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Regarding the Amazon bill, the advice I always hear is to pay first and then file a claim. 😏
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I'm guessing the Honeywell system is all normal; it's just the display that is abnormal, and it's not designed to report on itself.
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Talking of required postal codes. Back around 2010 (possibly earlier) when I wanted to register an Xbox/Microsoft gamer account which required a postal code, but nothing I entered worked, eventually I read on a forum somewhere to put in 0000 which worked.
If I recall correctly, I was trying to register it for South Africa which does have postal codes, but it wouldn't accept mine. It may have also/alternatively been an issue when I created my Irish one because as some of you may know, Ireland doesn't have postal codes. As I recall I wanted two accounts as it was reportedly impossible to move purchases between countries and I was only temporarily in Ireland so wanted a separate account. I'm pretty sure the South African account was truly a WTF as it would seemingly accept nothing unless you tried 0000.
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Just like we all believe things about names and times, we also believe things about addresses that just aren't true.
In two editions, even! Both address (hah!) primarily US-based conceits (since the American cultural norms permeate programming even in countries abroad); the first one approaches it from primarily UK perspective (but it does have examples for each falsehood), while the latter comes from a cultural perspective that's at least a little bit separated. Would be interesting to hear from someone from e.g. Malaysia or Kenya, or someone with experience with places where the "default" assumptions just completely break down - I imagine there could be some really weird addresses in Siberia, rural China, or the heart of Brazil (a semi-permanent research camp, perhaps?), for example.
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/
https://aldavigdis.dev/2023/03/25/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses-and-location-data/
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$12 trillion per month to Amazon. That's barely more than what OpenAI need to keep afloat...
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If you're struggling to pay your $12t / month bill, perhaps you could cut down on avocado toast and lattes.
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If Amazon need to increase their prices that much, perhaps they should cut down on the data centres and investment in the enormous money black holes collectively known as frontier AI labs
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When I started my career in web development and I had to collect a street address, I merely put a textarea for the user to enter it. It would have never occurred to me that the industry as a whole would over-engineer it so much in the course of two decades until making it so unreliable.