They can try, but it is unlikley to work for long. So my general reaction is:

I’m surprised there was no further validation or approval for that kind of money beyond “find the right person and socially engineer them.”

To me, things like ChatGPT are just more efficient ways to search sites they scrap data from like Stack Overflow. If they ever drive enough traffic away from their sources to kill the sources the likes of ChatGPT will become mostly useless.

Don’t forget to assume what works on macOS also will work fine on a Linux server deployment.

They frame it that way to reenforce the notion that ads are an inevitable thing.

The browser company in question is primarily funded by the advertising company in question.

Those were actually on different lines when I wrote that. Weird.

• A tape measurer
• A heating pad
• A water resistant fire safe
• Decent surge protectors for your expensive electronics (splurge on UPS’s if you can)

I wonder if I could rig up a bidet that would play Africa by Toto while it washed my backside.

Putting new tasks down to get to them later at work when I see something I had not planned on doing. Just make a ticket and throw it in the backlog. It is amazing how those little 5 minute things can eat into the work you said you were going to be doing now.

Also, "the Scotty principle ". Basically always say something will take longer than it will.

https://tinyhydra.com/the-scotty-principle/

This is why so many apps and services have problems monetizing their stuff when they start out as free and/or ad supported as a means to pump the usage numbers fast for that juicy investor funding and sky high stock valuations.

Free/ad supported is essentially the “bottom” of race to the bottom when it comes to how to make money on a product or service. And it is hard to climb the ladder of convincing people to pay for something when the core product that provides most of the value has always been free. You can’t exactly just paywall the core product or people will likely feel ripped off and leave. So that leaves increasingly sketchy “value added” options.