The other day I did something I never thought I would end up doing: I called Amazon support. Apparently, one of my kids inadvertently signed up for an Amazon Music subscription (yes, those apparently exist). I called the number after trying to resolve the issue online and getting nowhere. My expectations were pretty much nonexistent. But I gotta say, after explaining the situation, Amazon support was extremely helpful and resolved the issue. Not only that, but I was refunded as well.
Book recommendation and leap day are a great combination! Here’s one that I recently read. Camille Fournier lays out the path in a way engineers and other tech workers will find easy to understand (trust me, if I was able to understand it, anyone can). I will be re-reading this again very soon. 👍🏻
Happy calendar drift prevention day for those who celebrate.
Today’s workout:
4-5-6-7-8 reps for time:
Squat Clean Thruster, 95lbs
Jumping pull-ups
17:31
Dear News+: I am already paying for your service. Why am I seeing ads embedded in every dang article? And not just one. There’s at least two or three ads per article.
Today’s workout:
For time:
400 meter run
21 burpees
400 meter run
15 burpees
400 meter run
9 burpees
14:50
A so-called financial columnist was recently scammed out of $50k in one of those “shoe-box” scams. There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to exposing this problem. The scam involves elaborate coordination across countries and continents. The complexity probably rivals that of some illegal drug organizations.
More here: www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/vi…
3 things I’d like to add to this:
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I am NOT a financial nor a security expert. I am a person on the internet who merely has a passing interest in both subjects.
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Please be very selective in who you take advice from, especially if they claim to be a “journalist expert”. This is not meant to criticize journalists in general. Some of these people do amazing work, sometimes risking their lives. And many are indeed experts in money and finance. But it appears that, at least in this space, there is not enough accountability.
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Please check on your family members who might not be very, er, “tech savvy”. Particularly elderly relatives. Elderly people in English-speaking countries are particularly easy targets for these types of scams.
Jake Kepins has a great summary over on Threads about the “expert journalist” as well. Worth the read. www.threads.net/@left_of_…
Despite its name, the type system in Typescript is not exactly like the type system in C#. I understand this on a rational level. But not on a gut level. Sometimes hours are wasted because of this.