- Oh, I misunderstood the previous submission, then.
- > If you pick any reason suggesting the product is deficient, they'll fight you and waste your time, even if it's demonstrably true.
Presumably because if those returns were processed, it would give Amazon cause to take action against them.
- Unfortunately, your trusted buyer can also get scammed. And you might not even get your trusted buyer's stock; you might select a buyer, and get someone else's stock from a fulfillment center closer to you.
- > Alongside them was a thin metal ballast plate that appears to have been included to replicate the expected weight of a genuine kit.
Do newer RAM chips actually weigh more?
- It's hard for me to imagine that most 11yos would be willing to put up with that.
- Interesting. I seem historically to have mostly had the opposite problem: too much inspiration, too many ideas, no willingness to choose. It seems, then, like the solution is to kick-start myself into just trying to do multiple things in parallel. But whenever I start on something it seems like I either struggle and freeze (I feel "blocked" despite that I should very well know what the next step is), or I hyper-focus.
- > Related: there is a known scam where someone will ask for payment by things like Ebay gift cards. To "prove you have the card", you are asked to read off just the last few digits of the card - which unbeknownst to the intended victim is actually all that is needed to redeem the card.
I'm not following. If things have gotten this far, the victim has already been duped into buying the card and intends to send it to the scammers anyway... ?
But also, how could the card possibly work that way? What are the other digits even for; and wouldn't they quickly run out of valid "last few digit" combinations for issued cards?
- What do/did you do about other people having your Gmail address as a primary contact?
- Should people really not have the option to not-buy if they see other advantages in it? Should the idea of ownership being valuable be imposed upon citizens? (And if we all accept that it has value, could that not simply reflect in a price differential?)
- > Why would you sell a dollar for 90 cents? Because you know that on average you're selling quite a bit less than a dollar.
There's more to it than covering the risk of fraud. It's more about optionality. The gift card only allows for buying things at one place — so you're restricted in what you can buy, can't deposit it at a bank, can't comparison shop etc.
I don't get the sense that money being left on the card is a serious issue for the sort of person who goes hunting for deals like this. They'll eventually spend more than the card's value and have the last of it apply partially to some purchase.
Also the discount rates I've seen have been more like buying the $100 card for $95 or $97. Except perhaps where the gift card retailer is offering it directly as part of a cross-promotion deal with the target retailer.
- > For a refresher
I've never seen that image before. :/
- > Interestingly, the typo space on major sites is actually very sparsely registered (2% at edit distance 1)
It seems to me that "edit distance 1" still describes some very implausible typos.
- > They were most probably also written by AI, there's no other (human) way.
Yes. They came from the existing project being ported, which was also AI-written.
- > Yesterday there was a story "I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours".
Yes, from the same author, in fact.
- Quite a few FOSS maintainers have been speaking up about it.
- It also doesn't appear to have an HTTPS certificate.
- > But I don't learn. That's not what I'm trying to do- I'm trying to fix the bug. Hmm. I'm pretty sure AI is going to lead us to a deskilling crash.
Nothing is preventing you from studying how the bugfix works once it's in place.
Nor is there any reason this use of AI should cause you to lose skills you already have.
- > As the job is to use AI tools
Aside from the absurdity of this claim, consider how many years of experience a "senior" is typically expected to have, and then consider how long even ChatGPT has been available to the public, never mind SOTA coding agents.
- Not to disagree with Kent Beck's insights on juniors using AI, but the effect of AI on his own writing is palpably negative. His older content is much more enjoyable to read. And so is his recent non-post "activity" on Substack. For example, compare a "note" preceding this article (https://substack.com/@kentbeck/note/c-188541464), on the same topic, to the actual content.
Not rhetorical questions. You presumably have real reasons to create the package; meditating on them will bring you closer to an understanding. The reason that naming things is one of the "hard CS problems" is that it requires actually paying attention to your own work and a solution can't be looked up elsewhere.