I experienced this in Japan and Korea as well. There are of course, neighborhoods where noise is tolerated but while I was there I noticed most commuters whisper conversations on their phone. The thought of blasting a call or music on speakerphone is unconscionable.

... was optimistic.

Evergreen excuses for tech people desperately want to work. I get why, it would give you agency to do other things you WANT to do. I tried reviewing a colleagues agent-generated code and it was practically unreviewable. I watched him blame himself, saying he just needed to adjust a parameter. He tried everything except admit the machine does not conceptionaly understand what he was asking.

we're one more rl run from Codex not trying to satisfy the type checker by replacing an index accessor with a BFS of all the keys in the API response and matching the correct property via regex.

one more, i swear.

It's not BS though? That's what companies like Chainalysis professionally. This was covered in graphic detail as to how they caught a pedo ring in Andy Greenberg's book Tracers In The Dark.

Isn't it like claiming that breaking and entering is pointless, as you can always trace the perp through finger prints, unless they happen to wear gloves? Except in this case, most of the criminals operate from outside your jurisdiction as well.

Same here. Thought it was my firewall at first. Thanks for confirming.

Department of Government Exfiltration.

You can tell this was written with love. Regardless of what tools were used to make this, I think we could all do more of this for the people important in our lives.

they way they are going about it very much is. update your understanding.

Trying not to think about _We Stand On Guard_.

A comic book about USA invading Canada?

over water specifically

it is unreasonably easy to make non-refundable purchases in these games. They deserve this and every lawsuit that follows.