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My thought is they got on the phone with someone and got their IP ranges white listed with the major captcha providers.

Were you Senior? I look at those situations as eat what you kill. Like I would ask my manager to put me in touch with arch or up level engineers to tell me where the focus is and f…

I'm not a webdev, but I suspect an overwhelming majority of their traffic is on mobile devices. So that's where a majority of eng time is probably spent. Not that it shouldn't be f…

Why not just use http retry-after? then you can use middleware/proxy to control this behavior. Downside here is that system operation becomes more opauqe and fragmented across syst…

I remember the original post the author is referring to. I was captivated by it and thought it was cool. When I ran the original mentioned in the post, it detected my one of my alt…

I can’t imagine getting Medicaid to cover the biologic that I take that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription to be anything other than a nightmare.

I take a biologic that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription. $1k a month is honestly easier and I can afford it. I enjoy the luxury of being able to afford to not have to na…

What would you recommend for a backend developer looking to make the switch from rest crud apps to ml platforms?

I quit my job as a dev to care for my father who has dementia. Using COBRA and paying for the identical health insurance I had from my employer is $1,000/mo. I have no dependents. …

Stack overflow was an invaluable resource for me as a developer. I got a wealth of knowledge about a bunch of thorny problems I was encountering with out paying anything. The peopl…

Are there any command line tools that will help me with the drudgery of diving into an existing Java project using gradle and say something like “please update the dependencies of …

His first name is Brian. That’s his picture at the top. I can’t think of any other groups or organizations that have the persona of a single person. Can anyone point to an example?…

Is it execution or price? Iirc the broker cannot give you a worse price if it knows of a better one... But is the regulation that the price must actually result in an executed trad…

What your suggestions is front running. This is illegal for stocks and most assets (not FX!). This will get a broker in hot water. The more nuanced practice that brokers use to mon…

From what I've read the discrimination women face in their careers is a huge contributor to the problem... Which was not discussed at all.

Could also have been inserting commercials from video ad companies? Wonder if anyone pays for pirate streams directly

Looking at the order messages sent to and received from another trading system was not uncommon when I worked in that neck of the woods

The chips are improving. They are adding dedicated AI co-processors/cores. Every major chip developer is moving towards providing functionality that supports running AI models loca…

I don’t think any native English speaker would use this word choice. Probably not a native English speaker… user name implies Indian.

The bitcoin atms follow kyc. You have to have an account with a verified identity. Examining the exchange rates offered by these ATMs and the fact that the customers are insensitiv…

I read somewhere, maybe a job ad, it was an all cash compensation? Has this changed recently?

or the liability for the fault with the software maker. Like a defective car that kills ppl reners the manufacturer of the car responsible.

Banking is one of the domains where you will encounter the bleeding edge of sophisticated bot/malware detection. Banks lose billions to fraud and theft. They will pay top dollar to…

If solar panels can be turned off, why are utility companies having to sell excess power at a loss? Why can’t they tell the solar farms to reduce their output by the required amoun…

Preserving the community and also preserving the low tax rate at which people who bought their houses ages ago pay. If the people who “put down roots” had to pay in property taxes …