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Both of you can be correct here. It's possible (and I would say likely) that you end up having a bunch of social activities and yet still not go to parties.

I know as I've gotten older (still younger than OP but well on my way), my tastes have changed and mellowed. Gone are the days where me and my friends want to be in a noisy, booze-filled environment. Dining out, theatre trips, hiking, even an international holiday with friends to take part in a running event. Just no parties.

If you're in the UK, save yourself the shipping and check out the food hall in the nicer department stores (Fenwick, John Lewis, Harvey Nichols, etc). They usually have a few bits from the Niederegger range, particularly around Christmas.

USB4 is the specification for the cable, USB-C is the connector at the end. We'll presumably start to see USB4 cables with USB-C connectors to replace the current 'best' USB3 cables with USB-C connectors.

That's lots of hypotheticals. I've used the cycle path in question myself many times. It's one of the best I've seen, and part of a great network around my city. The road he chose to use instead is one of the busiest routes into the city centre, and frequently sees accidents, many of which are fatal. It's certainly not a road I'd choose to cycle on myself.

> as a car driver I see cyclists behave badly

> is that the cycling infrastructure in the UK is wholy inadequate

I recently had a cyclist clumsily drift into the outside lane of a 40mph carriageway at around 10mph with one hand on the handlebar. A few metres to the side of the carriageway? An incredible stretch of smooth, fast, dedicated cycle path, separated from the road by a wide grass verge.

While he's one of the worst examples I've seen in a while, and not representative of all cyclists, he's proof that even the best infrastructure in the world won't stop some people acting like they own the roads and putting themselves in harm's way in the process.

I love when companies use their main site to notify users of downtime.

> Minoxidil helps, and that seems to be more about blood flow than androgens, though it's not totally clear why it works.

Isn't one of the causes of hair loss a build-up of dihydrotestosterone in the scalp? Improving blood flow possibly allows for more to be carried away instead of deposited.

The best suggestion I've seen for handling security questions is to use the same stupid response for all of them. Mum's maiden name? 'waffles'. City of birth? 'waffles'. Brand of your first car? 'waffles'. No-one's going to glean that from the internet, and it's going to be difficult for you to forget once you've formed the habit.

> How is this acceptable ? Of course, the support told me that my data is secure ... so secure I cannot access it !

Well, this is kind of the point. You may or may not remember that mere weeks before Apple rather forcefully encouraged people to set up 2FA, numerous female celebrities had their accounts breached and rather personal images leaked to the world.

When you were prompted to set up 2FA, you were given warnings (on multiple screens, no less) that no-one can help you recover the account if you lose the details. I believe there was also a single chance to save recovery codes, though I'm not sure if the process has changed in the time that has since passed.

This one's on you. Apple support aren't going to get you back in to an account for which you cannot provide the security answers. Those were your proof that you are indeed you.

I'd echo almost everything you said, except for:

> As a 32 year old man, you'd do better avoiding hoodies, activewear, baseball caps, and sneakers.

I'm not sure why there are still so many people around that look down on casual wear as office attire. A tech worker these days in an office surrounded by others doing the same isn't going to stand out. Save the dress shirts and Italian leather shoes for big events and fine dining; they're not going to impress anyone at the office. Gone are the days of everyone wearing a tie and jacket to sit at a desk for 8 hours.

Don't worry. They'll be charging extra for the A/C in those countries instead.

Charging to close an account? Is that even legal?

Even as someone that's vehemently against office working, I agree with this. Close contact with the team a few times a year just to get together for a couple of days of food and drink is great for team building. Any more than that and I'd go nuts.

I don't think it's people's beliefs that are the problem here (and agree with you that make-believe is fine). It's the implications of what a sentient AI would actually mean.

Many of us grew up with movies like Wargames and Terminator, so it's easy to see how people make the leap from 'is this machine sentient' to 'machines will take over the world'. That said, it's still a knee jerk reaction at this point - we don't have sentient AI, so don't have to worry about it eventually wiping out humankind.

> You can also use TypeScript and await on the promise

I'm not sure what you mean here. The promises and async/await syntax come from JavaScript, not from TypeScript - TS is just the sugar on top that provides the typings.

Just having an up-to-date profile on LinkedIn seems enough. Even with all the 'open to work' settings turned off, there's no end to the recruiters reaching out with opportunities. When I last enabled those options, I was up to 50 new conversations before the end of the week.

> are they going to offer tax breaks to incentivize companies to adopt a four-day workweek?

I'm going to assume you're asking if they'll offset any losses that occur as a result of employees only being 80% as productive.

You may be surprised to discover that studies overwhelmingly demonstrate that productivity is higher across 4 days than across 5 days. That's right, higher output in less time, all thanks to employees being better rested and coming to work in a better mental state.

It might help to specify your profession.

As a developer, I don't search for jobs. Jobs search for me. Not every profession has the same dynamic.

> Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

Even before seeing your hiring process (and I agree with the other comments about that), not listing a salary means I've already scrolled past your ad.

We're in an employee's market right now, and there are plenty of opportunities out there that are transparent about the comp package (and have shorter hiring processes).

Free is generally considered to be cheaper than $15, yes.

With the long list of folk that dream of working at FAANG companies, I highly doubt you'll get any special treatment. They don't need to change their process so long as people are still lining up to get in.

I'd echo the other comment and suggest looking elsewhere so you don't have to go through such a ridiculous hiring process just for the 'prestige' of working for somewhere so 'amazing'.

> I'm very uninterested in any of the work we do

I would recommend finding something you're interested in.

It sounds like you're missing an opportunity to handle the SQS visibility yourself instead of leaning on the default handling.

If you interact with the SQS API from within your code (whether that's in your Lambda function or some other orchestration like a Step Function), the default handling ceases and you're in full control. Do this and you can now decide exactly and programmatically when a message is made visible again. While it's not the focus of his talk, there's a good example of SQS message visibility done properly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85MPC_5yXE&t=2614s

> put it back to SQS to be handled again after the visibility timeout passes (which might take several minutes)

The visibility timeout can be configured anywhere between 0 seconds and 12 hours. While some trial and error may be needed to get your application just right, it's hardly a flaw of SQS.

I'm not sure my concentration is good enough to sit through a 15-hour long session.

Same amount every year. Then again, I'm in the UK where our laws provide us with a minimum amount (28) of days off and it's very unusual for anyone not to take the days to which they're entitled.

Whatever your local culture and laws, being able to spend some time away from work to recharge your batteries is important. Take your PTO.

Doesn't something have to live before it can be killed? Web3 isn't even going to get off the ground, despite what all the tech bros with '.eth' in their Twitter display names would have you believe. Web5 will just be more of the same.

Who's to say they don't already have multiple accounts? Surely being able to see at least a portion of their activity on a known account is better than all activity of their activity being anonymous.

> It strikes me that if all, or initially even a subset of, the disparate databases pushed a link between the universal ID

If it were this simple, one would think they would have done it already. One of the issues the NHS have is that they have so many disparate systems that don't know how to talk to each other. They're almost certainly aware of this and examining ways to unify them - after all, finding better technological solutions is why NHS Digital exists.

AWS have already openly admitted that they were slow bringing Node 16 support and plan to be quicker next time round.

> We recognize that customers have been waiting for some time for this runtime release. We hear your feedback and plan to release the next Node.js runtime version in a timelier manner.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-16-x-runtime-no...