My sister had a key lock box at home that she didn't know the code for.
I had a look on YouTube and sure enough there was an easy way to pick the lock.
The resulting code - 01234
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I had a look on YouTube and sure enough there was an easy way to pick the lock.
The resulting code - 01234
Why build more housing when it would only work against the value of your own properties? Why give out free food that's "spoiling" when you risk getting sued for potential food poisoning?
Rules are made up in the name of "safety", and they pass because yes there's an element of truth, but what goes unsaid is that much of the time it's maintaining the status quo and blocking competition.
Although perhaps in warmer climates it might be an issue.
Let's be real, SO is a troubleshooting site. It's not our personal collection of code or project sources.
I don't expect to be paid when someone asks me for directions, and I'm sure lonely planet didn't source their guides 100% organically either.
For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don't really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.
Note that they said avoiding ALL debt.
For example, my student loan collects interest at a rate of 2.9%. Therefore, it makes sense to maintain that debt if I believe (and accept the risk) of making an investment that pays back a rate of 10%.
Financially it might make sense to keep that debt, pay the minimum and invest cash into let's say an index fund.
If you have a hardline stance that you NEVER want any debt, then you are basically saying you're highly risk averse (at least when it comes to ending up in the negative).
100% - this was not obvious to me until I was working at a startup and delegated a task to some others. They tried for close to an hour to find a solution to a problem and came up empty handed. I had a go and instantly found the answer.
What was the difference? It was our ability to put into Google the right terms to find the answer.
Already I find myself doing most coding via AI, with my work being high level skills (choosing how to organise code, knowing when to refactor and when the AI has gone too far).
The productivity increase is crazy.
The future quite likely will look like the minority report interface.
They don't want to hear actual stories - in real life some people are just unreasonable assholes, and the conflict you have cannot be resolved in some MBA style procedure.
What these questions do is push you into being somewhat sociopathic and twisting the truth to tell them what they want to hear.
You'll end up hiring people that are excellent liars that can "navigate social situations".
The issue isn't listening or browsing (so long as it's not DoS-ing), it's what you do with that information and whether you have permission to use the information (copyright of the host / broadcaster) in the way that you are and in the way that was intended.
It does hit its limits, but it's been so useful - it's a funny cycle of training AI and having it train us, a great symbiotic relationship.
I think software has actually gotten much more user friendly to the point where for existing computer users, using a new app is usually quite intuitive.
Feelings of dissatisfaction are likely due from having higher expectations.
If you were to remove those visual pieces and were only left with the abstract concept of a month and the fact that they're ordered then that's as best as I can really describe at least how I personally "visualise" something. It's more about ideas and the "feeling" of how different concepts relate to one another - e.g. March is a month and it is followed by April.
Perception is definitely subjective!
Close your eyes and imagine the month March (just the idea of the month). Walk forward 2 months.
That's what a ball rolling off a table is like for some of us.
One project was an eBay tool, another was a chat assistant, another was an energy comparison tool...
The CEO was never in the office, she was always flying around the world with her daughter (given a made-up C title) visiting CEOs of large companies and throwing out numerous hooks to see who would bite.
I very quickly saw through this whole charade and quit a month after joining.
Some years later she managed to wangle a sale via a well known tech company she was previously a C level for. Who knows what it was that she ended up selling ...
Date yourself and invite others along. Find things YOU want to do / go to places you'd like to go, schedule it in your calendar and invite potential mates along or join a group of others e.g. a hiking group.
It's also a marathon, not a sprint, and dating is like Leetcode, the more you do it the better you get over time.
Try different things, try the apps, speed dating, grab a drink at a hotel bar, join groups of people, build a network, pay for a coach... The main thing is you try things and learn.
Yes it's effort, yes it costs money, yes you may need to go to the gym and work on yourself, but try to enjoy the process.
Also, don't subscribe to limiting beliefs and don't go marrying the first person you meet just because you think you can't meet anyone else. There are literally millions of people out there, and there are plenty of bald short guys that do just fine.
Lastly, it's totally OK to have standards - go for what you want and adjust and learn, and not everyone you like is going to reciprocate. The main thing is that you make an effort.
If you're thinking of quitting anyway, then what have you got to lose?
Maybe you don't have to go full bore straight away, but you need to put your foot down and not be a pawn in someone else's game.
If the company starts failing because you're not showing up then that's due to poor management and resourcing.
You might be surprised however that the world doesn't collapse because you didn't work the weekend.
But still, compared to Hotmail etc the free storage space (something like 1GB vs 10MB) was well worth $6
After living in London a few years and returning back home, I realised how defensive and wary I'd become of stranger interaction.
In London people might be trying to pickpocket you or sell you something, but in smaller towns I've found most of the time people are genuinely being friendly or asking for directions etc
Anything tied to material account actions shouldn't have anything to do with SMS.
Flight delays or notifications of works in your area etc won't lead to account takeovers or denying access to your account - but the way many companies use SMS can potentially lead to this.
1) Phones can be lost or stolen
2) People move country
3) SMS attacks
4) Phone numbers get reused
5) Users must maintain a paid phone plan
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I updated the first line to clarify that I'm not talking about one-off notifications etc.
Even so, the alternatives here in NZ are paper bags or more expensive polyester fabric bags.
How often do you forget your wallet or phone?
The plastic bag ban is a good start, but seeing how Germans reuse glass bottles is an eye opener, and I really don't understand why we have individual cucumbers wrapped in plastic?!
I haven't actually heard anyone complain about it or get annoyed at some group of people - this whole concept of being annoyed at some group of e.g. environmentalists actually seems completely strange and alien.
Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to, but now it's simply a habit to take a small folded up reusable bag most places when we head out (just incase we end up shopping), or to think ahead and grab some bags when we know we're going out for a shop.
Really not a big deal.
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