You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

Spammers will definitely remove the + suffix.

While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.

I've been "fighting" many websites in the last 20+ years, which use(d) javascript libaries which accept "only a-z, 0-9 and _" as valid characters in a local part. Some even changed their code after I complained and pointed them to the relevant parts of RFC822 (and all successors)

IMNSHO: sysadmins who do not know that the local part of an email address is not of their concern (as long as it complies to RFC 822++), are not worth their money. And web designers? Don't get me started on that topic ;-0

Edit: ok, they even allow "." and "-" in local parts.

Or worse, they'll accept it, but then some backend system trips over it, and now the product you ordered never ships to you, but customer service doesn't know how to refund it either.

Gmail does not see "." as contributing to uniqueness of the addressee name. So for instance a missing "." expected in "matt.smith@" is a reliable flag for rejection.

Measuring inter-account variability in performance doesn't work for players who only play with cheats on that account

Damn smurfs, good point. I would be defenseless. In reality you would go with a multiple angle approach but you are certainly correct. Behavior modeling would suggest you’re the GOAT. 100% of the time.

I don't understand what you mean here - would a company not want a well rounded developer ?

The large companies don't need tens of thousands of system architects. They need tens of thousands of coders who can do what they're told on small parts of a system without fussing too much about the bigger picture. I think that's what OP is referring to—leetcode filters for young developers who don't need to understand all the reasons why they're doing what they're doing.

Why would a well rounded senior developer be interviewing for a role that requires a code monkey?

No job is ever phrased as needing a code-monkey and no one wants to think of themselves as a primate doing a very specific task.

Why would you put out ads for senior engineers when you'll make them perform code monkey tasks?

Every job has random overhead and your productivity is boosted quite a lot by already being familiar with some random bullshit problem like "don't configure your test environment this way or you'll run out of file handles after a day or two." Hiring more experienced people means fewer delays due to issues like that, even for boring "code-monkey" work.

We are expensive, tend to tell the younger devs to tell each other their salaries and not put up with bad management.

Harder to exploit experience.

I think he may mean that the exuberance going on right now in the crypto and nft markets may be seen as a "top signal" predicting a market crash soon (people moving into riskier and riskier assets usually precedes a crash). Timing the top of markets is hard though - and while the music is playing you have to dance.

My monero investment is down so bad that a micro payment is all I will be able to afford

Monero is a good currency but a really bad investment. That's probably a good thing too. If its price remains stable relative to USD, we can start developing the habit of pricing everything in XMR instead. I've gotten paid in XMR for writing some quick code, it works pretty well. Now we just need to get people to sell oil barrels for XMR.

Man, that's really interesting

Looks like Monero hasn't been pumping or dumping quite as much as other cryptocurrencies, maybe that means its creators actually care about making it useful as currency rather than as a medium for ~~scams~~ "investments"

I'd love an ad-free future, but something tells me that there'll always just be too much pressure to make more ads. Hell, Amazon is pumping $10,000,000 per episode into a TV show that's arguably just a big ad for Amazon (subscribe to our TV service to watch this show, buy some socks and video games while you're here)

Yeah. The cryptocurrency space does have a lot of scams, especially coins created on top of ETH and BNB. However, there's a lot of good projects as well. Monero is everything bitcoin was supposed to have been. I think it's insane how people are wasting energy on bitcoin mining. That energy would be better spent securing Monero.

There will always be pressure to advertise. No matter what product or service you have or how profitable it is, you can always make even more money by selling your user's attention. That's why we need technology that makes it impossible to advertise to us. A browser extension that deletes elements, a video filter that deletes brands, augmented reality glasses that deletes billboards.

Nobody cares if you download their NFT, it is a joke on crypto twitter

The people getting angry if you tweet at them using their “special” NFT profile picture suggest otherwise.

*the minority of people

There are other aspects to defi other than lending, such as liquidity providing, governance token issuance, etc. For the loans part, you are right there is no use other than to speculate on crypto assets. An overcollaterallized loan is essentially just selling some coins for cash while simultaneously taking a leveraged long position to maintain your exposure.

Isn't the extremely high stablecoin interest only because we are in a bull run and there is a high demand for long leverage ? You can make 20%+ shorting bitcoin futures 1x on bitmex or ftt right now, but those returns don't last when the price is not exploding upwards..

Sealed Pokemon booster boxes

This is so stingingly dumb it reads like satire