This is a valid use case, my company does this, but I would never outsource it when a link expander isn't difficult to build exactly to the spec you want/need.
Yep. I built my own for a similar reason. It went from "we need a URL shortener" on a Wednesday to "we have a robust URL shortener in production" the next Monday.
Having read the article... it doesn't? It gives a nicely elaborate overview of the original Set and the new functions, in a way that lets folks who've never use sets (except to hide "filter for uniqueness" functionality) know that it might actually be useful to them.
Folks here seem happy to dunk on her, but her brother's take seems more reasonable:
> It was my brother, the lawyer, who pointed out that what I had experienced sounded a lot like a coerced confession. “I read enough transcripts of bad interrogations in law school to understand that anyone can be convinced that they have a very narrow set of terrible options,” he said.
I did that. Then they got a federal search warrant by making up a dog that supposedly smelled something, said there must be drugs hidden in my GI tract, dragged me to the hospital and then sent me the hospital bill when nothing was found. You can stop answering questions and they keep dragging you to more hospitals racking up your debt. This whole time I was 'not under arrest' so I had no real rights, but apparently DHS can drag you to hospitals cuffed for 'emergency medical care' without an arrest.
On another occasion feds came to my house to investigate a neighbor. When I refused to talk they waited until I was shutting the door and stuck their fingers in to try and get me for assault as it closed. Thankfully I caught the door at the last millisecond and just stared at them blankly with the door cracked until they left.
The solution is to severely limit the power of the federal government... but at least in the United States, every serious political party is working over time to do the opposite.
"I am invoking my 5th amendment right to refuse to speak. I will not speak until I have my lawyer present."
This is a (mostly) effective way of immediately stopping an interrogation.
Yes, a police interrogation is even more intense than what the author experienced. But confessing to murder is also quite a bit more serious than handing somebody 50 grand in a box.
The fact that someone with a lawyer brother believed a Federal agent (real or fake) would act in her interest while denying her access to a lawyer is sad.
This alone, or knowing that the CIA does not investigate domestic fraud, would have stopped this.
I don't see that many people dunking on her. On the contrary, people do often tend to very carefully dance around the topic of preventative measures because they don't want to be seen as "victim blaming." It should be OK to say "here's what we can learn from this, about the tactics scammers use, about the technical issues like call spoofing, so that we can avoid being victims ourselves."
I wasn't ever very tempted by React when it started getting hot because I had started using Rich's component library Ractive and it was so obviously better than React
I don't find on-running very usable. I'm trying to filter the list of hiking shoes, and
1. I'm not even presented with filters until after I click a "show filters" button – they default to hiding useful elements just so that the page looks more minimal when initially displayed
2. every time I add a new filter, the page reloads and the filters scroll back up to the top, and I have to scroll down the iframey-type interface on the left to get down to where I was in the list of filters
Mammut doesn't put its filter UI inside of a separate tiny scrolling box at least, though it does annoyingly scroll to the top every time I add another filter. Also, after browsing shoes for a minute, it interrupts me by greying out the screen and popping up some advertisement.
My experience with Instagram Reels and Youtube Shorts and Facebook stories (and all the other things that compete with TikTok) is that it can still get its hooks in, but you have to invite it in. That is, if it doesn't immediately grab you, its not enough to open TikTok and idly doom scroll for 2 minutes. You have to consciously watch for 15 minutes before it starts to alter your brain chemistry.
I did that (scrolled for 15+ minutes) around a dozen times. I kept waiting for the algorithm to serve me that really great addictive content, but I only found a couple actually good creators.
Most of the best videos I saw were Vine compilations
They should. However, we should understand that for all the failings of parents as managers of a child's money, a five year old child is also not going to make good financial decisions, and there does need to be someone who can make prudent, and indeed numerate, decisions on the child's behalf.
Children may not be able to make good decisions with their money, but many adults aren't either, especially when it is someone else's money (ie, their kids).
A child should retain full control of their own money up to a certain value. Above that, they should be assigned a fiduciary to take care of the rest.
"Assigned a fiduciary" does a lot of work there. Who assigns the fiduciary? How do we find a good one? Why does this fiduciary do this job? God knows that financial professionals are not exactly immune to misconduct.
I think we should maybe admit that this is just kind of a difficult space, where there's in some rare cases a lot of money on the line and there's not necessarily anyone who's perfectly suited to handle it.
How does this prevent these issues? Do you think a 5 year old child would not sign over all their property to their dear parents and/or manager if asked? It just increases the number of people who would try to swindle the kid since literally anyone interacting with the kid could do it.
