If their spam filter is “learning,” and if new signup verification emails are a consistent decades-old practice, how much longer should we wait before it’s okay to question whether Google’s filter could do better at learning?

Amazon promotes the shittiest, least honest reviews to the top of most products, though I guess if you know how to hunt for the rough 2-4* ratings you can technically find real reviews too.

Their guess sounds really plausible though

I decided to Google that name to understand. First blog I clicked on has a paragraph that starts:

I think it’s especially absurd to place your trust in Mozilla FurryFox and their team of stereotypical SJWs and soydevs …

In 2020 this person was substituting coherent points with trite schoolyard namecalling from over a decade before. So that dude’s not only an incoherent idiot but also dangerous. Man.

For real, what idea was that actually meant to convey? OP seems confused about having been indoctrinated with cult language

(OP I’ve been there, good on you for reflecting on it, but there’s more unpacking to do)

You confused me for a sec, I’ve enjoyed Anodyne Coffee Roasting lots and thought their space is plenty comfortable lol

https://anodynecoffee.com/pages/walkers-point-roastery

Yea that wasn’t meant to downplay the skill required to hang. But relatively speaking, defending with a goal to clinch up takes a ton less effort and risk than pursuing an offensive striking game.

Looking from the other direction, it is incredibly difficult to actually knock someone out who is only defending and waiting to get close to you.

Yea judoka had no striking game and boxer had no wrestling game. Under these conditions the grappler could just wait out the striker until catching a grapple, then win. This is why the Gracie family pushed UFC in the 90s, because karate-and-boxing-obsessed US audiences were constantly surprised by these matches, and it led to more people signing up for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu!

You seem eager to pose this “if the product was undamaged” as if you can quantify what might have happened differently, but then in a comment below you ask someone else to prove that maintainers left.

It might shock you to learn that products are developed by people. Actual people stay or leave and work wildly differently based on things like respect, expectations, and being in a hostile environment.

Want proof of that? Go work on an actual project with a team sometime.

edit - And this isn’t even accounting for the ways toxic communication impedes wider adoption of a product

No

I mean the super rich generally did a lot of things on their way there. The wake up call is usually around the things they do and people they exploit, not equating the difference to dumb luck.

Perhaps because it’s not

The same way we confuse earnestness with trash clickbait tactics I guess

Those are already in place. They don’t suffice.

That’s wonderful for you, but it does happen.

One thing at a time.

I don’t so much stop the thoughts—they’re inevitable—I redirect them back to “one thing at a time.”

I made one that said START once

“skimming things like programming blogs and stackoverflow”

Like this commenter claims he doesn’t do?

Sometimes there are better methods to implement something, and we can learn from others’ mistakes without having to make them ourselves

Brian is my most recent answer to this question. Everyone’s so thoughtful and empathetic in that group, and then there was he with nothing but one-upping and sarcasm.