After 8 hours of downtime, I have already been back up some other place, some other way, in some other fashion, for 6 hours already.
There is no excusable way to explain being down for 8 days no matter WHAT any service provider does. How do you even explain the 2nd day let alone the 8th! Holy cow.
This is effectively a support forum, because you get visibility and issues do bubble up higher than the standard support queue. The system is what it does.
I don’t think a product like this would be needed if the interview requirements haven’t been getting out of control for the last 10 years. We’ve all read the posts about how interviews are being done these days.
If companies don’t want products like these then let’s tame the interview process.
There are probably as many companies or more that do interviews in a fair and logical way vs. the ones that don’t. However, everyone goes into them these days fearing the worst.
You're absolutely right, the traditional interview process, especially in tech, often fails to accurately assess the skills and qualities that matter most for success in a role. Many interviews focus heavily on rote memorization of algorithms, data structures, and obscure technical details that are rarely used in day-to-day work. This can advantage those who are good at cramming for tests but doesn't necessarily reflect real-world problem-solving abilities.
The new trend in the US is to ask for a tip on the payment terminal before you can enter your card for payment. Starbucks does this and it’s tricky in the drive through when you’re trying to be quick. Trying to figure out how not to add a tip takes time so you just select one of the three tip amounts on the screen to complete the transaction. Other places are doing this too.
Weirdly the solution for Starbucks here is to use their app’s barcode for payment; then tipping is buried. As much as I enjoy Starbucks, it’s such a commodity that it seems odd to tip for. They aren’t really bringing anything to you or cleaning up after you.
They do have well designed clean bathrooms and buying a couple
of cups of coffee you can work all day on a laptop. Much cheaper than an office without commitment although many distractions.
Is it me or does Starbucks coffee taste burnt? I prefer 711 on taste every time. They need to fix that
Which Starbucks have you been to? All the ones I go to have gross bathrooms topped with whatever heavy chemical smell they use to etch the sins off the bathroom floor with.
I totally hear you on the taste, it comes off as smoky to me. The blond roast espresso is more mild on that.
Model Y is like 3 except some of them do not have a manual release for rear-passengers, and those that do involve another step to pull up a mat from the bottom of the door-pocket:
I was t-boned in a new model s (with yoke) and there wasn't any release like the manual said. Dunno if the carpet was just covering it and someone skipped that step but even the folks at the shop couldn't figure how to open them. Same goes with releasing the rear seats forward, if you don't have power they wont go down and of course the emergency escape latch in the trunk is basically impossible to get to unless you're already in the trunk area.
Yes, more like a SaaS. Maybe a solution that is tailored to selling API access. Generates a unique URL to the user, or API key, after they sign up for the API service.
Does HTTPS also hide the URL request in most logging systems? You can always see the domain (api.example.com) but you cannot see the URL? The benefit being it hides an API key if included in the URL?
1. hides any private information anywhere in the request, URL or otherwise, API key or otherwise. Maybe you're fine if someone knows you used Bing (revealed through DNS lookups), but not what query you entered (encrypted to be decryptable only by Bing servers). An API key is obviously secret but something as oft-innocuous as search queries can also be private.
2. disallows someone on the network path from injecting extra content into the page. This can be an ISP inserting ads or tracking (mobile carriers have been playing with extra HTTP headers containing an identifier for you for advertising reasons iirc) or a local Machine-in-the-Middle attack where someone is trying to attack another website you've visited that used https.
Ah yes, apologies. Again, it's not strictly part of the HTTP request, but part of the TLS handshake around it. And only part of the TLS handshake as part of SNI, if supported (which is true by default).
> "Server Name Indication payload is not encrypted, thus the hostname of the server the client tries to connect to is visible to a passive eavesdropper."
So you're right, this is more aligned to the HTTP request than the DNS resolution of hostname that I mentioned. Strictly speaking, it's not part of HTTP per se (it's part of TLS), but still, it's in the same request in the most common definition, as you are saying.
After 8 days of downtime, most people get desperate and look for all avenues for support.
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