I vaguely remember an index for the number of earthmoving machines per capita for a given country. It was a really good indicator for productivity. It doesn't seem like industrial robots have the same level of correlation. At least not yet.

I'm in the accelerated testing group and I was moved from Mail to the new Outlook a couple of months ago. It's better than Mail for Windows in my subjective opinion, but it was a bit weird to switch just when Mail had gotten the last missing basic features, like signatures etc.

I swear Outlook peaked with Outlook 2003 and has just kept getting worse since then.

New Outlook is just atrocious from a design perspective IMO. Everything is flat, and the panels all blend into each other. All the emails subjects run right into the next.

On top of that it just wastes so much space. It's offensive how they manage to both waste space and still have things right up against each other blurring the lines of emails.

Besides Edge and ads everywhere in windows, I think the complete mishmash of design styles and general "unpolished" feel of their apps are really making me wonder why even use Windows. I don't want to fight my software just to use it.

I tried the Outlook, and vs the Mail it seemed like an unnecessary complication.

I guess at some point we should expect a Sony SpaceStation.

Still waiting for the PS9. It gets delivered to your brain via nasal insufflation.

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Does the EULA cover leaving a 1 star review? It's a kind of retaliation.

Nope, just the legal kind. You're welcome to protest and demonstrate as much as you want, but it's unlikely Google even cares about their B2C sales model. The people who actually pay for Drive are the business customers who probably aren't subject to the same terms.

It can be lucrative and fun, until you're confronted with the trail of human wreckage in its wake.

It's surprisingly easy to make money if you have no soul or ethical qualms about anything.

In e-commerce I've noticed that customers that request to be removed from the mailinglist and/or to have their info/account be deleted often forget about ever using the site. Then a few months later they order something and sign up for the newsletter again. When they receive their "first" newsletter they recognize the style and remember that they requested it to be cancelled, which leads to many angry emails and spam reports.

An order form with no pre-selected "join newsletter" option doesn't seem to mitigate this problem. The obvious soloution is to save the customer's email in the mailinglist as unsubscribed, but afaik that's not legal if they request an account deletion.

I'm sure it depends on jurisdiction but that would presumably be saving PII after a removal request.

I find the tabs on my personal Gmail help a lot. Most of the form stuff lands in Promotions or Updates which I glance at now and then. Occasionally there's something I'm actually interested in. I used to keep a separate email for orders and the like but over time I found that just became a black hole that I never looked at.

Saving a SHA-256 of the email address seems like a perfect solution to this problem.

My favorite problem are people who go “Never email me again about anything” then a few months later complain “Why didn’t you tell me about the new version?”

You can mitigate planned obsolescense with recurrent billing, like monthly fees.

I would love to use this for pairing a product with the correct image by decoding barcodes in the image.

The contention that mice are the most intelligent beings on the planet seems more plausible every year.

They certainly coopted humans to solve all their problems

Sites could provide a cookies-manifest.json with the entities they provide data to. Then the browser could show a standardized cookie banner, if needed. The user could also disable the cookie banner completely, if they so desire.