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dandy7229-Jan-24 3:50

29-Jan-24 3:50

Amarnath S wrote:
"Everything that needs to be invented has been invented"

Problem with that one is:

a) Everybody's needs are different
b) As things are being invented, new needs will invariably arise

I agree with that one being short-sighted.

OTOH, I would also agree that more and more "inventions" nowadays seem dumber than ever.

jschell29-Jan-24 4:59

29-Jan-24 4:59

dandy72 wrote:
I would also agree that more and more "inventions" nowadays seem dumber than ever

Myself I don't see much competition now with 'Ronco' gadgets of the past.

jeron129-Jan-24 5:54

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29-Jan-24 5:54

Well, you simply can't improve on some things, like the Pocket Fisherman[^] for example. Laugh | :laugh:

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Amazon might as well take that feature away

Sander Rossel28-Jan-24 21:54

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28-Jan-24 21:54

Don't believe anything Clifford Stoll or Robert Metcalfe says.
Half of the predictions are by them and they're all very wrong Unsure | :~

The last one about snow being a thing of the past is slowly becoming truth.
We used to have snow every winter when I was younger.
We now have it maybe a few days per year and not nearly as much.

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dandy7228-Jan-24 4:12

28-Jan-24 4:12

Filtering on some properties, I mean.

I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through.

Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives.

I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities?

Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?

Mike Hankey28-Jan-24 4:36

28-Jan-24 4:36

Amazon search drives me crazy.

When you try to search for something very specific, you get a pages of crap that is not relevant.

For instance, I remodeled the master bat and built a walk in shower and tiled the walls with a decorative tile that was uneven. So I searched for a shelving unit that could be installed with screws. Instead I get pages and pagers of units that use suction cups that will only work on smooth surfaces and then not very well. But if you don't use their search engine you get better results.

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dandy7228-Jan-24 4:45

28-Jan-24 4:45

Whenever Amazon's own search fails me, Bing's or Google's rarely does - searching Amazon's own site ("site:amazon.com [same keywords]")

charlieg28-Jan-24 5:30

charlieg

28-Jan-24 5:30

bing's search is so anally insane as to be an embarrassment. Google is not far behind. Amazon is just elephanting stupid.

I *think* the problem is that both track your history and cookies. I don't have time to test this, but when I get a chance, I'll google or amazon search things from a clean VM. Hell, they might even be tracking my IP so that might not work.

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Has never been more appropriate.

Richard Andrew x6428-Jan-24 6:01

Richard Andrew x64

28-Jan-24 6:01

But Bezos knows best!

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Mike Hankey28-Jan-24 6:03

28-Jan-24 6:03

He's rich enough, he doesn't need my Tithe.

Amarnath S28-Jan-24 5:12

Amarnath S

28-Jan-24 5:12

Sponsored links seem to take prime spots on Amazon. (No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription).

Mike Hankey28-Jan-24 5:54

28-Jan-24 5:54

Amarnath S wrote:
No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription

Ditto and at the subscription price I never will!

pkfox28-Jan-24 10:22

pkfox

28-Jan-24 10:22

In the UK it's a very good deal £7.99 a month for free delivery and video/music ( I watch a lot of tennis )

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Mike Hankey28-Jan-24 11:17

28-Jan-24 11:17

Here in the colonies it is $14.99/mo., we don't download music and most of the shipping on stuff we buy is free after $35.

So there is no point in us getting it at that price.

MikeCO1029-Jan-24 1:50

MikeCO10

29-Jan-24 1:50

In this colony, the wife has several things she likes to watch on Prime Video and read lots of Kindle books, including Thursday night football. Laugh | :laugh:

And free next day shipping can take the place of me having to run to the store for some things.

Mike Hankey29-Jan-24 1:52

29-Jan-24 1:52

If it works for y'all then it's worth it.

jschell29-Jan-24 5:12

29-Jan-24 5:12

I use Prime for the Video. Otherwise I would cancel it.

Cpichols29-Jan-24 1:45

Cpichols

29-Jan-24 1:45

The filters only sort of work anyway. Promoted products often get around the filters and some marketplace options are often ambiguous enough (deliberately or otherwise) to get around them.

jochance29-Jan-24 5:04

jochance

29-Jan-24 5:04

Just a symptom of doing/selling everything.

Very hard to list all the specifications for all the things as filters.

If they made some kind of internal UI to do it, they'd still have the problem of needing a bunch of different people to do entry and all of those may not really understand what they are doing (maybe predictable AMZN isn't going to pay top dollar for "data entry"), and others may not even be acting in good faith. Also, I think there is the issue that sellers/vendors get some degree of control over their own listings?

Even dealing with the much smaller subset of "this stuff" (newegg) - it's a hard problem to solve.

jschell29-Jan-24 5:14

29-Jan-24 5:14

jochance wrote:
Very hard to list all the specifications for all the things as filters.

Yep.

Myself I could not care less what color the USB block is. But I have no doubt some people care about that quite a bit.

dandy7230-Jan-24 3:09

30-Jan-24 3:09

jschell wrote:
Myself I could not care less what color the USB block is.

That's part of what annoys me. You get filters that are completely useless, but the truly useful ones get neglected.

jschell29-Jan-24 5:07

29-Jan-24 5:07

dandy72 wrote:
Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?

I might be pushing the 4TB pant size. But I am certainly not at the 20TB size yet. So I am good.

Ralf Quint30-Jan-24 5:39

Ralf Quint

30-Jan-24 5:39

Well, that something exists doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to offer it for sale...

dandy7230-Jan-24 6:34