Omg yes! Fastmail + 1P is soooo good. 1P has an integration with privacy.com to create unique debit cards. With these 3 tools I have a unique email, pw, and debit card for each service. Makes me feel in control over my interaction with a service. Here’s my referral link for privacy if you’re interested
Love the service, the problem is they effectively charge a 1-5% commission to use it because you lose credit card loyalty/rewards programs benefits. Last year I got nearly 3% back, I think that's too high for the service. I don't think there's any way around it unfortunately, credit cards rewards are paid by the fees and interest of those who carry a balance.
Good point, but we still use privacy.com for random stuff online. The majority of our online purchases happen at a handful of stores, and we use our credit card there. But especially for sketchy sites, we use privacy. For example I bought a keyboard from a small company in Russia (right before they invaded) and they’re probably completely legit but I’d rather lose the 1% on that purchase than be concerned they have my real card
FWIW I get the right answer on Google right now when I try:
Can you melt an egg?
No - if you heat an egg it's not like melting ice (or metal). Because an egg contains a substantial amount of carefully folded natural proteins in their native state.
I get the following snippet: Yes, an egg can be melted," reads the Google Search result shared by Glaiel and confirmed by others. "The most common way to melt an egg is to heat it using a stove or microwave. Which is still wrong but hilariously links to an ars technica article about the aforementioned tweet.
I tried this as a little hobby weekend project but found that after a while it would start hallucinating answers even if previously it had gotten them right. It didn’t even take that long sometimes, where I’d ask a question about revenue, then liabilities, and them to sum some revenue numbers and they would just start to be wrong.
I wouldn’t yet feel comfortable with this without some automated reconciliation which to my mind defeated the point of my hobby project but I’m curious if you’ve seen different? No doubt you’d expect this to improve over time though.
You can try it out for yourself... :) Here's an example, that asks for AMD's cash and makes an arbitrary calculation on total liabilities, the ai is smart enough to sum up everything until equity and gets the numbers right, without any hallucination.
Total Current Liabilities 7572
Long-term debt, net of current portion 1714
Long-term operating lease liabilities 393
Deferred tax liabilities 1365
Other long-term liabilities 1787
12831
For now Blind might have a sufficiently high quality network to make this worthwhile even on hiring. You wouldn't find it unless you were serious "enough" about your career, even if there is a ton centered around LC grinding and TC chasing.
I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the proliferation of System Design interview stages, and resulting training material?
From my experience all of these resources tend to direct you to think in microservices / uber-distributed architectures. I can easily imagine this causing folks to consider this as "the way we do systems now" and taking it to extremes.
The low barrier as well for 1 engineer to decide they want to just get busy on a weekend on their own and build something is another way I've seen this proliferate.
Plus a nice UI for handling OTP, notes, credit cards, IDs, bank accounts, etc, it's easily worth the annual price for me.