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Being inspired by Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, I wrote down this list of falsehoods programmers belive about locations and addresses.

Using an external API

Information from the Google Maps API is always correct and up to date.
At least there is a single, correct location database that I can use.

Basic validation and formatting

Every location has an English name.

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

UPDATE (March 2020, thanks @ic): I don't know the exact AMI version but yum install docker now works on the latest Amazon Linux 2. The instructions below may still be relevant depending on the vintage AMI you are using.

Amazon changed the install in Linux 2. One no-longer using 'yum' See: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/

Docker CE Install

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
sudo service docker start

Latency Comparison Numbers

Note: "Forked" from Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Event	Nanoseconds	Microseconds	Milliseconds	Comparison
L1 cache reference	0.5	-	-	-
Branch mispredict	5.0	-	-	-
L2 cache reference	7.0	-	-	14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock	25.0	-	-	-

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8"/>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
	<title>%UNITY_WEB_NAME%</title>
	<style>
	body {
	margin: 0;
	}

	using Microsoft.CSharp;
	using System;
	using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Reflection;
	using System.Text;
	using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
	using UnityEditor;

	using UnityEngine;

	/// <summary>
	/// Small helper class to convert viewport, screen or world positions to canvas space.
	/// Only works with screen space canvases.
	/// </summary>
	/// <example>
	/// <code>
	/// objectOnCanvasRectTransform.anchoredPosition = specificCanvas.WorldToCanvasPoint(worldspaceTransform.position);
	/// </code>

	using UnityEngine;
	using System;

	public class MathParabola
	{

	public static Vector3 Parabola(Vector3 start, Vector3 end, float height, float t)
	{
	Func<float, float> f = x => -4 * height * x * x + 4 * height * x;

	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Diagnostics;
	using System.IO;
	using UnityEditor;
	using UnityEngine;
	using Debug = UnityEngine.Debug;
	using Object = UnityEngine.Object;

	namespace FoundationEditor.Editor.ReferenceFinder
	{

	using UnityEngine;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using Steamworks;

	/// <summary>
	/// This class was created by Vitor Pêgas on 01/01/2017
	/// From http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1282772/steamworksnet-and-steam-workshop.html
	/// Added here so it doesn't disappear
	/// Requires https://steamworks.github.io/
	/// </summary>