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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
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Is this better than oomd?

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Costco do this too, at least in my area in California. They price some canned drinks per fluid ounce, and others per can. Really annoying.

I used to see Walmart do it too, but I think they’ve gotten better.

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10% fewer calories per pack.

Like the “light” juices that are “50% lower in sugar” because they dilute it 1:1 with water. I could just do that at home!

dan,
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Honey I shrinked the kids

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I could see this happening in more progressive states like California, Oregon, or Washington state.

California already has a bunch of consumer protection laws:

  • Store gift cards can never expire and must be redeemable for cash if they have a balance of less than $10.
  • A warranty can’t require you to register the product to be eligible for warranty coverage.
  • The CCPA, which is like a mini version of the GDPR. Companies must provide all data they’ve collected about you upon request, must delete all the data upon request, and must let you opt out from them selling your data (they literally have to have a link labeled “do not sell my personal information” on their site)
  • Anti price gouging laws.
  • As of July 1, drip pricing (hidden fees on top of advertised prices, such as service charges) will be illegal.

And probably a bunch of other ones I can’t think of off the top of my head :)

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Searx is dead. You’ll want to use SearxNG instead.

dan,
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Bring back DMOZ and the Yahoo directory.

dan,
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Nowadays a lot of people go straight to where they wanted to find info - Wikipedia, StackOverflow, IMDB, etc. - and search from there.

Didn’t people always do this, though? If I want to find something on Wikipedia, why wouldn’t I search on Wikipedia for it? I have Firefox configured so that it searches Wikipedia when I type “wiki” then a space then the search query.

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dropped their “don’t be evil” principle.

It’s still there. See the final paragraph: abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

dan,
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I remember using Windows 2000 at school. That OS was solid. Far more reliable and stable than what I was running at home (Windows 98, first edition).

dan,
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I’m on Windows 2000 which is 1987 versions ahead of Windows 13.

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Thanks for the correction :)

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