specialty items, shipping would often take at least 2 weeks, or even 6 weeks depending on where it was coming from. I was no stranger to purchasing online, but brick-and-mortar stores with real stock still existed and could get me what I purchased much more quickly.
I remember being so impressed with Newegg's website. It made it so easy to build a computer and make sure everything was compatible. It was really easy to compare different options. The filter system was intuitive and comprehensive. I remember thinking "wow this is a perfect shopping experience. The future has arrived".
I went to build my next PC in 2019, and dear Satan was it so much worse. I had heard about Newegg getting bought out by a larger company in 2016, and it showed. They opened it up to 3rd party sellers. The filters got clogged with garbage and don't seem to work properly anymore. The sort function became a joke. The UI got rearranged to be less intuitive. I think they purposefylly wanted to make a worse shopping experience to make people frustrated, to get them to give up on looking for deals and pay a bit extra just to be done with it. I ended up having to go to a 3rd party website (PCPartPicker) to figure out what I needed and where to get it. And some of those parts I had to order on eBay (some even from Newegg's eBay account which is just.... Why are we doing this?), some on Amazon or Best Buy. And it's only gotten worse since.
This same experience has happened everywhere. Just this morning my wife was checking out Culture Hustle to see if they have any interesting new paints and commented on how much worse the website was now than when we last used it a few years ago.
This may make me sound like an old curmudgeon yelling at clouds, but I think the Internet peaked a while ago. There are arguments over exactly when, but sometime between 2008-2016. I remember in 2012 in talking to my fellow students about how Google search results were getting worse.
My wife ordered a bunch of clothes off Amazon for the kids, they came out of the package still in their vacuum packed Chinese shipping bag.
The only saving grace is If they don't fit they're easily returnable. We probably could have ordered them from Alibaba for pennies on the dollar, But waited 6 weeks and assumed all the risk of a nearly impossible return.
It's weird how Amazon kind of pushed every online store into becoming eBay (without the bidding... Do people still use eBay for auctions?)
Yeah, you definitely don't want to get one that only holds 1 chicken. The extra money is worth it to hold 1 chickens.
Personally, I measure capacity in Tera-dactyls.
Since dactyl mean finger, which can also be translated as a digit, it kinda works. 🤔
How many 0 TB drives do i need to store this image?
segmentation fault at 0x87ac4608
core dumped
Can we see the six search results for chickens?
Unfortunately, I took that screenshot a while ago; if I do the same search again, I get only one "1 chickens" result, which I've linked elsewhere in the thread. It's just a normal external drive, as far as I can tell, so I have no idea how "chickens" got involved.
The search was originally done on Walmart.com (I'm not proud but there aren't a lot of retail options around my small town). All I did was search for "20tb external drive," filter for "in store," then open the "capacity" filter, which is what's shown above. I've consistently gotten weird results so, unless it's something specific to my local store, you probably will as well. If you do this, I'll be curious of your findings.
Just today I was trying to look for something at homedepot and not only were the filters exactly like that, but they were also additive. So if I selected both "1 chicken" and "1 chickens" to cover both spellings, it would say 0 results because no product matches both at the same time.
"Hm... 1 chicken or 1 chickens... 🤔"
Hold up. There are six 1 chickens? I gotta see what a 1 chickens capacity drive looks like.
1 Chicken is measured by the cut size. The smallest currently is measured in bites. Here is a 3lb partition...
Now chicken has ribs? Did they grow up in 3 mile Island?
I'm gonna upgrade to the 0 TB hard drive pretty soon so everything stops using up so much storage
Sigh. How many times do I have to keep telling people.. 0TB ≠ 0 TiB. One is a marketing gimmick that makes it look like you're getting more capacity than is actually available. You think you're getting 0TB when you're actually only getting 0TiB.
