- Basically, you just need a password manager.
I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
You can store the other details in the notes - e.g. which card / account is used for payments, what are the password reset questions & answers, which address is set for delivery.
Then, when you change credit cards / addresses / emails, etc., it's easy enough to find all the accounts you used the old one for and need to update.
- Seems a bit like expect:
- Sounds a bit like ETL - extract, transform and load.
- "currently all trade is dollarized" - a ridiculous and patently false assertion.
- One thing I learnt eventually is: it's not a good idea do business with any party that would be impractical to sue if need be.
- Probably not WhatsApp, because Meta have already stuffed their own AI there.
Every product with users is now a merely channel for shoving the vendor's AI down the user's throats.
- Maybe it's simplistic, but I imagine their business model revolves making money from transfers, and they're probably don't value having money sit in accounts as much as, say, a bank that's in the money-lending business.
- One-man companies with no bank accounts, leases, phone bills, water bills, and are probably not very lucrative customers, or the target market for this business, especially when they consume the time of multiple customer support people.
- Well, that's because somewhere between the executive team, which "gets it", and "three levels down"... somewhere between 1 and 2 levels down, there is a team that translates "security" into some compulsory training, scanning internal software/apps/libraries/libraries using crappy automated vendorware, and counterproductive/arbitrary password requirements.
After that, "security" starts to mean "ticking all the boxes to keep the scan happy and stay off the report" (even if the scans are wrong, out of date, littered with false positives, and lacking the ability to find basic problems) and stops having anything to do with actually being secure.
- I find one 4K is good. I wouldn't bother with anything not 4K these days.
I was reminiscing about how much dual monitors used to be a pretty standard thing, and definitely pretty helpful when economical monitors maxed out at 1920x1080, but seems much less prevalent these days. Not too surprising I guess considering the costs, space consumption, hardware, cables, etc etc.
- I used to be drawn to this kind of (over)-optimization of operational efficiencies, I think it's kind of natural for programmers.
The reality though is that for most businesses, the hard part is customer acquisition, marketing, logistics - for a restaurant, site selection, decor, etc... if you get that right, you can probably solve your staffing problems pretty easily by just being 50% overstaffed, and using a whiteboard and post-it notes. If you _don't_ get that right, then no amount of efficient shift scheduling can save you.
- Possibly because that would be illegal, and "someone" has decided that they don't want to end up on prison (or equivalent) for a long time.
Just a thought.
- This is where the confusion is: ”trying to delete a Page I own".
You don't own the page. Facebook owns it. You _authored_ the page, and _gave_ it to Facebook, and now they can do anything they want with it.
- There's actually a simple, low-tech, decentralized solution to this problem, for those of us who like such things. It's compatible with all providers, and even works across countries.
Step 1: Ask for, and obtain your medical records from your providers.
Step 2: Once you have your medical records in your possession, keep them organized, and share them with whoever you want, whenever you want.
I just keep them like one directory per doctor/provider, and dated filenames like dr-foo/2023-02-24-chest-xray.pdf or whatever.
Patients have an absolute right to their medical records, test results, with very few exceptions. It is _not_ hard to get access, just ask, and if you have any trouble, talk to whoever hands out and takes away the medical licenses in that jurisdiction.
If you have all your records, its easy to switch providers whenever you want, get second opinions, and do your own research. It can be pretty interesting seeing the raw notes from doctors, getting the DICOM files for x-rays/ct/mri imaging too.
Just keep, and take responsibility for your own data, it is not realistic to expect providers, the government, or any business to do this for you.
- Use AI to generate the review, obviously.
- Try it. It probably works pretty well, up to a certain point.
At a big enough scale, though, with thousands of people making changes many times / day, the file becomes a single point of contention, and the logistics of updating it without losing or clobbering other people's changes are going to become a problem.
- Probably because those are completely different skill sets from raising capital, finding product market fit, and launching a new product as a startup without megacorp capital and marketing behind you.
- Seems like there's some obvious selection bias here... Java and .NET are both pretty ancient, stable platforms, so the venn diagram of "people who use Java / .NET" and "people who like learning new languages" just doesn't have much overlap.
Conversely, the people who use(d) rust, clojure, zig, etc., those are the "exciting new language" people who are going to drop those and move onto whatever the _next_ exciting new language is.
- I can see that talking directly to Flores, Wilson and Smith, and proposing other peoples ideas could be grating for others. However, another way of looking at it is, that's just called "taking initiative". There's nothing to stop _anyone_ from talking directly to Flores, Wilson and Smith, go meet with them, take them out to lunch, make friends with them, etc.
If people think that Y approach is good, and talk amongst themselves about it, but don't actually write it up, pitch it to the powers that be, "sell" it, etc., then people are going to do that for them.
If Flores, Wilson and Smith are overwhelmed with one on one chats and meetings, then they'll probably push back and organize some group meetings and communications that everyone is in on. Conversely, if _nobody_ is doing that, then that leaves things wide open for _someone_ to do that, and that person is actually adding some value in doing so.
The person I work with also has a habit of cornering people when they are leaving. If you him "goodnight, see you tomorrow" at 5:30p, and pick up a bag, he will somehow interpret that as an opportunity to broach a whole new topic, and tie you up for half an hour. He does it with senior people too, it can be interesting to watch... hard to say whether it is not picking up on the social cues, or just not caring...
The narrative is that human labor is expensive super expensive, there are "skills shortages", etc etc... but in actuality, hiring a few people rounds down to 0 in the context of an airliner or an office building in Manhattan, and you get a lot of political sway for employing folks and paying payroll taxes, and the "doorman fallacy" is very real. The "robots taking our jobs" narrative seems hugely exaggerated to me.