In my experience (europe) delivery companies get access to my unique email address that I also only use to buy things on amazon. They use this email address to send me information about deliveries directly to my inbox.
Are you sure those emails are directly from those companies? I only get messages sent through Amazon forwarding addresses, which exist precisely for the purpose to not disclose your own email address to third parties.
Amazon specifically does not want third party sellers contacting customers through side channels other than Amazon itself, and thus does not typically give out emails directly.
Third-party sellers are typically given an address like <gibberish-hash>@marketplace.amazon.com to which they can reply, and correspondence is then forwarded by Amazon to the actual customer's email.
If they actually cared I'm sure there would be a way to report these kind of issues. I got physical mail about submitting review for a product that I bought from Amazon (sold by company X, shipped by Amazon) in exchange for Amazon Gift card. The mail did contain name of the product. I tried to report it and
* there was no obvious way to do it. Closest thing was by reporting issue on product.
* there was no way to show the customer service agent a picture of the mail. Chat did not support sending pictures & they were unable to open imgur link.
* agent recommended me to leave a report it by leaving review to the seller page. I did that and next day review was deleted.
I have similar, but, in my case, it's because I have an account with the delivery company, and they associate the email with my address, so I get emails, whenever a package is to be delivered at my address, regardless of its origin.
That doesn't seem relevant to the subject of whether or not delivery companies get your address from Amazon, nor to the main topic of an Amazon-only email getting leaked?
But yes, some couriers do let you tie an email address to a physical address to get notifications.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that feature (and I pay for Enterprise gsuite, so that tells you something about either my attention to Google product details, or the level of advertisement of this feature :)
I do wonder if this is actually building a semantic knowledge graph of the content, vs. just providing a dynamic facade/aggregator for other apps’ search APIs, and doing “old style” text indexing/searching within Workspace services. It looks like the former based on a cursory read of the docs.
It would be more challenging to build a knowledge graph over {drive,slack,Jira,…} documents, but if they just build a knowledge graph within Workspace that could provide more reason to use Docs vs. Notion/Confluence, or Google Chat over Slack. So there is actually a strong product/market reason to build this as a native feature even if you can’t solve it for other apps.
>In 1995, after 10 days of work, Brendan Eich created a scripting language for browsers. He called it Mocha. The language was renamed several times over the course of just a couple of months, and was eventually given the name we know today, JavaScript. Brendan originally wanted to add support for the Schema programming language to the Netscape browser, but his superiors wanted the language available in their browser to be more like the then popular Java [1].
[1] Freely based on a description from book and wikipedia:
C. Saternos, ClientServer Web Apps with JavaScript and Java. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2014.
Small typo, he originally wanted to support Scheme. I wonder where if the typo was introduced in your comment, or in the book, or in Wikipedia at the time (which was since corrected)!
On the other hand it seems that I have hyperphantasia (I can visualize anything, animate it, rotate, check any of the details) and at the same time I work as an software engineer, but in contrary to what people might think it helps me a lot as I can visualize and remember all the parts of the code that I work on.
I once worked on a tool that should let me code using blocks (like in Unreal Engine for example), but to allow it for me to write in my favorite language (Golang). I was really surprised with the overall experience and usability of this solution and I think it could help people like me to focus more on the coding aspect.
Have you tried OpenSCAD (https://openscad.org/) yet? If you have hyperphantasia and can code getting a 3D printer and fooling around in OpenSCAD could become your new favorite hobby/addiction!
Come join the fun! Examples of some stuff I made with OpenSCAD:
Warning: OpenSCAD can be frustrating because of how they designed the language but eventually you get the hang of "how it wants you to do that" hehe. RANT: Drives me nuts having to use `: ?` for conditional assignments everywhere. I hate the ternary operator! It's so obtuse.
