Personal AI LLM chatbot, trained on my emails and slack messages. I will have succeeded in replacing myself with a small shell script.
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Finding that precise time horizon is an exercise left for the reader.
"how much you can be fleeced into paying" while a proactive way to phrase it, is also "What you are willing to pay." Key words - "you are willing". If it's too high, then it isn't a price, as there is no agreement.
Seller wants highest price, and buyer wants lowest.
When it's a commodity, like apples at the store, with many sellers of a basically undifferentiated product, prices average out to something we think of as "fair." But when a product is unique, or there is a monopoly on it, seller has a huge advantage in pricing.
Once we got married, we became a single financial entity. It's all "ours". Now I'm the salary person and she does way more labor than I do being the primary kid-care person. We help and support each other, and the family, together.
If you really are committed partners, let the ego go. Accounting who earned what may have a place in early relationships, but as others have said, is just exhausting.
But yes, "act with empathy and gentle guidance" is The Way.
Also, never name you previous versions foo.new and foo.old or you will end up with foo.old.old.no-really-old, and foo.new2
I don't mean to be flippant, but given the constraints, your speed will be almost entirely proportional to luck/risk.
To start, all you have is labor to bootstrap with. So let's say for round numbers $10 / hour, at 40 hours per week is $400. or $1600 for one month. That puts you six "doublings" away from $100K after one month.
Go to Vegas, bet it all on black (or red, your choice) and win 6 times in a row, and done. 1 month of labor + a few minutes of very lucky gambling. Or, a single bet that pays off 62.5 to 1. While the odds are the same it probably seems more "practical" to win "just" two 8:1 bets back to back.
Investments, options tradings, sports betting, etc will all be some variation of this. Get really lucky, and it can be done in a short time, but with a high risk that you have to start over, and it ends up taking a longer time overall.
More realistically, if OP can put all that labor money into investment/savings (assume subsistence is supported otherwise) The standard advice to buy and hold low/no- fee index funds could do it in about 5 years (on average).
https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calcula...
400 initial, $1600 / month, 5 years, assume 7% yearly growth +/- 2% variance.
Finally, OP says "zero financial investment" - but what other resources do they have? Perhaps the sunk cost of education or training or other skills. Then, their labor might be worth $100 / hour, instead of $10. Get a high-paying job.
Then you could make it in 6 months of straight labor income without risk of investment or gambling losses.
All the above is wildly speculative, and not investment advice, and somewhat US-centric, and contains completely implausible numbers and assumptions, but is an honest attempt to quantify an answer to the question.
All I can guess is that in terminal, when that particular version of bash and OS interacted, it didn't go back to the start of line, and the CR was unprintable, so it all ended up on the same line.
I'd expect to have seen something like what you describe with the line break, if it were a bare LF, but in my case, it wasa bare CR.
#!/bin/bash^M
That is, a non-printing carriage return after "bash"
and running the shell script "helpfully" kept telling me: "/bin/bash: no such file or directory"
Chrome blocking site as "unsafe" due to certificate error. Over-riding that and OpenDNS blocks it as malware.
Creators may want to investigate.
Authenticator app, hardware token (e.g. Yubikey), or email will usually be a question of which ones are supported by the service you are 2FA-ing into, You usually don't get a choice, so use what they offer.
Phone-based 2FA and lack of network is only a problem if you are using SMS push, and have no data service on the phone. But in that case, what system are you using to access the service? Can that machine hot-spot, or can your phone share its network connection? In practice, I've never seen a case where you have network connectivity to talk to a service, but not phone connectivity to get your SMS 2FA. So I'd say "not a frequent problem".
Given my choice (assuming all are supported) my order of preference would be: 1) Hardware token (e.g. Yubikey), 2) Authenticator App, 3) email, 4) SMS
Tokens are portable, can move between machines, have nothing to remember, and are easy to use.
Apps are running on some device, so still a true second factor (something you have) - and again, have nothing to remember, and can be secured with biometrics.
Email - now you are on two different things you know (not really a second factor), and you have to access your email on some potentially untrusted device, just to get the code, potentially now compromising your email. It's one more basket that if someone gets access to, they can probably reset your other service passwords for total account takeover. Still better than no 2FA, but higher friction to use and access, and not really a second factor.
SMS - it's just too easy for SIM swap attacks, and good social engineering to phish SMS codes. "Hi, this is $BANKNAME - we saw some suspicious activity on your account, so we are going to send a one-time code to you now. Please enter it back to us here to verify your identity" (scammer then uses your stolen password, tries to log in, real bank sends you real code, which you now are tricked into sending to scammer to complete their login as you).
So "adds up quickly" is relative (heh) in this case, and inconsequential in absolute terms, at human scale.
If we remove the scarcity, and pay authors per reader or per page (a good thing, in my opinion) we uncap the expense the library must bear if something becomes popular. One could shift the costs to the users, but then what is the point of the library? The user is just buying an ebook, and we already have markets for that.
The library gives access to books to those who can't afford them. Artificial scarcity sucks, but actually serves a purpose in this context.
If not, I've had good luck with Linode in the past. No longer a current user, but was happy with their service when I was.
At best, the support rep is confused between the two, very different, flows.
Your understanding of 2FA is correct. If what the support rep said is accurate, I wouldn't trust them with my money.
Randel Munroe of XKCD fame walks through this scenario in his "What If" book.
Link to sample on books.google.com
https://books.google.com/books?id=tgZIBAAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
That seems... unwise. Anyone have a pointer to the github post? Would be interesting to see if it was a "Haha! Look what I did!" kind of thing, or a "Crap, CapOne has an open S3 bucket" kind of post.
Applies to almost every bit of code I've written.
This very clearly demonstrates that each filter reshapes the wave's polarization, not to a single orientation, but to a narrow band.