Yeah, a friend of mine was tracked by a stalker ex boyfriend who worked at a Telco.
It was irritatingly difficult to avoid because it seemed he could look up her SIM card by name and then get her location no matter what (new SIM, new phone)
Anyone who reports this kind of thing to the police just sounds irrational and crazy and gets ignored.
Sounds like something worth reporting as it is an offence in Australia at least. The police would certainly investigate such an allegation and charges could be laid if there was sufficient evidence and a conviction was possible.
Yeah it was reported, but the telcos systems were such a load of slop there wasn’t any specific evidence recorded (logs etc), and besides nobody knew what to ask for, so it couldn’t be taken seriously.
I don’t remember the exact circumstances of how they got a confession years later, I think bragging, but he did get convicted and the Telco eventually fired him, which stopped the stalking.
Assuming he had access to a database with (lat, long, SIM) data, if she got a new phone he could just use the known (lat, long pairs) from the old sim and lookup to get the new sim. Then bam, you can get all of the new lat longs.
It’s impossible to avoid unless you simultaneously move to a new house / apartment when you get your new phone, and never bring the new phone to any previous low-traffic location you brought the old phone to.
The problem is the bar of expectation has really raised since AI, now you absolutely must have a fancy website with 3-dozen pages and SaaS-like styling.
Before, you could get away doing business with a basic 1-pager, which is about the same as what everyone else had, but these days looks lazy/incompetent.
You don’t have any more time to throw it together than you did before so… yeah I guess slop it is. Probably not going to be humans reading it past the front page anyway. If you want to engage humans, use LinkedIn or TikTok or something.
The special screwdriver isn't supplied with the product, and Apple doesn't sell spare parts. I guess "regular" isn't the right word, but it's easy and inexpensive to buy the right tools.
Surely waiting for the US to return to normal IS a viable strategy. The rest of the world won’t let this madness go on for… decades.
Even the US itself, a country full of guns, won’t let this go on for much longer before there is either civil unrest or an assassination of some kind.
What is Canada expecting to do anyway by spending money on defence. They can’t protect the Canada-US border any more than Trump could build a wall across it if he tried. And Trump is already in extreme debt, what’s he even going to do to keep a hold of Canada - put it under martial law and treat it like Minnesota until the end of time, all the while haemorrhaging money?
Sorry to be that chap, but UX is not a synonym for UI
I'm not a UX person, but have seen an increasing trend of the two terms being used interchangeably - it's actually a really interesting and nuanced field (more rooted in psychology, information architecture, and human centred design).
It's sorta like how a lotta folk assume SRE is just a neologism for "devops" and in the process miss out on the really interesting differences
There are sites where you can buy 200 different shape stencils for $100, and most logos are just those with text added.
When I found out years down the track that I paid like $1000 for a “premium experience” to be offered 6 or so stencils like this, I was pretty furious. Luckily, I picked none of them, and made the artist draw it exactly as I later described.
In some circumstances, yes (usually when the system itself acts as an integrator somehow). Aircraft controls do not strike me as a system where this is sensible (trimming an aircraft is basically an integral control process).
(d'oh, should have read the specific context: in the case mentioned, it is where the system acts as an integrator (pitch -> altitude), and so pure P control is pretty reasonable)
… how are you getting actual usable output at that scale? I have to baby my AI in 1 minute increments or it just doesn’t arrive at the correct solution at all.
Perhaps the prompts you are using could do with some love. We're pretty consistently getting great results up to and beyond the 10 minute mark in a large monorepo.
Due to prolonged stress, which lack of control is the main contributor e.g. you have expectations, you cannot control variable x,y,z, which leads to stress, which over long period of causes burn out.
In case it wasn’t obvious, I was being facetious. You can’t just let the AI rip without putting effort into constructing good input and verifying the output and expect anything good to happen, which is what the gp was asking.
There’s no secret into how people are getting “10x”, or at least claiming to, they’re just working more.
Please add resource groups and the ability to enforce permissions per resource group before you do this so that we don’t have agents (or people) blowing up prod from their command line. Thank you.
Currently you can only enforce zone-based permissions (domain based) BUT plenty of resources, such as workers, don’t belong to zones so essentially their code can be replaced or deleted with the lowest level permission. And there’s no way to block it…
Alternatively if you could please allow us to create multiple accounts that share a single super account (for SSO and such), similar to GitHub Enterprise which has Enterprises and Organisations. Then we could have ACME Corp. and ACME Corp (Prod) and segregate the two and resource groups wouldn’t be strictly required.
It was irritatingly difficult to avoid because it seemed he could look up her SIM card by name and then get her location no matter what (new SIM, new phone)
Anyone who reports this kind of thing to the police just sounds irrational and crazy and gets ignored.
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