The constant "By the way..." from Alexa drove me nuts.
If you say "Alexa, stop by the way", it'll get the device to stop responding with follow-ups for ~24h. I ended up creating a routine that runs every night at 4am to lower the volume to zero, automatically say "stop by the way" to the device, and then raise the volume a minute later, and Alexa has stopped with the follow ups
I just discovered this today, but if you whisper to your Echo, it will skip all of the "by the way" BS (it will also reply in a whisper, which is kind of creepy, but you win some, you lose some).
I've been tickled by the idea of a follow-up version, Send Me To Hell, where users instead throw their phones _downward_. High scores are awarded based on the maximum speed achieved as the phone hits the ground.
The second example for each language sample where the generated squid ends up being “B4aajs” essentially reads as “P0ooop” to a Swedish speaker.
Which is fine, they don’t propose to filter “bad” words in other languages, but kind of funny when that’s one of the highlighted examples, right next to the goal of filtering words. Goes to show how hard it is to filter profanity generally for international audiences
Could you just remove vowels and hit 99.9% of profanity in all languages? Ditto for removing their 0-9 equivalents, if you're really worried about it. Quick out of the box support for that via being able to define a custom alphabet.
Well until we figure out a way to remove pattern matching from humans... use GUIDs if that's an issue. Removing vowels fixes "spelling almost all bad words explicitly", though I'm open to being proven wrong with fun new swears in exotic (to me) languages :)
The problem of "pick any N symbols that don't make any profanity in any language across all time" isn't what this is solving, nor should it have to. Take the same concept but use whitelisted words to build the token if you're that adverse to computer generated, fill in the blank naughty words. Keep "pen" and "island", among other things, off that list ;)
EDIT: My reply below is wrong - you _can_ deal with in-flight requests with E-Tags as well using the if-match header. I had only seen them used with if-none-match. TIL.
E-Tags would probably not help here, because the client won't have a tag to send along with its request until after the original response returns. But the thing we're trying to prevent in the first place is multiple concurrent requests being processed.
The Idempotency-Key header[1] is probably a better fit, but that relies on the server implementing the spec, including properly dealing with multiple in-flight requests with the same header. I found this blog post[2] pretty good for exploring some of the implementation challenges.
The Common Paper app[1], though not quite a git workflow, has always struck me as being pretty close to how an software engineer might approach contracts:
1. An immutable set of standard terms, with variable references.
2. A collection of cover page variables, that modify the standard terms by reference.
3. A structured negotiation workflow, where users "propose changes" to the cover page variables with automatic "diff-ing" (redlining).
It's not a product targeted to software engineers, but has always appealed to me as a way to sneak in some engineering best-practices into the world of lawyering :)
Nisus Writer Pro [0] has been around for 40 years this year IIRC (IANANWP) and has a user base who can vouch for many of the features that HN readers want something to offer.
Betterment's Cash Reserve[1] might be of interest to you. It's a similar concept, where they spread your deposits among multiple program banks to give you a higher level of FDIC insurance.
I managed to get my rocket very very slowly rotating (<0.1° / s), so that I could just hold the acceleration and have it do one arc from launch to crash:
Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
Score: 1712.2 point crash
Speed: 15226.2mph
Angle: 174.3°
Time: 5963 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 15226.2mph
Max height: 1993862ft
Engine used: 21 times
Boosters used: 14 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
This reminds me of when I made a parody "game" once, where all you had to do was click to get a point.
I had included a message at 10k, for a friend that I had expected to check the js source, but to my surprise a non-programmer friend send me a screenshot of it. He just kept clicking "to see if something would happen".
If only I had thought to turn it into an app with some ads at the time, there's a whole idle game genre these days. In some situations people will go to surprising lengths for a basically meaningless and pointless payoff. I still enjoy driving off the map in Trackmania myself. Takes almost an hour, but it's very zen.
1h40m for it though..., that's an extra 1h15m for just 800mph more. With some tweaking of your initial launch angle (get it somewhere between 40-60° rather than 0° which is what I'm assuming yours was, correct me if I'm wrong), plus maybe a second fine-tuning once you reach apolune, I'd guesstimate you could make 25000mph in ~3000 seconds.
Edit: made a chart with this data, but adding in a bitcoin transaction[2]
[0]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
[1]: https://rollen.io/blog/crypto-climate/
[2]: https://imgur.com/a/ggAGylW