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Comment · 2 years ago
Playing devil’s advocate, perhaps the level of risk associated with allowing low-level (or even senior manager-level) support staff to transfer ownership of accounts is too high? The level of sophistication of scammers/hackers/fraudsters is likely well above what Facebook would likely employ as support staff. They likely would need to staff paranoid paralegals to ensure customer support doesn’t become yet another lucrative vector to compromise FB accounts.
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Comment · 3 years ago
First of a

> It's pay to play internet, and yeah, it's a problem.

1. How much do they charge?

I'm genuinely curious. I don't self host, but use a 3rd party (fastmail). I send very few emails to people I don't know, so personally, I don't run into issues with having my email sent to spam.

2. I don't think paying in itself is the real problem. I think it's more a matter of who you pay and why you pay.

- You have to pay to register a domain name. - You have to pay to host your own server (whether your using a hosting service or hosting from your basement) - You have to pay to have gmail not mark your email as spam - ok, I'll admit, this is a little silly, but you also have to pay (via a stamp) to have USPS send letters to their recipient

3. Perhaps because so many people use and trust (whether they should or not is another question) gmail, it makes sense to pay in some scenarios? But obviously, for personal mail servers, I agree, asking to pay to play is a bit of a stretch.

Comment · 3 years ago
Could you provide a source? I live in a suburban neighborhood built in the 1950s (> 60 yrs ago) bordering a major US city. The neighborhood is thriving (by most metrics) and still relies on a mix of original and upgraded infrastructure.
Comment · 3 years ago
As a human being and motor vehicle operator of many decades I have done all of the above, multiple times (very infrequently), both on purpose and on accident. I’m looking forward to the days when self-driving vehicles are normal, and human drivers are the exception. Until then, I’m glad companies and regulators are holding the robots to a higher standard than the meat computers.
Comment · 3 years ago
Someone has to ask... What does LLM mean?
Comment · 4 years ago
For those wondering...

> The service will be included for free for two years starting at the time of activation of a new iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. ^4

> ^4. Users who purchased an iPhone 14 model before the availability date of Emergency SOS via satellite will receive two years of the service free starting from the service availability date.

Comment · 4 years ago
1. Start with a simple tech stack you’re already familiar with though this will likely change over time 2. Build a few of your favorite features, either because you want to use them yourself or because you like building that kind of feature 3. Get your friends and family to use it with you 4. Listen to their feedback, or ignore it, and build the next few interesting features 5. Get your friends’ friends and family to try it out and give you feedback 6. Keep going as long as you enjoy the process

You may not end up where you set out to go, but at least you enjoyed the ride and learned something new!

Comment · 4 years ago
My comment is not concerned with legality - I’ll leave that to congress and the courts. I’m merely pointing out the obfuscation of eligibility requirements.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Having not seen the actual law or executive order or whatever legal reference document, one thing that has not been clearly covered by the media or in debates or even the studentaid.gov website is whether or not this law applies only to current federal loan borrowers, or also extends to those under the prescribed income limits who paid off their federal loans years, or even decades ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
As a software engineer new to the data space, I am baffled by why people recommended great_expectations. It has a lot of questionable dependencies that inflate image sizes and lead to conflicts at scale. It is also a very ambitious project that fails to deliver on many fronts, including documentation and basic data quality checks. The complexity in writing your own checks is way too high. There’s a lot of very abstract concepts you have to understand before you can write a single line of code. If you think I’m wrong, stop now and go look at some of their code examples. You’re better of using python’s built-in unittest to run a query and then make assertions on the result as a task in your DAG
Comment · 4 years ago
What! An entire post on nemeses and no mention of Mario vs Wario?
Comment · 5 years ago
Really enjoyed this narrative, but what about the next phase? Going from mid-stage to mature startup?

> Note that you took on a lot of “tech debt” earlier when you started dumping the production database tables straight into the data warehouse.

How do you manage expectations when the year-long honeymoon is over, the business grows tremendously, and the centralized data warehouse reaches a breaking point?

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