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In the same month the Llama weights were leaked, Eliezer Yudkowsky – possibly the most prominent AI doomer, had an article published in TIME magazine saying that we should conduct …

England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are constituent countries in a larger country called the United Kingdom. When dealing with international affairs, you typically want …

> when has Meta ever not broken their contractual obligations (I am being serious here)? If you are being serious, then you have a wildly distorted view of the world. No organisati…

Apple created , but it wasn’t for the iPhone, it was for Mac OS X dashboard widgets. This was a few years before the iPhone existed.

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> OK, accents are a whole can of worms. Regional English is varied. I'm not sure if there are any BCP-style tags for intra-country accents. This comment is written in en-GB-Brummie…

During the time of Internet Explorer 9, it was surprisingly common for people to still be using Internet Explorer 6. This was often out of their control, for instance if they had i…

It sounds like an overly earnest TEDx talker leaning over you talking about something inconsequential as if it’s the most mic-droppingly insightful thing in the world.

> In 2008 you saved a file called index.html, dragged it onto an FTP client, and watched a little progress bar crawl to the right. When I was first learning web development in the …

And the average American is a poor representation of everyone. The title reads “Why does everyone hate AI?” but repeatedly references surveys of Americans, not “everyone”. American…

That infrasound video is nonsense: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...

That infrasound video is nonsense: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...

You could not make cross-domain Ajax requests at all until CORS came along. There were lots of workarounds people had to invent (e.g. JSONP, Flash shims, proxying, etc.) precisely …

You’re misunderstanding the process. It goes something like this (it varies by country / citizenship): first you upload a picture of your ID, then you use your phone to take a vide…

That’s not correct at all. Are you confusing it with SameSite or something like that?

XMLHTTPRequest was originally an ActiveX object (something like ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")), that’s probably what you are thinking of. You couldn’t make cross-domain reques…

I think perhaps it’s generational. If you were a web developer before CORS existed, then you understand that cross-domain requests were forbidden all along and CORS was created to …

> Initially, you could literally hit any website with any sort of request, so your website.com could make requests to bank.com, and the browser happily obliged. Of course, this ope…

HTTP requests are not RPC calls. The end state of a DELETE request is that the resource does not exist. If you make the request once, the end result is that the resource does not e…

> If I told them who I was and then failed to verify that, they don't know who I am because they think I'm lying about who I am. They know who you claim to be. It’s not like they j…

The whole point of an identity check is that they know exactly who you are. If you tell them who you are and you fail the identity check, you can’t simply create a new account beca…

OpenAI also has this kind of check. What is especially bad is that if you fail the verification process, they won’t let you retry – you are permanently locked out from the top mode…

> GET requests will be sent, but they are supposed to be idempotent so if your server is implemented in a sensible way, it cannot cause any adverse effect, and reading the response…

> Thinking of it in advance does make it easier but it can definitely still break a business If privacy regulations can break your business , then I think there’s a very high chanc…

> I recommend taking a look into the different standards for website accessibility, GDPR, etc. On paper it sounds great, who doesn't want an accessible websites or privacy? But in …