• D_C@lemm.ee
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      Exactly. They don’t think they’ll work means they couldn’t even be bothered to attempt it.

      This is the problem with kids today, no gumption. Back in my day when I was told to push an onion up my rectum to fight against shingles then, gorramitt, that onion was up there without a moment’s thought.
      And let me tell you I’ve never had shingles. Plus, only a few hours later, we then had a tasty onion for our mud stew!!

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    Maybe this is a software bug? The prices are the same, or it could just be a coincident.

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      I’m fairly convinced it’s a shitty image similarity algorithm based off the color and whiteness of a typical tampon

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        I doubt you would use a image algorithm for this. There is so much better data to cross correlate, not to mention cheaper 😂.

        Then again, it’s not working so can’t expect them to design it well.

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            simplest answer is an database array misalignment, it matched items with the same price instead of another similar attribute.

            ML for commonly bought stuff is way overkill for a single query and would eat up infra costs.

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          Walmart asked the question “If we can’t have replicators from star trek, what if we built a global supply chain fueled by human misery that spreads broken window syndrome like project Pluto spreads radiation instead.”

          That’s company is not going to make human friendly decisions, they’re going to make profit obsessed psychopath friendly decisions.

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            I used to work for a company that would take product pictures and create product description and data for walmart’s ecommerce site. But some big shot over at walmart decided hiring a dedicated american team to do the work was too expensive, so they decided to let the vendors directly put whatever garbage they want to put on the website. It wasnt long after that, they had to had to put a disclaimer on product descriptions that any depiction of an american flag does not mean the product is american made, because the chinese vendors couldnt give a fuck about falsifying product origin.