davidgro

Unfortunately, it's an accurate descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) definition of how the word is commonly used in English.

As much as I wish it were otherwise, English is extremely far from logically sound.

If only that one service had access to the API then I wouldn't care much, but it sounds like any website can now check if my phone is rooted and deny me access.

Sensible until there are two different Explorer and a whole handful of Messenger - all from the same company. Nowadays it's all Copilot.

That's why geese don't need bells.

Today's not great, and tomorrow is pretty rough too, how about Thursday?

It would, I was just overthinking it.

~~Nevermind, user error.~~

No. All news lately tends to focus on the negative (which there is plenty of), not just tabloids. So knee jerk reactions like mine are easy to have.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Ah, so you are thinking there would be a centralized system to track applicants* (perhaps the same one that handles payment) - this sounds feasible, the infrastructure mostly already exists (in the US) in state unemployment departments.

*(without it centralized, each company only sees a person once and doesn't know if they accepted another offer or whatnot)

The rest of your points are also good, I don't actually think it would be a big issue, I just had the knee jerk reaction to think about how any good idea would fail these days.

I agree with all of that actually. I'm just used to trying to find the failure mode of anything that sounds good lately.

Yeah if it could be enforced I think it might be viable.

Love it.
Unfortunately, then there would be professional candidates who just never accept a job.

Edit: I've had a lot of great replies pointing out that it likely wouldn't be a big deal anyway. I'm just used to finding fault in anything that sounds good lately.