I meant I’ve never come across one not good enough in store, sorry about the confusion. That is, Whistles bought seem fine.

Thank you

Hm, fair enough

I’ve never come across a whistle that isn’t good enough, so I don’t really understand

I see…

Why not buy a regular whistle?

If google really wanted to, they can. But if you’re so against ads, what’s the point in showing them? Leaving a mechanism to block ads with default being with ads is net positive for google. Now, something like AdNauseum is what hurts google

Yes, that’s right, agile in its general meaning. High pressure could change things but it needs to lead to permanent changes in incentive structures, as pressures come and go too fast.

How Lack of Agile Ties to European Tech Limitations:

1. Slower Time-to-Market: The tech industry demands high-speed, iterative, and “fail-fast” development cycles to dominate consumer markets. European firms tend to have slower product development cycles compared to US counterparts, often favoring long-term planning over rapid, iterative, and agile software development.

2. Talent and Structural Rigidity: Rigid labor structures and high restructuring costs in Europe make it difficult to pivot, scale teams quickly, or adopt flexible, “sprint-based” agile approaches, unlike US firms that can rapidly restructure teams.

3. “Middle Technology Trap” & Risk Aversion: Many European companies excel in mature technologies (e.g., traditional engineering) rather than the rapid, agile software development required for consumer internet platforms. This leads to a risk-averse culture, where firms hesitate to make the massive, risky investments in software that define US Big Tech.

I didn’t say it’s the only factor, it’s just one I’ve noticed. Other factors might be more important. At the end of the day, it’s not like we can run experiments to see how the world evolves with different factors, in order to know precise causality and mechanisms.

The company would have to be suitable for it. Force fitting the principles from agile manifesto isn’t going to be useful.

Europe struggles with agile, in my experience

Most CEOs say their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI. Although close to a third (30%) report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and a quarter (26%) are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve realised neither revenue nor cost benefits.

~40℅ seeing a positive payoff is surprisingly high

• Not everyone always wants heated seats, so we’re actually lowering the price by having it as a subscription

It never was a thing that was kept quiet…

Microsoft 365 bundles other products too like Windows and online Exchange. Guess it was confusing to have both office only and office plus others, and hence they dropped the office only.

They stopped promoting “Office” brand when they saw success with Microsoft 365 and dropped Office 365. This was quite some time ago. Now they have just renamed an “app” called “Office” which was like a homescreen for Microsoft 365. I doubt anyone really used it and no one on lemmy seems to even recognize it.

Coz there are multiple windows and I don’t want to click and hunt for the one I want

I think the number of lines to be deleted is the target 1M…

And then what? I tell google to show my ad to a guy born on some date and in a zip code. What data am I getting?