Mine is to associate them with a famous person or character of the same name, and make a point of refreshing their name in my mind soon after meeting, and then more later. it’s not perfect but name retention went through the roof for me.

It’s worse, I bet there are apps in the App Store that do this, the users just have no idea on the accuracy

There is a very popular app for macro counting called Cal AI that was reported to have been written by a high school student with over $1M in revenue. Looks like it was just acquired by MyFitnessPal

Wow, yeah. "The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate".

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-d...

yeah and when you interview the junior dev who also convinces you they're smart and have something special, they also delete prod and guess what... not that devs fault.

This is like when a junior dev deletes prod or something equally catastrophic. And it's never the juniors fault...

Intent or not, it did disturb as it misslead. And .. how can one imagine not disturb a search, when posting a wrong location?

Intent or not, disturbing the search or not, it's silly that the authorities would arrest a civilian because of their own incompetence.

That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.

They were searching for a wolf. (Not really a standard task)

They don't have total surveillance, so also rely on public information

- a citicien posts information about the location of the wolf, a picture!

- authorities adopt their search based on that picture

Where is the incompetence here?

I swear, some commenters here think "the government is incompetent" is an axiom and work backward from there to fill in the details.

Everyone involved in this including the police are civilians

Civilians get arrested for incompetence all the time.

The hardest part about human creativity is hiding (and not paying royalties to) your influences.

Wait, we're saying the legendary Mythos didn't catch these vulns before they shipped?

A CSP.

> I just use telegram.

And how do you just get everyone you want to speak to use telegram?

Don't worry, it'll auto-spam all of your contacts when you sign up to take care of that.

Live in a country like Ukraine where everyone uses Telegram

If it ain't broke...

As a Mercurial user, git was broken from day 1 :-)

I think there are a lot of things that work well but still get improved versions. For example, grep works well but there are plenty of better versions these days.

Really? I use grep multiple times per day, works great, I've seen no need to change. Same with git.