joelcollinsdc

Very interesting. Wish there was a more in-depth piece on this.

I worked on a year long project to rebuild our payments system only to learn the company had been undergoing talks and was acquired by a different payment system competitor. Even though the pending acquisition was going on for the last 6 months of the project nobody told us to stop working on this thing that the top level people knew would never be used.

“In 1990, the estimated value of the stolen collection amounted to $200,000, but thirty years later, it exceeded half a billion”

Feels implausible. Maybe a typo.

Always scary when you learn you can be DOS’d by a single user that learned to use bash and a for loop.

“You need a link not list-unsubscribe” is not fully accurate according to my reading. They are asking senders to support the one click unsubscribe rfc, which uses list-unsubscribe.

There is an app called grog knots which I think is made by the same people. Best few bucks I’ve ever spent for an app. Love having a bunch of knot diagrams handy when I’m out trying to do something.

So a four stroke leaf blower would be ok?

Yeah I am assuming that they are talking about the pollutants that are normally burned up in a catalytic converter. Still confusingly worded.

The 100 requests per minute fee oauth tier is how you would want to handle this right? The requests should be authenticated as if it was the current logged in user anyways.

Curious if the https certs for these sites have some common characteristics that could indicate what sites are related as well.

Officially you can’t be fired for striking right? Guessing there’s a lot of ways a company can get around that though.

Modern equivalent of selling shovels during a gold rush

Kind of weird that you are calling out drywall here, what other building material makes sense for interior walls? And when you say no insulation do you mean in the interior for sound proofing? Exterior walls certainly have and require adequate insulation to be to code.

I tried baking cookies based on a chatGPT recipe… everything looked right glancing at the response so I dove in and started making them. About 2/3rds the way through it became obvious the steps were correct-looking gibberish.