You're literally restating the same point that the original poster has already made in his comment. You're agreeing with him.
Seems like you just read the first phrase of his comment and immediately went into an adversarial "are you being sarcastic?" loop. Because the point you made is what came immediately after the part you quoted in his original comment:
> [...] but let's play out the worst case scenario and a fascist government comes to power and something I do now is considered criminal and they can place me doing it with this DNA that as the author describes can narrow down if it was me pretty easily.
No, I read his full comment, but I have a problem with "I'm not planning on committing a crime and nothing I do now is considered criminal" which is commonplace these days to say. I laid it out as to what.
So, as for the rest of his comments, such as: "The author also makes this like a weird dichotomy with online tracking, I ALSO care about being tracked on the internet and my personal privacy is pretty important to me in general.", I agree.
I edited my comment as it was deeply misunderstood, and I am not interested in having it derailed even further. Maybe another time.
"Every single one of those ads were programmed by... a human! We (as humans) are the ones doing this!"
See? That logic doesn't work so well. "Software engineers" are not a singular entity nor a homogeneous group. To maintain the status quo, it doesn't take more than just a few SWEs willing to implement ads and/or invasive tracking.
I’ve used Protonmail for years, but lately the encryption is making me seriously consider a switch. You can’t use 3rd party email clients, unless you also install Proton Mail Bridge, which is only available for paid users. And the bridge only works for desktop, so you won’t be able to use 3rd party email clients on your phone.
This is an issue not only with Proton Mail, but with other services in their ecosystem too. For example, you also can’t integrate Proton Calendar with the iOS Calendar app, because of the encryption.
And all of this is for no benefit, because your email won’t be fully E2E encrypted unless your recipient is also using Proton Mail. Most of your recipients will be using Gmail or Outlook, so at the end of the day Google/Microsoft will read your emails anyway.
I’m considering switching to Fastmail, Mailbox.org, or Migadu. If you need to send truly private emails, use PGP encryption.
I have a paid proton account so I can use mail at a domain I when, but I don’t use anything else, and this is why. I don’t want to say encryption is a problem, just that Proton isn’t going to integrate with my phone and computer, and that’s a problem. I don’t mind using the Proton app for mail (I use Apple Mail and Gmail as well), but migrating calendars is a pretty big deal to me, since I only want 1, it’s not something that’s even worth trying out, like I can with email.
> there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind
Different argument whose answer is possibly unknowable ex ante. If AGI is on the table it will be built. The upsides are too significant to avoid the prisoner’s dilemma.
> It may be possible to practice this but someone who does poorly at this untrained is unlikely to ever reach even median level ability. There are techniques you can learn to perform this task in a multiple choice test situation but they don't train your brain to be better at visualizing 3d rotations at all.
Any source for this claim? I'd like to read more about it.
Some say scammers are very smart, and that they deliberately use every trick in the book to tap into our psychological weaknesses and make us act irrationally. But I have the feeling that, 90% of the time, scammers are just told to write an "official-sounding" message – which is the same thing that the hypothetical human who wrote this template was trying to do: that's why the result is so similar. No doubt the use of the word "urgent", or capitalizing the words "Duty" and "Taxes", come from this attempt at making the message sound more formal and official, from someone who is definitely not a skilled writer.
Yep. It's a bit like the theory that scammers mention they're from Nigeria because they're ingeniously weeding out all the people who've heard of the scam before, and not because they need an excuse for people to send money to Nigeria (and with their culture and education level the ALLCAPS and religious references look very official and honest indeed), and if the cost of that is that 99.99% of their emails don't get delivered due to automatic filters protecting even the most gullible of recipients, well that's probably not something they've given much thought to.
I've read one interview with a scammer who mentioned that the initial pitch is deliberately written that way to screen for gullible people, and I've read extended email exchanges with Nigerian scammers where their broken English becomes flawless after the initial reply. 419eater.com was a treasure.
These days though, like most scams the 419 scams have been taken over by organized crime and worse. The average Nigerian scammer nowadays is probably doing it because Boko Haram will kill their family if they don't.
419eater is also full of scammers whose English notably deteriorates, scammers who have almost endless time to comply with bonkers requests, and scammers that are quite far into the discussion when they go to some effort to produce "official documents" that look like they were produced by a child. And personally, I've experienced the reverse, where even when it's a well constructed item-for-sale scam by someone with access to a PayPal account they can't help but use email addresses that look a bit too Nigerian to be an elderly Scottish lady and English that just doesn't match the ad copy and is obsessed with explaining the safety and urgency of the transaction rather than the "product". Most of the others have to mention Western Union to Nigeria at some point...
Just doesn't make much sense for people whose time is valued in cents per hour and whose theoretical earnings are in the thousands to optimise for screening out non-gullible people, plus the 99.9% of gullible people that have some sort of spam filter in the loop. But hey, if someone's shared that Microsoft Research paper with the scammers and they've come to believe that using formats that almost invariably bump into spam filters is actually a shrewd move on their part, who am I to discourage them?!
I don't know about Boko Haram involvement, but I assume the organized crime guys have some sort of MLM-style operation scamming Nigerians into paying for the get-rich-quick opportunity.
I've learned so many things on SO though. For example, some amazing answers there made me realize the power of sed and awk, and motivated me to learn it.
Ironically, I think the greatest quality of SO is exactly what most people complain about: that sometimes when you ask how to do X, they will tell you that X is a bad idea and you should probably do Y. I've learned many more efficient ways to do what I was trying to do, good security practices, and so on, because of this culture. Whereas if you ask ChatGPT how to do X, it'll happily tell you how to do X, even if X is a bad idea. (As a bonus, it might make something up if X is impossible to do.)
Besides, ChatGPT's answers are mediocre, by the definition of the word: dead average. You'll never get some guru-level insight from ChatGPT that you would sometimes get from a particularly exceptional answer in SO.
Note: I don't mean to say that SO is perfect, there's plenty of bad answers and it has other problems too. I just think SO does more good than harm to novices who want to become better at the trade, whereas ChatGPT is downright harmful for learning.
> Near as I can tell the fundamental problem was that the GoldOwner and GoalDonor weren't the same. The customer feeding stories to the team didn't care about the same things as the managers evaluating the team's performance. This is bad, and we know it's bad, but it was masked early because we happened to have a customer who was precisely aligned with the IT managers. The new customers who came on wanted tweaks to the existing system more than they wanted to turn off the next mainframe payroll system. IT management wanted to turn off the next mainframe payroll system. Game over. Or not, we'll see... -- KentBeck
> So, I'm curious - does this represent a failure of XP? -- AnonymousCoward
> Sensitivity, certainly. But if the people who tell you what to do don't agree with the people who evaluate what you are doing, you're stuffed, XP or no XP. -- KentBeck
> - in release notes: generate automatically from commit log
Release notes are for a completely different audience and should be custom-tailored to that audience. They also shouldn't include changes that were reverted or made redundant by later changes in the same release.
Sure, commits-as-change-log is better than no change log but still very very far from optimal.
Seems like you just read the first phrase of his comment and immediately went into an adversarial "are you being sarcastic?" loop. Because the point you made is what came immediately after the part you quoted in his original comment:
> [...] but let's play out the worst case scenario and a fascist government comes to power and something I do now is considered criminal and they can place me doing it with this DNA that as the author describes can narrow down if it was me pretty easily.