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In the mid-19th century, banks often used signatures to authenticate people’s identities, but many of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank’s clients could not read or write. So it created a “test book” that contained a wealth of personal information. When clients came in, clerks asked them about their personal history and relations to verify their identities. Sometimes they even asked the quintessential question, “What is your mother’s maiden name?” (The assumption was that your mother’s maiden name would have faded so far into the past that almost no one else could possibly have known it.)
Online Security Questions Are Not Very Effective. I Still Love Them.
Sophie Haigney
Zoom in on them, then hit “search here” and see what restaurants come up. Start reading the reviews. If they have like 50 reviews, not 5,000, most not in English, that’s a pretty good sign.
How to Travel
walkingtheworld.substack.com
In the Ruby ecosystem, Bundler does [conservative updating](https://bundler.io/v2.2/man/bundle-install.1.html#CONSERVATIVE-UPDATING): like `composer install`, `bundle install` will install only from your `Gemfile.lock` if it's present; however, if you change the `Gemfile` manually, then `bundle install` will try to update the relevant locked versions in `Gemfile.lock`.
Understanding Lockfiles
shalvah.me
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