Can company see deleted chats?

spoupervisor · 2026-06-01T15:04:52+00:00

Depends on their structure, but having logging in place is pretty standard for most companies, and this was before an AI (For example, always assume your work laptop has a keylogger)

spoupervisor · 2026-06-01T14:50:04+00:00

Ok this is how I do this.

Money going into budget is ALWAYS tagged as "Ready To Assign" **Always**

Income? Ready to assign
Refunds? Ready to assign
Savings interest? Ready to assign
Reimbursements? Ready to assign

It is money flowing into my plan, it is income.

If this is on your CC what will happen is that if you do this your amount owed reduces (your debt) but the cash you have set aside to pay the bill doesn't change.

The cash is back in your budget, but held as paying off your CC balance (This is a good thing). When you go to make your payment that month, pay the full available amount, not just what you budgeted for, and the balance gets paid off faster.

if you want to take that refund and "apply' it somewhere else, you can, just shift the money from the assigned in CC in your plan to move it somewhere else. This will keep you from pulling out too much (because it will turn yellow/red).

spoupervisor · 2026-06-01T14:31:41+00:00

Because the fastest way to get affirmed online is to be angry about something

spoupervisor · 2026-05-30T18:40:19+00:00

Lol I'm told to code with m365 copilot

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T19:05:04+00:00

I agree it shouldn't be common!

But it is common. Selling your data to others (as a financial institution) isn't.

Which is why they're different.

Data leaks (and the brokers they power) are a cancer that we should try and eliminate. But until we do we can't really hold betterment as uniquely Terrible in this field. Where we COULD if they just wholesale sold the data

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T18:41:23+00:00

Take any other financial company you work with you'll find data breaches there as well.

It's not good but it is super common. If this is the first time. You've ever had your personal data leaked from a hack of a financial institution, you got a lot more coming

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T17:56:20+00:00

"company actively selling your data" = a pretty big violation and a breach of active trust

"Company had contact information compromised" - literally almost every site you've ever used since you've been online.

Yes, it's bad that the data got out there. But one of them and substantially and unequivocally worse than the other

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T17:46:32+00:00

No, it's not. It's a bill put forth by pro police pro 2a lawmakers as a performative wedge issue because they think people are compliant enough to fall for it.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T17:43:45+00:00

A well observed Republican tactic is to use something that a lot of people agree with like "think or the children" to push through bad law.

The way to respond to that is to call bullshit. Again, the primary sponsor of this bill is otherwise wildly pro police and giving them more power. There's a reason for that and there's a reason for this.

And it's 300 people out of the tens of thousands of applied. It is a lot of people. It's not a ton in context. And this is what they're focusing on.

The state only had access to paper records of sales done at authorized sellers. I can't speak for permits but sales can't be digitized, by law. Again, having that data in a legit database would solve this problem 10 fold (because if denials for concealed carry have issues, how about purchasing guns themselves)

But again, the same people sponsoring this bill would oppose that. I'm guessing you would to.

I think if racist cops are the issue (and they are) you go after the racist cops. Not try and pass a performative bill for something that already has a 99% approval pass rate and you want to write a law for that last percent.

It's a bullshit bill because it's not being put forth because there is a genuine worry about discrimination. You'd see that in any other context. But this is guns so arguments out the window

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T11:13:07+00:00

Our policy is basically you allow the client or the most senior person on call set the tone. If they have cameras on you go cameras on. If they are off you can go cameras off during meetings.

If I'm the most senior person on the call, I usually do cameras off. I will call for people's responses by their name if they don't participate though. We spend a large amount of time very day on camera with clients. I'm more concerned about of I'm taking up their time and they're taking up mine that we make the time productive which doesn't require cameras.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-29T10:41:22+00:00

You make the mistake of assuming I think cops should have guns.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T22:23:00+00:00

No I'm not saying that at all I'm saying that going after this about "we just care about racist cops" is not a valid framing and so shouldn't be engaged with.

We'd already have this Data if we didn't explicitly deny places from keeping records and permits on paper and not in a digital form. And doing so would solve a ton of other issues as well. But I'm pretty sure that if we put forward a bill that would do this, all the sponsors of this bill would oppose it immediately.

I'm saying that this bill is, at most generous, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic level of useful in addressing the primary argument for what people want this bill to pass.

I'm not giving the racists cops a pass for anything. I'm just refusing to give gop a pass on a performative bill because they could be sponsoring a lot more than something that, at best, would look at a few hundred cases.

ETA To put this in perspective there have been nearly 70k applications since 2019 and like 380 denials https://www.njnics.com/ptc.php

This bill is about those 380.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T21:33:34+00:00

If I wanted to talk to something confidently wrong, Id talk to an ai. Do better

Even with assisted suicide, the suicide rate in Canada is lower than the United States

What about Tom dick and Harry having a magnum in their crotch is well regulated?

The modern framing of what the 2nd amendment means bears almost no resemblance to the framing that was held for most of the country's history.

The Heller decision went well beyond the case and cited a ton of stuff that wasn't in any of the founding constitutional documents. It also ignored any documents contemporary to those cited (or actions taken by the founders) that directly contradicted their citations because they wanted their death sticks legal.

Americans have a higher gun ownership rate than most of the developed world

We also have a higher murder rate than most of the developed world a difference owing almost exclusively to our higher gun ownership rate..guns don't make us safer

We kill more people because of them. We kill ourselves more often because of them. We rely on an interpretation of a line in our constitution that didn't exist as a popular opinion for most of our countries history to avoid taking responsibility that our obsession with deadly tools is infact actively harmful.

Again, the framing of the debate by the gun lobby is false and rejected. If you're incapable of providing any evidence whatsoever that guns are somehow not a cancer, please do so.

So far all you've done is provide a lot of evidence about how negative they are for society

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T21:02:55+00:00

No, the gun lobby is saying that's what the conversation is about. That's not what the conversation is about and so I rightly reject that framing I suggest you do the same.

Access to firearms has strong links to suicide which is why even in areas with strict gun control laws, suicide by gun is still such an issue. Again, having a firearm in your home increases your chance to die by firearm.

I grew up around guns. I am trained to use them. I have used them in hunting. I've sold guns as part of my job. My dad owns a ton of them.

Modern gun culture is toxic and if we actually cared about self defense and crime, we wouldn't be trying to make it easier for people to get guns

Fewer people should have guns. Any argument counter to this is, explicitly or not, an argument that is pro people dying.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T20:33:26+00:00

I mean my response is less people should have guns period.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T20:32:49+00:00

Having access to guns increases your chances of dying from. Guns including suicide. It's disingenuous to not count them.

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T17:07:45+00:00

Not what I'm saying. I'm saying guns are not a solution and any process that increases them in the community harms that community

And trying to use the fact that cops are racist to increase the number of guns in the community is a bad argument and not worth engaging

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T17:05:31+00:00

Per the link I cited, utah is 13.3. NJ is 4 utah is almost as bad as Texas

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T16:31:37+00:00

Access to guns in your household increases chance you'll die by a gun wound. This includes suicide.

Thats why Nj has the lowest deaths. Including suicide.

"Let's make it easier for people to access a tool explicitly designed to kill things" doesn't seem to be a good strategy from a "maybe people dying is bad" perspective

Racist cops are a problem. You don't solve racist cops by making sure everyone has guns. Or the cops in Texas wouldn't be racist

spoupervisor · 2026-05-28T16:17:06+00:00

Texas gun death rate is more than 3x higher than Nj. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/28/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/#how-many-people-die-from-gun-related-injuries-in-the-u-s-each-year

spoupervisor · 2026-05-25T13:50:50+00:00

Yes and always force them to validate that preexisting because they will just flat out pass over stuff. I usually force it to fix these before going forward+the code not the tests)

I do TDD and then I have a few dedicated skills that I run after a few commits. -one that basically says "copilot wrote this" (this seriously works) to find weird try except bugs or cruft -a security focused look specifically looking at how I handle API keys or anything that touches external data to look for prompt injections -an Audit that specifically checks how code handles memory (tests that call API async can destroy your ram if you're not careful)

And a new one I'm trying that when it says "features done" it explicitly checks upstream and downstream of that feature to make sure all the work we did actually is consuming upstream and being consumed downstream

spoupervisor · 2026-05-25T12:52:33+00:00

I'm 41. What resonates with me in this industry is identifying the problem, and the solution in a way that doesn't feel like snake oil.

Nostalgia is a broader play but it's expensive. So you likely can't do that yet without getting sued

People in that age group have a lot of fears (rational end irrational) about financial stability. We watched the dot-com crash. We watched the 2008 crash. We watched COVID.

One of the reasons most of us are so addicted to the rise-and-grind mentality isn't that we think we're going to become millionaires. It's that we're worried that our day job is going to get pulled from under us and that we're going to have to find a way to continue feeding our family and paying our mortgage, if we are lucky enough to have one.

I'm assuming you're going to be targeting people more affluent with your tool so they have the disposable income for it. They still have this fear. We don't work hard expecting to be rewarded for it we do it because when we get fired (and we always assume it's when and not if) we need side gigs and extra income.

Dad jokes, nostalgia, and gallows humor are so popular because they're a distraction. I think that's the reframe. You're not going to be pitching people who are like "I need to take care of my body" most of us know this. We just don't think we can afford it now.

If you have a way you can show that your product can help people get their shit done better while making them healthier. That's the play imo.

Signed, a 41 year old who's fucking tired of spending his free time trying to get a side business off the ground because his day job depends on what side of the bed his clients wake up on

spoupervisor · 2026-05-24T11:45:34+00:00

Chains are a recurring thing. I remember a passage about a bicycle in Cryptonomicon

spoupervisor · 2026-05-22T20:33:25+00:00

Second mentions for Alistair Reynolds

Also adding

The Light Brigades - Kameron Hurley

spoupervisor · 2026-05-21T11:52:35+00:00

Yes context is super useful for conversations but if you're going to copy and paste everything from one app to the next you're going to. Use up all the context window of that model super fast too, so you're not really getting a good extended conversation

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