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itopaloglu83··on McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers
Low-quality ultra-processed food at previously fine-dining prices.

The inflation and preemptive price increases are really making things unaffordable.

I think this is just the Covid era price increases and its aftermath. And we haven’t seen the second wave that’s going to come from the recent oil shocks.

itopaloglu83··on McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers
Yeah, this is better than “they’re cashing out before the crash”
itopaloglu83··on AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
Reminds me of the GameStop controversy where the “wrong” set of users used the existing market tools.

I presume the insurance providers thought they would be the only ones using the AI tools to auto-process (find creative ways to reject) insurance claims.

Even just the fact that people might learn about their rights, or find better ways to express their issues with correct wording would yield higher approvals, which would mean lesser profit margins for providers. And of course they will lobby for additional government subsidies.

itopaloglu83··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
I experienced similar tendencies with Fable as well.

Even in fresh sessions with minimal context like a file with a couple hundreds of lines of code, it would frequently ignore clear instructions, avoid work, and even sometimes “think” things like “looking for ways to code without approval”.

The model is just tuned for long running and doesn’t like to work with a human in the loop, or work back and forth.

itopaloglu83··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Another personal anecdote, but I had the case where Claude would visibly improve after a negative feedback.

And strangely, expressing frustration multiple times in a row would reliably trigger a feedback popup as well.

itopaloglu83··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.
itopaloglu83··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
It’s not just “time is money”, but also the convenience as well. Sometimes you’re sick and need a hot meal, or you’re busy helping someone, etc.

Edit: Spelling. “right” to “sick”.

itopaloglu83··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
> We’re not selling anything at all in Europe. That’s because Europe isn’t investing and because no chip factories are being built there

Will Europe accept being a manufacturer only? Or will they finally pick up with a late comer advantage? We need to wait and see.

itopaloglu83··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
And disable certain features like Apple Pay if you don’t have auto-updates enabled.
itopaloglu83··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
Average play time is around 55 minutes in La Liga, so there’s around 35 minutes of wasted time anyway.
itopaloglu83··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
How long do you think it’s going to take until another broadcaster starts adding ads during injury time, or maybe other 3-5 second ads between shots?
itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Yes, of course. I just don’t like “forced” arbitration, it erodes some fundamental principles in my opinion.

The Uber case is extremely sad, people lost their lives and nothing brings them back, regardless of which justice system we use.

itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
It’s also not public record either. So, when an individual wins a case, others in the similar situation are not notified or can be made aware of it.

Make it a public record with other bindings like one ruling applies to all customers etc. then at least it’s a system with transparency.

itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Disney+ case showed us that companies are using arbitration to erode basic rights, even in unrelated matters.

It’s one thing to say the legal system is expensive and slow, let’s resolve our issues by a third party, and another thing to where there’s no further action you can take and the arbitration authority is being paid by the company.

Its simply becoming a parallel legal system for a different class.

itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Unjust justice delivered fast is not justice, it’s systematic injustice.

Companies are not doing this for faster problem resolution, they’re doing this to shield themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
In general, most issues are being redirected to forced arbitration and not enough people can or effort to sue these companies, so in actual effect, they’re immune one might say.
itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Forced arbitration is creating a parallel legal system where certain companies are excluded from the consequences of their own actions. One might even say they’re becoming a protected class even.
itopaloglu83··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Let’s reverse the situation, they were able to add ads to sport events, so they can definitely remove ads and show the main event cameras if they wanted to. But they’re picking up showing ads indirectly through some other service.
itopaloglu83··on New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
I genuinely wish there was a magical way to just disassemble the whole pyramid and put it back together without any damage.
itopaloglu83··on New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
Well, as far as I remember, the Link 16 was invented around the 1970s where aircraft could share real-time data in a combat zone.

The weather information can easily be transmitted every minute and it can be nicely visualized in the cockpit instead of being crammed into cryptic abbreviations and ancient codes.

Similarly, we are aware of the precise aircraft location and it's intended course, I'm talking about commercial airlines here, so we already know where they're going and what the approach path will be etc.

I find it hard to accept that we're collecting terabytes of telemetry from engines and all the other equipment on the aircraft, but we expect to communicate the weather and traffic information in verbal ways.

There are so many good ways we can solve the underlying requirements, but I think it's all stuck on the cost of implementation and who's going to be making money from it.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
There is no need for pilots or anyone to type anything.

Weather data can be published every minute and shown live as a full map over the screen, not as random abbreviations of wind and cloud coverage.

And we already know where each aircraft is, and where they took off, and where they're headed. So practically speaking the radio talk can be limited to only the important communication and emergencies, while increasing the situational awareness by at least ten fold.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
That sounds like a system that was bound to fail, because it was kept limited to a certain range of capabilities.

One can easily imagine a system that broadcasts the weather and clearance, and even aircraft location data close to real-time, and provide great situational awareness to everyone involved.

I don't think it's acceptable to put tens of thousands of people within a crowded airspace and not do everything in our power to keep things organized and secure.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
I don’t understand why we’re using a voice based system to pass along a couple of structs worth of data for decades now.

You want to get your approach clearance or weather report? Just call up the ATC on busy line with bunch of people talking fast and over each other.

itopaloglu83··on Claude is a Contrarian
On a daily basis I find myself telling Claude to stop over complicating things and to follow my instructions, not what it wants to do.

It’s simply exhausting.

itopaloglu83··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Or they would start accepting money for remotely installing apps, just like the bloatware most phones and computers come with.
itopaloglu83··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Since they're not liable for damages, they simply don't care enough to check the ads.
itopaloglu83··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Arbitrary code execution in Notepad. That’s just insane, regardless of how they added as a “feature”.
itopaloglu83··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
My neighbor thinks that they can increase their 100Mbps ISP speed by having 5 or 6 access points at 2.4GHz in their 1400sq ft (~140m2) apartment.

There’s so much interference that the package dropout rate is around 40% at 2.4GHz usually.

itopaloglu83··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Then we calculate the Bytes to see how fast we can download a file.
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