...then there are the other fun ones, like not wanting to tell people things exist that they don't have access to, like Github returning 404 errors for private repositories you know exist when you aren't logged into an account that has access to them.
That one at least makes sense if you ask me. It's not just Github doing it. On the web side of things you'd return the same "no such thing here" page whether you don't have access or it really doesn't exist as well. So leaking more info than the page you return to users in the browser would show via the status code would not be good.
I.e. that would be the appropriate thing to do if you're trying to prevent leakage of information i.e. enumeration of resources. But you should not return 401 for this still. A 404 is the appropriate response for pretending that "it's just not there" if you ask me. You can't return 404 when it's not there and a 403 when you have no access if enumeration is bad.
So for example, if you don't have access to say the settings of a repo you have access to, a 403 is OK. No use pretending with a 404, because we all know the settings are just a feature of Github.
However, pretending that a repo you don't have access to but exists isn't there with a 404 is appropriate because otherwise you could prove the existence of "superSecretRepo123" simply by guessing and getting a 403 instead of a 404.
My university has an auto shop for this very reason - at a certain size, it makes more sense to care for your own fleet than it does to contract it out, even though the auto fleet peeps have approximately zero overlap with educational goals.
I think the difference is that the pipelines for becoming a junior software developer are well-documented online, where the pipeline for being a "Junior Developer" in the trades is generally accomplished by calling and walking into places and asking for a job still.
Not accurate, even slightly. You might get hired as a gopher and spend 5 years trying to do other work if you just blunder in without training or skills.
Now, there are certificates and other training that most places expect for blue collar workers starting as apprentices.
The days of walking off the street to get an apprenticeship in the trades is over. You'll get one after proving you're not on drugs, can show up, and are willing to do bullshit jobs for minimum wage for a three to five years beforehand.
nah, i went from apprentice to lead installer in under 3 years, there is full training programs for the trades, but you will most likely get injured out before retirement so a lot of people won't even go that route. Until the trades are capped at 30 hours a week, you're going to injure out most of your workforce.
This is probably in the same vein as people finding out they have ADHD by taking drugs at a party and being able to focus for the first time in their lives; you might consider getting a psych eval
You're saying that because I like long form content, movies, and documentaries, I need a psych eval?
I realize that my comment may have been written poorly and I'm sorry. If it was unclear, I meant that I find watching long videos to be lower effort than watching many short videos, one after the other.
Now that that's clear, I will refuse the psych eval and continue with my day.
I may be wrong, but I think the person who mentioned ADHD is suggesting that you should get checked if you are neurodivergent because you are talking as if your experience is typical but what you describe seems like a pretty big outlier
I remember discovering Beavis and Butthead in the 90s and showing it to my parents, and their being more confused than offended by the short (for the time) and scattered 15-minute episodes. I'm pretty sure if you went back 50 years and showed TikTok to people who were used to things like Columbo and Loveboat, they'd just be confused and wonder what the point is.
If anything, I'd say the people who enjoy absorbing entertainment in 7-second chunks have been reprogrammed and desensitized in a way that's not normal, though I wouldn't slap any psych labels on them either.
I've found issues like this happen extremely quickly with ChatGPT's image generation features - if I tell it to put a particular logo in, the first iteration looks okay, while anything after that starts to look more and more cursed / mutant.
I've noticed something, even if you ask to edit a specific picture, it will still used the other pictures in the context (and this is somewhat unwanted)
gpt-image-1 is unfortunately particular vulnerable to this problem. The more you want to change the initial image - the better off you'd honestly be just starting an entirely new conversation.
I just want to know who will get the J.D. Power Initial Quality Award and then subsequently fall apart five minutes after it gets judged (lookin at you, Stellantis)
I can't remember who said it originally, but it amuses me to no end that the only reason our society works as well as it does is a mutual agreement to follow some lines and not play bumper cars
interestingly, 7-11 is doing quite well in Texas, where it operates under the brand Stripes. They also have kitchens in some called “Laredo Taco” that sell primarily Mexican food and are quite beloved, esp. by blue collar workers
An even better question is what are the metal's granular properties like? Most metal prints are fairly isotropic, but their strength compared to a machined sample is significantly worse.
