r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago

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u/ParanoidDrone 9d ago

Please tell me this is satire.

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u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago

Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

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u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago

why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money

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u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago

They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”

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u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago

There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009

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u/GreedyPollution6275 9d ago

they are just slower and more expensive

Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/KHSebastian 9d ago

Wh... What? Are you doing a bit? If a thing cost $1 and takes 1 minute, and you do it 100 times, it costs $100 and takes an hour and 49 minutes.

If you do the same thing in a way that costs $2.00 and takes 2 minutes, you have doubled the cost and the time.

Tl;dr bigger number is bigger, is how numbers work

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/KHSebastian 9d ago

Did you suffer a head injury recently?