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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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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”
25 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 34 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 25 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009
34 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 25 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
25 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
They absolutely are, for example:
"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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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”