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New comment by lifeisgood99 in "I want to live like Costco people"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:57:34 +0000

I shop at Costco not because of the price or the bulk formats. It's not always a good deal vs other places. The value to me is not having to worry about quality. Any product that is not satisfactory gets returned with no hassle.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "I want to live like Costco people"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:02 +0000

Actual specialty shops survive just fine. There's plenty of value in real expertise. Run-of-the-mill stores selling the same commodity at a higher price are simply inefficient.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""

lifeisgood99 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:50:38 +0000

There's no wise guiding force behind evolution. It's all guesswork.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:28:13 +0000

A better example would be requiring the mailman to obtain written permission to step on your property every day. Convenience trumps maximal security for most people.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

lifeisgood99 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:01:06 +0000

15 mins in. It's terrible. How is this allowed on the roads?

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:59:16 +0000

If the boat is sinking, I wouldn't stay on.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:50:27 +0000

He was also pardoned by Trump.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:39:25 +0000

Teams at Microsoft operate like their own mini companies. For example, moving to a different team usually requires doing an interview loop, with coding challenges.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:11 +0000

The simplest explanation would be that those shell extensions have poor performance.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:54:01 +0000

I'm having the same experience. On one of my packages, the sender address was a local warehouse. I suspect Ali is warehousing outside of China.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:42:22 +0000

Chrome is no longer available on my machine. It hasn't been for some years now but still.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:02:10 +0000

The SVG created for the first prompt is valid but is a garbage image.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "How good are American roads?"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:48:43 +0000

The Quebec road industry has historically been corrupt.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-roadwork-indu... and many many other reports.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:43:52 +0000

Tell your people to stop buying.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:42:37 +0000

The maximum price the buyers would pay is lower than the minimum price the sellers would sell for. There's no market anymore.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:51:28 +0000

"As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision" Oh hey another one that takes responsibility by taking on 0 consequences.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack"

lifeisgood99 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 04:12:51 +0000

I also love that I don't have to ride the metal missiles with random unvetted people.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:38:26 +0000

Skill issue imo. The lower quality means that you need to be careful assembling and disassembly. Brute forcing easily destroys the furniture, often near joint areas.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:08:53 +0000

Inflation is not an on/off switch.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "The American West is figuring out how to keep cool"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:28:13 +0000

All our energy usage turns to heat. Best to stay immobile.