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It wouldn't be the first time in history sabotage by "Russians" resulted in the collision of opposing forces near Toledo.

I cordially invite you to take a tour of Equifax's entire development floor, or any AT&T campus in the metro Atlanta area.

> Also, debugging natural language feels super icky. Which statement was it that got the password out of the formal spec?

Everyone's a lawyer now.

> That still counts as programming I would say, we're just changing the language.

Anything can be anything it isn't once you start changing the language.

"When at first you don't succeed, redefine success."

> Having software build software is programming. An agent is software, a human isn't. I can draw a UML diagram, software generates code from that, and software turns it into binary.

It's not programming, it's cuckoldry. Articulating the perfect guy, inviting him over and watching him get to do all the stuff you used to enjoy literally makes you a manager.

> At least at hotels you can show up whenever you want. Stop for dinner, stop for gas, "we'll leave the light on for you."

This has bitten me in the ass. I fully prepaid for a booking via Expedia but due to plane delays arrived a few hours late (1am). By the time I got there the hotel had rented the room to someone else, had no more available, and everyone else in town was booked.

They blamed me for not checking in on time but considering there was a room available for the couple that came in after us, the real story is that there was a convention going on in town and last-minute attendees were willing to pay 10x more than I did. So they silently dropped my reservation and left me to fuck myself.

Don't count on hotels letting you check in whenever you want. Times have changed...

Yep, the last few I tried to book came back trying to shake me down for additional deposits via third party platform.

Anytime a company pisses me off I set up a while loop to generate Luhn-compliant 16-digit numbers and spam them on every html form on the site.

PCI audits are fun for everyone

> Im not a lawyer but i believe just following orders isnt considered a valid excuse

This is sophistry that was used to condemn Nazis but has never applied to any context outside of the Nuremberg trials. Fail to follow orders and you're shot as a traitor. Follow them and you're hanged as a war criminal. "Just follow orders" is the basis of paid employment itself.

It is assumed that those giving bad orders will be held responsible for doing so, but this rarely proves to be the case. See the eBay harassment of the Steiners. Everybody involved that followed orders was punished except the executive that signed off on and provided support for the operation.

But in the Equifax breach, two executives were fired following criminal intrusion by Chinese hackers they had no involvement with. Everyone that neglected to follow orders to patch Struts probably still works there.

The rules are arbitrary.

Golden parachutes mitigate those risks. The company may tank, but they get theirs.

I assumed the target market was Steam hoarders that buy games when they're cheap but never actually play them.

> Folks, often women, stay in highly abusive relationships

There's a hundred studies that have found that women initiate most domestic violence (lesbians 2x as often, younger women 4x as often). 85 studies identified that women initiating violence is a significant predictor of risk to women (go figure). They are all suppressed or downplayed with sophistry when anyone mentions them.

Catherine Knight's husband admitted to colleagues that he knew she was going to kill him. He stayed anyway, and ended up being stewed and fed to his own children. She used his skin as a curtain for the kitchen.

Alex Skeel was put through a regimen of psychological and physical torture that one normally only hears about from survivors of Communist regimes.

If anyone stays in abusive relationships, it's men. Women are given every incentive to leave. A lot of money flows to their NGOs, propaganda campaigns and shelters, but nothing comparable exists for men.