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finiteloops on May 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

This works for the masses, but in my experience when machines force a use case, it causes more headache than not cause I'm not like the masses.

A barely related side rant: my microwave decided it wants to error out when it thinks you're trying to microwave air. i have a bowl in there. stop telling me to open the door to put something in. Whatever engineer at GE thought they would be smarter than the user, you're one of the many reasons your company is going out of business.

TuringTest on June 2, 2020 | [–]

I think that it's O.K. when a user interface which issues a warning when it detects a dangerous condition.

The problem is when the warning is a "stop" and it doesn't have an override "I know what I'm doing".

mywittyname on May 28, 2020 | [–]

We have the same microwave.

I also hate that "feature".

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