Outsourcing intelligence at every level. What can go wrong in the long run without critical thinking skills being required in the chain of command? What happens when they turn off the magic answer-generating black box?
It's a matter of logic and capacity of the individual.
You argue online advertising but you've been exposed to offline advertising in your life a lot more. Now you are offered the choice to "turn most of it off" but you choose to spend your time replying to internet comments saying that you're stubborn and can't do it because it's hard and not 100% effective.
I'm sorry sir but your reasoning is flawed: you could have learned how to install ad block plus, noscript or whatever you want to experiment with, with all of these work out of the box, in the time needed to write your two comments.
I suppose it's worth reminding that the advertisement industry is one of the biggest economic areas of our society so the brightest of us will be coaxed into making advertising more effective, and the cat-and-mouse game between blockers and advertisers will continue forever.
You can spend the same time asking someone advice on where you're stuck, or even go ask an.. LLM.. for a simple step by step breakdown, with 1 step per line to set your pace. The options are all there at your disposal.
To complain with reason is all fine and dandy, but to not act to satiate those complaints is an area to improve on..
Then challenge yourself, for the sake of the conversation and spirit of hacker news, to try out the experience and accomplish something that you've only heard from others.
Off topic, Slashdot has devolved further and added AI banner ads to the bottom of their site that persists through noscript/ublock origin and require manual and repeated intervention. I've reluctantly had to say that it was a good boy, and that it was time to go..
Slashdot is a news article aggregator. Can a better link can be found? ..like from the source?
BASIC for 8-bit computers was an interesting language. It was limited in many aspects, but taught a whole generation about how computers actually worked. Apart from non-native data types (strings and floats), it was quite close to the machine - GOTO and GOSUB map very neatly to (in 6502) JMP and JSR.
As I’ve said twice already now: DDG is a shitty name for those of us might want to use the company name as a verb.
My comment is no more profound than that.
I’m not making any comment about social norms. And nor am I saying it’s impossible to describe searching for content online without “verbing” the company name.
I’m just saying DDG is hard to use as a verb.
Edit: I did say “adverb” in my previous comment. Obviously I meant “verb”. My painkillers hadn’t kicked in yet so excuse the faux pas there.
In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG". Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..
https://dgg.gg for those who prefer it better than ddg :)
> In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG"
I use DDG too, but that’s not the point of the original comment.
> Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..
While true, what’s also true is that jingles exist precisely because they are effective messaging. And DDG is missing out on that. Hence the comments about verbing.
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