> Thankfully, IG gave me the option of restoring my username when I logged back into my account today.
The hackers read all your formerly private messages, saw all your private photos, saw all the photos your friends wanted only their social circle to see. They could have social-engineered a thousand scamss.
I'm glad it worked out for you. But honestly, your baseline is kind of off.
While I agree with this, the hackers have an incentive to get in and out as soon as possible (at least, with accounts that have valuable usernames), because they want to swap the username over to an account they fully control before the rightful owner takes the account back. While DMs were read during this exploit in some cases (I've seen this be the case for several musicians), valuable usernames were likely signed into, swapped, and then signed out of. That's how rare username theft on Instagram generally works, anyways.
The naturalistic fallacy needs to die. Then a metaphor about food without any expertise and "programmers are special" sprinkled in. Holy lord, what a wild ride of an article.
Guess what? People weren't meant to live in stone houses and get cancer treatment either. Gathering berries all day sucks, that's why everyone abandons that lifestyle as soon as possible.
Life in a big company is very well-paid for very little work. You're pretty safe and can work part-time, raise kids, work-from-home.. and when you're on the office, are you really doing more than doodling during meetings and drinking coffee?
> that's why everyone abandons that lifestyle as soon as possible.
Not everyone, there are still societies doing that. The thing is, it doesn't scale. And the other ways of having a society do. Which, naturally, leads to a situation where the most of the population is not doing that, and keeps those who do that around just out of benevolent tolerance. It may even be a more pleasurable way of life, for all we know, than many others (such as one of a medieval peasant) but it can't ever be anything but a tiny minority.
It's not "we should live in the same environment we evolved in to be happy", it's "the things that make us happy are a product of the environment we evolved in, and we should take that into consideration".
This just generally over-estimates whether you can "measure" good work on scale, and make your org produce more of it. Google didn't manage to measure and predict its own employees' work [0]. Even with 6 months probation – the default in Germany – it's just guess work.
If you want good employees, poach those that others are paying millions already.
Most projects start with tree-sitter and then switch to language-native parsers. Either way, it's not something you solve yourself – you just find the language-specific implementation load megabytes of WASM on the frontend or generate it on the backend.
difftastic, semanticdiff.. lots of projects like that. Obviously they can offer stuff like "function name changed" instead of showing you 30 lines of +newName -oldName
As someone else said, much about the post is simply not testable.
Is someone at Facebook working on the Metaverse a crucial part of prototyping new business models, or are they doing busywork? It'll only be clear in hindsight.
The hackers read all your formerly private messages, saw all your private photos, saw all the photos your friends wanted only their social circle to see. They could have social-engineered a thousand scamss.
I'm glad it worked out for you. But honestly, your baseline is kind of off.
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