The web version would be a-ok if it wasn't artificially blocking me from consuming it when on mobile, like Yelp.

Or it's full of annoying popups to use the app, looking at you, Google.

Can't even reproduce it when setting location to Belgium, or CA or AZ.

I must be missing something.

I'm filling out the form there. I genuinely don't know why I would ever generate a salary key so I can let someone know how much money I made.

Also, to prevent them from sharing the information, you need to give them even more information. Disgusting that this is allowed.

> I genuinely don't know why I would ever generate a salary key so I can let someone know how much money I made.

I value my financial privacy as well, but when I go to someone to ask to borrow a million dollars to buy a house, it seems reasonable that I’m going to have to give them some information pertinent to assuring them I’m likely to and capable of paying them back.

Well, then how did I get a mortgage with the whole thing being empty?

W2s are perfectly fine.

American Express just canceled my wife’s card after 15 years because she didn’t fill in her salary data.

Hmmm, so if it's a low value and they leak it to employers, that could screw you in compensation for a future job... And if it's a high value, the credit card company might argue you were lying to them for a higher credit limit.

Case in point after Edge updated this morning:

https://imgur.com/a/dWp5Ohj

Did they even try to make it look like the new context menus?

Well, Edge is Chromium. They need to maintain a hard fork, not just a reskin with a bunch of Microsoft webpages and adware. Chromium basically allocates a window and completely draws everything inside using DirectX APIs including menus.

Yesterday I had it get the length of a word in characters by doing `word.len()`. In Rust. In 2026. Using Opus.

This again showed me that I can't go in YOLO mode. Things like this are disastrous if left to fester in a codebase.

Eh… I get what you’re saying but the word “character” is super overloaded. C uses “char” to mean “byte”. Rust uses it to mean “Unicode scalar” (which still isn’t a user-perceived character.) The meaning that corresponds to “where should the caret move when I press the arrow keys in a text editor” turns out to only be meaningful in a tiny set of circumstances. The vast, vast, vast majority of the time, it doesn’t make sense to think about “characters” at all, and it’s just bytes you need to account for. I’m generally with you on AI needing serious review from knowledgeable humans or it can be a disaster, but “it misunderstood what I meant by characters” smells a lot more like you were unclear in your prompt.

That's the thing. I didn't ask it about how to get to the width of the string.

It came up with a plan and I tried it.

I refuse to play games where you pay real money for consumables.

Yes ma'am, my email address really is bofa.com@<optionoft's-lastname>.com

No I'm not trying to hack you.

Which in hindsight is also what a hacker would say. I can't win...

Where, of course, 'bofa' is merely short for 'bofetada.'

On top of it my email address is .me so is very common to when I finish spelling my e-mail, people waiting for .com

There are some big brain companies who will block you if their name appears in the email address. Like Discord. You can create an account, with discrod@example.com. But a seconde later you will get an email that your account got band.

They know their way around IT security! /s

What you say is often true, but in the case of Discord, at least in my case, you are wrong. My Discord email address is discord@xxx.com, and I am still receiving emails from them.

It happend to me when i created my account in 2025. Within seconds of verifying the address I got a email that my account was band for TOS violation. I than created a seconds account (within minutes from the same IP) only writing "dc" instead of "discord" and that worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Apparently they (unlike other entities I've dealt with) did not go back and review all of the existing, valid email addresses in their user database.

It's always an unpleasant surprise when some company terminates a years-old, active and valid account because of a stupid policy change on their part.

The same thing happens with in-app purchases.

A friend of mine worked at Disney, and it is insane how much data they capture on their players/spenders and how they use it for the sole purpose of triggering a popup at the right time, at the right price, that would maximize spending/gambling on loot boxes.

The first time I heard "whale" mentioned in the video game space was at a GDC panel around a game called Puzzle Pirates, where the dev noted that the bulk of their in-game purchases were made by a small group of "whale" players. In 2003 purchasable skins, pets, hats, etc were pretty new.

I remember that one and remember being super exasperated about not being able to do anything without paying upfront for it. Ended up switching to Club Penguin instead lol.

Algorithmic optimisation will be the death of us.

Over-dramatic? Maybe, but this thought springs to my mind more and more.

The good old Workflow XKCD matches this perfectly: https://xkcd.com/1172/

That's the point.

Sorry! I thought it would be announcement. And it was subsequently taken down due to the HN interest.