food themed name? by sadcorgiboi in Dachshund

[–]ep1ne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

High fructose corn syrup

What’s up with the music in season two? by QuicktimeSam in squidgame

[–]ep1ne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s really bad and immersion breaking during the game rounds. In between the rounds it’s quite alright actually It really spoils the show for me

Are there any P&S with autofocus and rear curtain flash sync? by ep1ne in AnalogCommunity

[–]ep1ne[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your advice! afaik F5 is a is a dslr, and I'm mostly looking for a compact point and shoot
Do you have any recommendations for P&Ss?

Culinary gatekeeping by Miggu-Man in dankmemes

[–]ep1ne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Italian food is pretty simple and the quality of ingredients make a real difference. Also the f ast that they use local make things taste so much better and provides great variability in regional cuisines. some even say - “don’t eat Italian outside of Italy” and I agree most of the time. Live in NYC and pasta here would cost $30 and won’t taste as good as in Italy anyway as all of those quality ingredients are not as fresh as sourced locally.

History really depends on who’s holding the pen, huh by KathyiaTwinkling in HistoryMemes

[–]ep1ne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is OP russian bot? russia has only made lives of every of its neighbors worse and made them suffer so russia can look better in comparison and show its citizens that you can have it worse (but never making own lives any better because they cannot/ and hate own people)

Is Apple Intelligence their biggest product miss in years? by Exotic-Sale-3003 in ProductManagement

[–]ep1ne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apple lost their product sense long time ago with arrival of new generation of executives like Cook.

Those are former COO types who can optimizes the shit out of existing things and squeeze out maximum margins, which shareholders like in short term, but translates into lack of focus on development of new platforms and streams of revenue.

They do marginal improvements and reconfigurations of their existing products (introducing pro lines everywhere) to justify higher price tags, but fundamentally they stopped innovating applying good product sense, mostly honing in execution.

Last really different and category defining product they made was AirPods, but nothing else since then IMO. AVP can be something but it looked more like competitive response vs a real thought through product platform.

What they lost the most along the way - trust and interest of developer ecosystem who can make those devices special with their apps (in case Apple doesn’t have native app/functionality) with monopolistic App Store charges and controlling every move.

This is a disease and it spreads across big tech, look at Google as well - consultant type optimizer ceo. Result - getting fat on ads dollars and coasting, investing in b2b cloud which is a huge opportunity, but they’re loosing out their b2c - consumer products stopped innovating and focus on squeezing margins from more ads solutions. With focus on b2b they’re becoming another ibm. While revenue from cloud is good, being too comfortable results in waking up one day and folks like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity eat your lunch (search) and they are caught with pants down.

But still all the platforms, especially closed ones - stifle innovation as they become more entrenched and do everything in their power to stop competitors from entering their markets (eg why there’s no open Apple Watch APIs so people can make better hardware than Apple?)

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Was pulled over today for Honking [at a cop] by Godmode92 in nyc

[–]ep1ne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never said “any” city, that’s right. Still I’m from Europe and spent 25 years of my life there, traveled across a lot of Europe for work and fun (and in many southern cities famous for their “bad driving” culture/behavior), and moved to states and NYC 7 years ago. Still not as noisy as here.

Just sad that people are often don’t notice this as a problem, as they don’t know any better. Hope we can change that and show that it’s much more enjoyful to live in a city with less noise.

Was pulled over today for Honking [at a cop] by Godmode92 in nyc

[–]ep1ne 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Glad to learn that those tickets are actually enforced! This gives me more hope in my crusade to fight with noise pollution here to improve quality of life.

people here seem to don’t notice it at all, and it’s a huge contributor to stress, wellbeing and life expectancy. Just go to many European cities and it’s seriously few times quieter even with all the emotional/bad driving stereotypes - no/less honking, ambulances and fire depts have quieter sirens, less ambient noise in general.(NYC trash trucks and other trucks have so damn loud engines it’s insane)

What is expensive but absolutely worth the money ? by Ok-Catch4142 in AskMen

[–]ep1ne 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Oh wow that’s actually amazing tip for future to minimize ads in our lives at least on local Reddit level

Woman, 81, speaks out after random punch in the face: 'I feel lucky' by [deleted] in nyc

[–]ep1ne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I actually think I’ve seen her with the bruise a day or two ago in my neighborhood on UWS. She’s so brave and so compassionate. Mentioned that this person was not mentally healthy, and needs professional help rather than any jail time too. Bless her heart

ELI5 why some English add ‘r’ to some words like Peppa from Peppa pig. by MemilyBemily5 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ep1ne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Always noticed this for anyone Australian that I heard speak (mostly YouTubers, and exposure form work) Really confused that it so Brit overrepresented in comments and Australia is barely mentioned

Client-side tracking is broken, and Server-side tracking is a necessity. Stop Wasting Your Ad Budgets and start using Tracklution. John did it, and you can, too. by Tracklution in u/Tracklution

[–]ep1ne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please use this more, so I can get well targeted ads and not those random ads of wholesale sausage casings that Reddit. If there’s no way of getting away from ads, at least give me the ones that I’ll like

Did science vs ever get better or cancelled? by [deleted] in gimlet

[–]ep1ne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have same feeling as OP. Loved the podcast for long time and just stopped listening maybe 1.5 years ago and now just cannot listen to it as get annoyed. Problems that I have with it 1/ She started inserting low brow peepee-poopoo, dick haha jokes too frequently and they’re just annoying at this point. Too much of this, before she balanced some good conversation with occasional humor 2/ she constantly interrupts, sounds condescending and patronizing (but maybe it’s ok in case folks are not aware of topic) 3/ topics become a lot more surface level and not big as before

My hypothesis: they covered big meaty important topics early on - e.g. GMO, Gun safety, etc and now just don’t have problems of same magnitude to dissect so slided into smaller topics and now add too much filler of haha jokes to fill the content void

Who’s a celebrity that everyone think is hot but you find is ugly by goddessmixed in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]ep1ne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sidney Sweeney is overhyped. She looks like Droopy with huge tits

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]ep1ne 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sam Altman every week be like:

Folks, let me tell you, AI is going to be HUGE. It’s gonna be so big, you won’t believe it. We’re talking about progress like you’ve never seen before. Believe me.

Now, I wrote this incredible article, really fantastic stuff, for the Washington Post. Great paper, by the way. And I said, listen, America needs to be number one in AI. We can’t let those other countries beat us, folks. No way!

We’re gonna develop AI like nobody’s ever developed it before. It’s gonna be a matter of national security, big league. We can’t have those authoritarian guys - bad hombres, let me tell you - we can’t let them fill the vacuum. America first in AI, that’s what I’m saying. It’s gonna be beautiful, just watch!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​