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Comment · 3 years ago
When/why would you want to do this? I went to pt. 1 but it didn't seem clear.
Comment · 4 years ago
And yet all the discussion is on the other thread, so it makes sent to redirect people coming here.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was in highschool when I first heard it too - class of 2000. I loved the song and Kurt Vonnegut. I have even played it for some friends within the last year.

I had absolutely no idea about the true origin until today.

Comment · 4 years ago
What if you die in a fire or drown? Easy to lose the wallet half in various circumstances.
Comment · 4 years ago
My explorer frequently crashes (closes with no error), so an alternative is interesting.
Comment · 5 years ago
How? What is a common modern day use?
Comment · 5 years ago
I really like how the documentation also includes a huge amount of user contributed notes that demonstrate various alternate examples as pointing out certain caveats/nuances.
Comment · 5 years ago
Worked for me too.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah but you (or another developer) probably won't see the commit message later in the future when you come across that segment of code.
Comment · 5 years ago
I absolutely loved DOOR games like Exitilus and Legend of the Red Dragon.
Comment · 5 years ago
My first thought (influenced heavily by Hollywood) was that it was some kind of assassin or other criminal service. You call in, give the correct pass phrase and someone tells you where to get your vacuum repaired locally (if you know what I mean).
Comment · 6 years ago
I was at a friends place in a nearby town and got an order from Fry's (grocery store) where the guy charged me for 5 things he didn't deliver (about $30). I made a complaint (1* review, support ticket) and changed his tip to $0.01 because I couldn't set it to 0.

The next day I had 6 charges from 2 Fry's in the area of where I was the day before, totalling about $550 at stores I had never been to (and did not appear as instacart charges like they normally would). My bank gave me a fraud warning when they tried to use an atm. I still had the card in my possession. I reported it to Instacart and never got a response. My bank was able to reverse the charges as fraud though, fortunately.

So I don't know how, but at least 1 rogue instacart delivery people was able to get my atm card information and misuse it. If not, the coincidence that accounts for all the evidence is astronomical.

Comment · 6 years ago
The post said they had an enterprise account, which I assume could limit access via separate logins, but many of the users were sharing the same single set of credentials (e.g. everyone logging in with the same account), so there was no real access control or knowledge of who all had access using that account.

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