An integration test is a type of software test that makes sure different parts of a system work properly together.
So HBO has some integration tests that make sure their system can send email properly. The way it does this is by sending some test emails to a test email list.
Except somehow, someone made a mistake today and the test email got sent to the real email list of all the subscribers.
It's funny, I usually have the opposite experience. I try to use DDG as much as possible for ideological reasons, but I find myself coming back to Google search most of the time because I get better results.
I think it is shaped by your searches. When I am searching for some math term to help my kid do his homework !G is better, but for anything business or media related I stick with DDG results. Not just affiliate links but literally hijacking search with their own content is insufferable.
Related: Can we start an HN trend of replacing the word Google in posts with !G to throw some shade at the evil empire?
Depends how niche it is. More niche things google does well on: that error code, that specific game discussion on Reddit. Duck duck go now does better on searches which will be optimised for google by businesses.
Elon Musk's immaturity may affect the perceived legitimacy of his own company, but his actions don't affect the perceived legitimacy of an entire category of the economy like such a jetpack exploit would.
It seems extremely likely that the market cap of Tesla is larger than the market cap of all jetpack companies combined. In any case you assume that any such CEO is concerned with the fate of other companies in the same space, an assumption for which the proof is extremely lacking.
Not sure about anyone else, but I lose my sense of smell regularly when I get a cold. (Not due to being stuffed up -- even when I inhale through my nose I smell nothing.)
Does this not happen to most people with regular colds?
For at least the past 5-10 years, I've noticed that whenever I get more than a very mild cold, I completely lose my sense of smell for a few days. (I'm talking 100% loss, like holding bananas under my nose and inhaling and smelling nothing.)
I thought that was normal, but everyone making such a big deal out of the loss of smell makes me wonder if I'm unusual for experiencing it with regular colds.
> I thought that was normal, but everyone making such a big deal out of the loss of smell makes me wonder if I'm unusual for experiencing it with regular colds.
It was normal until people started to extremely exaggerate what covid-19 really is to make it seem a lot more dangerous when in fact it is just like influenza.
I can’t downvote yet on this account, so I’ll just comment instead: the truth is almost certainly in the middle.
COVID-19 isn’t a death sentence, it it’s also not “just the flu”. It’s not even related to the flu, and it shares only a subset of symptoms. It’s also got a significantly higher mortality rate and different R0, - it seems to spread more readily and it’s therefore reasonable to believe through slightly different means,
There’s growing evidence that there is a much larger proportion of people who acquire it and develop either no or very minimal symptoms. It’s not at all clear yet if those people shed enough virus particles to be a significant transmission vector.
So, yeah - for many people, COVID-19 is “just the flu” or even “just a runny nose”. We just don’t know how many people are going to react that way, why, who they will be, or what impact they may have in friends and family.
Discounting it as you seem to be is a recipe for unnecessary deaths. Overestimating it is as well.
> Discounting it as you seem to be is a recipe for unnecessary deaths. Overestimating it is as well.
I would agree with this but enough time has passed that we have enough numbers to confirm that the vast majority of healthy (with a small theoretical chance of outliers) will shake COVID off even easier than influenza. ICU beds in all countries were filled predominantly by very obese people or end of life patients with serious health conditions. Basically stop being fat or at least don’t make your unhealthy eating habits the problem of healthy people. At this point it’s clear that we are destroying young lives to protect some people who don’t want to deal with the consequences of their own life choices. There is no way we can protect people without harming others with this virus. So if we have to choose who has to suffer then surely it’s more ethical to let people pick up their own bill rather than punishing people who are innocent and not even in danger. We put people in danger who shouldn’t be in danger. It’s disgusting.
Why do you only care about the lifestyles of people living in developed countries?
Also, even if we decide that we don't care about 4/5 of the world, increased flooding and wildfires are already affecting hundreds of thousands of people each year in North America.
A couple of years ago, the Quebec government introduced additional restrictions on ridesharing companies. Uber got up on their soapbox and said they were pulling out of Quebec. The government called their bluff and basically said "Okay, bye" and Uber backpedaled. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens here.
This happened in Sep 2017. Then, the transport minister for Quebec changed in Oct 2017, and Uber said later in Oct that they would not pull out because they saw an opportunity for constructive dialogue with the new transport minister. By the time Bill 17 was passed in 2019 and Uber became officially legal beyond its pilot project, taxi drivers were protesting the Quebec government's actions.
So HBO has some integration tests that make sure their system can send email properly. The way it does this is by sending some test emails to a test email list.
Except somehow, someone made a mistake today and the test email got sent to the real email list of all the subscribers.