For others like me that didn't know the term Sherlock:
It means "To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app." The term stems from Apple's 2002 release of Sherlock 3, which made a popular third-party app named "Watson" irrelevant.
Anecdotal but I've noticed Reddit has gotten very ban happy in general in the past year.
I actually gave up using it because, perhaps in part because I'm behind a VPN (required in my country), any new accounts I create get banned very quickly once I start commenting.
I haven't been able to create a Reddit account by any method in years. It always happens in one of two ways: you create an account and instantly get the red banner at the top of the page saying you're banned, or you create an account, post a few comments, notice nobody's replying to you, try loading your profile page in private browsing and it says you don't exist (a shadow ban).
There's nothing of much value on that website, but sometimes I try creating an account to comment on something.
My suspicion is that they did it for privacy reasons.
Let me give you an example - you have a photo of someone. Should Google give you their facebook profile in the results if you search for the picture? Their AI is certainly capable of this, but some people would be understandably creeped out by it.
Yes but your employer needs to sponsor you for a green card, and they don't really have any incentive to do so (since once you have the green card you don't have to work for them anymore).
I think this sounds theoretically reasonable, but in reality it's not like this:
- The cost of sponsoring someone for a green card ($50k?) is low compared to engineering salaries.
- Many companies like Google have great retention and the probability that an employee leaves after getting green card is low.
- Companies that are worried about retention often have employees sign a reimbursement agreement when starting the GC process. Something like, if you leave within 2 years of getting the GC you pay a prorated portion of the legal fees.
- In a tight labor market, GC sponsorship is another benefit like compensation, and companies offer it to hire good people. Over the last few years companies like Amazon have changed their GC policy to sponsor folks from day 1 of employment in order to hire people for whom a GC is that important.
Yes, you do need to work for them because if you become a PR through employment then jump then it was always viewed as fraud. The generally recommended strategy was to stay with the employer for one year after the PR status is granted.
I do suspect that this is a big part of why the PS5 doesn't include a browser, despite one being available on the PS4. It's a shame really, would love to be able to browse the web from my PS5.
Yep, this is exactly why. Sony got too scared of having a fully user-facing browser this time around because of all the Webkit exploits slamming the PS4.
It actually leads to frustration as an ISP employee; we get reports of end user devices getting slow speeds and the built-in PSN speedtests can often give us bad results (eg, a customer might be rated for 100x100 and the PSN test yields 20x5) -- running a browser-based speedtest we might be getting full speed to the device indicating a PSN issue. Removing the browser takes that troubleshooting option away from us.
It is amazing how consistently garbage PSN speed tests have been for over a decade. I remember the results being wildly off on my PS3, PS4, and now PS5.
Indeed. I've offered them before to people who were borderline - i.e. in the interview they didn't really shine but I wanted to give them a chance to redeem themselves. Goes either way really.
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