Interesting Links for 25-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives

(tags:life ai )

2. The Hyperloop was always a scam

(tags:transport ElonMusk fraud )

3. Proof that there is no hyperbole or silliness that you can engage in on the internet that *someone* won't take seriously.

(tags:jokes twitter people EpicStupidity )

4. In 2024, please switch to Firefox

(tags:Firefox web viaLProven )

5. Judge rules that Twitter violated contract when it withheld millions of dollars in bonuses

(tags:Twitter ElonMusk pay contracts law )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Is there anything Virgin are actually competent at?

[matgb]

Not being BT

That's about it really, their uptime locally is pretty good (possibly because the main pennine trunk cable goes outside my house) and the connection speed is good, but customer service and similar are all over the place. They cut us off by mistake while we were moving and when they reconnected us gave us a different landline number without telling us. Noone uses it, so it didn't matter, but still...

[andrewducker]

Yeah, for me their basic internet service is pretty flawless. Although I know others who have issues. And I'd quite like them to get around to ipv6.

But everything they do around that is just a disaster. And nowadays they have enough competitors that if I was starting from scratch I wouldn't go with them.

[anef]

Yes, just thinking about the process of trying to find someone competent to speak to if I have a problem is giving me flashbacks!

[matgb]

Customer retention team and the "we're moving house" team aare/were the same people, but the admin below/arround them was terrible. We did get a VERY good deal when they reconnected us but the unnanounced number change was a weird "that could've been bad" thing. Frontline call handlers are generally terrible but if you can get a direct line for someone senior it's a lot better

[anef]

Yes, it's persuading the (useless) frontline call handler to put you through to someone competent which is hard.