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The bot could also be radio controlled and it would still remove the need of a human going in.
Another pet peeve of mine is the robot-as-a-service part - can't we just buy stuff and keep it anymore?
We can't raise beef cattle with no limbs to shorten our expenses.
I noticed a few months ago that hackernews and reddit were sucking more and more time out of my life. So I installed impulse blocker, removed the apps from my smartphone, thinking I would get so much more free time. Guess what, I was wrong - I just spent my free time with other distractions, sometimes to a much worse net benefit. Not reading HN would mean to lose the thin grasp I've got on state-of-the art tech and all the panoplia of interesting content.
I've tried the folder before, as well as turning the screen gray (guess what, most apps don't have enough brightness contrast to be really usable while on grayscale), and nothing worked.
Maybe distractions can also be positive in your life - I surely enjoy watching a documentary to spend time, and the entertainment it gives you also brings something valuable to your life, while r/funny or facebook don't. Maybe the trick is to select when you wanna have trivial fun and stick to that.
I guess where the article falls flat is where the author says a "proper GDPR content banner" was implemented. No online publication will do this. At least they will trick you with button colors, or some kind of double negative mind trick. Sometimes they will require you to tick all the checkboxes out.
GDPR was a good idea from the start but it's implementation is rather dull - they shifted responsibility to each country without penalization for relaxed enforcing, and now there are countries like mine (Portugal) where we have less than a hundred fines.
In react there's no built in solution; in vue you need to polute the scope of your component with form details no one wants. God forbid you if you want to do something less basic like a async validation
For the first time in my career this week I've left with a sick leave that will endure until the week following the next one. Since medical leave is paid by the state, my winnings will be cut to around 50% for the time that I'm home, and I feel ok with it. I feel that a week and a half won't cut it.
Guess that's what happens when you burn your brain on a project you don't fully understand why it's being done and interview around 200 different people in the timeframe of an year.
Fuck company growth and fuck the company.