treesquid

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[–] treesquid 17 points 3 months ago

Very much so. They just call them "gifts" from "friends" and that's the end of it.

[–] treesquid 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pressure and mockery? Pretty sure he died of physical abuse and malnutrition. He didn't die because Putin made him sad.

[–] treesquid 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The whole point of the cat thing was to point out the absurdity of the claim that reality isn't real until you know about it. The cat is already in whatever state you observe when you open the box. It's not both alive and dead, it's either alive or dead. The thought experiment isn't serious, and it's not supporting the idea that the cat is somehow magically in both states just because you haven't yet manipulated the lid of a wooden cube.

[–] treesquid 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Given that the tech they need to understand here is paper, empathy is hard and it's just frustrating. Computers, complicated. Paper, extremely uncomplicated. This is just refusal to use the noodle.

[–] treesquid 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality

[–] treesquid 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Or just don't connect the TV to your network. It has inputs. Use an input device you have control over. The end.

[–] treesquid 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But he unfortunately also gets what he doesn't deserve, like billions of dollars

[–] treesquid 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Who wants to bet they just had their fingers bent when they stenciled them?

[–] treesquid 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If it was easy to automate, then spammers, scammers and corporate pigfuckers would completely inundate marketplace with so much garbage it would be utterly unusable. Accept that the only reason your 1 Facebook ad per day produces any results at all is because it's hard to automate, and if it weren't, nobody would ever see any of your ads. The fact that you're hunting for IDs instead of page structure patterns already suggests a novice level, so imagine all you needed was awareness that Selenium exists in order to spam Marketplace to death with MLM ads and scam posts. There are already way too many scam posts when a person actually has to interact with the site. If you could easily do what you want, you wouldn't be able to sell anything, because >99% of content would be bot posts without aggressive content moderation. That moderation would either be human, which is expensive, or automated, which would be very inaccurate and take down more legitimate posts. There's no world where you can legitimately automate this and bad actors can't.

If I had an answer that would help you, I would never post it because it would actively degrade everyone's Marketplace experience, including yours, until FB fixed it and made it hard to automate again.

[–] treesquid 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

That's a flash-forward, a flashback is a dip into the past, hence the "back" part

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