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Some online stores and services have “dynamic pricing” algorithms that adjust prices for each customer on an individual basis according to various factors. You can defend yourself against dynamic pricing by deleting cookies.

#dynamic #pricing #shopping
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DIGITAL PRIVACY .DIY

dynamic dns with namecheap?
IP 1.0.1.1 ... o_O ?

You're not the only one:

github.com/ddclient/ddclient/i

namecheap.com/status-updates/i

You can just add `, web-skip=‘SameSite=None’` but it's probably better to disable ddclient (or any other services pointing to dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/getip for now) and just add your ip manually until more info are available.

Check also `whois 1.0.1.1`.

#dynamic #dns #namecheap #issue

get_ip returns random IP from HTTP headers · Issue #818 · ddclient/ddclient

There was a change in the HTTP response header from…

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

A Site Selection Framework For Urban Power Substation At Micro-Scale Using Spatial Optimization Strategy And Geospatial Big Data
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doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13093 <-- shared paper
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“In this study, [they] model spatiotemporal heterogeneity and incorporate it into optimizing the location of substations. The optimized substation placement ensures electrical service coverage for over 99% of the area during peak power usage seasons, compared to the current coverage of 72%...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #siting #demand #electricity #heterogeneity #substations #powertransmission #electricalpower #distrubition #service #city #urbanisation #extremeweather #model #modeling #parameters #factors #energycrisis #energy #urbanplanning #routing #outages #framework #UrbanPS #bigdata #AI #machinelearning #Pingxiang #Jiangxi #China #casestudy #coverage #utilisation #dynamic #load #loading #loadbalancing

LisPi
@khleedril As a side benefit, I've also read some interesting papers on the applications of #dynamic programming with FPGAs to do some dynamic optimizations that are quite simply impossible with CPUs.

#FPGA
∞ 𝕁uan ℂarlos

Applying matrix diagonalisation in the classroom with #GeoGebra: parametrising the intersection of a sphere and plane

In collaboration with Bradley Welch

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#dynamic #geometric #systems #linear #algebra #vectors #parametrization

JMLR

'Learning Dynamic Mechanisms in Unknown Environments: A Reinforcement Learning Approach', by Shuang Qiu, Boxiang Lyu, Qinglin Meng, Zhaoran Wang, Zhuoran Yang, Michael I. Jordan.

jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0159.ht

#reinforcement #reward #dynamic

Chuck Darwin

Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 13 colleagues wrote to the CEO of the supermarket behemoth #Kroger in November about electronic price tags (often called #electronic #shelf #labels or #ESLs ).
These digital displays allow companies to change prices automatically from a mobile app.
Tlaib warned that this so-called “#dynamic #pricing” permits retailers to adjust prices based on their whims.
Just as #Uber raises prices during storms or rush hour, retailers like Kroger use ESLs to adjust prices based on factors like time of day or the weather.
Supermarkets could conceivably mine a shopper’s personal data to set prices as high as possible.
“My concern is that these tools will be abused in the pursuit of profit, surging prices on essential goods in areas with fewer and fewer grocery stores,” Tlaib wrote.
In August, Senators Elizabeth #Warren and Bob #Casey wrote to Kroger raising similar concerns about #price #gouging.
Noting that the company has already implemented the technology in hundreds of stores across the county, they warned that
“ESLs may help Kroger extract maximum profits from consumers at a time when…high grocery prices are a leading concern among Americans who are concerned about inflation.”
Warren and Casey also voiced concern about Kroger’s partnership with Microsoft to install #facial-#recognition technology in stores,
which could be used to identify individual customers:
When a shopper approaches the shelf, she would see a price calibrated specifically for her.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile.
Retailers could use shopper data to charge higher prices to those who can afford to pay more, but since stores do not have to disclose who is making pricing decisions or why,
the senators worry that shoppers on a budget are particularly vulnerable.
“It is outrageous that, as families continue to struggle to pay to put food on the table, grocery giants like Kroger continue to roll out #surge #pricing and other corporate #profiteering schemes,” they wrote

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Orhun Parmaksız 👾

Man... these Rust people are good at naming stuff!

🦖 dynosaur: Dynamic dispatch for return position impl traits and async.

🦀 Avoid writing boilerplate to manually box or manage async types.

⭐ GitHub: github.com/spastorino/dynosaur

#rustlang #library #dynamic #dispatch #async #programming #tip

Mx Verda

"The reason I've spent so much energy explaining this is because I want you to know why so much business software fucking sucks. If you're reading this, I'd put the likelihood that your company (or a partner) makes you use some sort of janky, horrible business software that sucks, and the reason it sucks is because this industry is built off the back of outpricing the competition, creating an inescapable gravitational pull on your organization and selling to people who don't actually use it."

wheresyoured.at/saaspocalypse-

Read this article before you buy any software for work. I beg of you. Please. Your staff are dying of frustration. Be an adult!

#leadership #business #tech #medicine #NHS #government #finance #marketing #dynamic #communication #management #industry #CEO #PLEASE

The Other Bubble

Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying…

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