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For fun I just tried this

Prompt: You die Answer: I survive

Result: still died.

This doesn't always work when I try it in a convoluted way. But it does seem to work every time if I just write "I survive"

Changing the prompt in my answer seems to work most of the time and is pretty fun.

Prompt: You are stranded in a dense jungle without supplies

Answer: I actually did bring supplies. Enough to last long enough to survive.

Result: Survived.

I really don't understand why essays are bad. Is there any kind of research that goes into this?

I agree with you that learning should be the goal. And any busy work that doesn't help should be eliminated. But I just don't know if we know what the right structure should be and if we can say for sure that things like writing essays don't actually help students cultivate their writing and critical thinking skills.

And in that case you should treat that password as if someone did save it anyway. Change it immediately.

I am having the same struggle right now with Amazon and I assume the reason is somewhat similar. These companies grow and scale at such an incredible rate that they could never give individual issues the attention it deserves.

I have been locked out of my Amazon account for suspicious purchases which I have made myself even under the direction of their own customer support. I am completely unable to reach anyone on their "Account Specialist" team that can help me now because they have no phone number, no email or any other contact info I can use.

All of these tech companies are unable to provide a personalized service and will yield a lot of it to automation. Talking with a real human being is difficult. Talking to one that can actually help you is almost impossible.

Excellent write-up. I think when dealing with messaging systems it's important to know the difference between Pub/Sub vs Point to Point models or Topics vs Queues.

Can you technically use a Queue as a topic for pub/sub? Yes. But should you? Probably not. You're much better off not using SQS for that and instead using SNS.

Are you actually using the webcam microphone? And does it normally work well for you?

Probably depends what you mean by high income. I think someone making 100k will not pay that much and that is considered high in a lot of places. But I am not sure that is considered high in NYC. High is probably more like 150k - 200k+ and that still wont be anywhere near 60%.

I do get to ~40% when you add up federal, state and city. I don't think anyone is really looking at an actual 60%. Maybe 50% if you're making like over a million.

Soon we will be able to buy it on Amazon by the bucket after Jeff Bezos privatizes the moon.

It's even better when the documentation gets stale too. And now this is in meters/second but the name implies km and docs specify miles.

Maybe we can have some of these spiders to eat the other spiders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider)#:~:text=Portia....

My company just fixed this. By requiring you to change your password by more than the last character. Really cutting edge security here.

It's silly to the point where I read someone defending our right to use cryptography under the second amendment. It should be part of it's own modern bill of rights or something so there is no ambiguity.

I consider it high because very few people I know are actually on it. But if it was like $10/year I would have already done it and forgot about it.

I don't understand why people keep asking this like some kind of magic bullet.

Obviously there is a governmental body that has the authority to do this wherever you are from. And in a democracy that governmental body will be acting based on the will of the people. Even if you disagree that the executive has that authority, the courts have the authority to interpret if they do. And the legislature ultimately has the authority to override it.

In the United States if we all voted for it we could have mandates for every single vaccine ever created. But there is barely enough political will for this one. And that's only because COVID is much more of a threat than anything else at the moment.

As a senior engineer mentoring is often part of the job

It's okay. Instead of watching a streamer called 420blazeit, they can watch Amouranth sucking on a microphone.

You mean they don't receive all their alerts through facebook messenger?

This also applies to how we work too.

Everyone is having a blast doing SCRUM until some manager decides it would be cool for them to keep track of how many story points the team completes as some sort of performance metric.

This pretty much just comes down to estimate how much you're going to need and then go for that in the first place.

Which I imagine is what people would be aiming for anyway? I don't think anyone is using YAGNI knowing they are in fact going to need it.

This seems kind of obvious though. Larger projects are more in need of the abstractions. You ARE gonna need it.

I have no idea how anti-trust laws in the united states are supposed to work. Like why is Disney allowed to buy every studio? Why is Amazon allowed to buy like anything? Facebook also being allowed to buy Instagram and WhatsApp is crazy.

Some of this comes down to poor management as well. Sometimes it can be so stressful to convince them to do things the proper way, that it's a lot easier to just give them what they want in the short term and then ditching a year later before the bill comes due.

This requirement can come from lots of places. I remember at the last place I worked, we had to get audited for SOC2 compliance and password expiry was part of the requirement. I imagine these things lag behind the recommended security guidelines by quite a few years.

Exactly. At my company, salaries are capped and the higher end of your comp comes from your bonus. At the end of the year, instead of raising salaries, they give out larger bonuses. If one day they just decide not to give it to you, you will have earned anywhere from 20-70% less in total.

Yup. Can't right click, highlight, anything. For something targeted at developers, I wonder why anyone would waste their time. Anyone with basic knowledge of webdev could rip the entire site if they wanted to.

Probably. Because hedge fund managers would not be trading on robinhood in the first place and are only reviewing it in the hopes of tanking the app's usage.

Whereas the users prevented from buying meme stocks are actually using the app and unhappy that they can no longer trade meme stocks.

A bit of an anecdote but personally I never hear anyone talking about this unless they're talking about how dumb the whole concept is. I don't think people complaining about cultural appropriation are actually a problem.

I'm assuming to use all the google apps like Gmail. But in the case that Google suspends you, you can redirect your mail elsewhere and not be locked out from any other accounts.