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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Using it to generate code isn’t inherently bad (outside of copyright concerns). Especially in “stupid amount of boiler plate” languages/etc.

    But the problem is that people are lazy. They don’t bother understanding the output, making sure it does what you want it to, etc. It’s not that different than people copy pasting code from reference material. Part of the beauty of software development is that you don’t have to solve every problem someone else has already solved. But you do need to know what your code is doing and why.

    Copilot is a shortcut to code that “works” with less requirement to know what’s happening.




  • The reason I added the “if” is because I didn’t see any information about age and don’t know the specifics of the engineering/specs. Bolts needing the be checked annually and tightened every 5 on average could be perfectly reasonable with how much stress is on airplanes. There’s a reason frequent inspection is enforced more heavily on airplanes, and it’s not just because failures mean potentially falling out of the sky.

    But yeah, it’s entirely possible they fucked up, but it’s for sure United Alaska did.


  • The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is leading an investigation into the incident, said pilots had reported pressurisation warning lights on three previous flights made by the specific Alaska Airlines Max 9 involved in the incident.

    As bad as it is if a manufacturing issue caused a piece to fall off an airplane, there’s a huge amount of negligence in an airline continuing to fly an airplane that has triggered pressure warnings multiple times without investigating and resolving the issue.


  • Yeah the matching donations was the obvious answer. It’s honestly a decent way to do charity as a company (obviously bigger ticket contributions are good, too), because it rewards them for their choices by increasing their value, and your contributions are going places that have some support behind them from your employees. Finding worthwhile causes that don’t get money has value, but it’s really hard and expensive to do.




  • Knowing that it’s already in use is.

    Basically all of these constraints are bad practice, though. It’s obviously better to have a long, complex password, and not to reuse passwords between sites, but if you make shit impossible for people to remember they’re going to write it down, and a lot of people don’t use password managers (or use shared devices where they aren’t possible).

    Length limits (that aren’t like 1000 characters) are unconditionally terrible practice. It means your password is probably plain text, because hashes don’t really care or take meaningfully longer based on the length of the input.

    A string of (random) words is a perfectly fine password. There’s an xkcd I’m too lazy to get demonstrating it, but it genuinely does add enough randomness to break brute force.