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It's like designers are the very first corner to cut. Or the dev is expected to also be a designer. It's a very different skill set. I'll build your mock-ups, or copy the look and feel of something else, but I can't design my way out of a paper bag. My brain just doesn't seem to work that way.

It seems they identify so closely with dotnet that any perceived criticism is taken as a personal slight. It's the only thing that explains such a rabid response to a reasonable observation.

It can be an aspect of it. For example, if there are suddenly many unique fingerprints making purchases from the same residential IP, that might look suspicious.

Granted, I'm not aware of a lack of fingerprint being penalized. That said, there are products that allow custom rules, in which case anything is possible.

I work for a company in this space. Opinions are my own.

We're in the midst of a couple rewrites that are going/have gone well. Perl to golang and angular1 to react.

The common factor is doing it gradually, basically page by page. There is no big switchover, new code goes live as it is ready. We have some very competent people with long tenures which surely helps.

Erasing the fossil fuel industry over night would have the unfortunate effect of grinding the rest of the economy to a halt. You can't just look at it in isolation. Unless you had something like worldwide nationalization in mind. I suppose then it might be possible to transport other goods while still eliminating the speculation on and profiteering of the fossil fuel industry.

I really want to try this out on my work ThinkPad since it stays plugged in effectively all the time. It requires a kernel module though, I'd need to get that approved first and I haven't got around to it.

Naïve me doesn't understand why it can't be done from userspace, but I'm sure there is a good reason...

Here's the twist: the closing of the Chase account led to Alex's career tanking. Thus began a downward spiral of his life. His wife left him and took the kids. He turned to the bottle and it got worse from there. He became indebted to the wrong people.

It was then he remembered that Hashicorp account. When he was shown the door at Chase, the account had a few hundred grand in it. Through knowledge of internal procedures and some social engineering, he began fraudulently obtaining funds from the account. He hoped they had forgotten that the account existed. It must be pennies to those people, they shuffle around millions without batting an eye.

Then, one day the cops show up at his seedy motel room. He was arrested for the fraud and found guilty. The judge was particularly heavy-handed and gave him 10 years, despite no priors.

Alex kept a picture of the founder of Hashicorp on the wall of his cell all those years, blaming him for the turn his life took. He did push ups and other exercises to keep himself somewhat sane. All the while, dreaming of the day he would get out and take his revenge.

Fast forward to today and Alex is recently released from prison. Biding his time, plotting his revenge...

Alex spends a lot of time on hacker news, hate-reading about these startup types that ruin lives. Getting into the mind of his enemy. One last twist, Alex is me! /s

It certainly defied my expectations. Chrome is the same. All I can think is that they wanted an inprivate window's tabs to share a jar and that then gets kinda complicated with popping tabs into their own window, putting them back, flicking between those accidentally while dragging a tab, etc.

Looking at the docs it appears that Safari gets around this by just having a separate jar per tab? On desktop at least, mobile appears to be shared.

It's a whole weird world that just doesn't die. I worked at a place with ~ half a million lines of CF last year. There is a thing called CF Script which has vaguely JS-like syntax which can be used instead of the XML-based logic. There are even open-source frameworks built on top, with religious quotes in the documentation for some reason[0].

[0] https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform