Routing and account numbers at the bottom of a check are semi-private and nefarious actors can abuse them. See the movie/book Catch Me If You Can about Frank Abigail.
that's Abagnale, I believe.
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Hilarious that every time, they responded in a way that was technically on-topic, but totally ignoring the actual questions being asked. Like someone found one word in OP's question, then mindlessly recited a random form response associated with that word.
this is, legitimately and without any exaggeration whatsoever, almost exactly how nearly everyone I speak to IRL as a homeless individual interacts with me. There are a few here and there that absolutely do make an attempt to have real discourse and actually discuss in context, but by an overwhelming majority, most of them just take the (to borrow from a response) SLM approach.
life is exhausting sometimes
By this logic the dorm room bathrooms at public universities are also public and I should be able to setup cameras /s
just for the sake of conversation…
if you did, where would you have set them up at anyway? Asking for a friend
ozzmotik commented on Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders review.firstround.com/une... · Posted by u/jbredeche
"Anytime you apply a rule too universally, it turns into an anti-pattern."
That's probably true in more than just engineering.
How can one apply a rule more than universally? Wouldn’t too universally be the same thing as just universally? put differently, how can you do something MORE universally than universally?
asking for a friend
Off the top of my head, here are some reasons people still want a headphone jack:
* Invested in quality audio equipment that they'd like like to continue using without a crappy dongle
* Bluetooth dongles don't have the same level of integration that EarPods do, for instance (e.g., button presses don't work the same way)
* Lightning or USB-C headphone adapters are easy to lose track of
* Lightning or USB-C headphone adapters are awkward sticking out of your phone and risk breaking the port
* Dislike like the environmental impact of moving to a model of disposable equipment with non-replaceable batteries
* Tired of the inconvenience of dropping wireless ear phones and not being able to find them (e.g., this happens frequently on flights¹)
* Weary of dealing with Bluetooth issues (e.g., my AirPod Pros randomly disconnect from my iPhone with regularity and I have to click multiple things to switch from my phone to my work laptop)
It's fine if these don't apply to you, but they're a little more substantive than the Luddite hand-wringing you suggest.. And for them the trade-off to get a slightly slimmer phone wasn't worth it. That's not to say there aren't advantages to wireless headphones, but supporting one doesn't mean having to preclude the other.
¹ -- https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/16uuyse/...
another reason, namely the reason that I specifically do not use wireless headphones:
due to the nature of wireless communications, real time audio is effectively impossible and as such there is almost always some amount of noticeable latency when performing tasks that rely on real time audio (eg music production). a little of latency is okay sometimes but the amount that wireless devices introduce is typically on the offer of maybe 100-200ms and when you're trying to play a section or some such it makes it damn near impossible to hit a note on the mark you're aiming for.
ozzmotik commented on Perplexity Labs Playground labs.perplexity.ai/... · Posted by u/MaximilianEmel
A trick I made up this week is to start a chat with an LLM and only ever say “continue”. I tried this with Bard and at first it says “I’m sorry but I’m going to need more information, what do you want to talk about? Here are some things you could ask: (it provides a list)” but if you just keep prompting it with “continue” then after about 20 cycles the form sort of floats around and it can get kinda weird. It’s real interesting.
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ozzmotik commented on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation youglish.com/... · Posted by u/vikrum
The Pedernales River: PUR-də-NAL-iss
i've always heard it said as PED-er-NAL-iss
other honorable mentions: puyallup, washington (PYOO-al-ip) koenig ln, austin, tx (KAY-nig) - though admittedly this one is likely originally german König, and what texan is going to pronounce German words like Germans? aqui bleiben wir with Stolz, y'all